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| "Gasp! Nick, how could you say such a thing?!"
Well, I did, and I don't take it back.
So, since the start of Gundam 00 second season, which is way better in comparison, I got into watching the anime's again. I thought I was gonna be manga only forever after what happened to Gundam Seed, but I guess I got pulled back in by the same damn series. Gunpla and Bandai don't own my soul yet. Anyway, so I began on that supposed killer app show that is "Teggen Toppa Gurren Lagann" (天元突破 グレンラガン). Word kept going around that this show was THE show of 2008. Lots of hot blood. Giant robots. Over the top. Sounded like my kind of show, knowing my tastes.
For those uninformed, TTGL is an anime animted by the studio Gainax, famous for Evangelion. My personal favorite from them is "Reach for the Top! ~Gunbuster". （トップ を ねらえ！ ガンバスタ）.
From here on in, it's going to be about the show, so if you didn't watch it, you'll be completely lost. Also, spoilers.
So, I thought for the first half of the show when Simon was young, was pretty great. The action was well paced, as well as the story. Characters were likeable and Kamina really made the show worth watching.
And then he died.
There was that obligatory period in the show where the main character, who used Kamina as his main source of inspiration to rise to the occasion, was in depressed mode, feeling that it was his duty to pick up the slack since Kamina died. Eventaully he snaps out of it, the show got better again, and he fights Lord Genome. Humanity is saved and we live happily ever after. But then what to do with the extra 10 episodes?
We get older and go to space. At this point, this is where the show really dropped down and I started not liking it. It got really serious real quick. Simon's in jail, loses his lady friend, humans are greedy, Rossiu is a dick and the world is going to sh*t. Really serious. It offsets the tone that was placed in the first half. Intentional? I'd say so, but it got there really fast. Action was still good, for the most part, although it was really fast and sometimes the sizing of the bots were too large for the frames. Couldn't tell what was going on. It got really ridiculous right before they got to galaxy size. As Johnny puts it, leave your logic at the door and just watch.
What really killed it for me was the drill and spiral motif. Being of simple minded nature, I really didn't understand it until I thought about it for a bit.
Wiki says:
Spiral theme The spiral theme is especially prominent throughout the series. Not only is it the basis of strength for the main characters and mankind, but it is presented as a philosophy and way of life, and as a model of physics. Lordgenome notes that it is the natural order of the universe to coordinate itself into a spiral arrangement. The spiral symbolizes the double helix structure of DNA, representing biological evolution, and the spiral structure of a galaxy, representing universal evolution. Simon's spiral drill is used as a motif to symbolize the spiral theme throughout the series. At the same time, the drill motif symbolizes the strength to challenge or 'drill' through tough obstacles. In the same way a logarithmic spiral grows in size with each successive curve, the scope of Gurren Lagann's story and the scale of its mecha grow in successive steps as the series progresses. By the end of the series, the largest mecha, the Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann, contains all the smaller iterations of Gurren-Lagann nested inside like a matryoshka doll, reflecting the way the curves of a spiral grow in size but maintain the same shape. Really, Gainax? Really? If this really was the reference, it was obscure and it just got really hectic for me.
I'd say just watch the damn show before they got older.
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| Sometimes I wonder if the extra amount of intensity behind my emotions is a good or bad thing.
When I get happy, I'm over enthusiastic. When I get angry, I just lose my cool, forget about the real situation and just go at it. When I love, it's rather blindsided and sometimes too much to handle. When I'm sad, I just drown myself in that garbage for a few days, taking it deeply to heart. I don't know if it's just the human condition, or me personally. What I do know, however, is that keeping emotions in check is rather important.
Right now, I'm not exactly miserable, but I'm not happy either. Sometimes I wonder if this emptiness if subconsciously self-inflicting or it's something else. Like something's missing and this mind and body of mine has been craving for fulfillment for the longest. Maybe it's a girl. Maybe its a lack of purpose. Companionship? Boredom? It could be a multitude of things. It's something to think about.
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| Haven't written here in a while. Let's get started shall we?
For those unacquainted, I'm Nick. College boy with a big mouth and a lot to say.
For those that still check xanga, congrats. You keep your weblog alive and do a better job than I do after I moved to the blogger. If you don't. Well, I hope you do in the mean time.
So what's on my mind? Nothing too thought provoking, this time around. Usually, I have something to talk about, but I'm just writing what happened in the last week.
So I'm on break and have been since last week Friday. Milking this vacation for all its worth, I saw lots of people already. It's probably forever at this point where I'm tied to the church and I saw them first, naturally. They're the closest after all. They're doing fine, as usual, with some up and downs here and there, but we're people and things happen. The high school folk are struggling with college apps and he tanglings of being a teenager. Hang in there. Puberty isn't that terrible.
The college people themselves? They're working hard with midterms. I'm just lucky cause I went through midterms and finals already. Hang in there. It's not so bad.
Till sunday, I was with the family. Sis is doin good, but not really. Things goin down and it's just not working out for her. That sucks big time, and it shouldn't really, with all the things goin for her. Family bickers and usual and my qaulms with them did not cease. Gotta work on that.
Monday was time spent with the mother. Enjoyed it very much so. Went shopping to get clothes. I'm trying to look more presentable, stylish and cleaner. Who would've thought.
Tuesday was time with miss patt-ee. We caught up alot and talked about...stuff. Haha. Saw quantum later on, and it was ok. Certainly not casino royal, but it was a nice follow up.
Wednesday to friday was a visit to stony. Jeffrey is too smart, ping is still inspiring, and Debra tries too hard.
Wonder what's gonna happen for the rest of the day.
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ill visit once in a while
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ok guys, now anyone can comment on my blog. devin's comment was like an "oh, really?" kind of moment so yeah, this and blogger is kind of the same now that i think about it. oh, well
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| I seriously forgot I had this thing. And then baltimore reminded me how dependent I was on a computer and that I abuse multiple forms of communication. Also, my 4 day trip in baltimore and Washington DC taught me one thing: that New York is a hell of a lot more interesting place than most cities in this country. The reason's are fairly obvious. We have access to alot of things and we basically take it for granted. We don't need a car to get everywhere. Yeah. I missed New York when I was out in Baltimore and DC cause there wasn't much to do. Live Earth was in town though, and that was cool. I didn't exactly see it in person, but I saw the stuff on TV and it certainly seemed epic.
So what's going on for me during the summer. Hang out with friends I haven't seen in a while. Fate keeps leading me to people I haven't seen in dumb long(like 4 years long) so they want to hang out. It's also a time to fit in time with people that I wont be seeing for a while cause of college. It's also time to learn how to drive. Public transportation makes me not care, but I'm going to college in the middle of no where...in the snow...so i guess its important. Who wants to shopping at ikea for furniture?
The big event this July though, its Otakon. O-TA-KON. Biggest anime con in the country. Way to fill up my nerd cred and waste my money on merc. I hope its as deep as the NYC comic con. NYC comic con was awesome. So, those of you that still read this xanga (cause I know Kevin is going) who is going to otakon. If so, how? Make one big traveling group. That'd be coo.
Later day's, holmes
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