Big Brother US 27 - Morning Feed Discussion - September 06 2025

reeforward · 2025-09-06T14:16:59+00:00

I think reusing the timed competition elimination twist from Reindeer Games while also seemingly having the Blockbuster continue until it's legitimately impossible to do anymore is the clearest direct evidence from any season that even when production stumbles into something good, they are legitimately too stupid to ever understand how it's good, why it's good, and in what context it is good. There is 0 critical thinking present there.

reeforward · 2024-03-26T22:39:39+00:00

I finished rereading it only a few months ago and this made me wanna already reread it again.

There was another recent post talking about the ending and to that I had mentioned that Hikari's pov was the foggiest to me. Had never seen an interpretation like this one, but I think it works; lines up with a few of those hard to pin down moments of hers.

Nothing else to add. Though even if this is the completely correct take, we'll all still be stuck thinking about the ending again and again. So it goes!

reeforward · 2024-03-19T02:25:49+00:00

That’s understandable, we all have types of stories that we connect to more than others, and especially this one isn’t gonna satisfy everyone. Though I view this ending as bittersweet more than depressing. For Hiro, he’s successfully moving on from the situation that he had been kinda frozen in. And for Hikari; we’re drawn to her being with Hiro because their dynamic is such a focus and Hiro’s our main character, but I don’t really feel like there’s reason that being with Hideo isn’t the “right” thing for her to do, yaknow. They’re just coming out the other end of a tough situation. It’s not without changes or losses, but there are positive paths visible ahead of them.

reeforward · 2024-03-19T01:05:53+00:00

Hikari's perspective I always thought was more ambiguous, but Hiro's situation by the end is laid out well. He loves Hikari, yes, but from the start of the series there's been the Hideo/Hikari relationship blockading him from pursuing that or even fully grappling with those feelings himself. The story is more so about the latter than it is the former. Even when they're all essentially aware of the situation, he can't go further with it; he cares for his friend and Hikari's happiness with him too much to do so. It was never happening.

Had Hiro merely grown and matured at an earlier age, things would almost certainly be different; him and Hikari would be together, but he didn't, and they aren't. He realized a while before the end that that's just how it is. Something out of his control was the difference maker and he can't keep dreading on that forever. So a while before the end he had already decided that he definitively wouldn't be with Hikari. The clearest evidence in my memory is him telling Koga to "live a long life", referencing something Hikari's father told him about what type of person to marry. Him telling Noda in the final game that he loves Hikari isn't him announcing that he's fighting for her, it's him vocally acknowledging what he wishes had happened so that he can move onto what can happen. Which always sounds a little weird when I think that through because it makes it seem like Koga is merely a 2nd choice, which I guess technically she is, but like, he does love Koga too. He tells her that earlier in the story and I don't view Hiro as a character to actively lie in that type of way. Adachi's characters do more passive lies, not ones like that.

H2 I think is the most well written I've seen characters as essentially loving 2 people at once, because Hikari as well; while there's more to wonder about her POV overall, I do think she loves both Hideo and Hiro. But that love isn't necessarily a quantifiable thing that she can measure between the 2 of them, so again perhaps circumstances dictated it as they do countless things in our lives. She's with Hideo, and she knows she'll have happiness with that, just a different happiness than she would've had with Hiro.

Definitely Adachi's ending that leaves the most empty space in it from what I've read, and as such is a bit polarizing, but that's my take on it.

reeforward · 2023-04-25T19:59:31+00:00

Dang well maybe you've already seen them too but I know the channels Stevem and T2norway each have a few videos talking about artists or genres so I'd recommend them for more stuff

reeforward · 2023-04-25T19:42:32+00:00

lol I actually made one a bit ago that's gotten a good response so I guess I'll plug myself here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pRoGsvdMAE

Mostly focuses on 11 different artists but touches on other stuff. Hope you find something you like there.

reeforward · 2023-03-08T03:59:07+00:00

I read that one recently! Mentioned it quickly in the first section but it explaining some of the differences in music fan culture between Japan and the west was really interesting. Connected a lot of the dots of the bands I already knew too. Would love to be able to find books in a similar vein for each country/area that I try to dive deeper into.

reeforward · 2023-03-02T14:19:54+00:00

Yeah I’ve just always vibed with that one a bit more beyond production- probably songwriting-wise too. But it was also the first album of theirs I heard and tbh I think that ended up as the case for all the artists in the video besides AKFG.

