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Tomoyo Daidouji	When some fancy online review show starts, they usually have an opening. Perhaps an animatic, or an intro to the hosts. And Rewind Reviews certainly does have that, but being on the other side of the camera is a different story. There's a camcorder on a tripod (a good quality one thankfully) and a separate microphone pointed at the round, velvet-draped table at which the hosts sit. The two of them, Glam Tarrington and Butch Tugg are at the centre. Glam, a slightly rotund man with fading blonde hair and Butch, an ironically lean man with a full beard. "Welcome to Rewind Reviews," Glam says. "Today, we have some very special guests." "That's right Glam," Butch interjects. "With us today are a variety of Elites. When they're moving and shaking the Multiversal stage, they're coming on down to review movies with us. Today we have of the Paladins, Sir Gawain of the Round Table, Lilian Rook of the banquet table, Strawberry Princess of the tea party table, and Tamamo of the kotatsu." Glam takes over to add, "Not to mention Arthur Lowell, the loudest man in the Multiverse. The editor has asked us to ask you to keep it low today, editing your audio spikes is gonna be a nightmare. And with us is the lady who make this all possible; Tomoyo Daidouji, owner of Tomoyo's Boutique and sponsor of the MECC." "Happy to be here. Thank you for having me," Tomoyo says, ever courteous. Glam carries on now that introductions are over. "Tonight we're covering 'Milk and Intergalactic Honey.' And let me tell you, this movie was like drinking milk for me, being lactose intolerant at all. What did you all think? Give us your impressions and score from 1 to 10."
Arthur Lowell	>Arthur: Review Man, you know what Arthur misses? GAME BRO magazine, the only high quality source for videogame reviews of how wasted Dennis got last night when he broke his thumb and ruined movie night. So Arthur did his best to keep his mind off the movie and on some kind of shenanigans to make an irreverent but amusing tangent about, but instead he got, like, super wrapped up in it and emotionally invested, and is now desperately attempting to conceive of a really low-key way to still get all his opinions said in a cool, uninvested way. "Last time I saw Jennifer Lawrence in a movie she was playing a blue, like, space alien wasn't it? The blue space alien who transforms into people, with all that makeup for the scales? Yo, was she still playing the shapeshifting alien in this one? Kinda felt like she was figuring out how to pretend to be a human, not figuring out how to do a galactic government job." Arthur's affect is of one of disorientation and distraction. He leans forward as his attention faux-wanders in another direction. "Also, let me keep it real, getting Hayden Christensen to play literally fuckin' anyone in anything after he got a big break franchise movie thing is always gonna go weird. I could tell they weren't putting laser anything anywhere near him so they could try to sneak him in under my nose, but I got eyes, you know what I'm sayin' dawg? Maybe that's the angle -- like, how well can a blue alien and a laser amputee fly under the radar and not get caught as not having 100% human parts? Like a gimmick." This rambling isn't going to stop. Someone needs to intervene.
Strawberry Princess	This is something like a situation of pomp and circumstance- the last time Strawberry was in front of a camera, it was modeling for the mahou propaganda animations. So it feels natural to come in her full regalia, hybrid golden-age-hero-and-magical-girl outfit with its strawberry-serrated skirt and pastel pink/yellow motifs. She's dialed back the presence today, though- shoulders slumped and rounded just a little, severe serenity replaced with a sweet smile. All almost-seven-feet of her look uncomfortably gangly sitting in a normal-sized chair, knees and elbows bent at sharp angles just to not spill over. "Oh! Yeah, I was- it was definitely an experience," she says hesitatingly. "It really... taught me a lot. About space." I can't believe I slept in. Oh god. Just a few more minutes, please don't ask me any questions. A hundred worlds away, on another Earth, a dozen pink ghosts of Strawberry are swarming through her apartment, setting up a dozen different old TVs and VCRs in an altar-like pile. Each of them plugs their copy of the movie in; each fast-forwards to a different spot, staggered apart in time like runners in a relay race. The movie starts to play on twelve different screens, watched by twelve different sets of eyes, each consuming an independent ten-minute chunk. That fractured awareness seeps back into Strawberry's brain. This is crunch time. But she has to do something about Arthur now, and she jumps on him with the urgency of a vet diving onto a hot grenade. "I liked the part where-" On one of the screens, the fresh-faced man is floating in space. No context. "-it looked like Anakin from Star Wars was... going to die??" She smiles a little harder and squeezes her folded hands together until the gloves squeak, looking like death herself.
