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asato_muraki at 10:05pm on 16/02/2008 under anime, death note, entertainment, oz, torchwood
asato_muraki at 10:05pm on 16/02/2008 under anime, death note, entertainment, oz, torchwoodI hooked my best friend on Torchwood, so in addition to reminiscing about House on the Rock-induced migraines, we talked Torchwood. The last one she'd seen was "Meat" and we had a nice talk about Badass!Ianto. Ooo, scary.
Also, we've decided that we prefer to interpret the 'resussikiss' as Jack somehow sharing his excessive life energy with Ianto, instead of particularly inept rescue breathing. Makes sense, since he shared his lifeforce with the alien mist possessing Carys the same way. At least he didn't have to kiss Abaddon.
We both have a bit of a problem buying the chemistry Jack is supposed to have with various women, especially Gwen, though my friend doesn't share my proclivities. *cough*
We are in complete agreement that series two is fabulous so far-- there is yet to be an episode that isn't stronger than the better ones of series one. A thoroughly enjoyable show. This season, anyway. Did anybody catch Neil Gaiman snarking about Torchwood series one characters being too dim to live? Too funny not to quote:
...and yesterday I composed an entire thing in my head I didn't write down about Why The People in Torchwood Season One Are All Too Stupid To Live -- including the astonishingly puzzling incident where someone in 1941 has written something down on paper with black ink (a medium that will last legibly for centuries if kept out of the sun), and, unaccountably worried that ink on paper will fade and become unreadable in time, first she takes a prototype Polaroid photo of it, and then writes some of it in blood and puts it in a coffee can in a damp cellar, because these media will still be readable seventy years later. Why she didn't make a model of it out of chocolate as well, I will never know.
*tee, hee*
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I've been watching OZ on DVD while my Beloved is in Africa, mostly because I know he won't watch with me. I probably shouldn't, because they do stuff on that show just to kick you in the gut. Stuff you should see coming a mile off, but it still hurts. The nicest characters die cheap or get tortured in horrible ways. I should really rent videos of cute bunnies frolicking on grassy hillsides. It would be better for my outlook. :D
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Got the boys watching Death Note. I know, I know. A lot of anime is recycled, and this has many elements that are familiar. The main character is the super-smart High School student, Light Yagami. He's perfect (scored highest of anyone on the national exams, natch), cool and aloof but still popular. He finds a Death Note, the notebook the Shinigami use to take people's lives. Whoever's name is written in the book will die. The Shinigami Ryuk, who dropped the Death Note, wrote instructions on how to use it inside it. Light finds it and can't seem to keep himself from trying it, just to see what happens. He kills a criminal who has just taken a daycare center hostage, then a petty thug, just to test whether the first death was a coincidence.
After that, he's wracked with guilt at the horror of what he's done-- for about 20 seconds. Two minutes he's developed a peachy God Complex and is out to clean up the world by killing all the people he judges to be bad. Then by killing the law enforcement types hunting him. Of course the law enforcement types are led by the mysterious "L"- a character no one has ever seen. What follows is the most convoluted game of cat and mouse I've ever seen, full of implausible "but I prepared for this in advance! ha-HA!" revelations.
But I love it anyway. LOVE. IT.
I think it is in large part because of the visuals. The Shinigami Ryuk is the freakiest thing I've seen in a long time, and the good-guy mastermind "L" also has his freak on. By which I mean huge dark circles under his eyes, never wears shoes, always sits in a crouch... I mean the character designs are really unique. In a lot of anime, characters all look the same except for their rainbow hair.
The plot is becoming tiresome, yet I cannot look away. O_O
Also, we've decided that we prefer to interpret the 'resussikiss' as Jack somehow sharing his excessive life energy with Ianto, instead of particularly inept rescue breathing. Makes sense, since he shared his lifeforce with the alien mist possessing Carys the same way. At least he didn't have to kiss Abaddon.
We both have a bit of a problem buying the chemistry Jack is supposed to have with various women, especially Gwen, though my friend doesn't share my proclivities. *cough*
We are in complete agreement that series two is fabulous so far-- there is yet to be an episode that isn't stronger than the better ones of series one. A thoroughly enjoyable show. This season, anyway. Did anybody catch Neil Gaiman snarking about Torchwood series one characters being too dim to live? Too funny not to quote:
...and yesterday I composed an entire thing in my head I didn't write down about Why The People in Torchwood Season One Are All Too Stupid To Live -- including the astonishingly puzzling incident where someone in 1941 has written something down on paper with black ink (a medium that will last legibly for centuries if kept out of the sun), and, unaccountably worried that ink on paper will fade and become unreadable in time, first she takes a prototype Polaroid photo of it, and then writes some of it in blood and puts it in a coffee can in a damp cellar, because these media will still be readable seventy years later. Why she didn't make a model of it out of chocolate as well, I will never know.
*tee, hee*
***
I've been watching OZ on DVD while my Beloved is in Africa, mostly because I know he won't watch with me. I probably shouldn't, because they do stuff on that show just to kick you in the gut. Stuff you should see coming a mile off, but it still hurts. The nicest characters die cheap or get tortured in horrible ways. I should really rent videos of cute bunnies frolicking on grassy hillsides. It would be better for my outlook. :D
***
Got the boys watching Death Note. I know, I know. A lot of anime is recycled, and this has many elements that are familiar. The main character is the super-smart High School student, Light Yagami. He's perfect (scored highest of anyone on the national exams, natch), cool and aloof but still popular. He finds a Death Note, the notebook the Shinigami use to take people's lives. Whoever's name is written in the book will die. The Shinigami Ryuk, who dropped the Death Note, wrote instructions on how to use it inside it. Light finds it and can't seem to keep himself from trying it, just to see what happens. He kills a criminal who has just taken a daycare center hostage, then a petty thug, just to test whether the first death was a coincidence.
After that, he's wracked with guilt at the horror of what he's done-- for about 20 seconds. Two minutes he's developed a peachy God Complex and is out to clean up the world by killing all the people he judges to be bad. Then by killing the law enforcement types hunting him. Of course the law enforcement types are led by the mysterious "L"- a character no one has ever seen. What follows is the most convoluted game of cat and mouse I've ever seen, full of implausible "but I prepared for this in advance! ha-HA!" revelations.
But I love it anyway. LOVE. IT.
I think it is in large part because of the visuals. The Shinigami Ryuk is the freakiest thing I've seen in a long time, and the good-guy mastermind "L" also has his freak on. By which I mean huge dark circles under his eyes, never wears shoes, always sits in a crouch... I mean the character designs are really unique. In a lot of anime, characters all look the same except for their rainbow hair.
The plot is becoming tiresome, yet I cannot look away. O_O
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