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If we agree already, why discuss it then
To clarify and bridge the gap. K, maybe I have to do this without saying literary perfection. Do you expect Inagaki and Bochi to let the plot go to crap and have major plot holes? I think it is that simple. If you do not expect this, then there is no reason to pose the questioning comment to me. Based on how it reads to me, you are contradicting yourself. It reads like "I really enjoy the series AND can see how everything gets connected, but I still expect them to mess up and make everything disconnected". You do not state this, but the direct questioning implies that you expect things to go downhill. You even stated this directly with Xeno and Stan not being handled correctly.
Hopefully this bridges the gap better.
You asume things, tho I didn't say them. Why do you think that I expect the story to be messed up and disconnected only? I simply state, if some details weren't connected yet, how can I say it's literary perfect, when it wasn't done yet (the connetions of the crumbs))? The author may make a mistake and make the plot hole, doesn't mean he will, doesn't mean he won't. We are still practically getting introduced to the possibilities Dr. Stone posses in the matter of the story developement, we're "at the first parts" of the whole story. The breadcrumbs are prepeared to be joined together in the future (some already did) - that is the potential of literary perfection I see in Dr. Stone and I have no problem with it, even tho it may seem so to you? So the series has the potential, yes, but saying literary perfect... will wait when it gets much farther in the plot to confim it. That was what I was trying to say. The future is unpredictable and I won't state sth, that wasn't confirmed fully. That's why I postponed the decision. That's it, I make it more simple, I might be a bit confusing in my previous and following reasoning, but I decided to write a clear line. I can't say sth is literary perfect, if it's not finnished. I realized this fact after our discussions now and I will follow it from now on. So from now on, the continued series that seem literary perfect has the potential of being so, and the finished ones are literary perfect after being analysed through and through and meet the conditions in the end.
Hopefully I got through somehow :)
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And yes, you did "attack". Kinda reprimanded me, tho you mentioned things I wasn't even writing about.
Please quote where you felt this. Pointing out the truth is not an "attack". "Ripping posts apart" make people feel attacked and I am fully aware of that. For whatever parts I have gotten feedback on, this has been the case. You haven't triggered by Trump pet peeve, so I'm very confident on this. Communication on potential "trigger words" (see literary perfection), is something that helps me be able to discuss without triggering attacks. You being able to see my perspective is essentially what I'm doing with bridging the gap. Being able to see both sides of a story is always universally useful/beneficial.
Ok, here is an example..
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Stan, with his guns, is strong enough to take on the entire combat team alone. I think this is going to happen because we need to see for ourselves Stan's power level. It is being implied, but we need to see it to give context to future action. So I'm super optimistic on this part going through. Yes, he's loyal to Xeno, but he might need his own "epiphany moment" to see that this teenager in Senku is "better" than Xeno.
Me..
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That sounds cool, I will neutralize my expectations tho, so that I'll get surprised, or I might be disappointed the next time, if sth wouldn't be shown. But you pointing out the battle Xeno vs. Senku and Senku's team vs. Stan, those might be the peaks of this story arc indeed I wonder if Xeno is really so heartless or if he actually might waver in the deciding moment, and bcs of that it will end with Senku's win.
When I wrote not expecting anything so that I could get more surprised, it was to your last sentence of "epiphany moment". Meaning, me not imaging any details to get surprised more effectively later. In my later sentence I agreed the fight will be there (Stan vs. Senku's team), even pointed out how epic it will be, bcs I considered it to be sort of a peak of this arc in a way.
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To continue our long discussion...c'mon, have more faith in the Ingaki and Bochi team! The plot falls apart if at least some aspect of "resistance" by both Stan and Xeno are not addressed. Stan doesn't seem the type to just give up. He knows he has a huge advantage in skill, physical capabilities, and most importantly weaponry. Despite Senku's "checkmate", Stan knows it isn't a checkmate because Senku is not willing to kill. Ahh...Inagaki wrote the breadcrumbs into the plot already!
They both are far from accepting "defeat". The war ends when both accept defeat. So this is great hype by the manga team to proclaim a "checkmate" when it is still only the first "check" by Senku.
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I said nothing about no complications and no mighty fights, even nothing about fast acceptance of the defeat (by the antagonists), only musing about Xeno's developement in reasoning *, kind of rhetorical questions of mine. I even agreed that those fights will be the peaks of this arc! But I won't expect any way of how those fights will be shown for sure in the manga, bcs I wanna be surprised and not disappointed, that was what I was talking about.
What is underlined was you reprimanding me, when I was actually agreeing with you
What is red is roughly when we didn't understand each other.
The timing of the posts is not right, bcs I use ctrl c ctrl v often.
*I was getting a bit side tracked with my musing about Xeno, I think I was referencing to our much older discussions, not particulary this one. It might be just an accidental thought of mine too