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Aug. 28th, 2005 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockRandom tv quotes I love:
"Rose, I'm trying to resonate concrete." - Doctor Who
"There's always money in the banana stand." - Arrested Development
"My friends need to suck on those frogs!" - Avatar: The Last Airbender
When my brother visited this weekend and got me into Arrested Development, we also talked about the Lost eps I had send him during his overseas tour. He was complaining that the show jumped around and didn't make any sense, and that while adventurey, it didn't seem to have a point or direction.
I commiserated with him over this fact, and suggested he watch the episodes of Veronica Mars that I had also sent him. He said he didn't want to watch some "girly high school drama." Then he talked about how he wanted to watch The OC. ::headdesk::
Giving up on that vein of thought, I gave him the two seasons of Full Metal Alchemist and tried to impress upon him the truth that if he EVER watched any anime because I told him it was good-- and I have *never* told him to watch anime before, ever-- then he has to watch FMA. That it is the ONLY anime I will ever recommend he watch on my word alone.
He said he'd ask his friend who likes anime if it's good, then maybe watch it. ::headdesk:: Geez. Sometimes I get frustrated by my brother in this respect: he wants me to watch the shows he recommends, trying to hope that we'll have the same tastes, but when the process is reversed he isn't interested. The point is that we DO have very similar tastes, but he doesn't trust mine. I think he thinks I'm into girly Pretty Princess/Care Bear shit even though I'm not 8 anymore, and clicky high school drama shit even though I've never been into that. I keep trying to explain this to him: I like adventure. I like horror. I like mysteries. I love science fiction. If given a choice between something with swords and something with a love story, I'll go for the swords. Not that I'm not a sucker for a love story, cause I'm a complete sap. But I want my sappy love stories with aliens and swordfighting and magic and dragons and ghosts and serial killers and puppies in mortal danger and ninjas and psuedo-European WWI politics and telepathy and killer robots. What girl doesn't?
"Rose, I'm trying to resonate concrete." - Doctor Who
"There's always money in the banana stand." - Arrested Development
"My friends need to suck on those frogs!" - Avatar: The Last Airbender
When my brother visited this weekend and got me into Arrested Development, we also talked about the Lost eps I had send him during his overseas tour. He was complaining that the show jumped around and didn't make any sense, and that while adventurey, it didn't seem to have a point or direction.
I commiserated with him over this fact, and suggested he watch the episodes of Veronica Mars that I had also sent him. He said he didn't want to watch some "girly high school drama." Then he talked about how he wanted to watch The OC. ::headdesk::
Giving up on that vein of thought, I gave him the two seasons of Full Metal Alchemist and tried to impress upon him the truth that if he EVER watched any anime because I told him it was good-- and I have *never* told him to watch anime before, ever-- then he has to watch FMA. That it is the ONLY anime I will ever recommend he watch on my word alone.
He said he'd ask his friend who likes anime if it's good, then maybe watch it. ::headdesk:: Geez. Sometimes I get frustrated by my brother in this respect: he wants me to watch the shows he recommends, trying to hope that we'll have the same tastes, but when the process is reversed he isn't interested. The point is that we DO have very similar tastes, but he doesn't trust mine. I think he thinks I'm into girly Pretty Princess/Care Bear shit even though I'm not 8 anymore, and clicky high school drama shit even though I've never been into that. I keep trying to explain this to him: I like adventure. I like horror. I like mysteries. I love science fiction. If given a choice between something with swords and something with a love story, I'll go for the swords. Not that I'm not a sucker for a love story, cause I'm a complete sap. But I want my sappy love stories with aliens and swordfighting and magic and dragons and ghosts and serial killers and puppies in mortal danger and ninjas and psuedo-European WWI politics and telepathy and killer robots. What girl doesn't?
