my feelings about Yukio and his relationship with rin are that I feel like he so desperately wants to communicate with rin, to reconnect with him but he doesn't know how. They live together, they've lived together for years but slowly they've been drifting apart mentally and it's getting harder and harder to communicate. Yukio understands the idea of his brother. His reckless brother who loves him that he wants to protect because he's spent his whole life protecting him. But doesnt actually know that much about his brother personally and neither does rin for Yukio. Years apon years of keeping eachother at arms length it's hard to go back to when they were inseparable as kids and things were easier. At the beginning of the show they're both grieving but Yukio can't confide in rin. He just can't because he's the authority figure, he's the one in charge, he's the one with his life together and if that slips then he's really nobody just like when he was a kid and having his brother protect him but that backfires on him cuz he still after years and years even now when his secret double life as an exorcist has been revealed. He still can't figure out how to communicate with his brother.
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in the middle of watching the new quinton reviews sam & cat video and it always frustrates me when his stuff gets put into that category of “just recap not analysis” by people. I understand why those nickelodeon vids aren’t for everyone I really do but I’d still argue what quinton does is analysis - not necessarily of the show itself but rather everything around it. it’s analysis of the cultural moment that was icarly or victorious or sam & cat because that’s the most interesting parts of these shows, not necessarily their actual content (they’re literally children’s sitcoms)
like I was pretty strictly a cartoon network kid growing up, I never watched any of these shows when I would’ve been in the target demographic and honestly to this day I haven’t actually watched a single episode of any of them nor do I have much desire to, however, watching quinton’s videos on them I feel like I have a genuine understanding of them as phenomenons. I understand their appeal, why some of them took off more than others, why they’re remembered fondly by people, the relationship audiences have had with them at the time etc. and I think diving into those aspects should be considered analysis just as much as an actual narrative deep dive. it’s simply a different type of analysis. and I can’t think of any other video series I’ve seen on youtube do that. it feels like a really unique experience.
I know that “long recaps of media you watched in your childhood and/or teen years” has become a genre and arguably took off when quinton’s videos started doing really well but I can’t stress enough that his videos are not that: the recaps are only a relatively small part all things considered. hell the video before this one barely contained any recaps at all. where I’m at in this video currently the recaps have completely finished and I still have four hours to go. and I think that’s also the reason why I really love his videos but otherwise can’t get into that whole genre.
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