currently watching
Feb. 4th, 2007 01:12![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
piranhawell, i wrote a longish, reviewish post, and LJ ate it -- that'll hopefully teach me to return to writing posts in an editor instead of a web form.
back to starting the post with what i originally had meant to do, log which episode i am on in the various series i am watching. i'm not sure whether i'll write the rest of it again.
get backers 35
death note 12
saiunkoku monogatari 28
gankutsuou 3
kamichu! 2
prince of tennis 57
battlestar galactica 3x11
i've decided to stop watching BSG until the end of season 3 -- watching each episode as it airs doesn't pull me enough into the story and i consequently feel distant and don't care a whole lot.
get backers rocks. adventure, mystery, fighting (but not too much), some fantastical abilities so we can have special effects for the fighting, humour, characters that grow more complex, angsty backstory -- what's not to like? i also adore that the canon throws just enough innuendo around so anyone who wants to ship somebody can do so; gen, slash, or even femslash, but the canon itself for the most part stays away from settling this in any way. me, i like akabane all on his own, black and amoral as he comes, and his seiyuu, tobita nobuo, is now on my favourites list; not for any inherent quality of his voice, but for the way he uses it. lucky me, he's also in gankutsuou as it turns out.
death note went along a completely different path from where i thought it would go -- or rather, it went where i thought it would eventually go, but immediately, and then went down other avenues, but i like it a lot. mangaka obata takeshi is on my "must watch" list. no slash. (not that it's not possible; i just saw a light/L doujinshi -- but i am refusing.)
saiunkoku monogatari continues to give me a heroine i can actually like, aside from its large cast of impossibly pretty men with long hair. it's also got loads of interesting period stuff (chinese tang dynasty), and lovely period music. it doesn't touch me emotionally, which is probably not surprising because it has an epic sweep to it, and i don't get into epic sagas much. but also, while dangerous and even some momentous things happen, the way the story is told is not edge-of-the-seat, nail-bitingly exciting. in fact, it seems overall very quiet and calm. i've got to think more about why that is. i am enjoying it even though i don't love it. huge slash potential, but i'm not doing anything with it.
gankutsuou is very different. it's somewhat based on dumas' count of monte cristo, but it's remarkable for its innovative use of texturing and rendering techniques. i am not sure whether i actually like it; i will have to watch more episodes. the "swimming" of the textures is disorienting, though i find it amusing that the creators have decided to turn something into a feature that's heretoforth been known as a bug.
kamichu! is the story of a small girl who becomes a kami (god). it's a thing of beauty; very expressive. i am missing major cultural referents though; need to read up on shinto.
look, no smut!
back to starting the post with what i originally had meant to do, log which episode i am on in the various series i am watching. i'm not sure whether i'll write the rest of it again.
get backers 35
death note 12
saiunkoku monogatari 28
gankutsuou 3
kamichu! 2
prince of tennis 57
battlestar galactica 3x11
i've decided to stop watching BSG until the end of season 3 -- watching each episode as it airs doesn't pull me enough into the story and i consequently feel distant and don't care a whole lot.
get backers rocks. adventure, mystery, fighting (but not too much), some fantastical abilities so we can have special effects for the fighting, humour, characters that grow more complex, angsty backstory -- what's not to like? i also adore that the canon throws just enough innuendo around so anyone who wants to ship somebody can do so; gen, slash, or even femslash, but the canon itself for the most part stays away from settling this in any way. me, i like akabane all on his own, black and amoral as he comes, and his seiyuu, tobita nobuo, is now on my favourites list; not for any inherent quality of his voice, but for the way he uses it. lucky me, he's also in gankutsuou as it turns out.
death note went along a completely different path from where i thought it would go -- or rather, it went where i thought it would eventually go, but immediately, and then went down other avenues, but i like it a lot. mangaka obata takeshi is on my "must watch" list. no slash. (not that it's not possible; i just saw a light/L doujinshi -- but i am refusing.)
saiunkoku monogatari continues to give me a heroine i can actually like, aside from its large cast of impossibly pretty men with long hair. it's also got loads of interesting period stuff (chinese tang dynasty), and lovely period music. it doesn't touch me emotionally, which is probably not surprising because it has an epic sweep to it, and i don't get into epic sagas much. but also, while dangerous and even some momentous things happen, the way the story is told is not edge-of-the-seat, nail-bitingly exciting. in fact, it seems overall very quiet and calm. i've got to think more about why that is. i am enjoying it even though i don't love it. huge slash potential, but i'm not doing anything with it.
gankutsuou is very different. it's somewhat based on dumas' count of monte cristo, but it's remarkable for its innovative use of texturing and rendering techniques. i am not sure whether i actually like it; i will have to watch more episodes. the "swimming" of the textures is disorienting, though i find it amusing that the creators have decided to turn something into a feature that's heretoforth been known as a bug.
kamichu! is the story of a small girl who becomes a kami (god). it's a thing of beauty; very expressive. i am missing major cultural referents though; need to read up on shinto.
look, no smut!