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Jul. 30th, 2011 04:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennariaTRIGUN
Genre: Action and Adventure
How much seen: seven episodes (subbed, although Stef swears the dub is worth watching too)
What it's about: Vash the Stampede! Most fearsome gunslinger in the, er, whatever the heck planet's version of the American Old West this is! ...would you believe gunslinger with the most fearsome reputation? Chaos certainly follows in his wake, but Vash is a Trickster of the first water, who expertly walks the line between perceived luck and perceived skill until it's pretty much impossible to tell how much of what he does is dependent on which. Fortunately for pretty much everyone, he isn't out for chaos. He's out for Love and Peace.
thesilentpoet is the one showing this to me, and she prefaced it by warning me that it was one of those series where "it's episodic at first, with tiny bits of plot, and then suddenly pop-pop-pop PLOT!" I'm not sure if we've hit the pop-pop-pop PLOT part yet - we haven't even met Wolfwood yet, although I know he's coming from Stef. But the series has started to darken, slowly but surely. Just because Vash wants everyone to live doesn't mean it always works like that.
(A quick glance behind the scenes, of what it's like watching these series:
Stef: That [reference in the episode we were watching] was important to the plot.
Thia: Okay.
Stef: Don't you care?
Thia: Stef, what gave you the idea I was watching this for the plot?
Stef: You aren't?
Thia: I'm watching for Vash, and because you and Kay are showing them to me.
This is not completely true. If she wasn't showing it to me, I'd probably hunt it down for myself at this point. But it would take longer. ;-) Besides, it's fun to tease Stef.)
Overall opinion: Definitely enjoying this enough to watch more of it. This is despite the fact that I have been fully spoiled for the fact that it will RIP MY HEART OUT come the ending. Philosophical question: is it worth it to watch series that you know ahead of time go for the angsty ending instead of the happy one? Or is that one of those giant It Depends?
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Stef has hit what she says is her goal for today. It's anyone's guess whether I'll be going it alone for the rest of the 24 hours.
...no, Ziggy, you're cute, but you're not what I would call 'blogging support' so much. Maybe if I had the computer up higher, so I could rest my hands on your fuzzy body. (He's up on the couch, flopped between me and Stef, giving me the enormous eyes again.)
24 hours, 49 posts, to benefit the Nature Conservancy. Sponsored by XamJapan. Seven hours in: I'm not giving up now.
Genre: Action and Adventure
How much seen: seven episodes (subbed, although Stef swears the dub is worth watching too)
What it's about: Vash the Stampede! Most fearsome gunslinger in the, er, whatever the heck planet's version of the American Old West this is! ...would you believe gunslinger with the most fearsome reputation? Chaos certainly follows in his wake, but Vash is a Trickster of the first water, who expertly walks the line between perceived luck and perceived skill until it's pretty much impossible to tell how much of what he does is dependent on which. Fortunately for pretty much everyone, he isn't out for chaos. He's out for Love and Peace.
thesilentpoet is the one showing this to me, and she prefaced it by warning me that it was one of those series where "it's episodic at first, with tiny bits of plot, and then suddenly pop-pop-pop PLOT!" I'm not sure if we've hit the pop-pop-pop PLOT part yet - we haven't even met Wolfwood yet, although I know he's coming from Stef. But the series has started to darken, slowly but surely. Just because Vash wants everyone to live doesn't mean it always works like that.(A quick glance behind the scenes, of what it's like watching these series:
Stef: That [reference in the episode we were watching] was important to the plot.
Thia: Okay.
Stef: Don't you care?
Thia: Stef, what gave you the idea I was watching this for the plot?
Stef: You aren't?
Thia: I'm watching for Vash, and because you and Kay are showing them to me.
This is not completely true. If she wasn't showing it to me, I'd probably hunt it down for myself at this point. But it would take longer. ;-) Besides, it's fun to tease Stef.)
Overall opinion: Definitely enjoying this enough to watch more of it. This is despite the fact that I have been fully spoiled for the fact that it will RIP MY HEART OUT come the ending. Philosophical question: is it worth it to watch series that you know ahead of time go for the angsty ending instead of the happy one? Or is that one of those giant It Depends?
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Stef has hit what she says is her goal for today. It's anyone's guess whether I'll be going it alone for the rest of the 24 hours.
...no, Ziggy, you're cute, but you're not what I would call 'blogging support' so much. Maybe if I had the computer up higher, so I could rest my hands on your fuzzy body. (He's up on the couch, flopped between me and Stef, giving me the enormous eyes again.)
24 hours, 49 posts, to benefit the Nature Conservancy. Sponsored by XamJapan. Seven hours in: I'm not giving up now.
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Date: 2011-07-30 08:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-30 08:13 pm (UTC)