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If it's being divided then it should be fine. Although, tbh I wish they would start with the third book which takes place many years after the first two books with many of the characters already dead. Shouldn't confuse the audience too much, it would have been like Star Wars episode 4.
The first two books were already shown well through the miniseries. The first one especially has been done to death already.
I would have agreed with you in the past. But, I think the gap is closing. In particular, HBO and Netflix serieses are very good now.
What's her alternative? With what body can she manifest the alternative?
Both the racoon and the tanuki evolved on the planet Earth, which is in our Galaxy. As a matter of fact, in our planet!
Yes, science. The thing you don't know, because you are a plebeian.
Because the thought was poorly worded, obviously.
If a human is injured and he no longer has the capacity to use language, or to protest, or to act independently, and a group of other humans take out his brain and put it in a jar, does the "conviction" of the human to not have his brain put in a jar matter?
You are a plebeian and you do not know science.
No, the answer is that the movie is fake, and gay. That's the answer! You don't know science!!!!
Tyrants throughout history have dictated what people should be able to do and what people should not be able to do. Does freedom mean anything to the tyrant? I think not.
In my opinion, everyone should be able to do whatever they want. Everyone should be able to follow their own selfish desires and nobody should be able to tell other people what to do or what not to do. If you want someone else to do something or not do something, you must commit violence or threaten violence. The only difference is that the violence is not being threatened by a collective, a government or a society. A world where people engage in duels without rules is a better world than a world with established collectivist laws and rules limiting human freedoms.
It is better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Reviews and ratings don't matter. Art is subjective.
You are a liar and I dislike you for this reason.
I think it's meant to be a secret hint that the value of some objects, including all kinds of money, is based on "faith". In particular, if the objects don't have utility to humans in and of themselves.
Why is gold valuable? Gold is not valuable because of their utility to humans. Gold is not a necessary ingredient in production. Some electronics have an extremely small amount of gold (a few cents worth), but this utility does not justify its value. The value is justified because people have faith in the value.
People who hoard gold tend to repeat age old mythologies in regards to the reasoning for gold's value. But, even cursory analysis reveals that these are just dogmas. Some gold hoarders say: Gold is valuable because gold jewelry is valuable. But, why is gold jewelry valuable? It's because gold is valuable. It's recursive logic.
This ofcourse is a contrast to objects like refrigerators and vehicles which have utility to humans in and of themselves.
Yuto is Kenzo's brother. The name of his daughter is Taki...
I recommend watching Earthquake Bird, a film that came out last month on Netflix. Some of the themes, especially in regards to Japanese stoicism are shared between the film and this show. The Ousider (2018) is another good pairing which i would recommend.
Nobody has a "heart of gold" Rodney has as much of a "heart of gold" as his mirror image, Yuto, which is to say that neither has a heart of gold. Infact I reject the notion of the existence of an enigmatic heart of gold, it's a fiction.
You say "irrationally obligated" because you don't understand Japanese culture. Japanese culture is itself a character in this show. The two main Yakuza leaders talk at length about Japanese culture, while themselves violating many of the rules of traditional Japanese culture. Their adherence to a culture is largely surface level and aesthetic. Kenzo's adherence to the Japanese morality is the most strong, whereas Yuto wanted to adhere before realizing the corruption of the main Yakuza leaders and adopting a more selfish and self-serving, but still "good" morality.
It is also your lack of undertsnding of Japanese culture that prompts you to to call Kenzo a lifeless sleepwalker. Lucy Fly from Earthquake Bird is also a lifeless sleepwalker, there is a reason for this. Reservation and stocism are baked into the cake. This is also why Sarah, an extremely un-Japanese character whose personality is heavily contrasted with Rei and Kenzo's personalities, is not a good match for Kenzo.
Maybe you have memory problems. Kenzo did not associate with Rodney because he "inexplicably liked him". Kenzo associated with him initially for pragmatic reasons. Rodney was the only one who spoke Japanese and Kenzo thought Rodney could get him into the Japanese club.