Tamamo	Tamamo (of the kotatsu) lowers her fan before speaking (as is generally helpful for a microphone), head canted to one side, thinking back. "It was lacking in both milk and honey, no?" The fan is folded, then placed carefully before her. "I could appreciate a certain sweetness between the leading roles, in those few instances in which such a thing might generously have said to happen, where they were not being swept along as in a storm, howling between the stars." Her fingers steeple. "However, was it truly necessary for him to be led along by the particular emotional troubles of a different woman on every planet upon which they landed? Did he think it a mark of good character to treat each of them as if he had not just invested himself, then abandoned, each previous? Was this only a means of contrasting against his relationship with the shapeshifter who had pulled him into this grand new world? If so, why give so little time to their own comraderie, such as it was?" There's a definite hint of disapproval. "Being pulled in so many directions made it rather questionable that the tale held to a consistent theme. Perhaps the storytellers were more concerned with finding roles for as many actresses as they may."
Lilian Rook	Being on TV isn't something Lilian really does. Despite being photogenic as all hell at all times, and especially well versed in these kinds of social interactions, 'advertising as a public personality' is something that is understandably not often a part of the 'secret' society gig, and television is so mundane. Really, this'd just been because she'd gone to see the movie with Tamamo at a private screening, gotten ambushed on the way out, and one thing lead to another . . . Well, no point in thinking about it now. She already knows how this is going to go with Arthur trying to keep his voice under eighty decibels. The fact that she can interject between rambling sentences with precision like a sniper is probably unsurprising. "I agree. He has one of those faces, doesn't he?" she says, running her fingers casually back through her hair over her shoulder. "I appreciate him trying to avoid being typecast while he can, but a romantic space opera might not have been the big leap he needed. Maybe if you put him in a suave three piece suit, or even a suit of armour, but there's only so much you can do when you have a starship bridge set as your background." She leans forward just shy of lacing her fingers on the table, because that's for goddamn pundits. "Still, I think they did an excellent job all the same. Certainly both their ranges have improved since their initial debut. Enough that it wasn't distracting. I also appreciated the attention to almost purely practical effects. This kind of story is all about emoting. Using computer imaging for any character who's supposed to be displaying all the subtle emotions of a torrid romance is just begging to plummet to your career death at the bottom of the uncanny valley. A cult classic at best." "Now, if only they'd made more use of it. The initial pair are obviously presented as the focal chemistry, and the actors certainly have it, so why spend so much time on half a dozen other relationships? There isn't enough screen time in a movie to build those from scratch each time. I was really hoping that each one of them was going to turn out to be the shapeshifter over and over again all along. Missed potential. Or sequel bait, perhaps? With that ending . . ."
Arthur Lowell	>Arthur: wait wasn't that movie the one where you knew Hayden Christensen wasn't going to die? Arthur scrunches his face. "I mean, I dunno, like everyone was always cryin' about how the other movies showed he was gonna do some stuff later, so they couldn't kill him, right? I don't think 'AU' was an idea in anyone's head around then. Like... I mean, obviously that changed 'cuz, y'know." He gestures around in a broad sense. >Arthur: Focus! Oh, Tamamo gets him back on-track. "Look, let me tell ya. When you're a guy who's like someone who gets played by Hayden Christensen, you get involved in a fuckload of emotional trouble with women. Wait, was she a shapeshifter? I honestly can't tell if that's just what Jennifer Lawrence does." He waves his hands vaguely. "But look. We're skippin' the most important part." "There's a good reason to skip around relationships fast. If you're gonna date, you gotta speed-date, because romance is hella lethal. Eye-are-ell, it's pretty intense, but in fiction they can afford to believably cram that lethal shit under a two-hour run time too. A man who's gonna last a full ninety two on-camera and get his shit going has gotta hop women and that's for real, yo. I don't think the sequel bait's gonna pick up on, like, Lawrence being all of 'em, 'cause that'd mean a homie ran the mile and back on-screen with zero romance deaths and that's where my disbelief's suspension starts makin' some rickety noises."
