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進撃の巨人 - Attack on Titan Season 4 - I've Always Hated You [Fan Animation]

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"Is RtN really that much different from the LAST?" or "SP+Kishi early confessions"

Basically, two thoughts: first, RtN has more similarities to the LAST than a lot of people acknowledge and second, RtN was a pretty damn romantic movie and the Last could learn from it. Also, yes, I am not looking at NS as a BroTP in this movie, because NS never was one anywhere and especially because their counterparts SakuMenma, whose roles they played in everyone’s eyes, are pretty much confirmed canon.

Similarities between RtN and the LAST lie mostly in execution. Basically, a lot of issues 700th (sp-)chapter and The LAST had were foreshadowed in RtN. The fact that RtN is also technically-canon, since Kishimoto took part in creating it, only helps my point (SP+Kishimoto collaboration for the win).

First of all, the main plot in RtN is weak. The whole premise about capturing the fox through putting Naruto in AU is positively nonsensical. This is creator’s (SP\Kishimoto) CONFESSION NUMBER 1 - “we don’t give a fuck about the villain’s motivation and reasoning as long as it gives us the setting we wish for”. (Hello, Toneri and his crush).

Secondly, priorities are broken. Despite the fact that dark-Menma\extracting-Naruto is supposedly the driving storyline, main accent is so obviously made on Uzumaki family dynamics that the rest of the story just falls apart and disappears in the background. All action\villain scenes look extremely rushed and weak (as well as Menma’s characterization) in comparison to the effort put in depicting the process of Naruto opening up to his family. Action|villain storyline OPENLY serves the emotional plot and is treated like the means to an end. It could be ok, but again - OPENLY, BLUNTLY, at a massive cost of quality. I don’t know about you guys, but I can only see this as a big step away from Naruto’s shounen roots, where emotional development was expressed through quality fighting, in fighting and around fighting, not the other way around. Thank God the movie was saved because it was MinaKushi, it is just that good. Anyway, in my perception it is CONFESSION NUMBER 2 - “We somewhat recall that Naruto is a shounen, but c'mon, ain’t emotional issues|dialogs and character angst the main reason our mostly girly audience is reading this?? (Hello, 90% romance movie as a next step). Who cares about fighting villains?”  (well, duh, if you write those villains like cardboard) “Also we forgot how to write good fights”

Thirdly, scene-crafting is weak. This is true both about general story-crafting and fanservice injections. It happened in almost every movie with the LAST being wholesomely made out of this sin. Big portion of scenes in RtN simply stinks of “purpose”. I mean, of course the intent of the author/screenwriter can almost always be deduced, but it has to have at least a little bit of subtlety! Creators of RtN don’t know what subtlety is, which is why almost every scene in the movie is crafted bluntly to make a very straightforward step in story progression (like Naruto not dodging toad’s spit to provoke Kushina’s jump in), almost as often - to introduce an outspoken fanservice moment, which is why there is absolutely no natural flow. There is no concern about strange and unjustified actions of characters (how about tell us how Sasuke can even be a playful extrovert with his backstory? How about trying to justify Shino and Kiba’s disgust of insects\dogs - did they abandon their clans?) if it gives us the needed content (hello, next step - Hinata can’t jump when she needs to be caught, hello, Hinata must be on the same eagle as Naruto, hello, Hinata wears fishnets in winter etc etc etc). Here goes CONFESSION NUMBER 3 - “We know what our fanbase wants, they are all goats anyway, so we’ll throw a bunch of individual fanservice and "anything goes for the story to progress” scenes together, they’ll be happy enough.“ (Hello, NH-fanfiction movie with canon-contradictions that comes next.)

And finally, what annoyed me and many other fans the most, is characters’ preposterous OOCness. To be precise, Sakura’s OOCness. I mean, 1\2 of the movie is basically about Sakura learning lessons that she has already learned in canon when she was basically 12 years old! Her first monologue on the swings about perfection of living alone, having no parents - oh it made me groan in pain! And then she said Sasuke would understand her better, even though he was literally the one to tell her that she was wrong about same statements in chapter 3! (And since then she even learned about his tragic story!)  When I was watching that scene for the first time, I wanted to cry and forsake NS forever, I almost wished Naruto would smack her right there (maybe not) and leave her for good. Now I understand what my heart was aching about. Because in my eyes that was the moment that shouted about the amount of fucks Studio Pierrot and even Kishimoto give about canon material and character development. Thus here are confessions number 4 and 5.

CONFESSION NUMBER 4: We don’t care about Sakura’s character development and image, we can use her for our purposes and totally retcon\rebuild her personality if needed to push the story forward. (hello SakuHina BFF, Sakura being sasuke fanatic at 19 etc.)

CONFESSION NUMBER 5: Since we don’t care about rebuilding personalities, we don’t care about canon material either. We don’t care if original manga story holds scenes that totally contradict what we are showing here. We don’t care if our scenes make characters look like they have brain-damage or amnesia. We don’t care if it makes the ideas in the original manga look weak. (Naruto being emotional impotent, NS being a rivalry game, Naruto giving up both on Sakura and HInata, etc.).

