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[A Black Falcon]

I think with the flashbacks thing he's more talking about stuff like all those scifi show episodes where they rewind time in the end, erasing everything they did in order to get a better present to happen... they did it in Voyager like five times. :) I mostly didn't mind, but sometimes (like in the final episode) it was annoying, overall... because yeah, while sometimes messing with the timeline can be a cover for a lacking plot, in a case like Haibane Renmei it was the only thing they could have done at that point to continue the story.

And as I've said before, the good animes are out there you just have to look for them.

Some of it... other good animes aren't available at all, legally, in the US, sadly...

Actually I took your quote and turned it back on you by showing that American film-making isn't really better than Japanese film-making. There are bad movies and good movies, if you focus on the bad it looks like there isn't anything good to watch [something a lot of people say about American movies], but really you just have to look beyond what's at the surface [i.e. what's popular at the moment].

I guess he's now saying that American stuff is just as bad overall?