You should probably check out Serial Experiments Lain too. Haven't seen it in a decade and a half probably but it's probably up your alley.

I generally detest anime, but Serial Experiments Lain is incredible. A real piece of art, that one.

Got Disney+ just to watch Marvel cartoons and I've been watching X-Men for the last few days. Wolverine and the X-Men is about as meh as I remember back when I dropped it. The storyline is nice and interesting but the character work is bland and it's hard to care about anyone. The OG 90s X-Men cartoon has a bombass theme obviously but the numbskull pacing makes it hard to feel like the narrative is anything but a long trailer and the dialogue is just a collection of one-liners. I want to love it and the nostalgia is real but it's just bad.

But as I expected X-Men: Evolution is by far the standout even if people still sleep on it after all these years. The writing actually feels like I'm watching a narrative and the characters feel like actual people and even if the pacing of the series as a whole is sluggish when it gets going all that time you spent becoming invested in the characters gives the plot a weight you'll never see in any of the other two series.

And it introduced X-23 for ****'s sake.

Boss soundtrack

Have you listened to any of Yoko Kano's other soundtracks?

I don’t think so. No. Recommendations?

The Vision of Escaflowne and Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex soundtracks are pretty bombass. She's got a bunch but I haven't heard more than those three.

I've been watching the Hannibal series and it's alright. Gets a bit try hard with the "He's a super genius" **** like in Death Note but not unbearably so. It takes a lot of liberties and relives a lot of moments and dialogue I know from the movies (never read the books) and repackages them in this series. It's only about Will Graham and Hannibal and doesn't include Clarice but instead puts Will in the places she'd be.

Finally finished watching Star Trek: Discovery. I thought it was pretty incredible,
but I know that the Trekkie nerd boys hate it for various picky reasons.
Yeah, OK, even tho I've never seen the original series - and I had to have the
Christopher Pike back story explained to me by my wife - I can understand
some of the frustration that the story lines and general philosophies don't quite match.
But, I've become used to that in all kinds of film vs. book storylines - science fiction,
detective, general drama, etc. - and being too rigid and not simply relaxed when it comes to plots,
character developments, and creative visuals seems to be such a psychic drain.
I mean, yeah, in LOTR, there were no elves at Helm's Deep, but does that
mean I'm gonna pan the whole franchise? Seems stupid.

I haven't watched an episode of X-Files since the series finale a hundred years but my god I loved it back in the day and so I'm happy that I got drunk and subscribed to Hulu purely to rewatch it. Starting with the first season I get the feeling that it gets better as it goes along but Scully is kind of a delightful surprise in these early episodes. I always had the idea of her being a po-faced wet blanket but while she clearly tries very hard not to jump to conclusions she is secretly having so much fun jumping feet first into nonsense and it's exactly how I see myself investigating the paranormal, just with way more puns.