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Ayyy....
[third person]
Joysweeper is sad! She just finished watching the Full Metal Alchemist movie; yesterday she watched the last episode of the anime. Ayyy! She's not happy. She didn't like either ending! It was sad! She really liked this series, though. Really, really liked it, although it dropped most of the humor that was in the earlier episodes. Without running on for five or six paragraphs, all she can say is that she preferred Al in his armor - it's weird, but she really likes the thought of a human soul bound to an empty suit of armor. The episodes where living things - cats, a kidnapper- were put into that armor - really appealed to her for some reason. Call her odd.
More importantly, it was sad, and kind of frustrating! She didn't like the trapped-in-a-different-world part! They went to Earth. Pre-World War Two Earth. Where alchemy doesn't work. Ayyy. The setting was interesting - she doesn't see much of that era. But still! Still!
Argh! Now she has to start buying the manga, desperately hoping that when the end is made it will be more satisfying. (By which she means: Dead characters are dead, not In Another Dimension, alchemy still works, main charas don't die for good, Ed keeps his automail and Al stays a suit of armor. She liked how the series started - axe Bradley, kill Scar and the Homunculi, sure, but otherwise...) She also needs to look for the novelizations of the games - they are for Playstation, after all, and she doesn't have a Playstation.
[/third person]
Now what? I was thinking about watching it again, but thinking about it now, I don't think I can. I liked it best before the end, but this is an arc-based show; one episode leads to another and continuity is important. Ayyy.... I really liked this...
Avatar, while also arc-based and possessed of serious themes, is rather closer to "Idealism" on the "Sliding Scale of Idealism versus Realism" than FMA is. This used to mean very little if anything, but now I find myself wishing it had more blood, more shocked and appalled characters, even less skipping around the word "Death". Which would probably ruin the show...
Still. The scale linked to above, which also means the scale of slapstick versus angst - I like things best when they're somewhere around the middle. A mind-control plot or a genderbender is best, in my eyes, if there are elements in it that are both scary/serious and funny. I want the happy ending, the Karmic villain death or redemption, but I also want solid continuity and emotional scars that fade without going completely away. I want a protagonist who is flawed but still a good person, who sometimes does bad things but also tries to fix them, who isn't some kind of airhead comedy jerk. I want antagonists who are villainous, but once were good people too, and might be again. I want the protagonist to feel fear of both the comic and the deadly real varieties, and I want the kind of emotion that's quiet.
I want to smile, but I also want to feel sad and empathic, that odd feeling like I want to headbutt someone gently and be all nice. Preferably I want to laugh and cry and love the characters or whatever, but that's kind of hard to find - I don't laugh or cry so easily anymore. I like my optimism, but tempered by realism. You know?
What now? I'm definitely going to continue watching Avatar. New series, though? Hmm.
I started watching Avatar and FMA at least in part because of TVTropes and Idioms. For that matter, that's also why I started reading the webcomic Order of the Stick. These names showed up in certain tropes and looked interesting. And they niggled at me long enough that I checked them out, then started to watch, and liked them. Sometimes "Naruto" niggled, but when I checked it out I lost interest. Meh. I'm sure I'll find something.
New egg. Very small.
[third person]
Joysweeper is sad! She just finished watching the Full Metal Alchemist movie; yesterday she watched the last episode of the anime. Ayyy! She's not happy. She didn't like either ending! It was sad! She really liked this series, though. Really, really liked it, although it dropped most of the humor that was in the earlier episodes. Without running on for five or six paragraphs, all she can say is that she preferred Al in his armor - it's weird, but she really likes the thought of a human soul bound to an empty suit of armor. The episodes where living things - cats, a kidnapper- were put into that armor - really appealed to her for some reason. Call her odd.
More importantly, it was sad, and kind of frustrating! She didn't like the trapped-in-a-different-world part! They went to Earth. Pre-World War Two Earth. Where alchemy doesn't work. Ayyy. The setting was interesting - she doesn't see much of that era. But still! Still!
Argh! Now she has to start buying the manga, desperately hoping that when the end is made it will be more satisfying. (By which she means: Dead characters are dead, not In Another Dimension, alchemy still works, main charas don't die for good, Ed keeps his automail and Al stays a suit of armor. She liked how the series started - axe Bradley, kill Scar and the Homunculi, sure, but otherwise...) She also needs to look for the novelizations of the games - they are for Playstation, after all, and she doesn't have a Playstation.
[/third person]
Now what? I was thinking about watching it again, but thinking about it now, I don't think I can. I liked it best before the end, but this is an arc-based show; one episode leads to another and continuity is important. Ayyy.... I really liked this...
Avatar, while also arc-based and possessed of serious themes, is rather closer to "Idealism" on the "Sliding Scale of Idealism versus Realism" than FMA is. This used to mean very little if anything, but now I find myself wishing it had more blood, more shocked and appalled characters, even less skipping around the word "Death". Which would probably ruin the show...
Still. The scale linked to above, which also means the scale of slapstick versus angst - I like things best when they're somewhere around the middle. A mind-control plot or a genderbender is best, in my eyes, if there are elements in it that are both scary/serious and funny. I want the happy ending, the Karmic villain death or redemption, but I also want solid continuity and emotional scars that fade without going completely away. I want a protagonist who is flawed but still a good person, who sometimes does bad things but also tries to fix them, who isn't some kind of airhead comedy jerk. I want antagonists who are villainous, but once were good people too, and might be again. I want the protagonist to feel fear of both the comic and the deadly real varieties, and I want the kind of emotion that's quiet.
I want to smile, but I also want to feel sad and empathic, that odd feeling like I want to headbutt someone gently and be all nice. Preferably I want to laugh and cry and love the characters or whatever, but that's kind of hard to find - I don't laugh or cry so easily anymore. I like my optimism, but tempered by realism. You know?
What now? I'm definitely going to continue watching Avatar. New series, though? Hmm.
I started watching Avatar and FMA at least in part because of TVTropes and Idioms. For that matter, that's also why I started reading the webcomic Order of the Stick. These names showed up in certain tropes and looked interesting. And they niggled at me long enough that I checked them out, then started to watch, and liked them. Sometimes "Naruto" niggled, but when I checked it out I lost interest. Meh. I'm sure I'll find something.
New egg. Very small.