Confession 6 comes from the fact that Sakura’s development is basically reused, just as Naruto’s acceptance of his parents (though less, ‘cause impostors, right?lol), just as quite a bunch of battle scenes (Minato vs Tobi = Naruto vs Menma).

CONFESSION NUMBER 6: We are not too good to use scenes and developments that already worked in the manga. These are proven to be popular goods, we can milk them as much as we need, even if we give the spotlight to other characters. 

Just like that I think that RtN was indeed a forshadowing of what was going to come. Yes, the content contradicted the end a lot. The most obvious - there was a lot of NS tease and NS development as well as ship-sinking of SS and NH and Naruto learning what good parenting means (lolololol). But the underlying features of this movie, the decisions that made it what it was, the approach that was executed - they were all threatening the whole fandom, we just didn’t notice it. 

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And still RtN is a much better romantic movie than the LAST. Depends on how you define romance, of course.Naturally, I don’t mean the culmination scenes, because obviously kissing, confessing and getting married in "canon” is as much romantic resolution as it can get. RtN wasn’t a shoujo movie, but it featured an enormous mutual development of a female and male protagonists that was about them understanding each other better on a very deep level and becoming able to communicate ideals solely from this understanding (Sakura telling Naruto what being a hero means and brining his resolution to fight back). More than that - this development was a hard one. It featured two characters literally finding themselves in another’s shoes, which provoked a very sharp conflict of interests that could break them apart just as easily as make them closer. The way they handled it proved how much they meant to each other. Even Sakura, who was selfish in the beginning, was so hesitant about pressing her unhappiness upon Naruto, who finally found his home. 

In that complex scene near the fence we saw Naruto and Sakura not even needing words to communicate their feelings to each other. It was not a happy scene. It was the first time when Naruto actually said he didn’t have time for Sakura (and he suffered for this). It was not a happy scene, but it was a VERY intimate one. This is the kind of conflict that can make people realize the true value of the relationship they have - not some kind of adrenaline ride and a bunch of pitiful memories. I would even go further to say that this is the mild kind of development SN had - development through polishing values, priorities, being pulled apart and still not giving up on each other.

Even better - this was a Naruto movie with intimacy and hero\heroine development, but with a focus on other important themes (family and responsibility). Important to the Naruto universe, to original manga, to the shounen genre. Naruto and Sakura managed to grow together while addressing themes and resolving problems that were way beyond their feeling for each other thus proving wide meaning, stability and productivity of their relationship. On the other hand, in the Last Naruto and Hinata focus pretty much solely on each other. Basically all scenes in the LAST are about Naruto and Hinata learning to be comfortable at touching each other. Everything that is happening is pushing them in one direction - into each other’s arms. The conflict between them is solely external, all internal barriers are idiotic (Hinata is still as shy as she was in Part 1, Naruto is an emotional impotent he never was before) and are conveniently destroyed by a genjutsu with no personality developments needed.

RtN gives an image of a romantic story the LAST could have been. Even if it was about NH, it could put NH in the background of something that was always present in Naruto’s story - themes like changing rules, not giving up, destroying the system, etc. Hinata could have helped Naruto in his quest to lead the new ninja world and that could be hard for both of them, but that would make them actually intimate - something I didn’t manage to see in the Last. I am not even mentioning that it would keep Naruto’s genre intact and please a much wider audience.

But to me RtN is the movie with a lot of flaws that still showed me that NS needs not more than a tiny little push to become canon. Like that scene in the end, if only Sakura invited Naruto to have dinner with her family…

But. Denied.

Spoilers for John Wick 3 and it’s beautiful writing vs Jon Snow in the series finale of GoT (John Wick vs Jon Snow)

Just finished the movie and WOW.

THAT is how you make a likable person the villain. Take note D&D.

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Winston. Oh Winston. Smart. But not very smart to betray John.

John Wick has more honor and a better brain that Jon Snow. John Wick is excommunicated by the High Table and the Continental, rendering all services useless to him. John travels to the one man that the High Table listens to. His task to go back in good graces? Murder Winston. The father figure to John and the man that has made his survival possible via pushing his death back one hour.

Tasked with great mental fortitude but distraught and doubt in his heart, John travels to the continental and meets Winston face to face. Winston, the clever man that he is, correctly deduces that the All Father, the man that is above the High Table, has ordered his assassination for his defiance against the High Table. He offers John a choice. Kill him(Winston) and live but remain in servitude to the High Table forever. Or help him and help Winston win his rebellion to live once again as a free man. John chooses Winston, of course, because John has experienced love ever since he met his wife. And he holds love for Winston for all that Winston has done for him. This proves to be the wrong choice as Winston was playing him and was merely using John as an example that Winston still held strength and would later have John as his fall man.

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Now, in a week where I have seen two betrayals/villain turns. I should have been angry. Daenerys’ butcher ran through my mind and I felt as if I should have expressed nothing but anger.

