Misty Moors

Naruto Chapter 469 - WTF Kishimoto?

2009-10-31T14:59:55Z

Spoilers for the latest Naruto Chapter below.

Okay, so I'm pretty sure that Kishi has never, ever in his entire life met anything that might even remotely approach to being female, in fact, I'm pretty sure he wasn't born by a female either, judging by recent developments.

This clusterfuck of a confession proves it.

It goes beyond being able to write female characters (which is the wrong way to approach it, rather, you should approach it as how to write characters, period.), it goes beyond making every character weaker than the male characters, it goes beyond making every strong female character a healer, it goes beyond being unused (and when will you get used to it? It's been years) to writing female characters.

It's just straight up sexist, misogynist and heterosexist. All rolled conveniently into one, stupid little chapter.

So, from now on, joining the cries of "QUESAAAADA!!!" "LIEEEEFIEEELD!!!" "KUBOOO!!!" I will start with "KISHIMOTOOOO!!!".

Other People Weighs In:
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fated-bliss
Random Curiosity

The Castingfuck Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

2009-07-25T22:39:56Z

Once upon a time, there was a place called Hollywood. They suddenly liked comic properties and started making movies.

Then they planned to make a Justice League movie. Only problem? All white cast, so they choose John Stewart, the black Green Latern, to represent the Green Lantern Corps.

Now this is awesome because then they would have been able to ride on the popularity of two really popular cartoons. In fact, when most non-comic fans are asked about Green Lantern, they might not say John Stewart, but they sure as hell mention "black male one".

Hence, for this generation, John Stewart is the iconic Green Lantern.

But a generation or so ago, it was a white male named Hal Jordan (and sometimes, white male Guy Gardner).

Then the JL movie is scrapped in favour of a GL one.

Guess who they decided to cast?!

Way to show just how unfashionable you are. Nowadays no one knows Hal, they know John. And not only that, Hal's only fun around Green Arrow (who isn't a Green Lantern, and wont be in this movie), while John can carry several movies on his own (though it would be even better with the Flash, the Wally West one, you know, from the immensely popular cartoon?!).

And so, comics join the cartoons, games and anime in this Castingfuck Comedy.

See also Jake Gyllenhaal as a Persian prince in Prince of Persia.
Justine Chatwin as Son Goku, a Japanese character named after the Japanese name of a Chinese classic story character.
Nicola Peltz as Katara, an Inuit inspired character from Avatar: the Last Airbender.

And that's just three of the characters, just wait until you see the rest of the casts.

So lets take a swig of some Whiskey and dance the Tango Foxtrot, because if last year was the year of Dead Snipers, then this year will be known as the Year of Racist Hollywood Adaptations!

The FAIL, it is strong

2009-07-14T11:59:24Z

http://www.lastairbenderfans.com/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1247503003&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&

The Castingfuck, it is strong

No, you can't justify this kind of whitewashing.

No, just because it isn't a big deal to you, doesn't mean that it isn't racist.

Yes, there are Asians in America. There's even a few who are actors. Stop saying that just because it's made in America, it means that there's no Asians to cast.

And where's that tan Rathbone said he would get as Sokka that would totally make this alright? </snark>

Random musings

2009-07-13T15:52:07Z

What does is say about the original design when Rydia from Final Fantasy IV: the After gets an almost complete redesign outside Japan?

What about how the biggest two comic companies have come out with comics for women, titled things such as Marvel Divas and Gotham City Sirens. Using two words, diva and siren, which pretty sexist by themselves.

How about how Tieria Erde, from Gundam 00, is only now, safely dead, locked in a computer as well as confirmed sexless/hermaphrodite/whatever gender s/he choose, only now starting to sound like maybe he's in love with Neil Dylandy. After said person has died, been replaced by his twin brother, Lyle, who also got a romantic relationship with an innovator (female-type, and with big boobs), who was subsequently fridged.

Why is it that when I watch the last episodes of Avatar: the Last Airbender, I can only see Aang as an avatar of the creators. Even more so when he enters a relationship with Katara, which echoes very badly of middle school boys crushing on high school girls, but in the real world, those boys are turned down, but in avatar-world, they start dating. And why did it end with Deus ex Testudo?

On that note, Harry Potter isn't as cleverly written as it appeared to be in the first three-four books. Nothing should end in Deus ex Virga.

And where is Sakuno in New Prince of Tennis? Yeah, I know, she doesn't really have a place in the story, but I want her to show up! ;_;

Why couldn't they expand the X-men: Evolution universe? Is it because the female characters wear more than the average swimsuit?

