I don’t think spending my time watching youtube or scrolling the internet is any more productive than watching television but damn it grabs my attention just better. It’s a whole science. Attention retention
yeah your neurons are gone sorry!!
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I watched ATLA and Legend of Korra because of their cultural significance, and I wanted to be able to engage with people (such as wife) who have seen and really love them. That’s a notion that often drives my decision making about what to watch. I watched Twin Peaks (well, I still need to see S3) because I wanted to know why I keep hearing people talk about it. I’m not even 100% there on that front, but I get a lot more. Revolutionary Girl Utena is sort of the same story. I wouldn’t have stuck it out if not for a desire to Get It, and I’m really thankful I did in that case. It’s okay if these shows aren’t like worth my time in a vacuum because I value having seen what other people have.
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Well yeah if people are saying a show is great I want to see it, if they’re praising it and saying it sounds good I want to experience the good thing! And talk about it with them!
The reason I watch Adult People Shows now is because I have a girlfriend to watch htem with and this is a social experience htat gives us something interesting to talk about
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FIM is just overhyped.
Most people don’t even know there were three other MLP series beforehand… (I was raised on series one…)
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oh i was just rubbing it in that youre a social creature as all humans are and thus you’re fallible and will one day die to causes natural or otherwise and i will be there laughing
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I was raised on G3 and liked it, but my sister watched G4 and I watched it over her shoulder
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just finished madoka magica as required viewing for the mafia game
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is it any good
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i should read the 36 stratagems in preperation for zones games
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Ok the list of tv shows ive seen was longer than i thought
Summary
Shows I have seen:
Magic school bus
Carmen san diego
What if inspector gadget was a child
Odd squad
Phineas & ferb
Avatar the last airbender
Scooby doo mystery incorporated
Gravity falls
The mandalorian
A few of the marvel shows
The sandman
The first ~half of death note
Stranger things S1
Like most of bocchi the rock (the only show i actively chose to watch while not being sick)
Shows i was around enough while my brother watched to kinda count (often multiple times)
Tge owl house
She-ra
Amphibia
A bit of steven universe
Miraculous tales of ladybug & cat noir
Possibly forgetting something important but this should be it save episodes of things my parents watch
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i think so
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I think it has merit watching. Yeah id say above average
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Madoka Magica is a show that’s difficult to recommend because everything about it worth merit is actively bad to talk about before being experienced.
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oh like inscryption
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Big thing on children’s shows characters: they are super, super easily reduced to a set of surface-level personality traits, in a way that is super off-putting to me. Like, FIM is an obvious example: there’s the Snooty Fashion One, the Soft Shy One, etc., very exaggerated. And the episodes are frequently one where they Learn Lessons, like there’s a “point” of the episode that everything is About. ATLA She-Ra Steven Universe etc all fall into these very children’s show-y tropes and I dislike all of them for it
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i now feel i understand litten even less
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I bounced off RGU for having waaay too long a leadup where the characters are similarly a list of traits and the episodes are similarly a Lesson
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i watched atla because my family got a netflix trial for like a week during one summer. so we binged it.
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we didn’t have cable
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