Magic: Who thinks they can do it, and why otherwise intelligent people buy it.

[Cain]

If there is something that appears to anime, but isn't crap, it cannot be anime, since being crap is part of the definition.

It must be animated story-telling done in a Japanese artistic style or with Japanese influences.

[Faust]

No.  All anime is crap.  This is actual science.  Do not question it.

All visual media is crap, with the exception of anything david lynch makes, and even then his stuff isn't even enjoyable

[Faust]

Nothing is good, everything is dismissable

[President Television]

Nothing is good, everything is dismissable

I see what you did there. 

[P3nT4gR4m]

Nothing is good, everything is dismissable

News ticker!

[Kai]

Nothing is good, everything is dismissable

[Telarus]

This thread delivers.

[East Coast Hustle]

I'M SO GLAD I POSTED IN DIS FREAD!
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[Z³]

Nothing is good, everything is dismissable

This is correct.
I like anime (then again, I like crap.)

For me the pinnacle is Neon Genesis Evangelion, which I've watched in its entirety on more than one occcasion in one sitting. The best description I've ever heard of that show is that it was for giant robot anime what Twin Peaks was for cop shows. Although, I should probably warn that it doesnt really start to pick up until after episode 14. Serial Experiments Lain was pretty good, and kind of had a similar theme to Eva (at least the instrumentality aspect of Eva).

Excel Saga is ok, but ridiculously silly. I cant stomach more than ten minutes or so of it at a time. Usually when I'm in the mood for something like that I'll watch Cromartie High School, which never gets old for me. Either that or Great Teacher Onizuka, which just starts pretty tame, but continues to escalate in its ridiculousness until at the end of the series it just cant top itself anymore and it just kind of ends abruptly. (worth watching, just don't expect any closure.)

Anyway, anime is just like any other visual medium, the vast majority of it is complete crap. Anime at its worst is just as trite as the stale british comedy they play on public television.

Oh, and Hustle? Whats your problem with Cowboy Bebop, if you dont mind me asking? Does this tie into your hatred of Jazz?

[Triple Zero]

I dunno, I watched some bits of Cowboy Bebop, and it seemed to me about as captivating and interesting as the Dune trilogy books.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I dunno, I watched some bits of Cowboy Bebop, and it seemed to me about as captivating and interesting as the Dune trilogy books.

Which is to say, not.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

I dunno, I watched some bits of Cowboy Bebop, and it seemed to me about as captivating and interesting as the Dune trilogy books.

This is the correct motorcycle... though I did catch half an episode where one of the ate some bad shrooms and that was funny... for about 5 minutes.

[trippinprincezz13]

Read a book instead?   

haha oh definitely, I've been finding more time to read lately as it is. But, cooking, cleaning it's nice to have background noise and such, and sometime just feel like vegging out or something to watch while cross-stitching. TV is not my life by far, but just felt like complaining when the bits of it I do like are ruined further.

[trippinprincezz13]

THAT'S what that new stupid abbreviation stands for? It was bad enough when I thought it was just supposed to a *hip* new way to spell SciFi, but it's got fantasy thrown in their too now? 

It's like when they changed CourtTV to TruTV.  I like to watch the documentary/reporting-style shows like Forensic Files, Investigators, etc. Sure, they still show them sometimes, but a good 75% of the programming is like 10 different cops/beach patrol/party patrol/patrol patrol show variations, a million different people doing something stupid/shocking/outlandish shows and Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory  (actually I don't know if that show's on there, but they sure advertise it enough) Now they're advertising some upcoming "The REAL NFL" or something like that. WTF is that shit? I'd watch a sports channel if I want to see sports.

But there really is no point in going on, preaching to the choir, etc. There are some shows I do enjoy but waves of shit just keep coming in. I guess I still get kinda astounded (for some reason) by the drivel that people not only will watch, but WANT to watch.

Yeah, they changed the name because of all the crappy movies they put on there that fall under the science fiction fantasy genre. I like some of the older ones, like the one they made based on the Odyssey, but other than that they're kind of dull and have overused plots.

Ahh I see. Yea I remember seeing in the tv listing a string of pretty awful looking movies on all the time for a while. I've watched a few things on that channel time to time, usually just x-files when it's on at 2 in the morning, lol.

Yeah, TruTV. Seems to me it just becae like a reality show channel for officer type people. And I haven't heard of that 'REAL NFL' show, but I'm willing to bet it's another reality show, or whatever a person calls it where they film the behind the scenes drama and slap a name on it and call it a show.

Yea, I used to like it a bit more when it was court tv, but now it's just reality show after reality show. From what I saw on the NFL commercial (lady yells at some guy, some other guy cries) it seems like every other show except that a lot of the people are wearing football uniforms

[BabylonHoruv]

Cowboy Bebop is the absolute single worst thing in existence, period.

E/O/T.

Inuyasha is way worse.