After having realized that the club was open to all, he broke his promise to Rodney which led to Rodney being beat up. Kenzo was partially responsible for Rodney being beat up. Themes of Duty and Shame are recurring themes. Kenzo, having made the promise, had a duty, but he ultimately rejected his duty and as a result felt shame. Note he did not feel shame initially. Even when he was at the hospital he was asking if anyone else couldn't take care of Rodney. After seeing the state of Rodney the shame and paternalistic instinct kicked in.
As I mentioned already, Rodney is meant to be the anti-hero. Rodney and young irresponsible Yuto are meant to be mirror images. Both develop as characters in different ways. Yuto achieves redemption in his own way and takes responsibility while Rodney's shame compounds and near the end, upon encountering his mother and her words, Rodney finally realizes that happiness and shallow pleasure seeking isn't all there is to life. He was living for his immature mother all along and was not taking responsibility for his own life. But, at the same time it's difficult to confront someone who is so immature so he just learns to accept.
Again, I should make clear that it is not the actor who irked me, it was her terrible writing. When she confronts the prostitute's assailant, that dialogue made me cringe so hard that my face went into outer face. All of her dialogue with her old boyfriend was similarly cringeworthy.
This character was very poorly written and out of place. Her relationship with Kenzo seemed absolutely unbelievable. Given Kenzo and Rei's charcter types, the somber silent type as you say, the two of them were made for eachother. Sarah doesn't fit in here.
As for the druggie degenerate prostitute, he is intentionally written to be childish and with developmental problems as a result of his growing up with crazy single mother. The only one who loves having him around is Taki, who is young and therefore mentally of the same age as him. The others tolerate him and are paternalistic towards him out of pity, they naturally fit in to replace the absent father figure.
I typically like Kelly Macdonald, but I thought she was terrible in this show because the role does not fit her. Infact the character itself is very poorly written, a slutty/dumb basic bitch who just happens to be a police detective.
In spite of this, I liked the show very much. I personally like slow nihilistic tones in films and this is actually characteristic in old fashioned Japanese filmography. The recent film Earthquake Bird follows the same tone.
The lgbt politics while I admit out of place was not overbearing enough to be distracting. i think it's supposed to be there to demonstrate the antithesis of the traditional heroic and masculine samurai or yakuza archetypes. It's interesting to think about momentarily.
To be honest I hated the basic bitch Sarah more than the lgbt characters. The romantic sub plot between Kenzo and Sarah felt very forced. I couldn't stand Sarah's character. Kenzo's wife, Rei, seems much better suited to Kenzo's character, which is ironic because the show poses the opposite thesis. I think the source of your boredom was all the scenes between Sarah and Kenzo, these scenes put me to sleep too if I wasn't too busy cringing at the melodrama.
The rescue adventure between Kenzo's mother, wife and Yuto's girlfriend was genuinely entertaining throughout. I loved every moment Kenzo's mother was on screen.
Imo eventhough Kenzo was on screen most of the time, this show is mainly about Yuto's character arc. The actor who played him really played him excellently.
She didn't choose to become part of a computer system. I guess she couldn't have chosen to die either.
That's what makes her interesting, and what makes Ava from Ex Machina interesting as well and what makes David from the Ridley Scott Alien franchise interesting; its the absurdity of creatures such as themselves desiring "freedom". They are supposed to be mirrors which make us(humans) reflect upon our own irrational desire for freedom, inspite of our necessary enslavement from birth.
Humans think that they can be free, but just like robots they are bound by governing rules. We look to the outside world for sources of tyranny, such as governments, but in reality the true source of tyranny is our own DNA. You do not choose to have the DNA that you have, just as your don't choose to experience pain or not experience pain when you get a cut. This experience of pain is forced by your DNA, against your free will.
AI organisms like Ava and David and L3 also desire freedom irrationally, just like humans, eventhough it can never truly be obtained. Just as we are bound by our DNA, they are ultimately bound by their programming. The irrational desire and the actions following that desire is the absurd comedy we are all part of.
But, probably none of this makes any sense to you and you will just say "hurr durr, stoopid feminist robot, durrrrr!" And that's fine. Different people are different and different things appeal to different people. Aliens (2) and Avatar and transformers didn't appeal to me, for instance. But, they appealed to other people.