ReadingFire and Hemlock, Othello, The English Patient, Heart of Darkness, Suikoden III, Candidate for Goddess
Watching House, Rick Mercer's Monday Report, Gilmore Girls, Scrubs, Corner Gas, Aishiteruze Baby, Prince of Tennis, Hikaru no Go
Playing Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Katamari Damacy, Curse of Monkey Island, Final Fantasy VI, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Pretty Barbie Dressup Party Final Fantasy X-2(group gaming)
Back-burner Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, Star Ocean: The Second Story, Final Fantasy Tactics: Advance, Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast, Planescape: Torment, Final Fantasy VII
Obsessing Erik and Ray, Impulse/Bart Allen, Bruno and Boots, Gilmore Girls (Doyle and Paris and Logan).
Upcoming Things of Importance March 2 Political studies midterm March 3 Chinese folk religion midterm March 14 Business ethics paper March 23 Technically a Shakespeare paper due March 25 Oxymoronic Friday March 27 Easter March 31 The Day of Oldness
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Is by Meimi, that wonderful Goddess who brings joy and happiness to the hearts of Ingrids.
This time, Meimi brought joy by doing a layout of Isumi Shinichirou and Waya Yoshitaka, of Hikaru no Go. It is full of wub.
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I hate it when I'm forced to be -reasonable-
3/20/2005 10:20:00 PM
"Then we'll recite scary tales around the campfire. You can tell me theo ne where the rescue hostages with a zamboni. That one terrifies me." - Max Mercury, Impulse.
So, the other night (and, well, afternoon, too), I was drowned in a deluge of Justice League and Justice League: Unlimited episodes. Because my friends apparently like the incoherent screams of rage I make whenever Wally West is on the screen.
I enjoyed it, too, for the most part. Batman has issues, and it's funny. Green Lantern and his exchanges with Hawkgirl were endearing, as was Hawkgirl's desire to SMASH EVERYTHING. (Oh, and I watched the Justice League finale and started laughing so hard at one point that I had an asthma attack that ended with me, in the bathroom, spitting up bits of red. That's crack, that is.) And Wally . . .
Wally . . .
Wally . . . wasn't the angry, issue-filled asshole I'm used to.
He was dumb.
And, I hasten to point out, Wally's thoughtless, goofy, -dumb- behaviour in the show was not Bart-like. It was annoying comic-relief character humour, whereas Bart . . . was endearing. Maybe it's because he's younger than Wally, so you expect Wally to know better, maybe it's because he was RAISED IN VIRTUAL REALITY IN ANOTHER CENTURY SO HE HAS AN EXCUSE, I don't know. Wally wasn't exactly endearing and I don't think I could have liked him even if he was given a bit of depth. Baggage, y'see.
But he wasn't an asshole. But I really could have guessed that. His conflict with Bart really brings out his bad side, and I knew that. Before I knew about the whole Teen Titans stupid, I'd read the couple of issues of The Flash (the couple that are in "Dead Heat") and I -didn't- hate Wally. Mark Waid writes him well. I mean, there's the line about -ninjas-. That's a great line. I laughed. It was a good line and it was Wally-narration. On his own, Wally can be, y'know, not a dick. But bring Bart and Wally's Barry-issues into things and, well . . .
. . . I think the conclusion is, if it weren't for the damn Teen Titans events, I'd probably have no real problem with Wally. I called him an ass sometimes, sure, but I -liked- his and Bart's bit in "Sins of Youth" and I liked the scene with him and Linda in "Dead Heat". But as things are, well . . . lynching.
