Slayers Next eps 9-13

Dear Gourry,

I realize you are not so bright.  I also realize that, while a sword is not a projectile weapon, occasions do arise where one's only option is to throw something really sharp and pointy at one's enemy in hopes of it actually connecting and causing harm.  I have problems believing this can be done with accuracy, given the difference in balance between a sword and most projectile weapons, but I digress.  However, when one is in possession of an immensely powerful magical sword, I feel that throwing it at the powerful monster abducting the prince is an amazingly unwise thing to do.

Love, 

Megan

Meanwhile, I officially declare that Phil should have all his relatives tested for evilness.  Honestly, he's  just as bad as The Country of Unwise Extreme Pacifists in Gundam Wing.

For reasons too spoilery to reveal without a cut I'm too lazy to include(busy staring at pretty Stardust screencaps and xXxHolic pages) Lina ends up separated from the others and ends up having to travel to find a magical doctor.  Along the way she meets up with Psycho Princess and Xellos.  Psycho Princess seems to have decided she and Xellos are engaged now.  I can't decide if Xellos is too polite to toss her off a cliff, or if he has plans for her.  I largely hope she's either gone or not around much in the third season, as I only have so many nerves.  Xellos also apparently always slinks away from fights because he isn't allowed to take part.  This brings him up in my estimation a lot, as the whole "I will reap the benefits but not help out" thing really requires some explanation.  Lina also outsmarts Xellos and gets new magic talismans.  Or at least, seems to outsmart him...it's highly questionable whether she really did or whether he let her think she did.  Regardless, between that and learning a new, better way to blow things up, Lina returns to Seyrunn all chipper.

I should note that the  magical doctor is a 10 year old kid.  Lina and I both have issues with her and magic stuff.  Rightly, of course.

Back in Seyrunn, matters escalate in typical Slayers fashion, culminating in a castle/landmass floating above the city suddenly losing it's antigravity.  I may have had mild Revolutionary Girl Utena flashbacks during that part.  While Lina ponders the best way to blow it up, Amelia busies herself praying to all the deities she can think of.

Note: Amelia likes to cover all the bases.

Zel, amusingly, freaks out over the Dark Lord choice.  They were both too busy with that to notice Gourry having a rare working brain moment and remembering that Amelia is a shrine maiden.

After Seyrunn is saved by Lina blowing things up, they go back to looking for the  Claire Manuscript, then time in a tropical setting.  Zel makes me love him even more by being so embarassed about Lina and Amelia's bikinis that he has to walk behind the others and backwards, blushing.  They meet up with other treasure hunters, including chinese-garbed sisters who remind me of someone(s), but I can't begin to place who.  They are also menaced by a giant chicken-like totem monster.

I am obsessed with fowl in anime and manga only because Japan is.

During all this, Amelia and Lina have to dance in fanservice-y outfits and do a song and dance routine.  ZEl essentially dies of embarassment, as he must crouch behind them and give them their lines.  *dons glove and gives him the traditional pat on the head*

Of course, when Lina learns it's a festival dance, not a spell, creates a crater.  And then a crater inside the crater.

End note:  While I am very, very pleased that we still have intelligent characters(except Gourry, and he compensates) who act sensibly as the general rule and they still actually make intelligent plans, I quite miss the running away from the first season...

Slayers Next eps 9-13

Dear Gourry,

I realize you are not so bright.  I also realize that, while a sword is not a projectile weapon, occasions do arise where one's only option is to throw something really sharp and pointy at one's enemy in hopes of it actually connecting and causing harm.  I have problems believing this can be done with accuracy, given the difference in balance between a sword and most projectile weapons, but I digress.  However, when one is in possession of an immensely powerful magical sword, I feel that throwing it at the powerful monster abducting the prince is an amazingly unwise thing to do.

Love, 

Megan

Meanwhile, I officially declare that Phil should have all his relatives tested for evilness.  Honestly, he's  just as bad as The Country of Unwise Extreme Pacifists in Gundam Wing.

For reasons too spoilery to reveal without a cut I'm too lazy to include(busy staring at pretty Stardust screencaps and xXxHolic pages) Lina ends up separated from the others and ends up having to travel to find a magical doctor.  Along the way she meets up with Psycho Princess and Xellos.  Psycho Princess seems to have decided she and Xellos are engaged now.  I can't decide if Xellos is too polite to toss her off a cliff, or if he has plans for her.  I largely hope she's either gone or not around much in the third season, as I only have so many nerves.  Xellos also apparently always slinks away from fights because he isn't allowed to take part.  This brings him up in my estimation a lot, as the whole "I will reap the benefits but not help out" thing really requires some explanation.  Lina also outsmarts Xellos and gets new magic talismans.  Or at least, seems to outsmart him...it's highly questionable whether she really did or whether he let her think she did.  Regardless, between that and learning a new, better way to blow things up, Lina returns to Seyrunn all chipper.

I should note that the  magical doctor is a 10 year old kid.  Lina and I both have issues with her and magic stuff.  Rightly, of course.

Back in Seyrunn, matters escalate in typical Slayers fashion, culminating in a castle/landmass floating above the city suddenly losing it's antigravity.  I may have had mild Revolutionary Girl Utena flashbacks during that part.  While Lina ponders the best way to blow it up, Amelia busies herself praying to all the deities she can think of.

Note: Amelia likes to cover all the bases.

