Cartoon Network, you're so much nicer to your fans than the SciFi channel.

Oh, I like the new Adult Swim ad campaign and title design. Witty. And informative.

What is this thing I'm watching? It's called Kikaider.

Neat musical score. Expensive animation. Nice dub scripting. Weird retro character design. No idea what the plot is. But dang, I do like the score.

UncleK and 5-year-old-cousin are here. They're sleeping We leave tomorrow to other cousins for the twins.' graduation.

::looks at tv::
_ Oh! Violence! Someone's choking their friend for unexplained reasons?!
_ Huh. A black guy. Who looks like a black guy. Not a regular thing in anime.
_ o.@ Uh-uuuhhhh. Someone's rationalizing. She shouldn't do that. She'll get choked again.

Anyway, found out that UncleK has a mild interest in anime. Whee!
Spent a grocery trip explaining the main plot/backstory of InuYasha, of which he'd seen only one episode.
Told him to watch Trigun and Cowboy Bebop post-haste.

Huhnn. Kikaider is getting weird. I'm kind of interested though.

Also found out UncleK has watched BTVS on and off. Spike is his favorite character. K wanted to know what happened to him, if he ever got Buffy. I explained Spike's multi-season character arcs and associated multi-layered themes (K was a wonderful appreciate/intereactive audience) and final death, including Spuffy!luv and Spike's own redemption in finding the good in himself.

UncleK made good point that there is a theme here of "He is redeemed by her love", which is the same theme from The Matrix, when Trinity symbolically brought Neo back to life with a kiss.

If I didn't already love my Uncle for being a nice guy and a blood relative, I'd love him extra for that.

I adore chatting with other fans. They just get it. And want to talk about it too. Young or old, male or female, tv book or movie, fans are fans and the rest of the world will simply never understand.


Oh... the Kikaider closing credits are attractive. And have more of that cool music.


EDIT: Ahh! I like this episode of IY. It has that cool fireside conversation between Inuyasha, Shippo, and Miroku. The one where Miroku points out that if InuYasha becomes a full demon using the jewel, he'd likely murder Kagome and Shippo. Shippo asks why him and not Miroku. Miroku calmly and cooly points out that he would have fled long before that point. I liked this conversation, for the Inuyasha brooding and for the fact that it points how much more mature and rational Miroku is than the rest of them. It was a very multileveled scene with lots of subtext.

note & question

1. Dude, I might have to watch the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block just for the commercials. I really, really, perversely like them.


2. Does anyone know what this comes from?


female: "Do you promise me?"
male: "Yes."
female: "Do you promise?"
male: "Yes."
female: "Promise?"
male: "Yes!"
female: "Remember, that's three times you promised me."

What was this from? A movie? A book? A tv show? A fic?

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Whoever's doing the ads for Cartoon Network is so fucking weird. And practical.

I love them.

Trigun freaky dubbing.

Wait, why would the consorship editing bother to replace the word "kill" with "destroy", but leave in the word "hell"?

Trigun

AAHH!!! DEAD BODIES! DEAD BODIES AND SAD GUITAR MUSIC!

MY POOR VASH-CHAN!

But Wolfwood is still hot. Been a while since I'd seen this episode.

going to bed soon... yeah, soon...

For no reason on earth I could explain, the CN ad just quoted song lyrics from "Wanted Dead or Alive" by BonJovi. Then they commented on how it was a cool tune. Like, as an afterhought. This was somehow related to Trigun, which is about a sort of cowboy.

This is a bizarre thing to gush about.

Oh, show's back on. It's such fun watching the systematic destruction of Vash's ideals and his slow mental torture through his brother's minions. Sad, but fascinating.

Edit: Wow. There was a lot more textual foreshadowing for _-_-_-_-_'s betrayal than I originally realized. Especially in dialogue.

Edit2: Bebop is on. Whee! It's Jupiter Jazz Part 2. _-_-_ dying in the snow in a pink parka. Oh, the indignity.

Edit3: Wow. There was this whole scene with Faye and Gren that just totally, totally foreshadowed her final scene with _-_-_ in episode 26. I should rewatch this series from the beginning.

Edit4: semi-conscious delirious flashbacks are fun to watch.

puzzle solved

I'm sneaking one last post in before I go to school, and then to Santa Rosa.

Remember this conversation?

female: "Do you promise me?"
male: "Yes."
female: "Do you promise?"
male: "Yes."
female: "Promise?"
male: "Yes!"
female: "Remember, that's three times you promised me."

Turns out the person I remembered as feminine was actually Brad Pitt (it's cause he's so sexy he defies gender, ya.)

The source was the movie Fight Club, where Tyler's warning Jack/Narrator not to mention his name to Marla.

Thank you, d_irge.

And in celebration of having this mini-mystery solved (and of finding out my own uncle is a Redemptionista), I'm using my Spike/FightClub icon.

rec: Half Baked by Kimi

And a parting gift for your weekend enjoyment... a rec:

Half Baked, by Kimi.

No, it's not about drugs like that absurd and seriously unfunny movie. It's about Angel's perspectives on cookie dough, mid-Chosen. It's amusing and bitter and I really really loved it.

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Dude, how many episode titles of Cowboy Bebop are song titles from The Rolling Stones? I need to make a song list to compare. There's at least three.

hailing from the north bay tonight...

At my cousin's HS graduation ceremony there was a person named William Giles. I kid you not.