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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9861212" data-attributes="member: 18">What nitpicks did you have re: Blue-Eyed Samurai? It's basically a fantasy piece so I didn't really see any major issues with it despite various odd/questionable takes it was making. But I'm far from an expert on Japan in what I assumed to be the late 1700s or early 1800s (I dunno if they ever pin it down more than "Edo period" and I think elements of it sort of span the entire period).Re: Usagi Yojimbo they were making a modern animated version around the same time as Blue-Eyed Samurai, not sure what happened to it. On Netflix as well.Your honour, he din' do it on purpose! Also the first person to do it gets a free pass, right?The OCG in Line of Duty is maybe 1/100th as powerful as the one in Hijack, and seems to be tightly localized (like real dangerous OCGs - we don't have any on that scale in the UK anymore, but Mercurio has noted that a lot of elements of LoD are basically "what if police corruption and organised violent crime in the UK had stayed at 1970s and 1980s levels to the present day", though frankly S5 has shades of Mexico to it). But people copying him and exaggerating further has certainly been a bane and honestly distracts from the fact that state actors could barely (or even not) pull some of this stuff off.Speaking of Hijack, S2 is set on the Berlin subway (the U-Bahn), and frankly, I have a lot of questions about how the Berlin subway works as a result, because you absolutely could not do what happens in the first episode in the London Underground, and yes, maybe the Underground is kind of the king/queen of subways in the West (the most efficient, the largest, the most complex, it makes the NYC subway, for example, look like trash - I hear and believe the Tokyo, Shanghai and Seoul subway systems are equally or more impressive to the Underground), but I'm pretty most modern train systems are full of automatic cut-outs and automatic speed controls and setups where a controller turning on a red light physically stops the train from being able to go.Looking it up, it seems like they might have picked the U-Bahn specifically because it isn't like that - as of now they're apparently still introducing automatic systems that we've have had for many decades here. So it looks like this may pass the nitpick test - I do read that they have a very good tracking and monitoring system, but not automatic safety systems, which is insane to me but there you go.I see we are continuing with "Everyone in this show is a total jerk" though, as every single character, and I do mean literally every single one with no exceptions whatsoever in the first episode has been either mean, heartless, weird-in-a-bad-way, dodged important obligations, or otherwise committed a social faux pas. Very much including our """"hero"""" who has not only been a jerk in multiple ways but racially profiled a small South Asian asylum seeker and got him nearly shot by two burly polizei!</blockquote>

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