IKnight on SDF Macross 02

I know now what he wrote about. And you know what, the loss of his retirement for animeblogging was as bad as when we lost Lawson. Except that he didn't take the site down. 2DT is just not the same -- for one thing, his interests are too heavily tilted towards pornography, which is great and all, but thus precludes him replacing Animanachronism despite the similarity in the approach to writing and presentation. Also, he's lazy recently. It's not even the entry size per se... IKnight knew how to employ two-line entry. It's just... superficial application of his fine knowledge to produce a day's work blog entry, if I may. It's not the same. Although, perhaps we never will have the same. Was Random Curiosity the same under Divine after Omni quit? Format stayed the same, thoughts did not. I guess in every such case we ought to suck it up and move on.

Anyway, one curious thing about the link above is that so, so many animebloggers do the retelling in their entries. It's mauvais ton to dump episodics without! And invariably the result is dull, dull, dull. Spoiling, too, but spoiling without a cause. But how about this spoiler (it even has screencaps!):

This moment isn’t just great in itself, it’s also capitalised on brilliantly. There is a brief exchange between Hikaru and Minmay which mostly consists of adrenaline-fuelled illogic. They are – like me when I first saw this – still reeling.

It gets better, though. [..]

What is the difference between the quote above and the usual? Become conscious of it and I'll want to read your blog.

UPDATE: I am obviously unfair to doughty episoders, who have to squeeze something readable from themselves week in and week out. I am running that show with IM@S TV and that is quite difficult. Even so, retelling is a bad form, IMHO.

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