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  1. Erin Ptah @[email protected] ·

    Never actually watched any #JamesSomerton videos before the plagiarism callouts dropped, but now I'm watching this streamed commentary/breakdown of his #Utena one:

    youtube.com/watch?v=CuIQL8ykqG

    2/3 of the way through, it's mostly a sludge of reading off Wikipedia interspersed with lukewarm takes. Then, around 1:54:25, a line that made me stop cold and rewind to make sure I heard it right:

    "...which I feel gives a lot of undue complexity to a work that is otherwise meant to just be straightforward."

    UNDUE COMPLEXITY. Utena!

    Meant to just be straightforward! UTENA?!

    I just

    Wh

    #jamessomerton #utena