Never actually watched any #JamesSomerton videos before the plagiarism callouts dropped, but now I'm watching this streamed commentary/breakdown of his #Utena one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuIQL8ykqGc

2/3 of the way through, it's mostly a sludge of reading off Wikipedia interspersed with lukewarm takes. Then, around 1:54:25, a line that made me stop cold and rewind to make sure I heard it right:

"...which I feel gives a lot of undue complexity to a work that is otherwise meant to just be straightforward."

UNDUE COMPLEXITY. Utena!

Meant to just be straightforward! UTENA?!

I just

Wh