Except…I didn’t. The betrayal from Winston was never out of place. Winston turning on Jon was something that actually made sense. Since John Wick 2, it’s been heavily foreshadowed that the High Table rules all. But as I’ve said before and as I’ll say again. “Foreshadowing is not character development”. And that holds true here as well. We actually see it. We see the power the High Table holds and it’s influence. How many elite men they could spare on their FIRST assault against Winston. Meanwhile, Winston’s forced have been reduced with only John and Charon remaining. Winston’s whole plan made sense. Everything was calculated to perfection. Disguise his weakness with John’s strength and and later turn on John to show his fealty.

And John Wick? He chose the love he had for Winston and ended up the loser. Winston realized there could only be one left alive after the entire ordeal and he chose himself (as expected of any assassin). But John’s choice cannot be faulted. He’s been out of the loop for 5 years. The bloodshed and havoc he’s wreaked has been in a span of 2 weeks. He doesn’t know the Continental. And he was blinded for the favoritism that Winston showed him. In the end, John’s eyes were opened wide to what Winston truly was. And in John Wick 4, we will see the true effect of John’s rage.

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Now after all that. Surely I can stomach Jon’s decision to kill Daenerys much more, right?

Wrong

Winston was always a ruthless man but his partiality to John blinded John to who Winston really was. Daenerys did nothing but good for her people and one act of rage somehow convinced Jon Snow she needed to be put down?

John Wick 3 was BEAUTIFUL. Another parallel/foreshadowing? Something John Wick did better than D&D? Telling us that John would kill Winston. No, I’m not talking about when he’s tasked with killin Winston. I’m talking earlier in the film, when he meets with Sofia(Halle Barry) and she tells him “Sometimes you have to kill the thing you love”. And that’s it! No dramatic pan on his face. John doesn’t suddenly go to Winston and put a cap in his ass. No! You forget about the line. You think it’s just some tragedy of Sofia’s character and move on. John struggles with himself internally and it isn’t until Winston’s betrayal and the roll credits of the movie that you remember! That you say to yourself “John has to kill Winston for what Winston did. No matter all the good that Winston’s done for him, this is something that John can’t forgive.” Versus Game of Thrones with Tyrion, “Yeah bro, love is the death of duty buuuut sometimes DutY iS ThE DeaTh oF LovE” right before Jon kills Daenerys. Like lol, did you think we’d be surprised? That people wouldn’t expect that shit when you put that literally the scene before? LMAO

THAT is how Jon should’ve killed Daenerys. The emotional turmoil is what Jon should have gone through. The decision to choose Winston(Daenerys) and only when Winston fucked over John(Jon) is it when John(Jon) decides to kill Winston(Daenerys) because he has to pay. Daenerys(Winston) even said “rule with me”. She could have been saved. She NEEDED to be saved. But Jon chose to butcher her while John chose to believe.

John Wick, an assassin, has more honor than Jon Snow, Ned Stark’s son.

but Nathan only have Max selfie IF we choose not nice to him or Victoria (like we make fun with victoria, get him suspended) and also there’s Nathan jacket in the Dark Room if we do that, so... I think Nathan doesn’t get obsessed with Max, but he want to hang out with Max like a friend (nightmare scene)

GOD DAMN IT. I CAN DIE NOW CAULSCOTT

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Okay but this is how bad 2017 was that I’m in my basement just now and a dandelion seed floats by and I’m like that’s weird, why is a dandelion seed floating right toward me in my basement where there’s no wind and in the middle of winter? And I let it fall onto my hand and stared at it for a moment before saying to it, “I’m a scientist and a very practical, down to earth person… but if you’re some kind of fairy, can you help me out, bro, and give me a better 2018?” Then I gently sent him on his way and wished him good luck. Keep your fingers crossed, people. XD

Did everyone just bypass the fact that Luke wanted Clem to stay with him?

Um, thanks but no.

Is there anyway possible that my oc could have came from Marley without being one of the three ( Annie, Bertholdt, and Reiner ) titan shifters? And personally do you think a shy, humble, slightly anxious oc who is overcoming their anxiety ( basically similar to Armin) would be compatible with Eren? Thanks for all your help and I plan on submitting my oc soon.

yes! as i answered in another posted regarding marley:

just because she wasn’t chosen, doesn’t mean she is kicked out of the program. there are tons of warriors in the unit, but only a select few are chosen as possible successors for the titans.

going off of that, these candidates are top priority and have to be protected at all costs. the remaining warriors will be their protectors, and typically the cannon fodder in wars so that the candidates can stay out of harms way.

so just because your OC isn’t chosen to be a “titan warrior” she can still be a warrior.

now, referring to your pairing questions, i think an oc like that would work with eren. they wouldn’t connect right away, however, as eren can be really overbearing. he might try to give the oc an extreme pep talk that might end up scaring her more than helping aha. armin would be great middle-ground, helping eren learn how to control himself a bit more- and helping the oc understand that eren means well.   ×ROWAN