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lyricality) wrote2006-08-10 10:06 am
lyricality) wrote2006-08-10 10:06 am
One-Winged Angel
A few things, today!
First of all, the OTP Meme, for which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
killerbeautiful tagged me, wheeee. Let's see. My fandoms are peculiar and varied...
CatCF: Charlie/Wonka. Chan is not my preference, I admit, and I usually better appreciate fics etc. where both parties are consenting adults.
HP: Snape/Lupin. No, it's not "in fashion" and it never will be, but I make no apologies. I'm also fond of Bill/Lupin...and...while I have never, ever seen it anywhereexcept in my twisted fantasises...Moody/Lupin.
SW: Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, ftw. Variations of Luke/Leia/Han rather please me, as well.
Gravitation: Sakuma Ryuuichi/Shuuichi Shindou. Pity that I've only ever seen one fic with the pairing. I imagine they would be a lot healthier for each other than Yuki/Shuuichi, in any case. >.>
YuGiOh!: Yami/Yugi and Yami/Yugi/Kaiba. I always thought Yugi/Judai had potential as well, after the end of GX.
Yami no Matsuei: Tsuzuki/Hisoka, purrrrr.
FFVII: Cloud/Vincent, Cloud/Aeris. The second more platonic, the first more physical.
Slayers: Xellos/Zelgadis. This pairing seems to have fallen out of favor recently, as well.
Lady in the Water: Story/Cleveland and I never said this, because I'm equally pleased at the lack of a traditional romance in the film. There is probably no logical way to resolve those two impulses. x_X
Moving right along,andersenmom demands (well, nicely!) to know what I thought of FFVII: Advent Children, which she was kind enough to lend to me this week. ♥
The film is aesthetically beautiful, of course, and seeing all of the characters together again really did feel like a long-anticipated and marvelous reunion. Speaking to the cinematography, some of the fighting sequences quickly became confusing, perhaps because both Cloud and the villains traditionally wear black. The red elements, once Vincent enters the fray, are something of a visual relief. For a random moment of fangirlish glee, YAY, Cait Sith! ♥ I admit I never played him much in the game itself, since I never quite had enough materia to go around (or enough money to buy his weaponry upgrades), but I always adored the character nevertheless.
The sentimentality of the plot itself, and the final conclusion, caught me a little offguard. Looking back, I can see where the development of the whole "the children are our future" thread began in the game, but I still feel as if the Lifestream itself is the greater point of interest. Admittedly, the sentimentalism made me shy away a bit--emotionally distance myself from it, if you will. There's a reason Vincent is my favorite character, both in the game and in this film, and his moments on-camera were worth the rest of the film, to me. God, I cannot wait for Dirge of Cerberus.
Cloud and Tifa, as a relationship, has always been somewhat questionable to me, and the film didn't exactly reduce my doubts. Throughout the game, the theme seemed to be that Tifa always assumed she intimately understood Cloud, even when she simply did not, and her understanding of him doesn't seem to have improved. So far as Cloud is concerned, he will always need space from the rest of humanity--mentally, he is not fully human, and he is not even fully himself, but a construction of DNA and mistaken memories. The real triumph of the film is the way it gives him better perspective on what and who he is now--that the people who love him can help define him, when he's unsure of himself.
Less intellectually, Sephiroth ROCKS MY WORLD, yo. My roommate and I used to say that the best possible FF game would be one in which you could play Sephiroth during his youth, throughout his training in SOLDIER. "I will never be a memory," indeed. His voice was right, to me, although I have heard complaints about it in the past. Maaya Sakamoto as Aeris was simply perfection. My major pet peeve: Summon materia is red, always. Kadaj should not have been summoning with blue materia. =P
Overall, I liked it, but I can't think of it as a complete finish to the sequence of events.