Gawain	Gawain is not wearing a suit, because he is not ReviewBrah with a frozen pizza. He's got a jacket on, instead, looking sporty, as he smiled as he was introduced, nodded, and then got to work. "So, I can only preface my review of this movie with the fact that I cried like, three times. The first time, I was like 'is something in my eye?'. The second time, I was like 'woah', and the third time was I was like 'WOAH'!" Gawain spreads his hands out like an explosion at that, and then nods to Strawberry Princess. "I liked both times that happened. I'm not sure how spoilers-free we are, but which one of those did you like better?" He's helping, before he suddenly locks onto Tamamo, and gives an actual review instead of rambling. Lilian's continuation has him pushing up metaphorical glasses. "The movie didn't have the runtime for what it needed. I thought on the film for a while, and at first, I didn't like it, despite the manly tears. But then...you're familiar with Herakles, of course? I believe they were trying to do an allegory of his twelve labors, in an emotional sense instead of a physical task sense. Each of the women bring him their troubles, and-" Arthur says something, and Gawain just nods. "Was romantic, I died, they're possibly correlated!", and then continues. "-But it was like, each romance was its own little task for him, and in the end, he got the most important reward of all: true love." Gawain's absolutely rambling, but also clearly enjoyed it.
Strawberry Princess	The first time or the second time Hayden got spaced...? Only the visor over Strawberry's eyes keeps the naked fear from being visible. She's only seen one of the spacings so far, and the other might be horrible! It was on- the third watcher's chunk, so about half an hour into the film. Guess. Guess guess guess. Surely there wouldn't be two spacings in the first half hour, right? "The first one! And the... bungee-cording, with the life-support tube. It was- a big trust-fall maneuver, right? Or a metaphor for it." She's shaking her head a little as Arthur, Tamamo, and Gawain come into their home stretch about romance. This is, at least, something she knows a bit about in the abstract! "The movie said it was true love, but- a lot of what you see in movies isn't healthy love, I think. Trust issues like that... they don't just get ironed out in an hour and a half, really. It takes... a lot of work, from both people- to grow past that, I think." "I think we... idealize love, too much, as something that just 'happens'. Or that it's your just reward for doing good enough." She's leaning forward now, palpably a little more comfortable. "But it's... it takes real work, in the real world. It always does. And I feel like we need to tell people that working on your relationship's imperfections is- it's a sign of a strong heart, not a weak one."
Tamamo	"That would have been an interesting twist... oh, but we are already speaking of what is or is not in the ending already, are we not? My, my." Tamamo continues on despite the spoilers. "It did leave us with some open questions, but this is not so much a source of complaints, I should think. Some subtlety would have been welcome." Head tilting back the other way, curious, she follows Gawawin, "If that were their goal, then I might applaud them the subtlety, if such signs were still present. I am less familiar with Herakles than, perhaps, many others." No Throne of Heroes infodump was included in her summoning. "Would they not have needed twice as many women for such a task, or did they double the roles of each, in that respect?" She looks to Lilian, "Did they leave such hints, that you saw?" Purely curious. Arthur instead gets a look of... concern? "What is this... 'speed dating'?" She sounds ready to recoil in horror, if necessary.
Tomoyo Daidouji	"Thank you!" Butch says in response to Arthur. "I seriously can't believe they cast the poor guy in another space opera where he deals with weird romance writing. What did the guy do to deserve it?! Did he break up with a witch? A space witch and got a space hex?" "Yeah don't worry about spoilers," Glam says to everyone. "We always put a spoiler warning at the start. Though to come back to what Tamamo and Strawberry said, I get it. It's just a thing in movies, though it does reflect real life to a degree. People are /bad/ at understanding what is influencing them. When they're in a madcap dash across the galaxy together, heart pumping, sweating, they might confuse it for love. People in real life do it all the time, and it never lasts. So just imagine things fall apart after. Maybe if we get a sequel we'll see it." "I don't think so," Tomoyo interjects. "I think finding love is already daunting. Of all the people around you, you need to find the one for you. Somewhere in the city, in the country, in the whole world. But in a whole galaxy?... I can understand Hayden wanting to look. He has so many... possibilities. But if it did end up being Jennifer, I hope they made it work out." "Guess we're leaving the reviews for the end!" Butch says, going with the maddash structure of this show. "But for now, let's move on to 'best scene.' Sounds like Strawberry already has hers, but everyone else explain theirs."
