*attention whores*

[redbrunja]

I am bored and should be doing school work but am truly in want of a distraction.

Talk to me, please.

Real life, fandom, questions you've always wanted to ask - it's all fair game.

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[okroginator.livejournal.com]

Do I capslock too much?

Also, I'd like to know if you think that animating the Sasuke/Itachi fight will ruin it or make it forty times better. I still can't decide.

Also, do you say "SUR-up" or "SEER-up" for the word syrup?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

No. (However, I don't understand loving Sasuke as much as you do.)

Also, I'd like to know if you think that animating the Sasuke/Itachi fight will ruin it or make it forty times better. I still can't decide.

Better. Kishimoto's fights are, in general, horribly confusing, and it's a bad sign when you need a narrator (plant guy) to understand what is happening. I saw the Tsunade/Orochimaru fight animated in an amv last night, and was shocked by how hilarious it was, simply because it was harder to follow in the manga.

Also, do you say "SUR-up" or "SEER-up" for the word syrup?

SUR-up.

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

I don't understand not loving Sasuke. Well, no, that's a lie; I totally understand it. But Sasuke was the only reason I allowed myself to get sucked into the series (because I had the whole pride thing going where "I REFUSE TO WATCH THIS ANIME....JUST BECAUSE EVERYBODY ELSE IS DOING IT.") by my friend. She had to promise me there would be eye candy, and I was all, "OHHHHH-kaaaaaaay..." And then I fell in love with his hotness and his complete srsface. And then I completely fell in love with him after the first time we saw Itachi (yes, there was a period of time where I hated Itachi's guts...I know, I can't believe myself either...) And then I was absolutely furious with him for beign an ass and leaving...then I discovered the fun of psychoanalyzing him just to find out how messed up he really is...then...I've just never been able to make myself unlove him. I put it best during a conversation with said friend: "At the point this obsession has developed to, Sasuke could eat a live human baby, and I would still love him." (Hence my constant references to Sasuke's consumption of infants.)

Really? I know the Sasuke/Itachi fight was hard to follow, and I'm excited for the animation of that, and I think they did do really well with the Sannin fight, but I honestly prefer the manga side of the Valley of the End fight. The anime dragged it out too long, I feel, added some things that didn't (IMO) really work (though they did add one or two things that I really liked), and didn't animate it to the best of their ability. (They did, however, animate Neji's fight to the best of their ability. I am still moved to tears when I watch it.) So I'm worried the same thing might happen, since Shippuuden anime is dragging their episodes out to almost where it's a chapter per episode. Ew.

Good, that's the way I say it. Win. (My family has an ongoing feud about the proper pronunciation of that word.)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Okay, I can sort of see where you're coming from.

Yeah, I heard that that was the rate that they were going and I was like 'seriously?' I'm tempted to ask which episodes I should watch for Kunari/Asuma and seeing Asuma bite it, but that's about it. And if they use flashbacks like they usually do, you pretty much want to watch every other episode.

[pikabot]

The Valley of the End fight is one of the few parts of the anime that is worth watching, in my opinion. They applied Norio Matsumoto's animation genius to it and it was just gorgeous.

[ryanitenebrae.livejournal.com]

^^;;

What would you say to someone curious about Veronica Mars or BSG?

Opinion of Caroline Julian in Bones?

Ever see Pushing Daisies?

Why do you dislike Toph?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Veronica Mars: Fantastic first season with one of the best, complex, smart, damaged heroines on television.

Watch the first season (which tells a complete story) and then stop, because the second season is awful and the third season doesn't improve that much. I was watching the finale of the second season and literally biting my tongue - I was watching it with a friend and he liked it more than I did and I didn't want to ruin his fun.

That said, the first season is brilliant, the pilot is amazing, the relationship between Veronica and her dad is really and loving (and he's protrayed as a smart, clever man and well, with a life of his own - no tv dumb dads for Vernoica Mars)

Watch the pilot - it's only 40 minutes, and is great television.

BSG is another great show that goes into a steep dive in the middle of the second season that it never recovered from. However, prior to that, it's excellent sci-fi with fantastic female characters.

Opinion of Caroline Julian in Bones?

Sheerest win.

I've seen the first two episodes of pushing daises, and really liked it. I watched it with my mother and we would have watched more, only life got crazy.

Toph: I see a lot of myself in Toph, especially in the first couple of episodes after she was introducted, in that, when I was her age, I WANTED to behave like that, and didn't because I knew it was wrong (and I would have NEVER behaved like that to people I had just met). The show, however, has a bad habit of siding with Toph. The Runaway is one of my favorite episodes because it doesn't flinch away from how out of control she is, and firmly sides with Katara.