And finally: How the hell did I manage to develop IBS?! Why couldn't it be Krohn's, like my mother, why a chronic stomach ailment that makes it so that if I eat anything that isn't cooked fish makes me ill?! At least mum can eat chocolate and all the stuff I like to eat. I hate fish and this brought back my suicidal thoughts! Why a disease which the most effective treatment (works for around 80% of patients) is fucking hypnotherapy?! And why do the national lists of hypnotherapists refuse to list anyone in my part (read: the largest part) of the country?!

Augh! I don't have the energy to deal with stuff like this!

You have got to be kidding

2009-06-18T14:28:31Z

http://www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/article5398700.ab

So the record companies want to force censoring on the internet, and in the meantime sends threats to internet providers.

Why aren't they all in jail?

A quote:

Internetleverantören Black Internet har mottagit hot om att stämmas på 300 000 kronor om dagen till dess att kommunikationen till en utpekad fildelningssajt blockeras.

Translation:

The internet provider Black Internet have received threats about getting sued for 300 000 SEK (Today: $38,260.64, about an average worker's yearly wages) every day until the communication to a certain (pointed out) file-sharing site is blocked.

In other news, I have been really sick, is almost recovered.

And David Eddings (of Belgariad/Mallorean/Elenium/Tamuli fame) had died about a week ago. I'm sad because he got me into fantasy books one summer, when I borrowed all the Mallorean books from the library.

Winx Club Prediction Post

2009-05-02T14:03:32Z

So Winx Club has a fourth season. And yes, I watch Winx Club. Or at least the Italian/Rai English version. I think my brain gives Winx Club's character designs a pass because everyone and their dog (literally) is extremely stylised, so the stylisation of the girls aren't as... extreme in context of the show as out of context.

To recap previous seasons:
Season 01 - By far the best season yet. It was coherent, self-contained, the villains lost in a good way and everyone cooperated.

Season 02 - Isn't as coherent or good as Season 01, but it passes as average. It has its plot holes and has a generic skeleton villain. The Avalon sub-plot would have bumped up the score a little bit if it wasn't ignored in the rest of the seasons.

Season 03 - Oh dear merciful FAIL. The animators couldn't decide if Aisha's Enchantix was blue or green (apparently it's supposed to be green, but started as blue, with much fanfare as it was the first Enchantix), and was rife with other animation mistakes (Aisha was at one moment topless, Flora was drawn in Enchantix form before she even got it!). The story was half-baked and stupid, and the true ending wouldn't be seen before the movie. On top of it all, the pacing was atrocious, sub plots like other fairy schools dropped, generic evil step-mum. The denouement was around ten SECONDS long! It was a shame as Valtor was possibly the best villain yet.

And now we're on fourth season. So far I like it (up to eighth episode). It reminds me about Gundam 00 2nd Season's pacing in the first part. But as we know, 00 crashed soon after the eighth episode (which was without question the best! Tieria looked so stunning in a dress, and I can't get over the voice, or black lace around his thigh with the gun, and I like how he looked up to Neil instead or Veda *pointed look at Sunrise*).

The villains seem pretty good so far, but they aren't as pretty as Valtor. ;_;

I also like that the boys are getting character.

And Roxy seems pretty nice.

I like the pets above the pixies, 'cause they're less annoying.

And I like the Arthurian influence of Fairy Era Earth. So... Artu is Roxy's dog? What about a cursed King Arthur, to live as a dog?

Since there's no way that Bloom and Sky would break up, yet Andy is introduced. Could it be possible that Andy and Roxy will start dating (since they would have known each other for as long as Andy's band has been playing at Roxy's father's bar).

Late Blogging

2009-04-28T13:40:06Z

Okay, so yesterday I got my package of Princess Princess stuff, which is the entire manga series, the + manga and the Premium artbook.

Oh, and also the 2009 Macross Frontier calendar.

So I decided to use the front page to ask my mum on how old she thinks Sheryl, Alto and Ranka are, based on their designs. Her answer:

Sheryl: 20-21 years old (She looked a little older and more sober than she generally was in the series.)
Alto: 13-14 years old (Justified, he looks a lot younger than in the series in that picture.)
Ranka: 8-9 years old (Looked like she did in the series, if a bit older actually.)

Er, I'll just post the picture here (taken with my digital camera on lazy settings in bad light):

Dreamwidth - Fandom Migration

2009-04-22T15:53:02Z

When I first heard about fandom-journalling projects, I was understandably slightly cynical, having seen JournalFen in action, which was pretty much a Harry Potter clique (and canon-thumping clique).