Zel, amusingly, freaks out over the Dark Lord choice.  They were both too busy with that to notice Gourry having a rare working brain moment and remembering that Amelia is a shrine maiden.

After Seyrunn is saved by Lina blowing things up, they go back to looking for the  Claire Manuscript, then time in a tropical setting.  Zel makes me love him even more by being so embarassed about Lina and Amelia's bikinis that he has to walk behind the others and backwards, blushing.  They meet up with other treasure hunters, including chinese-garbed sisters who remind me of someone(s), but I can't begin to place who.  They are also menaced by a giant chicken-like totem monster.

I am obsessed with fowl in anime and manga only because Japan is.

During all this, Amelia and Lina have to dance in fanservice-y outfits and do a song and dance routine.  ZEl essentially dies of embarassment, as he must crouch behind them and give them their lines.  *dons glove and gives him the traditional pat on the head*

Of course, when Lina learns it's a festival dance, not a spell, creates a crater.  And then a crater inside the crater.

End note:  While I am very, very pleased that we still have intelligent characters(except Gourry, and he compensates) who act sensibly as the general rule and they still actually make intelligent plans, I quite miss the running away from the first season...

King of the Lamp?

Has anyone read this manga?  Amazon has been very insistent that I'd like it the last couple weeks. 

King of the Lamp?

Has anyone read this manga?  Amazon has been very insistent that I'd like it the last couple weeks. 

Slayers Next eps 15-18

We are mostly wandering around, looking for the Claire Bible here. The best was what most probably the most direct parody of D&D yet...in a castle with "levels" and a "challenge" each level...in a castle where the villain turns everyone into dolls...unless they go in in animal costumes. Lina and Martina finally got to fight...over fantasy racketball. Martina BWAHAHA!!-ed a lot and Lina blew things up. Zelgadis did some panicking over various things. People seem to be very comfortable with having Martina around. I fear that decreases my chances of getting to see her get blown up at the end. We also had another Unfortunate Crossdressing Episode(note: I refer to them as Unfortunate not because of the crossdressing, but because the purpose seems to be our finding humor in the mortification of the characters, and the bulk of the humor in the episodes tends to be centered around that, and I have a threshhold for humor at a character's expense.) Despite the fact that it now involves three guys, as opposed to just Gourry, it managed to be less Unfortunate than the season one episode, largely because Xellos is clearly having the time of his life. I am also convinced that several of the women in the "women only, all males get executed" town were men in disguise. Things start building to the last arc in the last episode, though, as Xellos conveniently remembers the location of a complete Claire Bible and they hire the world's littlest old lady to guide them, only to run into the Demon Dragon lord.

Also, at one point, Lina is channeling Jean Grey/Phoenix in a very bad mood.

Anyway, not a lot happening, but much fun.

I bring a Xellos vid, which I'm told is quite well known:

Slayers Next eps 15-18

We are mostly wandering around, looking for the Claire Bible here. The best was what most probably the most direct parody of D&D yet...in a castle with "levels" and a "challenge" each level...in a castle where the villain turns everyone into dolls...unless they go in in animal costumes. Lina and Martina finally got to fight...over fantasy racketball. Martina BWAHAHA!!-ed a lot and Lina blew things up. Zelgadis did some panicking over various things. People seem to be very comfortable with having Martina around. I fear that decreases my chances of getting to see her get blown up at the end. We also had another Unfortunate Crossdressing Episode(note: I refer to them as Unfortunate not because of the crossdressing, but because the purpose seems to be our finding humor in the mortification of the characters, and the bulk of the humor in the episodes tends to be centered around that, and I have a threshhold for humor at a character's expense.) Despite the fact that it now involves three guys, as opposed to just Gourry, it managed to be less Unfortunate than the season one episode, largely because Xellos is clearly having the time of his life. I am also convinced that several of the women in the "women only, all males get executed" town were men in disguise. Things start building to the last arc in the last episode, though, as Xellos conveniently remembers the location of a complete Claire Bible and they hire the world's littlest old lady to guide them, only to run into the Demon Dragon lord.

Also, at one point, Lina is channeling Jean Grey/Phoenix in a very bad mood.

Anyway, not a lot happening, but much fun.

I bring a Xellos vid, which I'm told is quite well known:

mostly so I can find this easily later...

 Wikipedia's "What is a Romance Novel?" page.

What?  It could be interesting to go through a little more thoroughly later.  And a couple here might find it interesting.

mostly so I can find this easily later...

 Wikipedia's "What is a Romance Novel?" page.

What?  It could be interesting to go through a little more thoroughly later.  And a couple here might find it interesting.

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 Dear ABC Family,

Sleeping With the Enemy is not some cheery romantic comedy, as you portray it in your previews.  It is about a woman who fakes her own death to escape an abusive husband, starts a new life and finds a new love, only to have her husband track down down stalk them, and eventually attack them.  I pity the people who tune in to your station who are not familiar with the movie and expect a cute romantic comedy, which your previews indicate it is.

Thank You,

Me

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 Dear ABC Family,

Sleeping With the Enemy is not some cheery romantic comedy, as you portray it in your previews.  It is about a woman who fakes her own death to escape an abusive husband, starts a new life and finds a new love, only to have her husband track down down stalk them, and eventually attack them.  I pity the people who tune in to your station who are not familiar with the movie and expect a cute romantic comedy, which your previews indicate it is.

Thank You,

Me