However, the show has a tendancy of making Toph insanely overpowered (the metal bending worked, the sand bending didn't, because she didn't work for it at all) and never in the wrong. Fandom makes this trait worse, by acting like she'd the best thing since sliced bread and hating on Suki for daring to be kickass and feminine (I think a large part of why fandom likes Toph is that she acts like a guy, which would be great, if they didn't use that to diss Katara and Suki.)

[ryanitenebrae.livejournal.com]

^^ Thank you. I've honestly been curious about Veronica Mars since I saw the commercials for it four years ago. I've heard good things about the father/daughter relationship on that show(partially from you), as well.

I had heard that about the declining quality of BSG. I'm starting to get a tad frustrated, after the decline of Alias, Lost. and Bones(that last one isn't too late for recovery..please?). I'm worried about Pushing Daisies, but that may be unfounded thus far. ^^;; The only show I know that made it through three seasons without decline or stagnation is Northern Exposure, and the stagnation started immediately after the amazing season three finale.

^^ Pushing Daisies is my favorite show right now. I just had to ask.

I especially love Caroline's relationship with the defense attorney. Unless I heard Booth wrong, he's her ex-husband that she's still on good terms with, right?

I'd say I agree with you, primarily about Toph, and I see I was wrong about you disliking her, per se. ^^ I wish they had done more with her emotions. I kind of feel like her development got screwed up from her being coddled so much that she rebelled as much as she did, leading to her becoming nearly uncontrollable. I feel like Bryke focused more on the cool stuff she could do than on her as a character, with the exception of "The Runaway."

The metal bending DID work, but she mastered it awfully quickly. I actually forgot about the sand-bending, to be honest. ^^;; I haven't spent too much time in the fandom, mostly in the Zutara fandom, to be honest, so I didn't know about them treating her that way. That's pretty contemptible.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hate how many shows are excellent in their first season and then start to go downhill.

I especially love Caroline's relationship with the defense attorney. Unless I heard Booth wrong, he's her ex-husband that she's still on good terms with, right?

I totally don't remember that, but you could be right.

I feel like Bryke focused more on the cool stuff she could do than on her as a character, with the exception of "The Runaway."

Exactly. The fandom does too, with the added bonus that the Toph/Sokka shippers bash Suki as well, which just pisses me off to no end.

The metalbending worked because it was mastered in intense circumstances, a la Katara's bloodbending. That she had previously been blind on sand and then mastered it with apparently no effort at all pissed me off.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Minor pimp for Pushing Daisies: the women outnumber the men 2-to-1, most of the conversations pass the Bechdel test when it gets going, and the two women who are supposed to be fighting over the guy essentially say screw it," bond, and are slightly-snarky BFF by the end of the first season.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is great to hear - the first two episodes my heart was just bleeding for Olive.

[fani.livejournal.com]

Soooooo after Avatar...is there anything you watch/read nowadays? Coz I'm finding it hard to find shows to watch after that. Despite its flaws in writing the general everything in Avatar is so good everytime I see a series or whatever it's like, "It's just not the same" (and the way they write women is so much win, unlike other anime series)

I mean right now I'm just retreating to watching old Futurama episodes, Full Metal Panic Fumoffu, Black Books, Blackadder, Frasier, and a lot of documentaries.

Book-wise it's also been hard to get into things. I thank you for the recs you gave me 3 or 4 months ago but sometimes I just can't seem to get 'into' the books that was recommended. After Ray Bradbury, Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams nothing is the same. And despite what people said I just can't get into Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. (you might like it, but I find Thursday a little too ...I don't know how o describe it)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I totally know what you mean.

Honestly, after Avatar I got into Naruto, which is really so much suck, but I've been greatly enjoying bitching about it with my flist, and the fandom loves women (unlike a chunk of Avatar fandom, which apparently responds to the awesomely written female characters by hating the feminine ones) so I get a lot of slack for me there.

As for actually good tv... check out Life. The second season just started, but the first is only twelve episodes long and amazing. It's about a police officer who is sent away for murder, and 12 years later he's cleared and goes back to work with the department. His partner is AMAZING: female, of arabic descent, and has her own trauma and issues completely unrelated to the main male character.

I've read the Thursday Next series, and while I enjoyed it, I know what you mean.

Have you tried any Jim Butcher? (author) or How I Met Your Mother (tv sitcom, amazingly funny.)

