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A lot of people have felt that Fringe has not been at its best this season, for various reasons. One specific complaint has been about spending time in a world in which the fact that Peter Bishop drowned in Reiden Lake rendered everyone slightly different from the versions we know. Not radically different, as in Earth 2, but still not quite the same. When introducing Fauxlivia and Walternate's world, Fringe had the advantage of stepping into a world that was very clearly, very obviously, different from ours. Blimps in the sky. The World Trade Center still standing. Olivia's red hair. Everything about the world said, this is different, and the audience could approach it as such. The problem facing Fringe this season is that we have no clear indicators of how to approach the reality we're watching. Neither Here Nor There indeed. The problem has been, I suppose, that we weren't quite sure whether we were supposed to take this as OUR Earth, rendered different enough for it to be unfamiliar after whatever Peter did, or as an entirely different timeline. I think the writers definitely knew all along, but we didn't, and I think it's caused a certain unease.
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Pirate Sentai Gokaiger is so insanely fun that it's really easy to forget that it can touch deeper topics, and that, in fact, most of the main characters have had fairly dark backstories revealed. Case in point, Joe Gibken.
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Work happened. Then vacation happened. The stuff I've gotten into in the past 3 months, and that I've been playing catch up with: Community, Mad Men, The Good Wife, Downtown Abbey, The Hour.
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The Doctor's interaction with River during "Flesh And Stone", and Rory's awesomeness starts to surface in "Vampires of Venice".
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The first time I watched The Time of Angels, it was pretty late at night, into my initial first time marathon. Fourth episode, I was already having a great time on the series, and then I get the double punch of River Song and the horribly creepy Weeping Angels.
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I started watching Doctor Who a little over a year ago, but somehow I never really got around to actually writing anything about it. Today, I rewatched the first two Matt Smith episodes and figured I should fix that.
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Reverse/Re:birth PV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5gp7-2UX8M I'm kind of really really behind on OOO (read that as in: I have no idea about Date's general state of well-being, i…
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Felix Gaeta, most tragic idealist Galactica ever had? I'd say so.
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Finished watching through season "4.0" of Battlestar Galactica. The last 6 episodes this has felt like a runway train and I'm just trying to hang on for the ride. I love it.
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Okay, seriously why is it that my favorite characters always seem to die or suffer horrible fates? I mean, well, okay, not always, not every one of them, but very very often.
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Finished Battlestar Galactica, season 2.
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Most of my media-consuming time the past few weeks has been spent watching Fringe and Battlestar Galactica... which means that I spend a lot of time trying to a…
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But Sydney, I was not that agent
But Sydney, I was not that agent. Your mother was. — Jack Bristow And so it begins.
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As far as I'm concerned, the important thing about these episodes is... Date backstory!! I mean, yes, there was all the stuff about Date's former colleague, and how she wanted to be pretty like her sister, and how the lesson is that about real beauty and being yourself, yada yada yada... I think it's fair to say that I have a lot more to say when the underlying theme is about how justice is subjective or the like than this, because... well, there's not much to say, right? Anyway, apparently Date was in some kind of Doctors Without Borders, and he was called The Fighting Doctor (so, not exactly Doctors Without Borders, probably). So, yes, I got it wrong, did not expect this, and I found it pretty interesting actually, that he used to dedicate his life to helping others while now his motives appear to be more selfish. Of course, by now the real reason he wants that money has probably been revealed, but at this point it hasn't, so there you go. Also interesting is how at the end Gotou asks him if it's okay to just let go of his former colleague like that, since she appeared to be into him, and he says rather matter of factly that has his hands full right now.
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Right. Been busy again, yada yada. But it doesn't feel right to just skip through, so I'll go off my notes for the episodes I watched (yes, I take notes while watching Kamen Rider, and yes, I realize what this says about me) but didn't get around to blogging about. Episodes 21-22 explore whether the desire to fight for justice can become twisted. The Yummy is born from a man who never passed the exam to become a lawyer, and was frustrated because he felt like a failure, and so he left his family. The Yummy initially targets criminals, and so the man accepts the Yummy as a way to punish those he perceives as wicked. From there, the show obviously moves to questioning whether this is really justice, and how self-righteousness twists a person's sense of justice so they become cruel themselves.
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Revolutionary Girl Utena, one of my favorite anime series, is getting remastered release. The first 12 episodes, The Student Council Saga just came out earlier this month. I got the new DVDs this weekend, started rewatching, and figured it would be interesting to blog about it as I watch episodes, hopefully with a new perspective after all these years. I love Utena because it's so different from any other anime. It's a magical girl shoujo series, but it's really a deconstruction of the genre (probably part of why I like it so much, since I was never a huge fan of straight shoujo). And there's the sheer weirdness of it all: the Shadow Girls, the duel songs, everything about it. I love it. I also love that it's a perfect mix of depth and crack.
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Still playing catchup. These obviously deal with a whole more than just Date, but I'm really interested in him, so that's what this post will be about mostly. E…
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In which Date and Gotou's epic bromance begins, and Satonaka is total badass.
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Finished
Finished!
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Have you seen you
"All I've got to do is pass as an ordinary human being. What could possibly go wrong?" "Have you seen you?" — The Doctor and Amy