The Only Couple In The Park That Doesn't Have To Fear Muggers

[redbrunja]

So, my mom and I are giving Gargoyles a rewatch. It's almost as good as Avatar in the made-for-children, good-enough-for-adults way and I remember an insane amount of detail from when I first watched it at eight. Like, I remember specific scenes in great detail. It's really fun watching it with my mother, who has quite the eye for little details. "Why doesn't he just through that guy off the castle? Why do all the bad guys keep missing when they shoot?" Me: "Children's cartoon mom, children's cartoon.

Also, from this week's fannish5 :

Name your favorite character's five favorite books.

I picked Hatake Kakashi, because he was the easiest of my favorite characters to come up with favorite books for. I would do Sumire, but I don't know enough of Japanese literature and pop culture to do her justice.

5.) Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence

4.) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

3.) That really good book about the Vietnam triage nurse that I read at least five times but can't remember the exact title and amazon is being unhelpful.

2.) Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Crusie

1.) Icha Icha Tactics by Jiriaya

Dishonorable mention: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. This was the most terrifying book Kakashi has ever read and made him beyond grateful that Sasuke never loved Sakura back, that Sakura went to the Fifth for training and that none of them lived in Rain country.

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of the Zeta project.

[tobu-ishi.livejournal.com]

I hadn't, either! A slightly younger friend (by two or three years) introduced me to it, this fall, as a part of her childhood, but it's so very much in the style of the cartoons I grew up watching that it feels nostalgic even though I never specifically saw it. Highly peculiar.

But--yeah. It's a spinoff of Batman: The Animated Series, about a killer android that finds self-awareness and a conscience and becomes a pacifist on the run from the company that created it and are now convinced that they must destroy it (they didn't get the memo on the pacifist part)...and the blonde ball of snark and questionable morals who becomes its guide and guardian against a world it doesn't understand and she understands maybe a little too well.

The first thing Ro does when she realizes she has an all-powerful robot on her hands is get it to hack her a credit card and go on a dubiously legal shopping spree. On a kids' show. Notwithstanding the occasional telling bit of nineties cheese, I had to keep watching. XD

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

The first thing Ro does when she realizes she has an all-powerful robot on her hands is get it to hack her a credit card and go on a dubiously legal shopping spree. On a kids' show. Notwithstanding the occasional telling bit of nineties cheese, I had to keep watching. XD

This is kind of mind-blowingly awesome.