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timepiececlockAm 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.
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Re: SPOILERS LIKE WHOA SPOILERS!
Date: 2008-01-28 04:21 am (UTC)Ahh, that's a funny way to put it! *laughing* But it's quite right. I just wish I knew Mytho's take on this; and on the topic of Drosselmeyer and The Real Creators vocalizing their intentions, I don't think they ever once said that Mytho returned Ahiru's love, despite appearances. I thought this was confirmed, stamped, and sealed with wax when she turned out to represent hope for him and not love, and even more so when it turns out Ahiru represented hope for everyone and the entire series, with the exception of Fakir. It turns out that, from the very start, Ahiru was never meant for Mytho, with or without Drosselmeyer's help. After all, true romantic love - the cutting, absolute one you describe - is nothing if not exclusive.
The story hurts!
It does, it does! And it's not that the creator ran out of ideas, either. In an interview, she is asked what she'd focus on if she ever created a sequel or spinoff, and she answers without hesitation that she'd build one around Ahiru and Fakir and what happens to them after the story finished. But she admits, of course, that she can't do any of this without funds from the DVD sales. WHICH IS WHY I WILL BUY THE SET, I WILL! But you can imagine how hopeful that statement made me - "she has more, there's a chance she'll come out with more! And it'll be all about Fakir and Ahiru and possibly how she's written back into a girl and fjjdfkjdf--"
The link to that interview is here. It's not verbatim but more like a very precise summary.
Re: SPOILERS LIKE WHOA SPOILERS!
Date: 2008-01-28 04:24 am (UTC)