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timepiececlock) wrote2008-01-10 09:44 pm
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Princess Tutu: the rewatch, Disc 1: Hope, Adventure, Mystery, Author's Prerogative
Am I staying up all night to watch PT and knit? Yes. And yes, I knit now! I started tonight. I'm making a purple scarf. It's great. I can't purle though, the book's explanation just confuses me.
Disc 1
I had forgotten the actual degree of abrupt little asshole Fakir was in the first episodes. I mean, really. He's quite the nasty bitch.
I'm "eh" about Mytho's dub VA; he's alright for the soft-spoken stuff, a little jarring for the louder stuff. Ahiru/Duck's dub VA is quite talented; some of those lines must be murder on your throat. Rue's English voice is lovely and Fakir's is positively splendid. I still wish they had used his actor for Sasuke in the Naruto dub.
I'd forgotten how often, in these first episodes, they repeat the line that the princess is fated never to be with the one she loves. Ahiru says it about five or six times, Drosselmeyer says it twice that often, and even Rue repeats it once. I know how that dialogue reads in the beginning of the show, but having seen the end and knowing how the cards fall... that prediction takes on new tragic meaning, as does Drosselmeyer's fanatic insistence that the audience "never forget that Ahiru, as her true self, is a duck." It's something the audience and Ahiru forget over the course of the series... we start to see her as a girl who turns into a duck, not a duck that turns into a girl. That change in perception (or misperception) correlates with the fact that as the series progresses, Ahiru begins to operate as if it were that way, particularly in her relationships with the other characters. It reminds me so much of The Last Unicorn, as Ahiru is forever changed by being human, and what her true identity is begins to blur as she becomes more than what she was. The transformative aspect of this series is beautiful. The first half of the series we discover who these characters are as pieces of them are revealed... the second half of the series takes those newly-revealed characters and this time transforms them.
Disc 1
I had forgotten the actual degree of abrupt little asshole Fakir was in the first episodes. I mean, really. He's quite the nasty bitch.
I'm "eh" about Mytho's dub VA; he's alright for the soft-spoken stuff, a little jarring for the louder stuff. Ahiru/Duck's dub VA is quite talented; some of those lines must be murder on your throat. Rue's English voice is lovely and Fakir's is positively splendid. I still wish they had used his actor for Sasuke in the Naruto dub.
I'd forgotten how often, in these first episodes, they repeat the line that the princess is fated never to be with the one she loves. Ahiru says it about five or six times, Drosselmeyer says it twice that often, and even Rue repeats it once. I know how that dialogue reads in the beginning of the show, but having seen the end and knowing how the cards fall... that prediction takes on new tragic meaning, as does Drosselmeyer's fanatic insistence that the audience "never forget that Ahiru, as her true self, is a duck." It's something the audience and Ahiru forget over the course of the series... we start to see her as a girl who turns into a duck, not a duck that turns into a girl. That change in perception (or misperception) correlates with the fact that as the series progresses, Ahiru begins to operate as if it were that way, particularly in her relationships with the other characters. It reminds me so much of The Last Unicorn, as Ahiru is forever changed by being human, and what her true identity is begins to blur as she becomes more than what she was. The transformative aspect of this series is beautiful. The first half of the series we discover who these characters are as pieces of them are revealed... the second half of the series takes those newly-revealed characters and this time transforms them.
Re: <-- *in Haggard's country*
Fakir: "Life is short, and how many can I help or harm? I have my power at last, but the world is still too heavy for me to move."
Duck: "I have been
mortalhuman, and some part of me is human yet."And the line about regretting! "I am not like the others now, for no duck was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret."
"The townspeople are free from the story and the lost Prince has his heart again. No sorrow will in me as long as that joy--save one, and I thank you for that, too."
It's odd. I am so Unicorn/Lir in this book and so Ahiru/Fakir in PT, but I am absolutely convinced that Fakir=Schmendrick. But that's okay too, because even in a book where two characters like them aren't meant to be romantic, they still have this awesomely complex relationship.
I feel like there's not a little bit of Ahiru in Molly Grue as well, and definitely some of Rue in Amalthea (though the Unicorn is all Ahiru, an older and wiser version).
Ack! I can't wait to read the novella sequel. I'm so excited. Will report back later with results. Have you read it?
Re: <-- *in Haggard's country*
There's a bit of Ahiru/Fakir in Unicorn/Lir, I think, in that they both end with a mountain of duty, not a little bit of tragedy, and a separation they can work against. But yes, the similarities between PT and The Last Unicorn aren't perfectly clean-cut. It excites me so greatly to think that two people can write this same metaphysical fairy tale without ever having to meet.
I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WAS A SEQUEL. O_O I can't believe it; there's actually a sequel! It didn't even occur to me that it might have a sequel; tLU by itself was so good that any more of it would sound too good to be true. Like PT. ;_;