I believed that most projects would be started, a few would maybe get coded, fewer would enter a beta stage, and even fewer would actually open.

I saw Scribblit, which I have no idea what they're doing now, because Scribblit.com doesn't load and googling only gets the LJ community. I decided that it wasn't something for me, mainly because to me, it felt like the design was all over the place (and bright, bright green).

I looked at GJ, but decided that I didn't want it, which was lucky because they crashed when LJ started to migrate. Unfortunately, this made the LJers who tried GJ a bit fly-shy.

Anyway, I ended up on IJ, not even looking at DeadJournal (I think it was because I remembered something about it when it was new).

And now I hear about Dreamwidth, and I'm very, very sceptical.

You see, when the great LJ Migration took place, not only was LJ under different management, but they had also screwed fandom royally. Hence, a mass migration to GJ and IJ. Many choose GJ because they found the design more pleasant, but got a deaf staff and returned to LJ, and the few in IJ found that they were very lonely and returned to LJ or started crossposting.

In the end, there wasn't much difference in fandom.

That was directly after LJ screwed up. Since then they have new management and, while fumbling, they haven't been the worst internet company in the news (see: Amazonfail).

Now DW wants fandom to migrate again. To them. With invite codes or by paying.

Remember LJ and the invite codes? Yeah.

Remember fandom run JF? Yeah.

DJ? Yeah.

Another GJ? Yeah.

Fandom remembers these services and will probably be cautious, if they consider moving at all.

DW might say that they are different than LJ-clone sites, that they have more fandom friendly stuff. But I don't see that much of a difference right now.

So I'll wait here at IJ, because it will probably take months or even years to see if DW will be the fandom hub it wants to be.

Once again, communication fails

2009-04-20T11:23:13Z

I've just read the first couple of chapters of the Break Blade manga, and so far it's boring, stupid and annoying.

If Lygatto had told Zesu that the reason why the country wont surrender is because their two childhood friends will be executed during Zesu's countdown, then I'm pretty sure that things would be different.

Instead we get the weak and totally stupid "We wont surrender because of the terms!" and then, from Zesu, "What terms?".

Nevermind that the terms executing the royal family was unofficial, and that the messenger warned them of the empire's true ambitions. Lygatto knows this, yet he can't shout, within five seconds, "STOP! IF WE SURRENDER HOZUL AND SHIGWEN WILL DIE!", I'm pretty sure that Zesu would be more inclined to listen to reason then.

Instead we have Lygatto running away and be at the site where one of Zesu's team commits suicide rather than become a prisoner of war, making Zesu go "If I hadn't let him get away, she would still be alive!!!!1!!One!!".

It's like a stale, badly watered down version of Gundam Seed. Except that Kira and Athrun had reasons to be on opposite sides of the war (if Kira switched, his Natural friends would suffer, and Athrun is extremely indoctrinated in ZAFT and wouldn't be liked outside of the colonies).

There's literally no reason for Zesu and Lygatto to be fighting, just because the main character can't spit out the terms already.

Sorry, but I wont read the rest. I don't like wanting to smack, gut and kill the main character because he so stupidly asinine and inactive.

Serial Reccing!

2009-04-19T23:23:28Z

Manga: Goraihou Gakuen e Youkoso! by Kakizaki Muku
Stupidly powerful student council? Check. Teens hunting supernatural beings? Check. Very generic characters? Check. Yet it caught me when it did the flower-thing (you'll know when you read it), because it took me completely by surprise (possible being to everything else conforming to norm).

Manwha: Id by Kim Daewoo and Kenny A.t.
It's actually many months since I last read this one, so I can't answer for the later chapters. I just liked it back then. It's about a man who looks an awful lot like a woman getting stuck in a world, not knowing anything. From what I remember one might want to stop halfway through, as I think there was a lot of damsel in distress stuff later on.

Manhua: 1/2 Prince by Yu Wo and Choi Hong Chong
Now this one is the true rec! Girl has an argument with her brother about how girls have it easy in MMORPGs because guys always give them stuff. She tells him that she'll be able to beat him without those guys and creates the first transvestite character in "Second Life" an MMORPG with 99% reality rating (this being the year 2100, that's a lot). This is normally not allowed by the game system, as it makes you either as you are, or 30% more or less attractive, as well as choosing a fantasy race. But she does it in the devilishly beautiful elf, alias Prince. And then the adventures begin, just add an extremely beautiful gay bard, a thief/hidden mod named LoliDragon, a wolfman priest, a magical girl necromancer and a yamato nadeshiko/tsundere magician, and you have the guild known as Odd Guild.