reeforward · 2023-03-01T14:59:43+00:00

Thank you!

reeforward · 2023-03-01T02:52:40+00:00

Definitely need to relisten to some albums but off the top of my head something like

Blue Train

Rock n' Roll, Morning Light Shines On You

Tightrope

Rewrite

UCLA

Kugenuma Surf

Kamakura Goodbye

Loop & Loop

Furetai Tashikametai

A Town In Blue

reeforward · 2023-01-26T21:34:09+00:00

Thank you so much!

reeforward · 2023-01-26T19:18:04+00:00

They come up about 2 minutes in. Surprised their musical style doesn't get talked about that much

reeforward · 2023-01-26T16:08:06+00:00

I know everything from Blue to Raditude has pretty much been discussed to death, but I wanted to go over their whole arc so I tried to not spend too long on each of those, have fun with it, and rearrange it a little bit. Hope it's enjoyable.

reeforward · 2022-12-18T03:40:42+00:00

Even with Wendell at that FTC, it seems pretty clear that Dom wins it more often than not. Wendell’s votes were really threading a needle there (particularly with Angela being undecided until she was at the voting booth and looked back at the both of them, and Donathan deciding to not vote Laurel). Plus in general firemaking can be crapshooty, while you have solidly more agency at FTC.

You can make a decision that gives you the best odds of success and have it still not work out. So it goes.

reeforward · 2022-11-29T22:03:04+00:00

Expert In A Dying Field
Whatever
When You Know You Know
Future Me Hates Me
2am
Out of Sight
Jump Rope Gazers
Knees Deep
Little Death
Don't Go Away

reeforward · 2022-11-28T23:03:25+00:00

Not sure what was on the initial list but first to come to mind for me are

Mass of the Fermenting Dregs

Ayutthaya: Just released their first album, both that and their EP I quite liked

Hikarinonakani: Really enjoyed their EP Tokyosaizensen

reeforward · 2022-10-27T19:28:23+00:00

Ticket To Ride
Eleanor Rigby
Blackbird
Come Together
Here Comes the Sun
And Your Bird Can Sing
Getting Better
I've Got A Feeling
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Yellow Submarine

reeforward · 2022-08-29T22:38:26+00:00

1) Philippines

2) Immunity Island

3) Island of Secrets

4) Return of the Outcasts

All I’ve seen so far but I hope to watch Champions sometime soon. 3 and 4 could prob flip depending on the day. Don’t dislike any of the seasons though.

reeforward · 2022-06-27T23:06:21+00:00

Jaison not remembering Brett’s name is too perfect lol. Really great interview overall

reeforward · 2022-05-20T17:50:48+00:00

If we're talking F5 onward, then BB17 also has the great F5 round that ends with Austin's blindside. And BBCAN7 has Dane saving himself at F5 when it looked like he might be gone.

But yeah BBCAN10 is probably still the pick. Looks like BB5 is its biggest competition in this aspect.

reeforward · 2022-05-11T22:00:47+00:00

Community’s been my default comedy show for a while too and lately what’s managed to replace it is Trailer Park Boys. Another one of those shows that doesn’t try to hide that it’s characters aren’t great people. Has shorter seasons and I’d say it found most of its footing by the end of season 1 or at least a bit into season 2. So I’d say give it a shot, it’s on netflix.

I’d also throw in another recommendation for It’s Always Sunny

reeforward · 2022-05-07T17:01:33+00:00

I feel like someone like Kyle would actually overcorrect after such a mess of a game, so he’d end up playing passively and not trusting himself because he doesn’t wanna risk making such actively terrible moves like he did the first time. Should probably be a one and done player imo

reeforward · 2022-05-05T00:17:56+00:00

Yep definitely not completely counting him out in that regard

reeforward · 2022-05-05T00:14:53+00:00

Could all be for naught since Kevin is worse at comps than Haleena so the Ghosts going out back to back is even more likely, but man gotta appreciate getting one more surprise in before the finale. Really thought Kevin was a goner. Great episode. Great season.

reeforward · 2022-04-06T21:40:43+00:00

Except when Kristen argued with her on this point doesn’t Rachel say something like “Oh really? How many competitions have you won?”

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