Let's talk about the whole of Stone Ocean and its wild ending with special guest WoolieVersus! You can find Woolie's various let's plays and podcasts here: linktr.ee/wooliewoolz
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One thing a guest episode traditionally needs, is a Reason I Think People Like Jojo's: It's meaningfully ludicrous (not to be confused with Meaningfully Ludacris, my thesis on the place of 2Fast 2Furious in action cinema history). There is a tantalizing pull to fit the bizarre events into a pattern, to find a logic, and to have that solution reveal deeper truths. And it almost works. "Suddenly everyone is snails" is a ludicrous plot event. But the blowback of American racism manifesting as an apocalypse, there's something meaningful there.
And it's the imperfections that make it addictive; the not-quite-rightness that can keep a person searching for the key to more perfect understanding, that keeps a conversation going. And conversations are viral marketing, and cultural impact. So here we are, in this episode, talking about 20-year-old manga events that people have still not fully solved what they literally are, what meaning should be taken, and what that means to you the reader, personally. But they still want to, really bad.
