Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-29684190-20191123161006/@comment-35434444-20191127124041

Is this meant to be the showdown Malik was talking about? If so I'd rather lose than give it than dignify it by participating.

I can more than appreciate not liking Eddy Rivas' humour. I don't even like Eddy himself that much   if we're being real here. But he still doesn't deserve this that, like most things Malik says, doesn't even make sense on its own terms.

Let me put it this way. Every anime Malik has ever endorsed from Digimon, to Kono Suba, to MHA, has been filled to the brim with, "stereotypes;" characters that are developed around some core set of tropes that makes their role in the story recognizable to the audience without explicitly telling them.

I mean, just look at this screenshot from Madoka Magica:

https://media.comicbook.com/2017/11/ribrianne-1059752-1280x0.jpg


 * Sarcasm *   Oh wait -- that's not PMMM. The characters are just so pro-typical my doughy brain couldn't tell them apart from a parody for a second there. Har-dee-harr

If that's absurd to you because of how developed the characters of PMMM are beyond   their core tropes, you get what I'm talking about.

Urobuchi is an exceptional writer, but he still use tropes like everyone else. A painting hasn't transcended paint just because it uses multiple shades of green to detail some grass instead of just one.

You can't pass off Rivas' characters as a bunch of stereotypes just because he bothered to characterize them at all. You need a case.

Do I even need to point out how relative this is? Today's novelty is tomorrow's cliche.

I'm not saying this argument is wrong. What I'm saying is, don't waste my time with non-existent articulation of your points if you expect this to be a "showdown" and for me to take you seriously. It's so lame I'm not even arguing with it.

Speaking of a case, if this writing is stereotypical, how about you show us what real writing looks like? What was Rivas' supposed to do if reintroducting traits that the characters were already established as having since volume one was the wrong move?

Then it might be worth having a contention and fighting you with my arms instead of brushing you aside with my toes.