i has found awesomeness

Or wrongness.

Or both.

I'm not sure which it is.

And I have just realized the wrongness of my not having an icon from my favorite Disney movie. Here, have a stoic, crossdressing, Korean warrior in love with her commander instead.

i has found awesomeness

Or wrongness.

Or both.

I'm not sure which it is.

And I have just realized the wrongness of my not having an icon from my favorite Disney movie. Here, have a stoic, crossdressing, Korean warrior in love with her commander instead.

Kekkaishi Vol 6

( well, hello resident ill-tempered guy who will eventually be out hero's best friend )

Kekkaishi Vol 6

( well, hello resident ill-tempered guy who will eventually be out hero's best friend )

Banya: The Explosive Deliveryman Vol 5

( Why, hello Mr. Dragon. )

 

Banya: The Explosive Deliveryman Vol 5

( Why, hello Mr. Dragon. )

 

No rest for the saintly.

 When i went home earlier, it was warm and the sky was clear.  About 40 minutes before time to come back, it started pouring down hard.  By the time I headed out, it had lessened to "raining."

BUT!!

My umbrella was in the car.

AND!!

It's so windy that when I used the umbrella to come in the  building, the umbrella was useless.

HOWEVER!!!

While I was home, I started watching an amazingly "WTF??" inducing drama.  I shall watch another ep when I get home and then make a post to wow you.

As a teaser:  A demon has possessed a monk, an he then encounters a scholar.  Normal stuff.  Except the scholar knows the monk, and he then uses music to trap the demon, and then the monk's disciple, who, naturally, is also a kung fu master.  As they fight, every time the demon kicks, there's a blinding flash of pink light.

I mention this now in case I forget it amongst all the much, much more insane stuff that's in it.

I shall now clean up here, and then go back to staring at my TV screen in awe.

No rest for the saintly.

 When i went home earlier, it was warm and the sky was clear.  About 40 minutes before time to come back, it started pouring down hard.  By the time I headed out, it had lessened to "raining."

BUT!!

My umbrella was in the car.

AND!!

It's so windy that when I used the umbrella to come in the  building, the umbrella was useless.

HOWEVER!!!

While I was home, I started watching an amazingly "WTF??" inducing drama.  I shall watch another ep when I get home and then make a post to wow you.

As a teaser:  A demon has possessed a monk, an he then encounters a scholar.  Normal stuff.  Except the scholar knows the monk, and he then uses music to trap the demon, and then the monk's disciple, who, naturally, is also a kung fu master.  As they fight, every time the demon kicks, there's a blinding flash of pink light.

I mention this now in case I forget it amongst all the much, much more insane stuff that's in it.

I shall now clean up here, and then go back to staring at my TV screen in awe.

cdrama: Magic Sword of Heaven and Earth eps 1-4

Magic Sword of Heaven and Earth was released on DVD last year, but I suspect it's actually 90s TVB.  It has Halina Tam looking far younger than I've ever seen her, and I think I recognize several others from supporting roles I can't quite place.    MY weak googlefu, however, can only turn up minimal information about it.  The series is also only 10 episodes, as opposed to the normal 30-40(or more.)

Now, it seems to me that, if you're going to make your wuxia be amazingly short, you'd strip it down to the basics.  Boy, girl, romance, adventure, angst, save China.  Make sure at least one training manual is found in a cave, there's at least one person surviving a fall off a cliff, and a random poisoning.  Because, seriously, you can't call it wuxia without that.  But keep your cast fairly small, reduce the number of side adventures and plots, and keep your story pretty straightforward. MSHE takes a huge cast and convoluted plot with multiple major plotlines and squishes it into 10 episodes.  The lack of transition and explanation resulted in my not having a clue what was going on until halfway through the second episode.

Now, before I get to the "WTF"-ness, a couple bits:

1)  Despite the amazingly cheesy FX and cheap production values, this is actually pretty well acted, and the fights pretty well choreographed.
2)  If it were fleshed out so that it made better sense, the plot would actually be pretty decent.

( I cut mostly for length. )

cdrama: Magic Sword of Heaven and Earth eps 1-4

Magic Sword of Heaven and Earth was released on DVD last year, but I suspect it's actually 90s TVB.  It has Halina Tam looking far younger than I've ever seen her, and I think I recognize several others from supporting roles I can't quite place.    MY weak googlefu, however, can only turn up minimal information about it.  The series is also only 10 episodes, as opposed to the normal 30-40(or more.)

Now, it seems to me that, if you're going to make your wuxia be amazingly short, you'd strip it down to the basics.  Boy, girl, romance, adventure, angst, save China.  Make sure at least one training manual is found in a cave, there's at least one person surviving a fall off a cliff, and a random poisoning.  Because, seriously, you can't call it wuxia without that.  But keep your cast fairly small, reduce the number of side adventures and plots, and keep your story pretty straightforward. MSHE takes a huge cast and convoluted plot with multiple major plotlines and squishes it into 10 episodes.  The lack of transition and explanation resulted in my not having a clue what was going on until halfway through the second episode.

Now, before I get to the "WTF"-ness, a couple bits:

1)  Despite the amazingly cheesy FX and cheap production values, this is actually pretty well acted, and the fights pretty well choreographed.
2)  If it were fleshed out so that it made better sense, the plot would actually be pretty decent.

( I cut mostly for length. )