Daystar Clarion said:
SadakoMoose said:
Daystar Clarion said:
Gendo Ikari, best dad ever.
Shinji Ikari, only person to complain that he gets to pilot a giant robot and live with MILFsato.
Yea, the guy that got his wife and many others killed pursuing a mad man's dream. The guy that orphaned "MILFSato" in the first place. The guy that treats his son like he's not even there, UNTIL he needs him to fight ungodly abominations. Yea, a 16 years old with no military training, put in a position where the FATE OF HUMANITY depends on him putting his life on the line via the piloting of a robot made from his dead mother. Weird. All the while, having to live with a drunk
Also, to boil down Misato's somewhat tragic character to a porn cliche. Wow.
See post number 35.
It's like some people
look for reasons to go 'nuhhuh, that's totally not why!'.
You're not impressing anyone, on the contrary, you're pointing out something people already know and missing the whole point of these things we call jokes.
I didn't miss the joke, I just didn't think it was funny. He's covered the NGE stuff before, and he's not really doing anything new with his criticism. He's entitled to his opinion, but I still don't think that it works as satire because it ignores "something people already know".
For example: "Hey, "the Simpsons" sure sucks because of Bart's Oedipus complex for Marge!"
Now if you're at all familiar with the Simpsons, you can immediately tell that I've gotten a key detail wrong about the series. I've taken Marge's character trait of loving Bart as a son, and I've broadly misinterpreted it to be something that sounds "funny" but does not reflect the actual series. At that point, it's not satire.
One another note: Listen, I know what a joke is. I also know how to respond to criticism without talking down or acting like I'm only funny person in the room. If you want to have a respectful conversation, don't go trying to make your opponent out to be a petulant child, so that you can make yourself look like the "last bastion of reason and comedy in all the internet". I have the views I have, because they are my views.
I'm not trying to impress anybody, nor am I desperate fan boy crying over spilled milk, but it would appear that treating others with a modicum of respect just falls short of meeting your criteria for a proper response.