Gundam 00 fanart

2009-04-17T15:03:31Z

Chris/Feldt fanart.

G00 - I'm not dead yet by *Caithyra on deviant ART

Amazon.com Fails

2009-04-14T14:33:01Z

http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/amazonrank/

On a side note, it doesn't affect me as they refused to take my card months ago, so it's not like I can support them.

Still...

AMAZONFAIL!

Nowadays, searching "homosexuality" brings up:
A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality
You Don't have to be Gay
Can Homosexuality Be Healed?

What is this shit?!

Northern Sweden in Winter-Spring

2009-04-13T13:33:40Z

So I decided to show you the weather today (snow blindness extreme) and found some shots that I forgot I took before. Enjoy.

Eviiiiiil!

Okay, so I first found this pumpkin that I carved from raw to evil incarnate in exactly five minutes (small pumpkin) while waiting for my therapist to show up.

Then, in the evening I took some shots at it and forgot it (it was outside for most of the winter until the birds stole it to make a nest of it. The neighbouring cats are all traumatised by the way).

It reminds me of the first time I carved a pumpkin (incidentally, this was the second time). We were in Stockholm and mum roasted the seeds. I remember nearly puking at the smell of pumpkin innards (though I didn't notice it this time).

Dad brought a (really, really bad) mask and we were then invited to a Halloween dinner at some friend's. Of course, the son of the family commented on the smell of pumpkin that lasted for at least two days afterwards.

This was probably at two in the afternoon.

I also, for some reason I can't remember, took this image this winter. Judging by the lack of light, I'd say it's an afternoon picture.

Snow Blindness Xtreme!!!

And this was taken today (though the camera couldn't catch all the light. It's really much, much brighter!). Believe it or not, but a month from now, all that white should be a nice fresh green (if we've gone past the April-weather phase).

Yeah. I have nothing to blog so I blog about the weather. It's like cyber-fika-talk on a slow day.

ShinTeniPuri

2009-04-12T15:07:30Z

Well, I've read the first three chapters of New Prince of Tennis (or Shin Tennis no Ouji-sama, like Shin Pet Shop of Horrors or something).

First; the uniforms featured are the same as in the filler international tournament (red, white and black, you know, with Kevin's team). So I guess that Konomi is somehow going to do a story like that.

Anyway, everyone's still in middle school and are sent to camp for an international tournament (probably like the filler tournament). Usually only high schoolers are selected but because of the insane middle school moves on the court, they are picked as well.

All our favourites (including Akutsu, for no reason given) show up (like the filler tournament). Thing is, this bloated the student body so much that they'll slim it down, and drops a bunch of balls from a plane and tells everyone that if you don't have a ball, you don't get to stay.

*Cue hoarding by the middle schoolers.*

Anyway, we learn of the ranking system, and one of the higher of the high school students glares at Kirihara, scaring Kirihara and establishing that the most powerful people in camp is a bunch of monsters (like Rikkai Dai).

Anyway, I wonder if we'll get nice Kirihara out of this (like filler tournament) since these new guys obviously excel over him at being a monster, and he would therefore need to look to his other talents (if he has any) to beat them.

Oh, and I want Ryuzaki-sensei, Sakuno and An to show up. Because camps always gets more fun when they are involved (like burglars dressing up as bears being beaten up by tennis serves, or, you know, Kamio, Ibu, Atobe, Sanada, Sengoku and the others forming a band).

I wonder if Inui Juices will be making a comeback (and after the Finals, every middle school team knows everything about them... intimately).

All in all: Same old, same old.

Asylum madness!

2009-04-03T16:25:36Z

For all you Final Fantasy IV fans:

blue_planet - General Asylum
red_moon - Fan Fiction Asylum
white_moon - Fan Artwork Asylum

Unique Lockon Watch 4.0 - See You In 2010

2009-03-29T11:58:08Z

THAT'S the ending?!

T-chan's body is dead.

His mind is stuck in a computer.

Lyle's right eye.

"Until that time, Sayonara."

Hillary Clinton, Anewrevive, Divinebring, the hitch-hikers and the kids and the rest.

The wedding everyone saw coming.

What's left of Celestial Being after SoMarie, H/Allelujah, Tieria and Saji quit.

What do Macross Frontier and Gundam 00 have in common? You wont get the ending before you watch the movie!!!!

Okay, so some text. Ribbons has a Guncannon named Ribbonscannon. He and Setsuna does the launching speech ("Setsuna F Seiei, 00 Raiser... etc etc"), even though they are already launched and battle ready. Lasse is cured, by the way.