Arthur Lowell	>Arthur: Got a rating yet? Nope. "Yeah, I'mma leave my ten-hats until the end." He explains. Hats? >Arthur: Explain what speed dating is to Tamamo "Okay, basically, imagine big-ass line of people goin' down rows of chairs, and they're just matchmaking fast. They just do a mini date for, like, maybe five minutes or whatever. You get in and out fast, before a relationship kills one of you. I guess theoretically you can go into a longer one after, with someone you liked, but, you shouldn't follow suicidal urges, y'know?" >Arthur: Relate "Did you know a space witch tried to date me once? Well, she was a vampire, but she did try to majyyk me by putting a volcano on top of my house after I didn't date her for three weeks. Void rest that bitch's soul though, she died trying it. Lethal romance, lemme tell ya." He points a finger at Strawberry Princess. "This was a book adaptation, right? I'm bettin' this was supposed to be a real fuckin six-book series. I never read it 'cause it's probably for nerds -- edit that part out so I don't get downvoted -- but for real, any of that shit is gonna take a long-ass time. I once spent a whole-ass eternity with someone and couldn't solve their self-esteem problem. Some trust shit for sure ain't gonna swing that simple. But also, like, it takes a bunch of time to solve that shit and you probably die partway through." Favorite scene? "Found footage alien abduction near the start of this shit made me think I was about to watch something cool where David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson try to solve all the mysteries. It was misleading but I'm gonna track it down on youtube and send it to my friends 'cause of that sicknasty cinematography. Wish I'd watched a movie that was two hours of more of that, but this one was still a good second-best."
Lilian Rook	The thing that finally seems to get Lilian's real, naked interest, is Strawberry Princess talking about love. That is, she goes from 'telegenic repose' to 'leaning over to smell that teen gossip' mode. "Oh? You sound as if you have some very strong, and well-informed, opinions on the subject." she says. "Perhaps you could call it -- movies in general -- a fictionalized exaggeration of the way that people mistake infatuation for love all the time in real life. After all, how many first relationships are the only ones that someone has in their lifetime?" She seems to contemplate saying something right after Tomoyo, then somehow visibly decide to tone down the degree of inappropriateness. Slightly. "I hear adrenaline and danger is supposed to accelerate the process. Heightening those primitive feelings in particular. Some sort of instinctual response to 'possibly not being there, or alive, tomorrow'. But I doubt big cinema has that in mind; it's simply a matter that people like action, people like thrills, and people like 'love'." "Still, even if he might be entitled to see his options first, that doesn't mean his 'true' love is obliged to wait. Isn't that right? The longer you play the field, the higher the likelihood that the love in front of you might slip away~ As always, life rewards astute, decisive people. Movies try to portray that, more often than not. It's almost a larger than life characteristic in of itself." She sighs a little wistfully. "I thought so." she says to Tamamo. "But I might have been looking too hard, I'm afraid. The curse of being too savvy~ Still, it seems like a failure of Chekhov's gun. What use is there in introducing a shapeshifter if that's not going to be what they do? Even if it were obvious, it'd still be romantic. If he could meet the same person anew, over and over again, and fall in love with them each time, wouldn't you call that true love? A proper 'show don't tell'." She visibly winces at Arthur saying the 'word' 'majyyk'. "Please don't." she says. "That word crime is a little too offensive for television." She taps her finger on the table. "By the way, I heard that footage was based on real found footage. With the identities concealed, obviously, since they're replaced with actors. I wonder if that's true? There have to be alien abductions happening somewhere out there, right?" "Hmmmm. Favourite scene is it?" Lilian is probably actually thinking instead of pretending to. "I enjoyed the EVA sequence quite a bit. The way they realistically muted all sounds outside of the protagonist, and the camera angles being shot from the perspective of his right-side-up did a wonderful job of contributing to the stress of the whole situation. An inch from tumbling through space forever, motivated to push through that dark, starry abyss, one flimsy steel handhold at a time, by his previously misunderstood urge to protect Jennifer. That struck me as the closest thing to a 'labour' in the sense that Gawain thinks of. The long shot really drove in how harrowing it'd certainly be. It lent it a badly needed sense of legitimacy and heroism that most of the other climaxes lacked."
Gawain	"Runtime clearly stopped them from having 12!" Is Gawain's defense to Tamamo, before he hmms. As they ask for their favorite scene, Gawain turns and nods to Lilian. "There's a scene a bit after that, where he's talking to Jennifer. He's still reeling, but it feels like the one time he actually makes his own choice based on what he wants, and not what others want from him - connected with the previous scene, showing his love, this was one of the moments I cried! It felt like our protagonist went from a generic everyman to an actual person, even if, again, runtime."
