I'll have to go look. I don't know even enough about High School Musical to get your jokes, but that's not going to stop me.
It's sad, really. I have a dreadful weakness for this kind of thing, and I'd be all over the meme if I could. But I can't, because for the most part I really know nothing about fandoms I'm not involved with, nothing at all. WK was the only one I saw where I had enough material to work from via fannish osmosis, but not so much that I was disqualified for knowing the source too well.
If I weren't such a law-abiding kind of citizen, I'd be tempted to go in and remix the outside-the-rules YnM contribution that's already there, in the absence of any other legal fandom for me to work with. It leaves me with a strange and persistent picture of Tsuzuki explaining later that Muraki is really an excellent cook, those brains were sensational, and it shows that even psychopathic monsters might turn out to have some small redeeming qualities.
Ah, but Dr. Lecter really can cook, while Tsuzuki, as we know, will eat anything and be enthusiastic about it. Thus my leap from the commentfic now on the meme: he may be stumbling toward that green tank and mumbling "braaaiiins" now, but let him once get there and eat those brains, and, well . . .
I mean, sure, we know that green gunk in the tank is probably not a yummy and inventive sauce, possibly with lots of fresh cilantro and lime in it. But would Tsuzuki know that?
Of course you don't have the slightest clue. YnM makes, in the immortal words of Joss Whedon, the kind of sense that doesn't. And really, the anime is in some ways even worse than the manga for sense-making, because the material is just as incoherent but there's so much less of it there to pick and choose when you're trying to make the whole thing work.
I've seen about six eps for WK, but they left me utterly baffled. I was reasonably confident that I had a recognizable, if not an accurate, mental portrait of (at least one) fandom vision of WK, but to this day I have no damned clue about the real thing, the show that isn't all about Team Evil. Except for the part where I think it must be kind of tedious, because if it weren't the fandom's amazing writers would have done something with it.
Complex, like in 'oh, look, there's a story in this story'? Now, why would any of us want a thing like that?
She said, wearily. I swear to God, I do not know how people make it through those series where episodes have three minutes of plot and character development for every sixteen minutes of everything coming to a halt so that the characters can have a stylized fight, while reciting random dialogue that always seems to go something like, "Ha! Special nine-inch nails! Platinum fish, seventh degree! Attack!"
As my baby brother would say, shadow clone choo-choo.
I take it you're not currently short on obligations as you've been so quiet here, but next time you're free and in want of good watching, I'd suggest looking up Kino no Tabi. It strikes me as something you might appreciate. I'll leave the first part of the third episode here just in case:
Edit: Apparently, the file doesn't want to embed here. Instead, have a link.
And I hope you're faring well outside, too. I was only yesterday thinking that I hadn't seen a post from you in a while. Maybe this is a sign that the universe is listening and now would be a good time to wish for a pony.
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It's sad, really. I have a dreadful weakness for this kind of thing, and I'd be all over the meme if I could. But I can't, because for the most part I really know nothing about fandoms I'm not involved with, nothing at all. WK was the only one I saw where I had enough material to work from via fannish osmosis, but not so much that I was disqualified for knowing the source too well.
If I weren't such a law-abiding kind of citizen, I'd be tempted to go in and remix the outside-the-rules YnM contribution that's already there, in the absence of any other legal fandom for me to work with. It leaves me with a strange and persistent picture of Tsuzuki explaining later that Muraki is really an excellent cook, those brains were sensational, and it shows that even psychopathic monsters might turn out to have some small redeeming qualities.
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Yeah, there aren't many things in that wonderful grey area where you can make stuff up.
...I might in fact put my DVDs in tonight to see if indeed there is a scene with Schwarz in the car.
I read that book. Well, I heard it on tape.
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I mean, sure, we know that green gunk in the tank is probably not a yummy and inventive sauce, possibly with lots of fresh cilantro and lime in it. But would Tsuzuki know that?
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...I couldn't figure out how to summarize Gaiden suitably, though. :p
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On the other hand, I've seen maybe 6 eps, plus the OVAs (OAVs? help...) for WK, and feel like I have a reasonable grasp of it. :p
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Of course you don't have the slightest clue. YnM makes, in the immortal words of Joss Whedon, the kind of sense that doesn't. And really, the anime is in some ways even worse than the manga for sense-making, because the material is just as incoherent but there's so much less of it there to pick and choose when you're trying to make the whole thing work.
I've seen about six eps for WK, but they left me utterly baffled. I was reasonably confident that I had a recognizable, if not an accurate, mental portrait of (at least one) fandom vision of WK, but to this day I have no damned clue about the real thing, the show that isn't all about Team Evil. Except for the part where I think it must be kind of tedious, because if it weren't the fandom's amazing writers would have done something with it.
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Hey, it's not our fault we like our stories long. And hard. Hard to understand, I mean. And big. You know, like 'complex.'
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She said, wearily. I swear to God, I do not know how people make it through those series where episodes have three minutes of plot and character development for every sixteen minutes of everything coming to a halt so that the characters can have a stylized fight, while reciting random dialogue that always seems to go something like, "Ha! Special nine-inch nails! Platinum fish, seventh degree! Attack!"
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I take it you're not currently short on obligations as you've been so quiet here, but next time you're free and in want of good watching, I'd suggest looking up Kino no Tabi. It strikes me as something you might appreciate. I'll leave the first part of the third episode here just in case:
Edit: Apparently, the file doesn't want to embed here. Instead, have a link.
And I hope you're faring well outside, too. I was only yesterday thinking that I hadn't seen a post from you in a while. Maybe this is a sign that the universe is listening and now would be a good time to wish for a pony.
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