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Dec. 18th, 2004 04:03 pmBecause you can never have too many Hughes icons. And you'd have to be pretty bad to get Hughes's distain.
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Dec. 18th, 2004
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Dec. 18th, 2004 09:48 pmSo I just rewatched episode 7in subs in preparation for watching it in dub later tonight.
Damn. The last shot and the sound of ( Read more... ) still gives me the shivers.
When I think about how good Full Metal Alchemist is, I want to bring up episode 7 as an example of how daring it is for an anime, how far it goes for its genre. I want to say,
"Well my fandom ( really evil spoilers for episode 7 )."
But then I look at that statement and I realize, "Oh my god, I can't say that as an advertisement! That's AWFUL!"
Such is the woe of being an FMA fan.
Edit: I decided to rewatch episode 8 as well, since I always have to watch those two eps together. They go together in my mind. And, it makes me sad. I still can't decide which of these episodes is more dramatic. Episode 7, for its darkness... or episode 8, for its darkness of a different kind. And they're both so frelling sad.
Edit #2: the last shot of episode 8, with ( Read more... ), is so fricking cool. I don't know why I like that shot so much, but I do. That's what a good scene does, when it can carry so much meaning with just imagery and not a speck of dialogue.
Edit #3: God I love FMA so much. My love is deep, deep, deep for this show. I will probably be talking about it in my journal for a long time yet to come, folks. In fact right now I'm skeptical that I'll ever be as impressed by an anime in its entirety as I am by FMA. And very few live-action shows equal it in awesomeness. I mean, for me FMA is tied with Farscape as "favorite tv show Shaka has ever watched in any language", with Buffy coming in a close third (though BtVS will probably always be my original fandom-- I watched Farscape, I didn't do much fandom for it), and The X Files a distant fourth. Thank god for FMA comming into my fan life. I mean, after Buffy had ended and Farscape had ended and there were no more Lord of the Rings films to wait for and Firefly was cancelled... I had no real fandom. I just played around in HP fandom and slowly got into CB fandom and poked curiously at DLM fandom (which I would do more of if there *was* more of a fandom to poke at), and mostly twiddled my thumbs.
And then came Naruto first and then FMA, and everything was good and then better than good.
I wish it wouldn't take a whole year for everyone else to catch up with the people who watched the subs... that's so long! But then again, watching FMA from week to week is exciting too. All that tension pent up for a whole week.
Damn. The last shot and the sound of ( Read more... ) still gives me the shivers.
When I think about how good Full Metal Alchemist is, I want to bring up episode 7 as an example of how daring it is for an anime, how far it goes for its genre. I want to say,
"Well my fandom ( really evil spoilers for episode 7 )."
But then I look at that statement and I realize, "Oh my god, I can't say that as an advertisement! That's AWFUL!"
Such is the woe of being an FMA fan.
Edit: I decided to rewatch episode 8 as well, since I always have to watch those two eps together. They go together in my mind. And, it makes me sad. I still can't decide which of these episodes is more dramatic. Episode 7, for its darkness... or episode 8, for its darkness of a different kind. And they're both so frelling sad.
Edit #2: the last shot of episode 8, with ( Read more... ), is so fricking cool. I don't know why I like that shot so much, but I do. That's what a good scene does, when it can carry so much meaning with just imagery and not a speck of dialogue.
Edit #3: God I love FMA so much. My love is deep, deep, deep for this show. I will probably be talking about it in my journal for a long time yet to come, folks. In fact right now I'm skeptical that I'll ever be as impressed by an anime in its entirety as I am by FMA. And very few live-action shows equal it in awesomeness. I mean, for me FMA is tied with Farscape as "favorite tv show Shaka has ever watched in any language", with Buffy coming in a close third (though BtVS will probably always be my original fandom-- I watched Farscape, I didn't do much fandom for it), and The X Files a distant fourth. Thank god for FMA comming into my fan life. I mean, after Buffy had ended and Farscape had ended and there were no more Lord of the Rings films to wait for and Firefly was cancelled... I had no real fandom. I just played around in HP fandom and slowly got into CB fandom and poked curiously at DLM fandom (which I would do more of if there *was* more of a fandom to poke at), and mostly twiddled my thumbs.
And then came Naruto first and then FMA, and everything was good and then better than good.
I wish it wouldn't take a whole year for everyone else to catch up with the people who watched the subs... that's so long! But then again, watching FMA from week to week is exciting too. All that tension pent up for a whole week.
you have mail from ff.net!
Dec. 18th, 2004 09:54 pmRashaka,
The following review has been submitted to: Most Dramatic GutWrenching Tragic Rape Fic Ever:
From: ..dumbass( )
This really sucks (mind you how much that really strecthes to prove my point). I hate it, your
probably one of the worst writters on this website. Wel you suck, your writting also sucks..so
why not just kill yourself bitch
Wow. It's been a while since I got one of those. I think it's been actually like 4 years since I've gotten out-right flamed. (actually that's not as cool as it sounds... I don't ever get enough reviewers to get flamed regularly, so this is only the second real flame after the one 4 years ago) I think it kind of kills the point to sign it as "dumbass" though.
But....WAIT! What do you know? ... I have a brand new Hughes icon that's perfect for this. SUFFER THE DISTAIN OF HUGHES! ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!
Van Helsing
Dec. 18th, 2004 11:17 pmRewatched Van Hellsing tonight, we were keeping it from Netflix because my mom hadn't watched it yet. In rewatching it, I decided it was better in some ways than I gave it credit for the first time I watched it.
Watching it a second time also compounded my main praise from the previous experience: DRACULA! He was the coolest thing about this movie. His clothes were cool; his accent (while sometimes amusing simply because I amuse easily) managed to be pretty cool and avoid most of the inherent silly-inducing clicheness; and his hair kicked ass. Really. I take back my previous comment-- his hair was the coolest thing about this movie. There's very few men in the world that can wear long, iron-straight hai-- in a half pony-tail-- with a hair clip-- and still look totally masculine, cool, and threatening. His make-up artist/costumers should be proud. And it wasn't like he was gorgeous or anything-- he was kind of normal-attractive in attractiveness of the face. But he could wear that hair and wear that cape.
If this actor with this costume had done the Dracula on Buffy, the Buffster would have been evilfied right quick and without complaint.
Watching it a second time also compounded my main praise from the previous experience: DRACULA! He was the coolest thing about this movie. His clothes were cool; his accent (while sometimes amusing simply because I amuse easily) managed to be pretty cool and avoid most of the inherent silly-inducing clicheness; and his hair kicked ass. Really. I take back my previous comment-- his hair was the coolest thing about this movie. There's very few men in the world that can wear long, iron-straight hai-- in a half pony-tail-- with a hair clip-- and still look totally masculine, cool, and threatening. His make-up artist/costumers should be proud. And it wasn't like he was gorgeous or anything-- he was kind of normal-attractive in attractiveness of the face. But he could wear that hair and wear that cape.
If this actor with this costume had done the Dracula on Buffy, the Buffster would have been evilfied right quick and without complaint.