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oh noo... I can feel it hitting me now... It's starting all over again... I can feel it coming on...that insane desire to write B/V fic... oh why oh why am I gettin' into Dragonball Z again? It can only end in angst... I mean just watched Goku tell Bulma that Vegita was dead and she started screaming and I got the Angst!Fic bug again...::holds head and screams::

Noo!!! I have to save my angst skills for B/S!! I can't use them up on a crappy anime like DBZ!!! Not when Season seven's about to start!!!!!


...excuse me now. I have to quickly write down the dialogue from the scene I just saw before it leaves my head. Oh god, once more unto the brink of B/V fic I go...

ooh...cool.. I aparently had twelve entries yesterday. Is that a record? I defintiely spend way to much time on my computer. That'll come to a grinding halt when school starts...

psycho inner child

and here's the caption:

Your inner child is The Happy Little Bastard (NSFC). He is the perfect well-diapered machine-- greased up with a sense of wonderment about the world. With your little guy sitting in your inner-sidecar there's nowhere you can't go. Tender situations don't upset you, you are calm, cool and collected. Your parents treated you well and you don't have any presiding phobias or issues. Everything is fine and great.

Don't be surprised if one day the person in the bell tower shooting at nuns and regular people is, in fact, you.



Bloody great, eh? I'm a ticking time-bomb, apparently. Like Tyler Durden. Only Female.

Firefly & John Doe

(this is mostly carried over from a post I just did at CW)

Well, I recorded Firefly.

Which was a good thing cause I missed most of the dialogue in the first twenty minutes on account of my mom being on the phone (she could have been a little considerate and went to the kitchen or the other three rooms of the house, seeing how I HAD told her I was gonna watch the show and it was important...oh well, I'll watch it again later).
:rolleyes
On the whole it was alright, reminded me a little of Cowboy Bebop and a LOT of Trigun... but it didn't strike me as amazing. It seemed a little... predictable. Paced. Anyway, something was off. But I did also feel that it was something that would be solved as the show went along, and found its style. It had some amusing moments.. the best of which was when the Cap'n kicked the one guy into the jet engine, and then started the same speech again with the next prisoner, who immediately started to babble agreement.

The most interesting characters to me so far were the prostitute/"companion" ((I did like how the priest said they should send someon 'respectable', and she got picked)), the mechanic, the muscle guy (Jayne?), and the weird girl. I also like the pilot, but he didn't get many lines. I think it will take me a while to bond with the captain guy (Mal?)... and was there some UST goin' on between him and the companion chic, or what? --I just have to pause here to say her red dress & cape outfit was completely AWESOME, kinda gypsy-like.

I'm a little thrown by the weird sister/girl's presence, from the trailers I thought she'd be explained in the opener, but I guess that'll be a flashback later... she was cool though.

Did anyone else find the medic more than a little Westley-ish?

The dialogue was good, and I think it will get better as it goes.

That being said, I enjoyed John Doe more.:hat

I just...liked it. Him waking up on the island was strange (I know I'm not the only one who was squinting and wishing they would move the camera down a bit... :b )

I think I enjoyed his money-making and self-discovery portions the most--the horse-racing was fun. I noticed this guy smiled a lot, which was nice because he's certainly got quite the right to claim a permanent cloud of angst over his head. I immediately liked his character; despite knowing everythign he didnt' come off arrogant or pretentious... or even really genius... more like how an average-brain-sized person would behave if they suddenly had instant access to every piece of information in the world. He doesn't remember learning it, doesn't know how he knows it, so it doesn't really make him feel superior that he does. Does that make sense? Anyway, I liked him. AND the actor was cute too... reminded me a bit of Ben Browder from Farscape. The apartment was also nice, as was the bar & the student waitress.

My favorite part, John is starting to fly the heicopter, which he KNOWS how to fly...sort of. He's all delighted goin'..."I'm flying...I'm flying...I'm not flying. I'm not flying!"

Weird thing... John Doe is set in Seattle. And, at least part of it was filmed in Vancouver. At the end, when he's buying the hot dog, behind him you see a weird, blocky-shaped building that says 'bridges'. This was the restaurant/bar he'd been in earlier. I've been in that building, I've stood where the actor was standing and looked over at the water where the ferries are... and that place exists not in Seattle, but the tiny little place called Granville Island, in the city of Vancouver, Canada.

What's weirdly ironic (and I don't know if it was intentional or not) but the waistress who he kinda made friends with is supposed to be an art student... and everybody who works at Granville Island who's not at the food market, the hotel, or one of the restaurants---is an art student. The tiny TINY island (less than a square mile, or around) is covered in art schools. I've been there twice now (my parents bought their boat on Granville Island), and you can walk the length of the island in a brisk six or seven minutes, and pass thiry art schools of various mediums on your way.

But it's not set in Granville Island, it's set in Seattle.

Negative factor of JD: I sense there's going to be a long, built-in mythos to the series that will unwind (or wind-up) much in the same was of our favorite dear departed conspiracy-wrapped show, The X Files. Oh well. Already I like it more than Pretender, which never really clicked with me. I think it's cause I always thought Jarrod looked too much like a villian to be a believable hero.