Tamamo	Tamamo listens cautiously to Arthur, the look of 'but for what purpose' written over her face. "I see." She doesn't. "Most mysterious is your Gamer Culture." There's plenty more talk about love. "One can hardly understand love, or even know whether it stands present, from the audience's chairs, but for the claims of a narrator. In all other cases, we can but guess at to the truth of the character's feelings. Nor would I request a legend so grounded in reality as to serve as a manual for such a deep mystery. No, no, as the audience of the tale, I shall present more humble standards. If it entertains, and evokes empathy for its characters, and they present a triumph or a tragedy, this is enough to say that it was 'a good story.' It is among these points, simple as they are, that I felt it sometimes lacking, even should the 'run time' have been at fault, and the story we received be only told in brief. Perhaps that was the true cause, but it is the story we were told, and not that which we might have been told, that we speak of tonight." Then, more specifically, to Lilian, "'To see his options'? My, what a modern concept. I suppose those who live long and healthy lives do have such a privilege, if freed from other, related concerns. But does it not feel cheapened by his actions, if he should treat every woman he meets with similar reverence? If, perhaps, he was drawn in some unexplained manner, under a geas or a curse, but... this was a story lacking in such traditions. If only taken as it appears, he was merely thoughtless or a polygamist, no?" Even a hint of real distaste is rare enough for it to be all the more apparent when Tamamo says the word. "We might yet fix the tale, but that is a different matter than its review."
Strawberry Princess	Strawberry perceptibly perks up a little more at Lilian's question. "Maybe- not well-informed," she says with a little laugh. "But it's true, what you said. Danger can bring people together like that- a lot of magical girls get crushes- but it's not... it's not a glue. If your heart isn't ready for that labor, it's- it won't keep you together for long. Because... danger can be for years. But one way or another, it isn't forever." Her enthusiasm's fading slightly by that final somber note, but the rest of the panel fortunately continues to distract her. To Arthur: Books books books. Oh god, I didn't read the books. Back at her apartment, one of the little ghost-clone Strawberries gets up from its gargoyle-like perch on a couch arm, staggers its way around the others still crowded around the TV-altar, and digs a dusty laptop up from behind the furniture. Rapid-fire Googling ensues. Where's a PDF, where's a PDF... She stares at the spaceboy blankly for a good two or three seconds, then: "Trilogy, actually! It... wasn't very good, I think. But it sold a lot for- some reason." That alien on the cover probably isn't decent.
Tomoyo Daidouji	"We're not editing that out, we got you on for the full experience," Glam says to Arthur. "And you stole my favorite scene you son of a bitch. Let's see, uh... the scene with the second girl where she's wearing his shirt. He has this excellent bit of facial acting where he embodies every boyfriend who gets annoyed when their girlfriend steals their favorite shirt. That one moment had more quality acting than his entire appearance in the prequel trilogy." "Of course no movie can fully capture the true experience of love," Tomoyo replies to Lilian. "But we have to learn about it. Sometimes in bite-sized chunks like this. Maybe the lesson to take away is like what Glam said. That 'love' in high-stress situations might not be the best. But the lesson I saw was that 'love might be closer than you think.' Maybe it is as you said Lilian. He shouldn't have been looking around, but at least this time he managed to find it before it slipped away. But, my favourite scene? The Dyson sphere lookout during the solar flare. It was a very quiet scene, and surprisingly tender as they just marvelled at the sight." "It came out at the right time," Butch says to Strawberry. "Managed to ride the wave from a more popular trilogy sending bored housewives into a scramble for similar material. The romance series about the relativity-displaced astronaut, uh... 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow' that was it. But favorite scene, uh... that one at the bar because the costuming department gave one of the extras a really shiny outfit and I could see the recoding light from the camera reflecting off it. But now we talk about our most hated scene, who wants to start us off?"
