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So, starting with the Den-O (re)watch. Personally, I didn't realize before the link between Den-O and Ryuki, but now I do, and Ryuki being my favorite it's inevitable that I'm going to be drawing conclusions, the first of which involves Ryotaro himself and the ways in which he is like Shinji, and the ways in which he's not. Obviously, they're both "Fail!Riders", but their attitudes are very different. Ryotaro is resigned to be bullied, both by other people and by the universe itself, really, while Shinji kind of... just creates his own shenanigans, but meets everything with what can only be called feistiness. But really, even in this first episode, the real similarity between them is their drive to do the right thing. Shinji gets involved in things that are not his business out of his sense of justice, and Ryotaro, even when kicked to the curve, is always all about doing the right thing... to the point protecting those that have wronged him. And there's kind of an innocence, I think, in that, in their overpowering goodness.
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So the other things that made me love this ep are Mozzie and Peter's scavenger hunt, because it was awesome from start to finish, and then the myriad little details expanding and shaping Neal and Peter's relationship and showing it for what it is.
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So Kate (greatfountain at LJ/ @yanasoro) and I have been thinking about doing a Kamen Rider Den-O rewatch (rewatch for her, half rewatch for me, since I actuall…
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I realize this is premature, but I have this urge to call this the best episode of White Collar so far. At very least, potentially my favorite, because it had so many delicious character moments, and it was just so much fun. And Diana is the first thing that comes to mind that made the episode great.
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...Way to post a late reaction post, huh? Late as it is, there's one thing in particular I wanted to post about, in regards to White Collar's season 2 opener. I…
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I'm apparently not going to make the longer post I wanted to about the Covert Affairs pilot, so I'm just going to make a few quick points about it. :D What I fo…
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Been kind of busy and tired, and when I've had time I've been playing around with WP3's custom posts and taxonomies (because I'm a geek like that). But at any r…
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I know that this is old news, but since I only watched the first season of White Collar in the past month, I wouldn't have known when it was new... Anyway, Matt…
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Covert Affairs starts next Tuesday on USA, and I'm actually really excited because I love the spy genre, and also because I already like both Chris Gorham (loved him in Popular, never actually watched Ugly Betty, though) and Sendhil Ramamurthy (who deserved better than Heroes ever gave him, in my opinion). At any rate, three scenes from the pilot are up on the show's YouTube channel. :D
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I haven't really kept up with Kamen Rider Double since very early on in its run; since October, I think it was. My excuse has been that it didn't quite grab me, and that in general I have to be really into something to actually put in the time and effort to follow it week by week. That it's not that I don't like Double, I just don't love it that much, and I'd just catch up at some point.
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So they've done the press conference announcing the next Kamen Rider series, in this case OOO or Ozu (yes, like Faiz). I kind of bailed early on in Double due to lack of interest and just not really getting into the story at the time, and I never did get caught up, but now I'm... let's say cautiously excited for the new installment. The main reason is that the main writer is Kobayashi Yasuko, who is responsible for Ryuki (my favorite Rider series), Den-O, Shinkenger (which I love), and Timeranger (which I haven't seen but have heard great things about). I'm not crazy about the suit design, but it looks better than the initial magazine scans led us to believe, so we'll see. And obviously, the cast was announced, the characters introduced, etc, and here I'm intrigued by a couple of things.
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So, about Irina Derevko...
So the impromptu Alias marathon is going along way faster than I expected it to, and last night I watched the season 2 premiere, The Enemy Walks In. The enemy being, of course, one Irina Derevko. So this seems like a good time to pause and post about something I've been thinking about since I rewatched episode 11, The Confession, in which Sydney first learns the truth about her mother. And basically what I've been thinking is more than any single other element, more than even Sydney herself, it's Irina that truly defined Alias.
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In case there was any doubt that Kuya was the "ensemble darkhorse" of Indigo no Yoru... there's now going to be El Dorado no Yoru. All about guess who…
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Been rewatching Alias for the past week
Sydney just found out that the truth about her mommy. Shit just got awesome(r). :D/ Now when does Sark show up?
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Fighting Guys in Keitai Sousakan 7
I really meant to make a more in-depth post about this, but the past week has been really hectic. In any case, Keitai Sousakan 7 is a tokusatsu series by Miike …
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Kamisama Help! trailer
So this is actually not new, but I had only seen it at Nippon Cinema and hadn't noticed it was up on Kato Kazuki's YouTube channel in nicer quality... So, a hor…
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Breaking in the new blog
First "official" post on the new blog! It's been several years since I last had a self-hosted blog, and frankly I've missed it. Mostly I plan to talk …
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On White Collar
The first 10 episodes of White Collar have been such a happy surprise for me. It's actually the first USA (the network, not the country XP) original series I've…
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Allies of Justice FTW
ETA: This was meant to be a test post but got comments, so it's just staying up. G3-X and Gatack are EPIC together anyway.