recent stuff

[kor_pi]

UN-GO: One episode to go, frankly I've been too distracted while watching this to know what's really going on, which is a damn shame now that everything is wrapping up nicely. Probably warrants a second watch. Minor diet member Shady Bob-Cut with her deliberate enthusiastic clumsiness and veiled&top-notch sense of humor is the best character, and I

Comments

[mairenn_k]

It's funny that you mention the Millennium trilogy; I got tired of feeling like the last person on earth who hadn't read it so I decided to give it a try only last week. I'm halfway through the second book now, and it really is difficult to put down, like you say. I'm a little ambivalent to how I feel about the novels and the author overall so far, but they're definitely interesting to analyze.

Oh, and I loved Un-go, especially after the first three or four episodes. The plot required quite a lot of concentration and there was a lot of dialogue, but I liked how it handled the philosophies and themes it brought up.

[kor_pi]

I should really start Un-Go again. I don't think I've missed anything major, but at the same time I don't feel confident enough to speculate, and this is a show where I'd like to do that. I've been watching it with a friend who it's impossible not to constantly chat with (during episodes eight to ten we were discussing... abortion and a father's moral rights to biologically related matter) and it's equally impossible to keep track of bad subtitles (not to even mention the actual dialogue) while doing that. I really love the world. Though I admit that I'm less enthusiastic about the fantasy than the sci-fi elements!

The Millennium trilogy has very interesting themes and I like how the author uses different viewpoints to carry them, how different the characters' attitudes are. I was fairly impressed by how authentic they felt. But it got a bit heavy at times.