I want to state a few things up front. I'm a former philosophy major and I still enjoy learning about academic philosophy. Pretentious is my first, last and middle name. I'm more than willing to defend the likes of Metal Gear Solid 2, Finnegans Wake and Beyond the Black Rainbow. You can't reach my levels of pretentiousness if you tried. The depths of my tepid intellectual masturbation and pseudo-intellectualism have very little if any bounds. My inner fedora can't be breached by mere mortals. In my head where I am already a massive intellectual superstar they call me "the sophist with the most wits." If I had enough courage to leave the house, I'd be one of those guys that puts on a suit with a bowtie and reads large non-fiction books at Starbucks and stares pensively at the air through my square frame glasses and I would order coffee with no accoutrements so it can be black like my soul. That's my level of pretentiousness kids. So let me say up front, my problem with your favorite show isn't that I got confused, I'm not the kind of person who gets confused by big words and unneeded complication I live for it. I mean I've read books by Hegel and Heidegger. You can't get much more needlessly complicated than that. I'm also not averse to a little pretentiousness in my media, I tend to be more forgiving of this than most people, especially if the art or media in question has other merits. I have a kinship with intellectual failures like myself and fake gotta recognize fake yo. I also didn't mind the so called "experimentation" in fact as you'll come to see it would be hard for me to dislike it as I never really "found" it to begin with. I like experimentation in media a lot, if I'm asked to choose between two musical acts for instance I tend to choose the one that takes more risks with experimenting and genre mixing as a rule. So if this show lived up to it's common perception, it should be a 10/10 for a chap like me self, but it's not really like the negative stereotype of what it is and it's not really what the fans think it is either.
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