Then they do a speech we've heard a thousand times about war, future humanity and blah blah. T-chan tries to talk sense into Ribbons about Innovades but he predictably ignores it. They fight, Ribbons steals back 0 Gundam's solar furnace. Both Guncannon and 00 Raiser are disabled. Ribbons finds 0 Gundam that Lasse left floating around conveniently and fits it with 0 Furnace. He goes back to 00 Raiser and sees that Exia Furnace is gone.

Setsuna comes in Exia and they fight.

Oh, and Lyle and Doublellujah is fighting the remaining Innovators. Lyle injures his right eye (like Neil, except, not as permanent). SoMarie is stuck in med bay on PII.

Blah, blah, fight ends, Saji and Louise are in hospital. Marina is princess of Azadistan again. Patrick and Kati gets married. Anew has a grave next to the Dylandy's (only time in the entire episode we get a trace of Neil). Innovades (the people we knew as Innovators are really Innovades and Setsuna is the only true Innovator or something) mingle with humans. Barack Obama was kicked out in favour of Hillary Clinton. Andrei is working under Kati. H/Allelujah and SoMarie has become hitch-hikers. Tieria tells everyone that he and Veda will protect everything until that time and goodbye until next time.

Louise worries, Saji reassures her that if things go astray "Those people" will fight. Marina sees true GN particles in the sky. It's PII with Sumeragi, Lasse, Desu, Desu's parents, Lyle and Setsuna (think I got them all).

Oh, and Graham's sensei committed sepukku, Billy and Sumeragi took and new picture together and Graham is hovering around his boyfriend, jealous.

And Shirin, Klaus an Anew-Revive clone are apparently politicians in Hillary Clinton's world conference.

And on Jupiter a light pulsates, and we get the "See the true ending in 2010!!".

Remember when I said trainwreck? Still stand by it 'cause NO ONE except Ribbons, Tieria and the rest of the original Innovades died!

Strawberry Cheesecake, Dora the Doll

2009-03-28T10:33:25Z

Once upon a time, there was two child icons... who got on a slim fast diet.

For those who doesn't take a look at cartoons now and then, that's the makeover of Dora the Explorer and Strawberry Shortcake.

Both a cartoons aimed at younger girls, and both, coincidently, had baby fat because, you know, they're young girls. Their adventures also didn't call for long and silky hair or slender, long limbs.

Dora, for example, is supposed to be in the jungle with her animal friends, exploring and adventuring. What about a pink, flowy top says adventurer?

People might call me a hypocrite because I watch Winx Club, but, the difference is that Winx Club didn't take previously average to slightly chubby weight girls, practically and comfortably dressed, and turned them into thin waifs.

Oh, and there's rumours that makeover Dora will move to the city and discuss nail polish with her girlfriends. And no words about her monkey sidekick (probably kicked out).

Face + Desk = OTP

2009-03-27T00:13:12Z

Looked around a bit on Gundam 00 and found some Lyle defense, all telling me that I have no right to hate him because he's ~*Totally Different!!!!*~ than Neil.

He joined a terrorist group like Neil.

He had an innovator love interest like Neil. Said innovators both share purple hair and red eyes.

He's a sniper like Neil.

He projects a smiling façade like Neil while being a lot darker underneath.

He hangs around the family grave like Neil.

He becomes revenge-driven like Neil.

Feldt had a crush on him like Neil (though I concede that they diverged in treating this, Neil ignored it and Lyle kissed her).

He looks like Neil (what are the chances of the same hair-cut in siblings that haven't seen one another for years?).

His ultimate battle (possibly excluding Ribbons which everyone will probably battle) is against Ali.

He fulfils the exactly same criteria and story/plot/character placement as Neil.

Lyle/Anew is so obviously a heteronormative answer to Neil/Tieria and that it makes me see red. As someone who read activist blogs nearly every day, I feel that we are twenty years behind schedule in making homosexuality a normal sexual topic.

I mean, this is an anime that shows terrorism, child soldiers, people playing god, torture, corrupt government, naked people in mecha-dust, genetic design for battle, violent second personalities, war, a hero torturing a person before killing them, killing just for killing's sake, maiming a young girl as her boyfriend is about to propose... the list goes on and on.

Yet apparently, in an anime like that, homosexuality is so much worse that it can't be included. What the hell kind of message does it send to the watchers?

I said it, and I keep saying it, writers often look to ways to slim their casts down to necessary people. Both Lyle and Anew are unnecessary when Neil and Tieria has already been shown in the same place and world.

