Wednesday, April 13, 2005

I'm sticking with yesterday's subject because a) it's too funny to leave unexplained and b) I think it got deleted when I edited the post.


To start with, I'd like to address Miss Lea: Samurai Champloo doesn't air on TV, so there. : P


Anyway, Samurai Champloo Spoilers: As I began to say yesterday, I had actually been hoping the ending would be somewhat reminiscent of "Bandits". Personally, I think it would have been a far more effective way to finish the story, and it could have been made perfect through the addition of even two or three minute-long exchanges of dialogue.
What really irritates me about the "separate paths" bit isn't its cliché-ness, but the fact that it made no sense whatsoever: a minute after we establish that these kids are the only homies any of the three of them have ever had, we go on to establish that they're perfectly okay with never seeing each other again.
The way I see it is, if you're willing to die with some one, you should be more than happy to live with them. Especially when you're utterly broke and that some one has a next-to-100% chance of getting themselves killed in very preventable ways.

If you haven't seen the aforementioned "Bandits", it's a movie about a couple of criminals who take a woman "hostage". She falls in love with both of them, over the course of the film, and it ends with that situation ["Together, you're the perfect man."] peacefully maintained.
Though the specifics are quite different, this is pretty parallel to the situation we had going in Champloo, up until the last episode.

It would have been more satisfying to see the three of them walk off into the sunset together, instead of ambling away from each other in the middle of the day.

I guess all that's left is to wait and see if they ever get around to making that movie.[/spoilers and/or mild irritation]


So, about that "subject".
I've mentioned this on several previous occasions, so you probably know that 90% of my friends are guys. Which, because they are teenagers, means they are very stupid and talk mostly about porn.
So, they were talking about porn, when another girl gets all upset 'cause she doesn't know what "a yaoi" is.
She spent a great deal of time walking around, saying, "What's a yaoi???" and it was very funny. Especially the whole, "Why does every one know what a yaoi is but me??" bit.


Speaking of yaoi/BL, I watched "Loveless" yesterday, in accordance with Skippedry's lovely signature. It made little or no sense, whatsoever--so little, in fact, I was left wondering what some one did with every other scene. Perhaps reading the manga would make it that much clearer, but my verdict is currently if it doesn't start to make sense, or be worth looking at, by the third episode, screw it.
Good thing it shows signs of being worth looking at.^^


In accordance with more recommendations by Teh Administrator, I've also downloaded the first episode of Ashiteruze Baby. So we'll see how that goes. (It looks very cute.)


Yesterday, I took it upon myself to edit an "article" my friend wrote. This took up about an hour of my time, and is mostly why I couldn't go on yesterday. (Though, I admit, I could have ended in a more effective way. What a hypocrite I am.)
Anyway, it was meant to be a recount of the events of the night Romeo slew Tybalt, only it went something along the lines of this:

Tybalt was challenging Romeo to a duel because he went to the Montague’s party, even though he knew very well that they might have been killed. It was a mystery when Romeo declined to fight and tried to make peace. This made Tybalt really mad. Tybalt lunged at Mercutio in one swift movement and thrusted deep into his vitals with his rapier...the Prince has offered a reward of 500 gold for information on where Romeo is hiding.

Needless to say, I added about three pages angry rants, explaining what was horribly, horribly wrong, and why.
My friend seemed pretty sheepish today, on a completely unrelated note. >_>"

Then, people started e-mailing me their English assignments, and things got kind of crazy. I currently have four essays on stem cells/xenotransplantation/gene patenting sitting in my mail box and another of the same Romeo x Juliet assignment.
I think I have a vague idea of how English teachers must feel, reading the same information over and over, in so many ways, each less effective than the last.-_-

It's kind of sad when some one who's been speaking English for two years can out-compose a guy who speaks nothing else.

Aiya.
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