IY thoughts

Watched IY again tonight. We're on episode 48 tomorrow, nearing the end of season 2. Or is it the beginning of season 3 already?

As much as I love them all, sometimes the characters on this show are just whacked.

Like, Kagome and Kikyo, for instance. Kagome is usually a practical, sensible, friendly girl with an endless ability to forgive and usually smarter than the other characters. A rare and refreshing female lead character in anime. So why, Kagome, are you so tolerant of Kikyo's presence? I know she has, like, 1/8th of your soul from a past life or whatever, and I know the guy you're in love with is in love with her, and I know she looks just like you and you pity her, but honestly, she EATS PEOPLE'S SOULS. She's not tame like Shippou. I'm amazed that everyone seems so willing to let her get away every time. I understand that Inu Yasha refuses to kill her-- he was in love with her, and he has questionable morals anyway, and doesn't give a fig whose soul is being eaten as long its not someone he likes. But Kagome ought to have more sense.

And Naraku. Haha. Bound by his human host's past love for Kikyo, now he's lusting for her and trying to kill her to make it go away. It's not easy being weeeeally evil, is it? All that stress, and the obligatory nasty tattoo work when you applied for membership.

Inu Yasha needs to take some Ritalin. And he needs to stop deliberately cultivating the image of an idiot. Though I find it wonderfully interesting that he seems to have picked Kikyo in favor of Kagome, somehow I don't think that will last. Rumiko Takahashi is a traditional romantic and she'll bring the two protagonists together eventually. I admit it could take two more seasons at least. He was refreshingly mature in this episode. Still desperately needs the Ritalin though.

Miroku badly needs to get laid, not for passing on his curse/destiny to an heir--- just because he needs it.

Sango... you're cool. I have no opinion about you. Except you are way too cool to ever have sex with Miroku. Don't do, babe, despite what the fanfic writers say. It's beneath you.

Shippou... are you a demon, or a lapdog? Lapdog, it seems. Though a terribly cute one.

I still dig Kagome's family. They crack my shit up.

Kaede. You're cool in the manga, cool in the subtitled version, and massively annoying in the English dubbing. I'm not listening, not listening! Leave. Leave now, and never come back. Leave now, and never come back!

Question & Poll

So what two movies came before "Once Upon A Time In Mexico?" I hear it's latest in a trilogy.

And now to the fun part...

[Poll #179172]

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Heero


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Hm. I was kinda hoping for Relena. But Heero will do.

J2.0 - Episode 1

Watched last night's recording of Jake 2.0.

So far it looks like a blend of The Invisible Man (USA channel version), The Sentinel, Spiderman, and Superman.

It was very predictable, and the characters were flat and uninteresting and shallowly developed. The best of the lot was Jake and the cute doctor-lady.

He discovered his powers too fast, and learned how to use them adeptly too fast.

Even with super-strength, let's think about bone structure here. Serious limitations.

And it'd be nice if they handled some of the other realistic limitiations to superstrength... like if you wanted you pull open a heavy door, chances are you'll just pull yourself into it, and you'd pull out or break the handle long before you manage to break the hinges.

All of this aside, it's cute and doesn't annoy me at all. It's like... popcorn. Fun, cute popcorn. The scene with girl thinking she was being followed and scaring herself silly when Jake was really being followed was quite funny. The other very funny scene was Jake's reaction to being inside the war room at the NSA. That's exactly how I would have behaved.... "This is so cool!... um...sorry."


This is not Jossverse, and it's not Farscape. Heck, it's not even Stargate SG1. But I need all the sci-fi TV I can get, and at least it doesn't irritate the fuck out of me like Smallville and Charmed. Yet. So I have until October when Angel starts to see how we mesh, this show and I.

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I finally found a book I read several years ago in gradeschool, that I liked and have always wanted to find again: The Dream of the Stone by Christina Askounis. I was blabbing about it in evemac's journal about shipping book characters. I'm curious to read it again and see if I still like it.

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My brother's ship comes into port in San Diego this Sunday. We're driving down to meet him, my parents and I. It's been over 9 months, and we thought it'd be even longer.

We're going to take him out to the most fabulous restaurant we can find in San Diego, to help him get something good after all that ship food. Any restaurant suggestions? Anything that's not Asian food, since I'm sure he's had his fill of that for months now.

my one and only post today about today since you all know what today is anyhow.

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Desperado!

Well, watched Desperado just now on TNT. I can see why people liked it. It's campy beyond all belief, but kind of funny and cute in a bloody sort of way. I did absolutely love Steve Buscemi's tavern-story introduction of Antonio's gunslinging character. That was great. His stupid melodramatic descriptions, the other bar go-ers disbelieving reaction to it. Great.

Definitely a popcorn movie. But a fun, silly popcorn movie with lots of explosions and Salma Hayek's fantastic hair. I am now prepared to see the sequel with Johnny Depp.

I'm watching a different channel now when I go back to do the dishes; Swtichback is on playing. That was an excellent, excellent murder/mystery. Danny Glover scared the crap out of me in this film, and up until then I'd always thought he was really nice-looking. Dennis Quaid did a fine job, as did the Texas sheriff character, and his rival. Jared Leto was just a bundle of edible hotness. And all this with a finely intricate guessing-game plot.

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You are Alyssa Jones.

Lesbian? Straight? Bi? Who knows? Who cares?

"I love you, I always will. Know that. But I'm
not your fucking whore."


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