TV.com is a site that exists now only as a quick way to poll the population for ratings of popular shows peddled to the lowest common denominator. While there are a few Sanctuaries where die hard fans congregate to keep the fire of the classics alive, this website seems to be made of a slobberingly idiotic children that have come together only to rave about current, terrible shows. Smallville, Supernatural, Lost, reality programming, Heroes and Gossip Girl are nothing more than artistically devoid cash-cows that should have never made it past the greenlighting phase. This site is badly designed, poorly managed, ignores its users entirely, and has clearly sold out in every way. I have seen this website go from cute friendly mingling space into a lab where fans are dissected in the most sterile of conditions.

I don't agree with anything that this site has done after being constructed and am disgusted with its policies. I have enjoyed the forums and the people on them, but everything from the site's layout to the clueless administrators (Not Grailwolf) to the unabashed turnover of control to the mobs of blathering fanboys who will rate an unaired episode of their favorite cartoon a 10 and spam votes of its competitor with 1s for no other reason than to muck with the stats is an affront to good taste, professionalism, morality, and your audience.

There are some that will refuse to leave you for no other reason than they are well established here, love the community and largely have no where else to go. To them, I say "Get out. Get out quick, and leave a complaint on your way out."

It's been fun everyone. If you want to see me again, look me up on AIM: laughingmurray.

Or if you write Cloud/Sephiroth slashfics.

This is a copy of a rant I posted on Nakama-Fansubs' forum. I pasted it here because some of you watch Bleach, I want to archive it for later, and let's face it: I love to hear myself talk. Mi. Mi, mi, mi. Doooooo. Anyway, enjoy the pasted fun. I swear I'll stop talking about anime before my next post.

Okay, the problem with the first filler arc [of Bleach] was that it offered resolution within the first few episodes. The cast of good guys [captains in the army of "heaven"] matched up against the bad guys [vampires with attack dolls] and had the upper hand. In any other story aside from a filler arc, that would have ended with each "Bount" dying at the hands of a captain or lieutenant or whomever was matched to whom. Instead, the Hand Of God [TM] came down and pulled the villains from Harm's Way in order to prolong the storyline another 30 episodes where they would be killed in the EXACT SAME CIRCUMSTANCES. This isn't storytelling, this is A does not work, so try B, then try C, then after a speech, try A again, when it actually works. Then final problem with the Bount Arc lay in Jin, who was the worst bad guy ever to grace a non-DBZ anime. Jin was a lazy sort of fighter who relied on his "secret power" to win every fight. Ichigo attacked him and Jin deflected the attack utilizing the same animation as Aizen [deflecting the sword with one hand and then killing the hero with his MIND]. This makes you believe that he is using a power similar to Aizen or everyone 10 levels higher than the hero can catch a blade with a finger and when they curl a digit, it causes the hero to take damage equal to the villain's plot stat. Jin's powers were not at all thought out, had no interesting material to build a compelling fight on, and fluctuated in power between being on par with Aizen, to barely able to keep Ichigo and Byakuya's individual attacks at bay, to being a god (yet again). When he finally died, it wasn't because Ichigo had worked out his powers and squashed them, it wasn't because Squad 1's captain came in and showed him exactly what "9000" looked like, it was simply because the story arc was over and the character gave up. Jin wouldn't be as annoying had he not had a speech that pointed out that he was simply a plot device and that Ichigo, as a shounen anime hero, would go on to fight another big bad and another, each with escalating power levels. The first rule of writing is that you DO NOT TELL EVERYONE WHAT PLOT GUIDE YOU'RE FOLLOWING. If you just took the plot of Die Hard and put it in space, you don't have Zorg call Korben Dallas "John McClane" and ask him not to throw you from Nakatomi building's 57th floor [This is the real reason I copied this for the TV.com site.]

This brings me to the second filelr arc: The New Captain Shuusuke Amagai Arc, which starts up midway through the Hueco Mundo storyline right at the moment before things actually get good. Ichigo has recently been put in his place by Uliquorra and when he refused to submit to defeat, was stabbed through the chest by the Espada's HAND and DIED (if you tell me he survived that, I will ban you - er, cry). Luckily Grimmjow is the sort of guy who carries measuring tape around and likes to measure up against anyone else with a phallic meta - er, a sword. He steals the Plot-Bending Princess from the other castle and brings her to Ichigo's corpse telling her to get him back in fighting condition. They fight and Ichigo, now realizing that he's the main character, proceeds to do what he couldn't before even though absolutely nothing has changed.

*drinks from a nearby cup before continuing rant* [This was not just an emote, I actually did this.]

Instead of starting the filler arc after Grimmjow was defeated and the characters look into the sunrise and arrive in an ALTERNATE DIMENSION... this should have happened. Cut the arc after Uliquorra stabs and kills Ichigo. Ichigo says the same sort of things that a dying hero says (usually "Move! Move!" or "Stop! Stop!") before blacking out. Now we start the filler arc, which takes place in Ichigo's dormant soul as he believes that he has died. This opens up a lot more doors because this is a world that DOES NOT EXIST and DOES NOT TRY TO EXIST. My first attempt at a filler arc in this setting: Ichigo, believing that he has died, returns to the living world, haunts his family for two episodes before turning into a hollow and being killed by Rukia where he is sent to Soul Society. As a new soul in SS with a ton of spirit power, he begins the task of becoming accepted within Sereitei and the 13 squads. Eventually he becomes a captain in an interesting look at a world that could have been. Eventually though, he is revived by Orihime and returns to the HM storyline without ruining any continuity or sending out chainletters telling everyone that he has a hollow in his soul that imbues his sword with demon powers.

See? That wasn't so hard. [I have no idea who I said this to, or what it meant]

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