Okay, end of rambling review. Today I must send off resumes etc. for at least two jobs, and possibly go to the mall and apply for jobs outside my field, probably in retail. Ugh. Dealing with people face to face requires me to adopt a very exhausting, outwardly pleasant sort of mask. Well, money is money, and at least jobs like that are largely temporary, useful while I'm looking in the game development field.
First of all, the OTP Meme, for which
killerbeautiful tagged me, wheeee. Let's see. My fandoms are peculiar and varied...CatCF: Charlie/Wonka. Chan is not my preference, I admit, and I usually better appreciate fics etc. where both parties are consenting adults.
HP: Snape/Lupin. No, it's not "in fashion" and it never will be, but I make no apologies. I'm also fond of Bill/Lupin...and...while I have never, ever seen it anywhere
SW: Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, ftw. Variations of Luke/Leia/Han rather please me, as well.
Gravitation: Sakuma Ryuuichi/Shuuichi Shindou. Pity that I've only ever seen one fic with the pairing. I imagine they would be a lot healthier for each other than Yuki/Shuuichi, in any case. >.>
YuGiOh!: Yami/Yugi and Yami/Yugi/Kaiba. I always thought Yugi/Judai had potential as well, after the end of GX.
Yami no Matsuei: Tsuzuki/Hisoka, purrrrr.
FFVII: Cloud/Vincent, Cloud/Aeris. The second more platonic, the first more physical.
Slayers: Xellos/Zelgadis. This pairing seems to have fallen out of favor recently, as well.
Moving right along,
andersenmom demands (well, nicely!) to know what I thought of FFVII: Advent Children, which she was kind enough to lend to me this week. ♥The film is aesthetically beautiful, of course, and seeing all of the characters together again really did feel like a long-anticipated and marvelous reunion. Speaking to the cinematography, some of the fighting sequences quickly became confusing, perhaps because both Cloud and the villains traditionally wear black. The red elements, once Vincent enters the fray, are something of a visual relief. For a random moment of fangirlish glee, YAY, Cait Sith! ♥ I admit I never played him much in the game itself, since I never quite had enough materia to go around (or enough money to buy his weaponry upgrades), but I always adored the character nevertheless.
The sentimentality of the plot itself, and the final conclusion, caught me a little offguard. Looking back, I can see where the development of the whole "the children are our future" thread began in the game, but I still feel as if the Lifestream itself is the greater point of interest. Admittedly, the sentimentalism made me shy away a bit--emotionally distance myself from it, if you will. There's a reason Vincent is my favorite character, both in the game and in this film, and his moments on-camera were worth the rest of the film, to me. God, I cannot wait for Dirge of Cerberus.
Cloud and Tifa, as a relationship, has always been somewhat questionable to me, and the film didn't exactly reduce my doubts. Throughout the game, the theme seemed to be that Tifa always assumed she intimately understood Cloud, even when she simply did not, and her understanding of him doesn't seem to have improved. So far as Cloud is concerned, he will always need space from the rest of humanity--mentally, he is not fully human, and he is not even fully himself, but a construction of DNA and mistaken memories. The real triumph of the film is the way it gives him better perspective on what and who he is now--that the people who love him can help define him, when he's unsure of himself.
Less intellectually, Sephiroth ROCKS MY WORLD, yo. My roommate and I used to say that the best possible FF game would be one in which you could play Sephiroth during his youth, throughout his training in SOLDIER. "I will never be a memory," indeed. His voice was right, to me, although I have heard complaints about it in the past. Maaya Sakamoto as Aeris was simply perfection. My major pet peeve: Summon materia is red, always. Kadaj should not have been summoning with blue materia. =P
Overall, I liked it, but I can't think of it as a complete finish to the sequence of events.
Okay, end of rambling review. Today I must send off resumes etc. for at least two jobs, and possibly go to the mall and apply for jobs outside my field, probably in retail. Ugh. Dealing with people face to face requires me to adopt a very exhausting, outwardly pleasant sort of mask. Well, money is money, and at least jobs like that are largely temporary, useful while I'm looking in the game development field.