Arthur Lowell	>Arthur: Regret not being a time aspect Oh, they won't edit it. Too bad Arthur's Space-aspected! >Arthur: Let's hate a scene! "Actually, I'm gonna go off-rails here." He says, making pre-placating gestures. "Which I hate doing, 'cause Princess High-Horse just got on my good side with the space talk. Because aliens are absolutely legit, some places, and it's super fun and cool. Love that whole culture of mutual observation an' shit, for real. But." He points. "I gotta keep it real, yo. The EVA scene was actually the one I hated. Super tense, good emotions processing, great climactic stuff, but the geometry got wild fucky. They didn't build a set to do it on, they CGI'd it in chunks, and tried to hide it under spinning." He cycles his arms like he's operating weird machinery. "If the director -- who was it? Wasn't this some Zemeckis stuff? -- if he'd just gone back to his other shit like that one time-travel series and not gone all Uncanny Polar Express on me here, I'd have dug that fuckin' scene to the center of the Earth, yo, but the minute I saw angles cutting weird in a scene that's about navigating fucked-up geometry, I couldn't deal." Fucking space-aspects, man. They just love their goddamn setcraft, huh? >Arthur: Acknowledge gamer culture "Hell yeah." Arthur replies to Tamamo, looking smug. "We got hella great culture." But he also has other topics to approach. "I think taking shit seriously is real important. My world got bombed to shit but it was on the path to some bad irony poisoning. Sincerity and gettin' all that enthusiasm is really important. Gawain's a big baby for crying, but I totally get and support him crying over what he cried about, loadin' down all that sincerity." The irony, ironically, in Arthur's irony discussion, is palpable.
Gawain	"Manly tears!" Gawain responds to Arthur, half-in-jest, but nods, approving of his words immensely, and then thinks about his least favorite scene. "Arthur's going to be mad, but I didn't actually like the found footage scene. It didn't gel right with the rest of the movie. It was /well-made/, but it took away from my space opera romance! If any scene should have been cut, it should have been that one."
Lilian Rook	"Mmmm? You don't say." says Lilian to Strawberry. The tone is a few degrees south of 'shit-eating' on purpose. "Fortunately, movies, books, fiction overall, doesn't have to worry about years later in the story. If the writer elects to do so, they can say anything happened in the interim. Or simply use that as a means to wipe the slate clean. Hopefully not just to retread the same ground." She makes a little noise at Gawain, but still says "Well, they say art belongs to the viewer. I rather like that interpretation, even if it's quite likely it wasn't intentional. You're right about that moment in particular though. It's one where the writing comes together properly. It could have used a few more like that, in my opinion." She sucks a little air in through her teeth at 'Gamer Culture'. Lilian considers informing Tamamo that speed dating is a widespread thing. She decides against it. "Is it really that modern? I suppose it depends on how you'd describe it. Some people just call it a fear of commitment. Too restless to settle down. Or being impossible to please." Her following laugh could almost be construed as anxious. "I think they try to avoid making that explicit even in Hollywood. No, especially if something is mainstream enough. But a character needs to have flaws, no? Without that, I think it'd take people out of the movie more than any other lack of realism." "Now, I think hated scene is a bit of a strong word. For all of the missed potential, I don't think any of the movie's low points could be called egregious. I have to say I was perhaps a bit frustrated with their attempt to throw in one of those 'noble space rebellions' late in the plot, with some displaced rebel princess love-potential to skip over, and apparently suddenly realized they needed some action, so sidelined everything for ten minutes into a gratuitous -- what do they call it? 'Endor sequence'? We always know it's going to be the the plucky underdogs with attitude and their girl next door leader who come out on top, but that's because we're supposed to have built a sympathetic investment in them as the audience, you know? Trying to throw an political opera thriller theme over a single part of a mosiac-style plot more or less simply opened up a million questions about why an evil space empire factors into any of it at all, and what was going on up until this point, not to mention the unwelcome lampshading of just how ridiculous it looked."
Tomoyo Daidouji	"In this day and age you can't get one of those practical zero-grav sets unless you're using it for the whole movie," Glam says to Arthur. "Thank you for pointing that out, this guy, And screw that Glam, these days they could probably go TO SPACE to film that shot!" Butch interjects. "But my least favorite scene, sorry Tomoyo, was that solar flare scene. It was so goddamn hokey I couldn't stand it." Tomoyo this time actually nods along with Lilian. "Having the movie just detour into greater politics after being what was essentially a space 'road trip' was a strange decision that didn't gel at all. But my least favorite scene was the dance scene right after. I never like when they show a character to be a bad dancer at first but instantly become good through instruction. I think a scene where someone is bad but trying their best is far sweeter than a moment of perfect expression." "Well my least favorite scene is this one where we have to say goodbye to these wonderful guest. Thank you all for coming," Butch says with a grin. "And thank you all for watching, and thanks to our sponsor Dollar Shave Club. You can tell I use them a lot!" he says, his beard blindingly obvious. "Join us next week where we watch what could be a revival of the feudal samurai drama, Seppuku."