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[timepiececlock]

Why am I always so tense watching FMA?

Because it's like the writers are Joss Whedon's evil siblings. Because not only do people die that I care about, but anyone could die at any time so it's like all my angst over Spike dying, Joyce dying, Buffy dying, and Tara dying multiplied by 15 and shot up through my nose down through my brainstem.

That's what watching this show is like. God. I need more caffeine.

Comments

[octopedingenue]

LESS. You mistyped the word there. LESS caffeine, babe.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

No, I need more! I ran out of diet coke two days ago and I loathe coffee so I had to drink TEA to satisfy my caffeine consumption while watching.

[octopedingenue]

Don't drink caffeine while watching this show, man! Overuse of stimulants can be fatal!

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Woman! And no they can't! I am strong!

I AM STRONG!

STRONG!

I WILL SURVIVE UNTIL NEXT WEEKS EP EVEN AS I REWATCH THE MANY EPISODES I ALREADY HAVE WHILE DRINKING THE DIET COKE I JUST NOW PURCHASED AT MY LOCAL GROCERY PROVIDER!

In fact I'd be drinking some right now if any were cold.

I downloaded the music from your LJ, by the way! Thanks for all the songs.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Someday...someday I will see this show. Maybe then I can read your posts without my brain going "Bzzzzzzzz." ;)

[octopedingenue]

Bzzzzz?

I'm giving you the caffeine that Little Miss Strung-Out-On-Angst-Adrenaline 'Shaka here so obviously does not need.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Someday...someday I will see this show.

Someday... I will own Cowboy Bebop.

:grin: You're gonna love this though. But don't look down past this comment because I put a bad evil horrible spoiler in my comment to leslina's comment.

[leslina.livejournal.com]

And thus you see my vulcan logic regarding spoilers. I don't need to sit through another Joss-verse like series and guzzle pepto and slowly lose what I have of my all ready fragile little mind. Not bloody again. I find it quite disturbing how series with such excessive shock value and misery are glorified by the masses. I like my series well rounded, not bi-polar. Too much stock is put into angst-value.

[ciardhapagan.livejournal.com]

Here, here! I ALWAYS hunt out spoilers for just this reason.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I can see the appeal of spoilers for that reason-- to safely allow you to prepare yourself before hand for the events to come, but I personally can never get into spoilers because it takes the fun out of watching it for me. It kills my excitement level like nothing else.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I find it quite disturbing how series with such excessive shock value and misery are glorified by the masses.

No dear. That's what we call the movie X, which sucked. And Perfect Blue, which was actually very good but still too morbid without anything positive to balance the morbid darkness.

FMA's shock and angst factors are pretty evenly balanced by the amount of good in the actions of most of the main characters. Ed and Al, while they suffer greatly, are surrounded nonetheless by an extensive net of well-adjusted and decent human beings that really balances out the darker aspects of the series. I don't connect to shows that are relentlessly painful unless there's somthing to balance it out. That's why I can't watch a lot of movies like A Simple Plan or Deliverance or Silence of the Lambs more than once... I get tired of constant pain and nothing else. But if pain is frequent yet comes with happy/funny/uplifting things too, then I usually love it.

Also, there's the fact that the shock value in FMA doesn't come from violence or pain, but from unexpected plot twists that I seem to never see coming until they hit, afterwhich hindsight is perfect.

But, I suppose, I have come to appreciate darker shows a lot more now than I used to. I think a series that takes the risk of killing off a main character (Hughes was a supporting character, so logically his death shouldn't have made me as sad as it did, but I guess I just really liked him) shows that it's not necessarily going to be safe and sweet and easy. If something's too easy then I don't enjoy it as much I don't get emotionally involved. FMA does seem unusually angsty at times in comparison to other anime... but when I think about the plotline presented the angst always seems logical and appropriate. Ed and Al live a dangerous world and people die... and since we're watching it, that's what we get.

And maybe it just seems more angsty because I care about the characters so much. Neon Genesis Evangelion had a higher body count than FMA does, at least of main characters, but I didn't really like most of the main characters in Eva so I didn't get riled up watching it.

But if spoilers make you happy, babe, then that's what makes you happy. :)