In short, the writers had to go out of their way to create Lyle and Anew, and it is painfully felt in their "relationship". Guys, a four month time-skip does not deepen a relationship.

You already had a romance organically growing in Neil and Tieria. Here's two short examples illustrating it:

Despite that everyone else sees Tieria as some CB obsessed robot, Neil knew that if he stayed for a long time in the infirmary, it would hurt and disturb Tieria with guilt. So instead of healing his eye, he got out of there to reassure Tieria that he's alright. In fact, he's the only one who realises how fragile and sensitive Tieria is under Tieria's harsh façade.

Tieria knows that despite Neil's easy-going nature, Neil wont stay on Ptolemy while injured during an attack. Tieria feels the need to protect Neil, so he does the only thing a socially stunted person would do in an emergency, he locks Neil in and resolves not to let any enemies near the spaceship.

Those two examples are important because they show that Neil, at the expense of his eye, realises that Ptolemy will be crippled without him. A sniper is needed and an emotionally unstable Tieria is not. It's even more telling that Neil knows that by-the-books Tieria would be unhinged by his injury.

With Tieria it's significant, because he shows a piece of his season two self; the one that will protect the people dear to him even if it means breaking rules, or standard procedure.

In short, they're relationship is a hell of a lot more convincing that Soma suddenly growing up (and Alle staying the same) and become Alle's lover. Or Setsuna and Marina. Or... Lyle and Anew who were mostly kisses and laying naked in bed and a four month time skip.

And lets add Billy/Sumeragi to that list after episode 24. Despite the fact that Billy never tried to make her face her alcoholism between the seasons (in fact, he indulged in it, buying her booze whenever she ran out), that Billy hasn't tried to pursue a relationship with anyone else in the years between college and first season (a data book of second season says that he's still a virgin in second season), and that even though they didn't have much of a relationship, he justifies building killer bots (the automatons) and giving the innovators Trans-Am (despite that innovators are more truly CB that Ptolemy II at the moment), for the reason that she leaves him.

And Sumeragi is still stuck on her dead lover. No amount of magical GN dust should change her into going "Since you were so ~~stalkerish~~loyal all this time, I'll fall in love with you".

Andrei falling for Louise so hard that he deserts the A-Laws (something he killed his own father for doing) for the side that commits genocide towards the A-Laws, Katharon and Ptolemy alike (he is even miffed with Soma going on PII's side despite the fact that they have killed the least people out of all the factions present).

Really, out of all the couples except Saji/Louise, Tieria/Neil would have been the most well done couple (in fact, it could have been more popular since we are seeing their whole relationship from the beginning, while Saji/Louise is already established as a couple in the first episode).

Lyle could have been the civilian of the second season. Showing us what the meisters could have had if the world wasn't so tragic and revenge so tempting. Hell, Saji could have become a CB-supporting war reporter while Lasse became the Raiser's pilot in order to heal himself of the GN poisoning (oh, and by the way, he was about to die in the last episode but 00 Raiser went BURST MODE like Digimon Savers and well, saved and cured him).

But Sunrise had to make sure that nothing ~*♥*~gay~*♥*~ could show up. So now Neil's dead and Tieria's a computer.

In a story with child soldiers, insanity, torture and unhealthy relationships, what finally made them censor it is homosexuality.

And Lyle, in a way, stands for all that. And THAT is one of the reasons I can't stand him.

And he offends me as a writer who had to kill off a group of minor characters in order to slim down the cast in my future webcomic.

Winx Club Season Four Icons

2009-03-24T10:42:50Z

Scans from Winx Club LiveJournal Community

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Unique Lockon Watch 3.0

2009-03-22T13:57:18Z

WTF?! Okay, it's now officially a trainwreck! T-chaaaaaan!!

So, Tieria's dead and absorbed by Veda together with Regene and possibly Anew.

Lasse ran out of GN particles and is coughing blood.

SoMarie stops being an avenger and thanks Alle for his support.

Setsuna activates a new Trans-Am mode: Trans-Am Burst Mode (Digimon Savers comes to mind, except there's no White Rosemon to make this worthwhile).

A few seconds are wasted on Marina and the kids watching Burst Mode cover the entire fucking battlefield and Marina going "Setsuna's light of battle!".

Lyle defeats (and kills, if Ali didn't kill himself) Ali.

Saji and Louise are together again.

TIERIA IS FUCKING DEAD AND LYLE IS FUCKING ALIVE!!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH SUNRISE??!!!!!!!

