3. Would you think me weird if I was listening to "Love is just a bloodsport" by the Sneakerpimps and I started imagining Kabuto/Kakashi dark slash fic?
4. Aren't Rock Lee and Gai the funniest? And noble, too.
5. Sakura is finally acting more mature!
6. Don't you just LOVE Shikamaru?
7. Wasn't it the sickest thing ever to watch Naruto and Shikamaru argue with Gaara in the hospital? One of my favorite episodes by far. I love Naruto's reaction to Gaara... he knows what he's going through with having a demon sealed in him, and yet at the same time he's lucky, because he hasn't had it near as hard as this kid.
8. I just keep wanting to shout to everyone "Don't tease Naruto dammit, he could totally kick your ass!" But then I'd have to explain why, and of course Naruto doesn't want his seal to be common knowledge, etc etc. Also, demon = not a thing to brag about. And yet I want to.
9. I might have said this already but what I really love about this series is that there's no stock "jerk" or "wimp" or "class clown" etc... no stereotypes that hold up. Because as soon as you are presented with a stereotype, be it Ino's bitchiness or Rock Lee's exuberance or Sasuke's cold shoulder to the world, sooner or later the backstory or sidestory kicks in and you realize that they're just little kids, and they shouldn't be defined by one personality trait. Like finding out that Ino has good reason to be bitchy toward Sakura because despite having us side with Sakura naturally as a major character, Sakura was the one who hurt Ino and started the rivalry in the first place. Or learning that Lee's exuberant success is hard-won and very costly and not to be ridiculed. Or learning that Sasuke's not as hard and cold as he wants and pretends to be, and having his teammates look down on him for giving up the scroll did really get to him, because no matter how much he wants to be an avenger, rihgt now he's only a boy.
The only exception to this is Hinata. I keep waiting for the better, more interesting part of Hinata to kick in. So far she's still what she was before-- a shy girl with a crush.
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Episode 1 of Arjuna is still my favorite, though episode 3 was very good as well... I loved Tokio cheerfully camping out in the forest to find Juna.
As I watch it now I keep wanting to shout at my monitor "Grab that boy and kiss him!" or do other sorts of running commentary on their love life.
I've found the environmentalism theme to be less compelling now than it was in the first episodes, though it has been very interesting to watch it's affect on the Juna/Tokio relationship. Like when Tokio is trying to tell Juna that her rejecting city life and modern society she's also rejecting him. Whether she actually is or not, he's connecting the two in his head and thinks it is. She's kind of on a pedestal, but he doesn't want her to be, he wants her back down on earth with him, and not to think of him as dirty or wrong because she thinks of the society as dirty or wrong and he likes that society. That's the thought-provoking part for me.
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ep 64!
Date: 2004-03-03 11:02 pm (UTC)1. Isn't Kakashi the coolest?
2. Isn't Kabuto one sick puppy?
3. Would you think me weird if I was listening to "Love is just a bloodsport" by the Sneakerpimps and I started imagining Kabuto/Kakashi dark slash fic?
4. Aren't Rock Lee and Gai the funniest? And noble, too.
5. Sakura is finally acting more mature!
6. Don't you just LOVE Shikamaru?
7. Wasn't it the sickest thing ever to watch Naruto and Shikamaru argue with Gaara in the hospital? One of my favorite episodes by far. I love Naruto's reaction to Gaara... he knows what he's going through with having a demon sealed in him, and yet at the same time he's lucky, because he hasn't had it near as hard as this kid.
8. I just keep wanting to shout to everyone "Don't tease Naruto dammit, he could totally kick your ass!" But then I'd have to explain why, and of course Naruto doesn't want his seal to be common knowledge, etc etc. Also, demon = not a thing to brag about. And yet I want to.
9. I might have said this already but what I really love about this series is that there's no stock "jerk" or "wimp" or "class clown" etc... no stereotypes that hold up. Because as soon as you are presented with a stereotype, be it Ino's bitchiness or Rock Lee's exuberance or Sasuke's cold shoulder to the world, sooner or later the backstory or sidestory kicks in and you realize that they're just little kids, and they shouldn't be defined by one personality trait. Like finding out that Ino has good reason to be bitchy toward Sakura because despite having us side with Sakura naturally as a major character, Sakura was the one who hurt Ino and started the rivalry in the first place. Or learning that Lee's exuberant success is hard-won and very costly and not to be ridiculed. Or learning that Sasuke's not as hard and cold as he wants and pretends to be, and having his teammates look down on him for giving up the scroll did really get to him, because no matter how much he wants to be an avenger, rihgt now he's only a boy.
The only exception to this is Hinata. I keep waiting for the better, more interesting part of Hinata to kick in. So far she's still what she was before-- a shy girl with a crush.
--
Episode 1 of Arjuna is still my favorite, though episode 3 was very good as well... I loved Tokio cheerfully camping out in the forest to find Juna.
As I watch it now I keep wanting to shout at my monitor "Grab that boy and kiss him!" or do other sorts of running commentary on their love life.
I've found the environmentalism theme to be less compelling now than it was in the first episodes, though it has been very interesting to watch it's affect on the Juna/Tokio relationship. Like when Tokio is trying to tell Juna that her rejecting city life and modern society she's also rejecting him. Whether she actually is or not, he's connecting the two in his head and thinks it is. She's kind of on a pedestal, but he doesn't want her to be, he wants her back down on earth with him, and not to think of him as dirty or wrong because she thinks of the society as dirty or wrong and he likes that society. That's the thought-provoking part for me.
I've seen episode 9 now.