Film — Live-Action
The Dude: I dropped off the money exactly as per... look, man, I've got certain information, all right? Certain things have come to light. And, you know, has it ever occurred to you, that, instead of, uh, you know, running around, uh, uh, blaming me, you know, given the nature of all this new shit, you know, I-I-I-I... this could be a-a-a-a lot more, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, complex, I mean, it's not just, it might not be just such a simple... uh, you know?
The Big Lebowski: What in God's holy name are you blathering about?!
The Big Lebowski: What in God's holy name are you blathering about?!
Podcasts
"We also learn more about the Niwa family: Grandpa's past, Mom's past, Daddy comes home, watch the main character choose his love between the two twins Risa and Riku, meet this random blonde chick, revive a sealed soul named Towa and... FOCUS!"
— This podcast
on D.N.Angel.
on D.N.Angel.Video Games
Mickey: You see? It all makes sense!
Sora: It... does?
Sora: It... does?
"Remember, answers are only questions with funny hats."
— The Cheshire Cat, Bookworm Adventures Volume 2
Webcomics
This comic is convoluted and has a ridiculously huge archive. The story section alone has over 2,000 comics full of weird magic-babble.
— Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (in the commentary on this strip)
)I Suddenly Dont Understand Anything And Am Currently Casting Sincere Doubt On The Laughable Insinuation That I Or Anyone Else Ever Actually Did For Even A Single Moment
— Kanaya Maryam lampshading the plot of Homestuck
Mystery solved!
— Tom Siddell, Gunnerkrigg Court
Web Original
With all those characters and plotlines going on it's apparently really easy to lose track of what you're doing. That's why even good shows have plotlines that they've just discarded like so many Egg McMuffin wrappers on the street.
It would be one thing if the narrative space created by the clear-out were interesting. But instead this marks the point where A Song of Ice and Fire fully commits to its plan of focusing on an ever expanding spaghetti of subplots instead of actually paying off its most interesting promises and concepts
— El Sandifer on the Red Wedding, "A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 3.09: The Rains of Castamere"
"Jeff Grubb and later Steven Schend and Eric Boyd always religiously followed Ed's guideline: 'For every one of my loose ends you tie up or explain, create three new ones and weave them into the Realms, to keep it alive and interesting.' Pity that guideline somehow gotten forgotten or repudiated, since.
It's only at this point in the series that I realized that the entire concept of BlazBlue revolves around time looping in on itself. But if that's the case, then how come there was the Black Beast? But then this really crazy thing happens where, like, Ragna and Noel* don't fall into the Cauldron and they never go back in time to form the Black Beast, which means there shouldn't be any seithr, which means that none of this should've ever happened but it — it keeps happening. I never figured out why. (voice begins to break) It never made any sense to me because somebody didn't think this thing through. Somebody just kept throwing in stuff into the BlazBlue lore, thinking people would think it was cool and I'm sorry to say that IT WORKED! BUT IT DIDN'T WORK ON ME! OH NO! I see BlazBlue for what it really is! It's a mess! It's a crappy mess and I HATE IT! And that's why it's #7.
— Nick Cramer on BlazBlue: Alter Memory (and the main narrative of its source material), ScrewAttack's "Top 10 Worst Cartoons Based on Video Games"
Web Video
Allow me to bamboozle you with my cryptic nonsense that won't pay off for another four seasons!
— Shadi, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series
Master of Masters: Also, take this black box.
Luxu: What's inside?
Master of Masters: You silly goose. It's not a Kingdom Hearts game if it doesn't add more questions to the player.
Luxu: What's inside?
Master of Masters: You silly goose. It's not a Kingdom Hearts game if it doesn't add more questions to the player.
[Disenchantment] continues to be an extremely, extremely meticulously designed show. But there are so many mysteries stacked on top of each other that it sometimes feels like the writers are shuffling them around randomly, just revisiting them whenever they feel like it. They'll totally abandon a sub-plot from Part 2, and then boom! They'll sideswipe us with it when we're least expecting it. As a result, it feels more like multiple storylines are competing with each other for screen time, rather than being one cohesive narrative.
Hours and hours of theorizing go into making the most benign statements about this franchise and anything less than rock-hard evidence is thrown right out. That makes it very hard for someone, like me, without encyclopedic knowledge of the franchise to keep up. And with encyclopedic knowledge, it turns out that's not enough.
Western Animation