Tieria is fucking the only character universally liked on all sides of the seven ponds. Lyle is possibly the worst character replacement ever and he's ALIVE?!!

Oh, and suddenly cares that Ali killed his family.

Tieria is dead. But not dead as in "Yay! I'm seeing Neil again!" but dead as in "stuck in the harddrive of a supercomputer possibly never seeing Neil in any afterlife, thus eliminating any chance whatsoever of ambiguously gheeey!!".

Next is the last episode. In which Setsuna fights Ribbons.

Considering that Lyle went "I'll fight for peace as Celestial Being's Gundam Meister" after killing Ali, I believe that the rumours of a movie and a bunch of TV specials are true.

But the only way that would work (aka, be profitable) is if Tieria is in them. So, Tieria with ultimate access to Veda gives birth to his own replacement body? But if T-chan has ultimate access to Veda, doesn't that mean that CB can't lose, thus removing suspension?

Plus, T-chan also said that he has the full plan of Aeolia now. Is that for the movie?

A series officially becomes a trainwreck when you need to watch a movie to see its final resolution. Just look at Winx Club Season 3 (and I watched the movie afterwards, and couldn't stop laughing at the cheesy lines everyone was saying).

Just to make sure they don't have another Lifeckon on their hands, they destroy the helmet like they did with Lockon's in the Gundam Meister game's cutscene.

In Macross Frontier News:
Designs of Ranka Lee with fatter boobs and long "nylon model" legs have been spotted. Possibly because everyone who've seen Ranka and Alto together says "Nineteen year old boy with his ten year old sister".

Oh, and apparently the triangle would have been Alto<>Ranka<>Brera, with the neat resolution of Alto/Ranka due to Brera sharing bio-parents with Ranka. Sheryl would have been shipped off to Macross Galaxy as soon as she finished mentoring Ranka (or possibly have died from the virus).

Oh, and Alto and Sheryl won the Mr. and Miss Macross contest with Crossdressing Alto coming third in Miss Macross.

Which leads me to...

In my canon, Neil, Tieria, Michel and Klan are all alive and well. Neil and Tieria adopts Feldt, Desu, Saji and Louise, while Michel and Klan are matchmaking Alto and Sheryl. Ranka is somewhere with her Nii-san and Lyle died together with Ali and Anew never existed!

Unique Lockon Watch 2.0

2009-03-15T18:50:03Z

Okay, so now Lyle steals even more leaves from Nii-san's book? WTF Sunrise?! I thought that would be Tieria's fight!

Lyle vs Ali

Yup. Now not only did Lyle take Neil's motivation, but also his enemy in the very same corresponding episode of season 2 that Neil died in season 1.

Lyle better get his butt kicked, because he has no weapons that I know of that can match Arche Gundam in close combat (which he's locked in, due to the small space). Tieria better kill Ribbons, take Veda's controls, get back to Seraphim and activate Seraphim's Veda abilities and then go out and disable Arche Gundam, killing Ali slowly ala Hallelujah.

Then Tieria can order the automatons to kill Billy, Regent to give Louise to 00 Raiser, and the clones of Bring and Divine to rescue all the people they kamikaze'd.

And then I'll be happy because T-chan saved the world, the war ends, Saji and Louise gets therapy, Lyle in all his heteronormalising glory dies, and Soma/Marie and H/Allelujah do whatever.

Oh, and Patrick didn't die.

(Now it's a toss up if the future resurrected character that should be dead is either Regene or Patrick. Knowing the Sunrise crew, it's probably Patrick due to his copied Mu-death.)

But Lyle'll probably kill Ali, showing that he's much better than his brother (and I'll rage), Tieria will be locked with fighting Ribbons and Setsuna will probably finish everything off (okay, if only just to have Lyle not kill Ali: I wouldn't mind if Setsuna actually kills both Ali and Ribbons, he has the motivation for both. Just as long as Lyle don't get to defeat Ali in any shape or form).

What does Melodifestivalen and Gundam 00 have in common?

2009-03-14T21:05:05Z

I was watching Melodifestivalen, and my hometown's representative came up (I'm in Luleå, by the way). His name?

Soran Ismail

For those that don't remember, Setsuna's real name is Soran Ibrahim. And Marina's full name is Marina Ismail.

So Marina adopted Setsuna and moved to pacifist Sweden, away from all war?

Oh and the winner?

Our Representative For EUROVISION SONG CONTEST!

The Canes!

2009-03-11T17:59:34Z

Quick Info: Melodifestivalen is a series of musical contests which decides who we'll send to Eurovision (It'll be the last one on Saturday). Here's a couple of the ones appearing.

