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Edit: I am very much, not anti-VAX and very pro vaccine and not a crazy. Just wondering because when I did my Covid vaccines half the time it kind of spiked my sugars a little bit.

I just discovered the show two days ago because my son recommended we watch it based on our like of ghost in the shell. Once again, I lived in Japan for eight years from the early 90s to 2000s. And visited three or four times before that. I am not by nature an anime fan at all, but as I said yesterday, this one takes the cake.

First off, been watching this for three days now about two episodes tonight but the first night we just watched the hour long intro. I had a few beers while watching each night. Getting into episode four I think it was kind of the most boring and predictable of all the episodes thus far, crazy biker, gang, stabs guy and his sister through a moving car windshield. Again, multiple Blade Runner references in both architecture, and character names. Only one song this time instead of two songs. In any case, the guy driving, the car goes insane to the point where even though his sister is scared of loud noises and especially motorbikes, he decides to randomly shoot a wall. Eventually, he builds a supercar that takes him over. The saber Knights have to come in and clean things up. It all ends with a nice pool scene and a brief reference though oh yeah, they went to jail. And enjoyable episode but not as crazy as previous material.

Now episode five is where it’s really at : first off we get a during escape from some planet that apparently isn’t earth. Then we get a Blade Runner skyship , finally to address the elephant in the episode, and best of all, we get lesbian vampire Sexaroids ( which coincidentally would make an amazing 80s Goth/industrial band name. Move over Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). The episode ends with Priss having to kill her friend, who was once again taken over by the technology she was using, I’m sensing a theme here, and swearing to help her friend’s girlfriend. This was a pretty crazy and fun episode. It was paced very nicely with the usual great cinematography. Again echoing plot threads of Blade Runner also made it nice. You can once again see the impact of the movie had on the show and some of the themes in it.

As I said, in my last review, I watch it with my teenage son who pointed out a few really good key aspects. First off the police chief is a black guy, but he doesn’t have the black face Lips that are so common in many even modern anime. This was a very progressive move on the part of the staff. Also, and again having lived in Japan for so long around that time era, we get more affirmation that Daley Wong, is a very openly gay man. Japan at the time was amazingly homophobic and when I mentioned that I had gay friends to some of my Japanese friends, they were all aghast. Any portrays of gay men on TV were always seen as over the top effeminate. Yet here we see in Mr. Wong, a competent police officer who slightly hits on his buddy occasionally. Especially given the time period in Japan this was just amazingly progressive. Being gay is not his main characteristic, and he’s a competent cop who commands others and gets respect. I was really surprised by this. The show has a great level of inclusivity, especially for Japan at the time without going over the top and I appreciate it.

Very much looking forward to tomorrow’s episodes and my journey through this bizarre and amazing anime. Very ahead of its time wish I had seen it sooner

As per the title, I lived in Japan for a long while during the early-90s to the early 2000s. I was never really that into anime besides for like you know kind of the Ghibli stuff, this great anime called in the world of golden eggs, which released in the early 2000s, and ghost in the shell, which I always enjoyed.

I got my teenage son into watching ghost in the shell and we love watching it together. He read about bubblegum crisis online and it’s a name I had heard before, but I thought it was just gonna be some sort of magical girl, boring ass anime.man was that wrong.

From the very get-go, you can see the obvious homage to Blade Runner from the music, to the buildings and lighting atmosphere, to the name of the band Priss and the replicants. The, now amusing titled, Boomers and their weird growing squiggly squirmy stuff was definitely influenced by some Akira stuff around the time. Overall, the show is out of this world, from the soundtrack, to the non sequiturs, to the dance between subtly parodying 80s magical girl/robot anime, worshipping blade Runner, and trying to give you Pikachu epilepsy multiple times an episode it is just simply off the wall. The third episode at the end was perhaps the best where they showed the gravestone of some girl who had died earlier in the episode and immediately switched to some crazy ass pop song. Then they just did the ending credits showing a graveyard. It was some amazing postmodern humor right there.

This show is completely wild and both my son and I are loving it and I’m looking forward to watching more episodes. Count me in as a fan if it stays this weird I’m all in.

Been listening to Lou Reed since 1975 when I was one year old. My parents are old hippies so I grew up with good music but got really into Lou Reed in my early 20s after I kind of rediscovered him even though I was a big VU fan all throughout high school.

After like 2000 I figured like oh this guy is not gonna put out any more music but this album somehow slipped away from me. I love the arrangements and it even has Anthony doing vocals for Candy says.

Have to say, sometimes being older and out of touch can lead you to pleasant surprises. I have no idea how this album is received by others since it seems like it could be polarizing, but I did get as a 50 year-old guy myself.

Edit: also, if folks don’t know, he appears on Victoria Williams live album for a VU song. Nice hearing them sing together as they both have very unique voices

Nothing like the fun of virtually building IKEA furniture while Matt Berry  mocks you  relentlessly. I hope they added it to the VR version.

I also have a feeling most of the furniture gets Fus Ro Dah’d halfway through building 

Yes, I really dig the Vaseline and heavenly and this is actually a very great song but the first time I heard it it really caught me with the left hook and I was like WTF. Still have my old 10 inch of it from back in the 90s.

Star Trek fan since the 70s, but I was just so thrilled when they released Jem ships (truly outrageous).. wondering if there has been any more developments on this racial front since then?

Thank you in advance.

So here we have where Q zaps the enterprise halfway across the universe. The Borg encounter the Federation and they’re like oh shit we can assimilate these dudes pretty easily. Just when they think they have them cornered Q flicks the enterprise back at speeds that the Borg can’t even imagine. I bet they’re really hungry to assimilate those speeds. When they finally get to Federation territory. They must’ve been really bummed out that that’s not how fast all the ships go.