Ahahaha I /know/ butch woman isn’t an assumption anyone will ever really make but I still get hurt about it
Tag: negative
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Dammit Crystal if you wanna make me not hate that you’re doing these pairings you have to do way better than this.
Minako arrives tomorrow!
I hope it’ll be as good as Makoto’s episode. Minako deserves nothing but the best!
This is gonna make or break crystal for me. For all everyone is complaining about the animation, I could give two fucks. It could be acted with sock puppets and I’d watch it if the writing and characterization were good. I don’t trust them to be able to handle a character like Minako, who has so much going on at once, when they can’t handle essentially straightforward characters like Ami and Mako, and totally took the piss out of Rei. I’ll watch, but it might be my last.
Usually going to the gym makes me feel really good.
But sometimes it just puts me in the mind set of acting on the impulse to change my body and I fall in the hole of wanting to be smaller instead of just stronger and I hate this hole every time I think I’m done with this sort of thing it creeps up out of nowhere.
I should have realized this was a bad day to go. But then the guilt of not going would make any day a potential bad day for it.
So. My problem with this episode (and what’s shaping into my problem with Crystal as a whole).
So, in the manga, there’s not that giant interlude of Tuxedo Mask trying to fight Zoicite. He can’t even get to the fight because of a barrier. And clearly Crystal had some time to fill, as this is a fast paced chapter, and they chose to fill it by having that super pointless fight.
Which is a bad choice in my eyes for a lot of reasons.
Like, okay, let’s say they want to keep the focus on UsaMamo, since that seems to be what Crystal wants to do. You know what would have been interesting? IF TUXEDO MASK COULD NOT HELP USAGI AT ALL AND HAD TO DEAL WITH THAT. Like there are so many ways that could be interesting. He could feel super helpless. He could bash himself against the barrier screaming her name. He could have a hint of a flashback to the fact that he (via their relationship) essentially caused the downfall of her kingdom and her death. And then we could switch to Usagi seeing him, and not wanting to die with him thinking it’s his fault (and then we could have her also think about the others, but that’s a different nitpick). But like, it could have done SO MUCH to actually establish his character beyond the frankly creepy stuff Crystal has been having him do.
(The moment where he stops her to give her his bag did not work for me here. It did in the manga, but the pacing felt super off and too slow to be cute here.)
And if they didn’t want to go that route for whatever reason, THEY COULD GIVE MORE TIME TO THE INNERS. The really puzzling thing to me is that Crystal!Inners have less personality than their manga counterparts, and Crystal keeps choosing to not do anything about it. And it bother me because there’s so many scenes that are slower paced than they need to be (see the scene in Mamoru’s room, where there’s just so many empty beats, or the everyone-repeats-what-Luna-just-said scene in last episode), so clearly Crystal is trying to fill time. So why are they not filling time with character work.
I mean, a couple thirty second scenes of Mako and Ami talking while walking to school, and Rei getting pissed about something, or just all of them interacting in a context that has nothing to do with Luna or their mission would do SO MUCH.
(Also just like. How about we also get Usagi really really caring for the inners along with Mamoru? She keeps only getting power from Mamoru and I love that she can draw strength from him, but hey how about her actual guardians too.)
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