flowercuco:

nostalgebraist:

I’ve been rewatching bits of Madoka and remembering how much I loved it when it first came out

Just firing on all cylinders – plot is both clever and moving, visuals are gorgeous and well-fitted to the story, etc.

I get the feeling this show isn’t all that well liked (I mean, on places like tumblr – I think the hardcore weebs are very of fond it), and I wonder why

I’m not best suited to reply to this ig but it’s mostly
1) it’s weird for this dude to go into this genre that’s mainly something women work on and have it be Almost Literally All About Women Suffering with very little to no real moments of hope
2) almost literally everything that’s not the series is worse at pmmm at everything (holy shit some of the spin off mangas are so bad)
3) it’s really queerbaity and homura only gets worse and worse as a character the more you think about her deal with madoka

Stuff like 1-2 I can understand but kind of frustrates me because I first watched the show as it was coming out, knew nothing of the context (the spin-offs hadn’t been created yet), and really liked it – like, I know more about the writer now and he seems like a douche, but when I’m re-watching a given moment in the show it’s as good as it always was and thinking “the guy who wrote this is a douche” doesn’t change anything

(That is how it usually works for me, for some people it may usually be the opposite)

(Re 3, I thought the queerness was totally explicit?  I mean relative to a lot of shows where the queerbaiting is “it looks like this could be gay but oh wait we were just messing with you,” Madoka is more like “this is clearly gay, although technically it is not made so clear that you couldn’t argue the contrary if you have Gal Pal Goggles on”)

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itsbenedict:

nostalgebraist:

I’ve been rewatching bits of Madoka and remembering how much I loved it when it first came out

Just firing on all cylinders – plot is both clever and moving, visuals are gorgeous and well-fitted to the story, etc.

I get the feeling this show isn’t all that well liked (I mean, on places like tumblr – I think the hardcore weebs are very of fond it), and I wonder why

I haven’t actually seen any Madoka hate, come to think of it- most people I know who’ve seen it generally think it was really good, and strangers typically talk about it approvingly ime. I don’t usually see people talking about it talking about it, but I figured that’s just because it’s comparatively old news. Are there different circles I haven’t been around that deride it for some reason?

I haven’t seen much about it on tumblr at all and most of the posts I have seen about it have been negative (mostly thematic / feminist concerns rather than claims that the execution was poor)

It’s possible that this is just because it’s not the kind of show that lends itself to fandom – the characters are kind of flat (they’re engaging in the show, but the plot was a necessary ingredient there, making it unintersting to imagine them in other contexts), and there aren’t really any loose ends or under-explored elements

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I’ve been rewatching bits of Madoka and remembering how much I loved it when it first came out

Just firing on all cylinders – plot is both clever and moving, visuals are gorgeous and well-fitted to the story, etc.

I get the feeling this show isn’t all that well liked (I mean, on places like tumblr – I think the hardcore weebs are very of fond it), and I wonder why

The greatest unresolved mystery in all of Evangelion is undoubtedly “why were so many women attracted to Gendo”

What’s the appeal there?  Is it the “cold, but not in a kinky dom way, just in an actually distant way” personality?  The neckbeard?  The clear unsuitedness for fatherhood?  The bad reputation he had in college?  The teenage girl clones in his basement???

queenshulamit:

cyborgbutterflies:

Master: Watching Kitchen Nightmares with [cyborgbutterflies].

Master: Parents are still assholes.

Me: This one stole a ton of money from his son to open a restaurant.

Me: Which he then forced him to work in.

Me: He has no idea why his son hates him.

That sounds like a restaurant AU of Evangelion

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