EMD - Baby Goodbye

The suits and canes makes this number. It really, really does.

Alcazar - Stay the Night

Blah like usual from Alcazar (though I appreciate that it doesn't sound as arrogant as Alcastar/Alcaztar or whatever they called that song). It's the tie that makes this number (it looks like it's a pink, glow-in-the-dark, tie).

Sofia - Alla

I guess that this is full circle. Greece was represented by a Swede. Now someone sings Greek in the Swedish finale.

Molly Sandén - Så Vill Stjärnorna

Blah. Blah. She's Only sixteen. Probably will be translated if it appears in Eurovision. (Obligatory mention because she's young.)

Sarah Dawn Finer - Moving On

There's been jokes about her getting that elevator through customs should she get to Moscow. Oh. and she got into the finale through the Second Chance contest.

Måns Zelmerlöw - Hope & Glory

Would have been better if it wasn't for the obvious Tits & Ass dancers.

H.E.A.T. - 1000 Miles

I've heard this one before somewhere... In some cartoon about holographic singers... Or was it the one with the hot pink pony... or...

Honourable Mention

I just had to post this one 'cause the skirt. The skirt!

Sadly, she didn't go to the finale (would have been much better than Snälla with Caroline af Ugglas. It was as if they picked one word and abused it and raped it and told it "Baby, you know I love you" several times over. Coincidently she sings about some guy leaving her and how "Please (Snälla), please, please, please, please, please, please can he please, please not leave her? Please, please, please, please?).

Oh, and for those Rigo & The Topaz Sound featuring Red Fox people:

Unique Lockon Watch

2009-03-10T15:19:03Z

The one thing that distinguishes Lyle from Neil is Katharon, right?

Well... Not anymore.

It seems like Lyle quit Katharon because he's surprised at their timing when saving CB's asses.

Of course, it's Kati and Patrick who saved the day, but...

Lyle was the CB mole, shouldn't he for once do something Neil is unable to do (except, you know, point guns at Setsuna without firing -Oh Wait! Didn't Neil do that when he learned that Setsuna used to run around with Ali?), like informing Katharon so that they can save CB?

Three episodes left for Lyle to do something unique. Will he?

Some real speculations on Gundam 00

2009-03-04T14:46:44Z

Okay, so the last post was silly. Maybe I should take a real crack at this.

Graham will switch to CB side.

Graham will die protecting 00 Raiser.

Kati and Patrick will leak information/support CB.

The combination of Kati, Graham and Sumeragi all going CB will either force a switch for Billy, thus making him the heir of his uncle when peace comes, or it'll make him crazily possessed to kill all things CB.

There's 10 levels of access to Veda. This is because they keep using English to refer to the levels of access (Ten meaning Heaven in Japanese, hence, they'll say Level Ten or Level Heaven).

Currently Ribbons have Level 7 Access. But He'll upgrade to Level 8.

Regene has had Level 9 Access all the time and simply used Ribbons and the other Innovators. Also, Level 9 makes him capable to hacking into other Innovators' brains ala Ribbons.

After Tieria goes through the brain-hax in the opening, he'll gain level 10 Access and cuts off Regene, he might be able to convince any other innovator survivor to lay down their weapons.

Regene cuts off Ribbons from Veda when Ribbons faces 00 Raiser. This leaves Ribbons stranded.

Regene becomes End Boss.

Tieria will either die. Or figuratively die as he gets absorbed into Veda and becomes a form of communication with the computer (likewise, he could then be killed as humanity, in an effort of independence, destroys Veda). Either way he will not survive.

Unless...

There's a juicy bit of interview info:
Someone who should by all rights be dead. Is alive.

Suggestions? Alejandro? Probably not. Trinity boys? Nah. Lasse? Still hanging in there. Aeolia? Maybe.

But for emotional impact, it could be Neil. You see, Ribbons with all his super tech picked up Ali in the same wreckage. Could Neil then have been picked up, then turned into the same type of cyborg as Lichty. Think about it, why would you introduce cyborgs only to off the only one less than a minute after revealing that Hey! There's cyborgs in this universe!

If Regene/Ribbons then have control over Neil through Veda, they could use him against Tieria, which could explain what the voice actors meant when they said that Tieria needs to overcome the memory of Neil.

Also. Tieria will kill Ali. No questions about it. 00 Raiser is already busy with Louise, Graham and Ribbons. Lyle is going after Innovators. Tieria is the only one right now who seems motivated enough to kill Ali.

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