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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
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If Kamen Rider OOO's episode 15 was about advancing the plot, episode 16 is about both that and also about advancing the mythology and the ideas behind the story.
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Catching up on blogging about OOO. About damn time! (I've actually watched beyond this point, but hadn't goten around to blogging). So episode 15 was basically set up for the events of 16. Notable (to me, anyway) things from this episode:
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It's interesting how much of a difference perspective makes. I never really appreciated Yaguruma as TheBee until he was no longer TheBee. I just rewatched the original 3 episode arc in which Yaguruma and Kageyama are introduced for the first time in a long time. It's really interesting to me to think back on my original reactions to the things that happen in this arc and contrast them with my reactions now. Originally, I kind of watched the whole thing with a gleeful sense of shadenfraude, waiting for the moment Yaguruma would inevitably snap; but now when I watch there is none of that, and although I do think Yaguruma was in large part responsible for his own downfall, I'm mostly left thinking that Tendou really had it coming, for being a very callous catalyst and for a lot of other things that have nothing to do with Yaguruma, but karma never caught up to him.
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I'd never watched any Law & Order: Criminal Intent before today. But since I am two episodes away from finishing my mothership season 5 DVDs, I decided that…
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This is an old LJ post from a couple of years ago. I've been thinking for awhile of bringing some of my (less sparkly-texty) posts over here, and I was thinking about the Hoppers today, and found this while going back through my old Kabuto posts, so I figured why not... And just in case: SPOILERS LIKE WHOAH So, Kageyama. It's really interesting how much he enjoys pulling the rug out from under Yaguruma. I mean... here's a guy who pretty much worshipped the ground Yaguruma walked on, and he is just so satisfied that he gets to betray Yaguruma. Specifically that he gets to tell him, "you can't a part of Shadow at all, you'd just bring disharmony". He's just gets so much glee over basically destroying Yaguruma... or maybe, over destroying the fiction Yaguruma built about himself. I mean, the thing about what Kageyama is you either believe he's just a total snake, with no real sense of loyalty at all, in order to turn around and betray his captain so completely (because it would be one thing for him to take over, what he did was quite something else), or you think there's more to him than that and you try to figure him out. And what I think about it is that it's all because of how disappointed and disillusioned he was. That's the only thing that I think can explain Kageyama's change in attitude towards Yaguruma.