What do you mean this isn't how it went?
This joke had been bouncing around my head ever since I've seen that episode.
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Hey Kaisa fans
Kicking my feet and twirling my hair
Come get y'alls juice
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I'm too tired to write the full Essay™, but someone said in the tags that Stampede took away Knives' fear and it made me realize that the core issue I have with Trigun Stampede is the fact that the characters lack the emotional depth of Trigun Maximum. Like, I'm enjoying Stampede, and it's emotional, but Knives and Vash especially have had their emotional complexity watered down in comparison to the manga.
In the manga, they were as much at war with themselves as they were with each other and world around them. Knives was expressive, animated, and always playing up the megalomaniac god complex in public, but in private he was exhausted and scared and even expressed guilt towards his sisters for being careless in how he orchestrated the fall. Vash was an upbeat pacifist who was constantly fighting his own urge to take the "easy" way out and kill to solve problems.
It's what made the manga so heartbreaking. Neither of them were entirely right, but neither of them were entirely wrong. Knives shouldn't try a genocide, but he was also a deeply traumatized child who was shown how cruel humans could be to plants. Vash should try to do as much good in the world as he can, but holding onto the ideals of pacifism in a hostile environment does more harm than good and he learns that when he's finally pushed to the point where he has to choose between killing and saving someone important to him.
I don't think it's impossible for Stampede to recover in Season 2, but the foundations aren't great. Changing Nai to being cold as child seems like such a small change, but Knives starting out as the optimist who loved humanity is so central to that internal conflict... I don't know. Maybe they'll come back to the point of Rem being important to Knives and make use of the fact that he intended for her to survive and that might save it. We'll have to see.
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there's no fukase cover of whisper whisper whisper but the cover art reminded me of this design i made
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OSCAR PIASTRI | BELGIAN GP 2023 (POST-SPRINT)
If someone had told you before the start of the season that you'd have a top 3 finish before the summer break, what would you say? [...] It's always a nice motivation when you know you can do a good job, the car is there to finish in the top three, but I don't think it changes too much of what I'm trying to do myself. I'm always trying to get the most out of myself. I still have plenty to learn, and, you know—just getting back up to speed with some things still, so. From that aspect it doesn't change too much.
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