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Your Daily Streaming Reviews Schedule: Fall 2018

This is a really odd and pointlessly nitpicky thing of me to get unnecessarily focused on, but why is this called a schedule? It doesn't seem to tell us at all when the reviews will be carried out.

The reviews come out when the writers and editors can get them out, so there isn't really a specific "schedule", in that sense.

Right, and I think that arrangement's fine. I'm not complaining about the lack of a schedule; I just think it's an unnatural word to use to describe what amounts to assigning shows to reviewers. Excessively minor nitpick, as I said, though, so I'll just leave it at that.

NeverConvex wrote:

Right, and I think that arrangement's fine. I'm not complaining about the lack of a schedule; I just think it's an unnatural word to use to describe what amounts to assigning shows to reviewers. Excessively minor nitpick, as I said, though, so I'll just leave it at that.

Right, but as I said(the part of my comment that you may have skipped), "the word 'schedule' doesn't inherently require a specific time and date to be given" so nothing about its usage here is incorrect or unnatural.

Yes, but even if it doesn't have a specific time, it should have a relative time (ie, review A comes before review B comes before review C).

The problem with that comes when you have several shows coming out on the same day, around the same time, and different reviewers on different work schedules and/or with other distractions. For instance, for a Saturday show there are some weeks that I can get to it right away when it airs and others when I might not be able to get to it until very late in the evening (such as this coming Saturday, for instance). Should a show which streams at 12:30 p.m. automatically be posted before a show which airs at 1:30 p.m. even if the reviewer of the latter can get to it several hours earlier than the reviewer of the former can? You also have to factor in that some platforms don't specify the time an episode airs and even the ones that do can sometimes be off by several hours.

IOW, unless you're giving a couple of days of lead time, reviewing on even a relative schedule is inexact at best.

Right, but as I said(the part of my comment that you may have skipped), "the word 'schedule' doesn't inherently require a specific time and date to be given" so nothing about its usage here is incorrect or unnatural.

It appears as though Tsurune is in a nebulous state for streaming (for now anyway) and AoT got pushed to next spring, so I'm going to join the people saying The Girl in Twilight should get added to the review schedule if possible.

After watching all three episodes, I think it could be an interesting show to cover. I hadn't really heard much talk about it, but after giving it a chance I liked it. The animation is nothing to write home about, but the story has been pretty good so far.

Toonces wrote:

It appears as though Tsurune is in a nebulous state for streaming (for now anyway) and AoT got pushed to next spring, so I'm going to join the people saying The Girl in Twilight should get added to the review schedule if possible. After watching all three episodes, I think it could be an interesting show to cover. I hadn't really heard much talk about it, but after giving it a chance I liked it. The animation is nothing to write home about, but the story has been pretty good so far.

I think the words you're actually looking for here are "incredibly erratic." Character designs are all over the place in its second and third episodes.

But even beyond that, yeah, there's a lot to talk about. A lot to criticize, too.