X, episode 5-6
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timepiececlockSo, it seems this is becoming a series where I like it more with each episode. I'm still lost on most of the character names, but some of the characters are becoming more interesting. And the plot is growing.
I can't decide if it's better or worse that I watched the movie first, from a canonical point of view. Of course, I wish I'd never watched the movie at all because it was one of the top 5 worst films I've ever seen, live action included. But from a canonical sense, I feel like I have an extra insight knowing the possible future of the characters... and on the other hand I feel somewhat like the ending has been spoiled for me. Certainly the stuff regarding the brother guy (Soma?) and his role has been spoiled by the movie.
On other topics, the pocky thing in episode 5 was funny. Yes, pocky is good and weirdly addictive (weirdly, because there's nothing magical about it--- it's a biscuit stick with chocolate--- but at the same time it's addictive, in a weird way), and offering it to the psycho-emo bitch with the temper problem and hermit mindset might actually help the situation.
For episode 6, my main reaction was: Aawww fuck, they had to make me go and love Sorata and Arashi, didn't they? And they're probably going to die. Just what I need: loving the characters that are going to die.
Anyway, I'll watch more of X and Monster tonight, I think. But I have to do some reading too.
I can't decide if it's better or worse that I watched the movie first, from a canonical point of view. Of course, I wish I'd never watched the movie at all because it was one of the top 5 worst films I've ever seen, live action included. But from a canonical sense, I feel like I have an extra insight knowing the possible future of the characters... and on the other hand I feel somewhat like the ending has been spoiled for me. Certainly the stuff regarding the brother guy (Soma?) and his role has been spoiled by the movie.
On other topics, the pocky thing in episode 5 was funny. Yes, pocky is good and weirdly addictive (weirdly, because there's nothing magical about it--- it's a biscuit stick with chocolate--- but at the same time it's addictive, in a weird way), and offering it to the psycho-emo bitch with the temper problem and hermit mindset might actually help the situation.
For episode 6, my main reaction was: Aawww fuck, they had to make me go and love Sorata and Arashi, didn't they? And they're probably going to die. Just what I need: loving the characters that are going to die.
Anyway, I'll watch more of X and Monster tonight, I think. But I have to do some reading too.
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Date: 2006-04-07 01:23 am (UTC)For one thing, the characters get more than one change of clothes each.I think Sorata's pretty well liked, and it's not so much that people have issues with them . . . they're just rather ignored compared to Kamui, Fuuma, and two characters that I don't remember if you've met by ep. 6. X fandom seems to be all about the brooding. And the crack. >.>
Sorata's seiyuu (haven't heard the dub) gets on my nerves, but I love the character enough to tune him out. ^^ They brought Suyama Akio (Haru in FB) in to play him in the Tsubasa anime, but that goodness was overshadowed by the fact that they completely lobotomized Arashi in that (Sora and Arashi are in Tsubasa briefly, and it's really nice to see them in the manga version).
*laughs* "Professional" works for her. ^^ The person I have most of my X-talk with and I both feel kind of sorry for her--her expectations about the other Seals were probably high, and she gets Sora, His Brooding Majesty, and a bouncy 14-year-old. No wonder she looks like she's got a constant stress headache. And yet the dynamic is awfully fun (again, much more so in the manga--the characters are given a *lot* more time to breathe and develop).