Sailor Titan (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sailor_titan) wrote,@ 2008-06-30 00:37:00 |
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Kupaw
Episode Fifteen progress:
Pages 18/≈30
Words 9,200/≈16,000
Between Kingdoms Progress:
Words 96,500/≈200,000
Whew. It's been a little while. I have been working on this stuff, just not enough to merit continual posting. I will admit, I've been slacking off pretty bad with Moon Senshi, but I hung out with a lot of people this week and I didn't end up getting to it until this Sunday.
So, Friday we went to see "Wall*E". Because it's a Pixar movie, I had to be opening night.
It was actually really good, but the beginning was really hard for me to watch. Seeing the Earth all trashed is just really depressing. Seeing people die can be depressing enough (see "The House of Sand and Fog" :-P), although depending on the movie I can sometimes handle it. (Shakespeare tragedies usually don't get to me.) But the idea the Earth being totally fucked, Society being totally fucked, or some awful combination of the two always screws with me head and leaves me a mumbling mass of tears and depression. (See "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence" That movie made me depressed for almost a week. I'm not joking.)
"Wall*E" manages to be sort of borderline dystopian without being really depressing, though. Admittedly, I did cry a lot during the first 15-20 minutes of the movie, during all those pans of the trash ridden, cloud-covered Earth. John complained that this was hampering his enjoyment of the movie. After that, though, it becomes considerably more hopeful and likable of a movie. At it's heart it really is a hopeful kids movie, and dammit, those robots are cute. The ending puts a very positive spin on things. AND DAMMIT THOSE ROBOTS ARE CUTE. Interesting is that "Wall*E" uses both the "likable robot with personality" trope and "Ebeel robot who wants to take control" trope in the same movie very effectively. It seems like most movies are intent on using one trope or the other, but not both.
So strange things are happening in Moon Senshi with Fubuki. To be honest, when I had Fubuki's mom go crazy-go-nuts the for the second time, I wasn't really sure what I was going to do with her. Jirou and Fubuki fight about whether or not she will stay crazy, and it's probably good that they do, because frankly I had no clue, either. But it looks like I now know.
More surprisingly, it looks like Fubuki may be leaving the nest. And where she might be leaving it for is even more surprising. But it's not for certain yet. We'll have to see.
Also, Between Kingdoms features turtle people Chimera at the request of John. It does not, however, call them "Kupaw." Sorry John. :-)
Anyway, I have piping tomorrow. Learn' Hector the Hero. wish me luck!
Episode Fifteen progress:
Pages 18/≈30
Words 9,200/≈16,000
Between Kingdoms Progress:
Words 96,500/≈200,000
Whew. It's been a little while. I have been working on this stuff, just not enough to merit continual posting. I will admit, I've been slacking off pretty bad with Moon Senshi, but I hung out with a lot of people this week and I didn't end up getting to it until this Sunday.
So, Friday we went to see "Wall*E". Because it's a Pixar movie, I had to be opening night.
It was actually really good, but the beginning was really hard for me to watch. Seeing the Earth all trashed is just really depressing. Seeing people die can be depressing enough (see "The House of Sand and Fog" :-P), although depending on the movie I can sometimes handle it. (Shakespeare tragedies usually don't get to me.) But the idea the Earth being totally fucked, Society being totally fucked, or some awful combination of the two always screws with me head and leaves me a mumbling mass of tears and depression. (See "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence" That movie made me depressed for almost a week. I'm not joking.)
"Wall*E" manages to be sort of borderline dystopian without being really depressing, though. Admittedly, I did cry a lot during the first 15-20 minutes of the movie, during all those pans of the trash ridden, cloud-covered Earth. John complained that this was hampering his enjoyment of the movie. After that, though, it becomes considerably more hopeful and likable of a movie. At it's heart it really is a hopeful kids movie, and dammit, those robots are cute. The ending puts a very positive spin on things. AND DAMMIT THOSE ROBOTS ARE CUTE. Interesting is that "Wall*E" uses both the "likable robot with personality" trope and "Ebeel robot who wants to take control" trope in the same movie very effectively. It seems like most movies are intent on using one trope or the other, but not both.
So strange things are happening in Moon Senshi with Fubuki. To be honest, when I had Fubuki's mom go crazy-go-nuts the for the second time, I wasn't really sure what I was going to do with her. Jirou and Fubuki fight about whether or not she will stay crazy, and it's probably good that they do, because frankly I had no clue, either. But it looks like I now know.
More surprisingly, it looks like Fubuki may be leaving the nest. And where she might be leaving it for is even more surprising. But it's not for certain yet. We'll have to see.
Also, Between Kingdoms features turtle people Chimera at the request of John. It does not, however, call them "Kupaw." Sorry John. :-)
Anyway, I have piping tomorrow. Learn' Hector the Hero. wish me luck!
