meganbmoore

I created this Insane Journal account after Livejournal was blocked at my work, so that I could keep up with things and still blog there.  http://meganbmoore.livejournal.com is still my "real" internet home, though.  Most of my posts here(which will largely be reading) will be crossposted to my livejournal account, but I'll try to also crosspost livejournal entries here.

Was I complaining about Aya and Rei not getting to do very much with the first disc?  I may need to take that back.

(Honestly, I like Rei a lot and think he'll be a good boyfriend to Aya once he pulls his head out of...a place...but not only is he doing his best to prove my theory that at least half the guys in fiction don't deserve their girlfriends, but he is seriously begging to have a foot attached to his face.  Hard.  Perferably Ran's.  She could do the most damage.)

The darkside, it lured me over.  And...uhm...vol 11 was an amazingly evil place to be cut off.

Will save most thoughts for when I have the actual books, but there be spoilers.


Question:  How often does this come out?  

Picking up soon after the end of Son of Avonar, Guardians of the Keep starts with Seri going to her brother's household to tell her sister-in-law about the events of SoA, and being asked to stay on to help with her isolated, and often hateful, nephew Gerick, while she waits for the Dar'nethi mage, Dassine, to tell her that he's healed D'Nathiel's mind.

it usesWhile watching Forbidden Kingdom today and lamenting the wasted potential of Liu Yi Fei's Golden Sparrow, I realized that I've been doomed ever since I first latched on to characters.

The first fictional characters I ever really "fell" for(not crushed on, that came a little bit later) were Wren Ohmsford in Terry Brooks's Shannara series, and Jubilee in Marvel comics.  This essentially established my trend of loving female characters who tend to be unloved, unappreciated and underused by both their creators/owners and/or fandoms-usually for being female and/or not another character-for the last 15 years.


Short version:  I've never had a problem finding awesome female characters to love.  I've just had a problem finding writers and fans who appreciate them, instead of dismiss and/or undermine them for being a girl and/or not being a preferred character.

I just want to mention that i feel like I was forced to pay penance to get to see this.  First, there were the commercials, two of which were of the "if you use this cleaning/hygiene product, women will rip their clothes off and then try to rip yours off" variety.  Then there were the previews.  The first preview was, as near as I can tell, about how black cops are evil and if they're your neighbors, they will criminally harass you and flaunt their power when you object.  The only redeeming value to the previews after that was the second Hellboy movie, which actually just reminded me that I never did see the first.

Anyway, the movie.

It's Jet Li and Jackie Chan fighting and that's all you need to know.

Ok, fine, there's a plot.  Of sorts.

Essentially, some modern kid named Jason in what I believe is Boston(I don't know...the accents were almost incomprehensible.  It's bad when I can understand the people who's first language isn't English better than I can those whose first language is English.  Supposedly.  Accents are not things to be abused, Hollywood!) is a Kung Fu movie nut who buys  bootleg DVDs from a pawnshop.  When local bullies force him to trick the pawn shop owner into letting them in so they can steal his money, he ends up with a staff that transports him to a world that resembles medieval China.  There, he's saved from the evil Jade Warlord's troops by a drunken kung fu master named Lu(Jackie Chan)  who tells him that the staff belongs to the legendary trickster, monkey, who was tricked by the Jade Warlord 500 years ago, and that Jason is the destined seeker who has to return the staff to Monkey.  Soon, they're joined by a monk(Jet Li) who has been looking for the Seeker, and Golden Sparrow(Liu Yi Fei) and orphan whose family was killed by Jade Warlord.

Pretend nothing of the movie exists between the opening fight scene with Monkey, and when Jackie Chan shows up and saves Jason.  You'll be happier that way.


Also: </a></font></b></a>smillaraaq, based on what I remember of you've told me about it, I suspect White Haired Witch(I think that really is her name) is an homage to Bride With White Hair.  In addition to the prehensile white hair, she was raised by wolves, and she made a comment that made me think she hated men, both of which I think you mentioned in relation to that movie.

Also, out of curiosity, are personal pronouns difficult to learn for chinese speakers?  I ask because Golden Sparrow always refers to herself as "her," as in "her name is Golden Sparrow," and never says "I" or "me."  I'm wondering if it was supposed to be an affectation of the character's, or if it was just a language barrier Liu Yi Fei had problems with.  (Mind you, as I don't think they dubbed the actors, and I'm pretty sure she didn't speak english before the movie, so I'm not exactly complaining.)

I spent most of this evening watching the four hour(!!!) Nodame Cantabile Special.  FOUR HOURS!!!  (And, you know, pausing to do things...)  Like the series itself, I find it hard to think of anything intelligent or coherent to say about it, so instead, just a few random comments.

 
And now I am utterly bereft of Claymore until Vol 12 comes out, unless I decide to read scanslations.  But I kind of want to save it for when I get the books.

I suspect I am temporarily ruined for shounen consisting of guys yelling "And now...I'll show you MY REAL POWER!" or "And now...I'LL TAKE THE FIGHT SERIOUSLY!" etc...

I think I would put the angst and badassery and stoicism of any Claymore up against almost any shounen guy of choice.

Except for Manji.  (Well, maybe I'd put Miria up against Manji...)