[fani.livejournal.com]

(unlike a chunk of Avatar fandom, which apparently responds to the awesomely written female characters by hating the feminine ones)

While I'm on agreement with you here I think the reason of the "hate" for the girls of Avatar is because mainly people in the fandom are high school age or still lives on their parents'/elder figure's house to fully 'get' why Katara is a great, well-rounded character. As for your dislike to Toph, I think she also gets shafted by hurried, writing. (Kataang and Maiko would be better IF the development is more ...developed, ironically the Zutara equation gets better UNINTENTIONALLY) I think the reason why most the fandom like Toph is because Toph is really living out their dream, escaping from parental attention etc etc. I think a lot of people who's flown off the coop 'get' Katara more. But statistically most ppl in Avatar fandom are 14 to 18 right, so that's why there's TONS of bile.

As for actually good tv... check out Life.
YOUTUBE?

I dunno, Thursday Next books are stellar examples of good writing. Good prose style, good structure, good everything. But with all these perfection something in the equation just doesn't feel right. (at least to me) It's as if someone drew an anatomically perfect woman, good proportions, everything just adds up but compare that drawing to say a drawing of Katara which is anatomically incorrect (on purpose, because it's a stylistic choice) . I'd gravitate toward Katara because it's "warmer". Oh God don't let me go on lol :P

How I Met Your Mother

Checked out the first two episode. Seems amusing. That good?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

But statistically most ppl in Avatar fandom are 14 to 18 right, so that's why there's TONS of bile.

I would like to think that it's simply age, and that they're living out unflattering fantasies through Toph, if I hadn't had other people notice that trend of only liking the masculine females in other fandoms where that wasn't the case. Frankly, I think it's a more systematic problem in Western culture.

Checked out the first two episode. Seems amusing. That good?

I think so. I certainly doesn't go downhill (except for a 10 episode chunk in the third season that does set up some stuff I adore) and it's a solid comedy that doesn't ever talk down to the audience.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

...and I certainly think Katara is warm, bow chikka wow wow.

[fani.livejournal.com]

There had been a few recs on Dresden Files. Your impression good madam?

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Opinion of the Rose arc in FMA (been curious, as it hits one of both of our pet peeves, and it's the biggest thing that keeps me from the FMA anime love, as opposed to like.)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I don't really have one? I mean, I wasn't impressed with her in the first two episodes, but I did like the implication that she had been raped and then gone mute, because it fit in with the rest of the atrocities that were going on at the time.

(Tangent: I recently read the war backstory volume of FMA, and I LOVE how it's clearly metaphor for WWII from the German side. When she said that she had done a lot of reading, I'm guessing she read a lot of German-centric stuff, which makes total sense considering they were allies. It was very cool, and I really wanted to know which books she used as references.)

I know a lot of people really hate Rose and her arc, but honestly, she was there so little that I didn't really pay much attention. (Also, she was manipulated by both men and women, it really felt like she had an easily victemized personality, not she was weak because she was a girl.)

Can you tell my why you hate the Rose arc so much? Because I have my ideas, but it's been so long since I've watched FMA all the way through....

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Well, first of all, I've been told (second hand and not pointed to a concrete source, so take it with a grain of salt) that the only reason Rose came back was because the anime makers thought she was a better love interst for Ed than Winry, which also resulted in Ed not seeming to notice Winry's feelings, and sometimes coming across as a jerk.

Rose: The thing is that she was made a major part of the sytory, except she herself was irrelevant. She wasn't a character, she was an empty representation of war. She was reduced to her rape, and she became important to the last arc, but she was secondary to the product of her rape. That she was raped and carried around physical evidence of it was her character, and her role in the story. To me, that negated pretty much everything I liked in the anime that wasn't straight from the manga.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Shower was awesomecakes.

I have watched bits of NCIS when it was on marathon and I was doing other things and really liked it, and then I tried to watch the first couple of episodes and they were just painful. I get that Kate is the New Girl On The Block but I really felt like the men especially used to be Logan and the Mark Harmon character were really stroking their egos at her expense.

Favorite female character: Tie between Willow and Faith

Favorite male character: Spike

Favorite arc: Faith redemption arc, from the body switching to her going to jail.

.... Do you take issue with British spelling and/of pronounciation? ^_^

Except for pronouncing schedule like it's spelled, none at all.

[tobu-ishi.livejournal.com]

Now, ordinarily the author of this video (http://www.livevideo.com/video/B467552E5D914BA2A39FD02AE25F5EB9/aang-me-.aspx) somewhat bugs the heck out of me, but I am surprised and pleased at the willingness to poke fun here. Saw it and thought it'd be criminal not to pass it along to you. ^^

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

That is the most brilliant thing ever. Especially considering the B&B/Zutara love that is going on elsewhere in my journal.