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Comment on Her name’s not Shana, not Shana, not Shana… by doko kara… suck? « Cuchlann

doko kara… suck? « Cuchlann — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:19:37 +0000

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Comment on DtB: Stars my destination by Owen S

Owen S — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:51:46 +0000

Eh, don’t worry too much about it. I felt the same way during my first watch, too.

Comment on DtB: Dirk Gently he isn’t by Owen S

Owen S — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:33:00 +0000

Ah, interesting observation you have there. It never really occurred to me that Gai and Kiko both have this sexual frustration/desire/longing thing with unattainable people, but there you go.

Perhaps their overdramatised reactions had something to do with it.

Comment on DtB: Glos Pana by cuchlann

cuchlann — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:51:16 +0000

@Owen S: it may very well be more appropriately a fantasy. I just like that, given something extraordinary has happened, scientists are studying it. We don’t really understand why gravity works, but we have a name and a theory for it. Eventually there would be the same for the phenomena associated with Hell’s Gate.

Comment on DtB: Glos Pana by Owen S

Owen S — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:32:57 +0000

Ah, thanks for the fresh perspective on the show. It’s been a bit hard for me to view the Contractor/Doll system as outright science, but maybe that’s just because I like the idea of magic in an overtly urban setting. I mean, the Contractors do work on a principle of equivalent exchange!

Good point about Pandora, but don’t get your hopes up too high about what the acronym really means, since it’s all in Engrish. It’s probably a bit too early for you to notice right now, but your point does remind me that the way in which Dolls are used at some points are very precise and scientific–to the point of resembling the precogs in Minority Report.

Comment on A quick little thing by moritheil

moritheil — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:39:19 +0000

My grasp of this facet of Sartre comes from No Exit, wherein he borrows a trick from Dante and depicts people in Hell. Most of them are there, the reader initially thinks, for having sinned according to the Judeo-Christian understanding of morality, but it rapidly becomes clear that the true sin they have each committed is not acting honestly according to their natures.

In effect, it’s a condemnation of halfway measures. Each of the characters is caught between what they really want, and the power or convenience involved in doing other things – frequently what society wants or expects. In the end what they did satisfied neither themselves nor society. Intellectually, this is not terribly difficult to grasp, but even so, fully accepting responsibility for choice and taking actions that do not suffer from the impulse to temporize is difficult.

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Comment on So there’s this show you probably haven’t heard of. . . by Toradora! after all « Pontifus

Toradora! after all « Pontifus — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:11:50 +0000

[...] So maybe I exaggerated; I do have a few comments to make about the end of Toradora! I mean, it felt strange not doing so anyway; it seems obligatory (as Cuchlann observes as well). [...]

Comment on So there’s this show you probably haven’t heard of. . . by Attum

Attum — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:22:35 +0000

I personally didn’t like the way the show went but that’s just me.

I think people forget that characters are in a way human too and humans like many other things change over time. We aren’t in the characters’ heads all the time. If characters change the way they think then their actions can change too and maybe even faster especially when we’re pressured or if something new comes into our lives. So we think characters should do something because that makes the most sense to us and because we think change has to be gradual and characters have to remain “in character”.

Comment on So there’s this show you probably haven’t heard of. . . by ghostlightning

ghostlightning — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:13:05 +0000

Toradora did something unexpected: it became wholesome family entertainment.

The bits with the Takasus, and especially Ya-chan is gold. Heartwarming and redemptive – that lays out so much possibility for the young couple’s future.

I can recommend this over most if not all the narmy fare over at the Hallmark or Lifetime cable channels. I never felt for a moment that I was being lectured or preached to.