oh look it is a meme

[terabient]

i linked to this on facebook/twitter already, but this blog post is basically the story of my life.

now in a clumsy segue, a meme:

1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/etc.
2) Have your f-list guess your favorite character from each item. Bonus points if you can name favorite pairing, But please try to guess character first.

Mostly games because my list of movies/tv shows is pitifully small, and books aren't things i really get...fannish about. also i TOTALLY CHEATED and listed a whole bunch of Final Fantasy games separately, but 20 is a lot of things guys ;[

1. Skies of Arcadia
2. Final Fantasy IV
3. Final Fantasy VI
4. Final Fantasy X
5. Final Fantasy XIII Sazh Katzroy, guessed by snapcakes
6. Phantasy Star (series, and I bet NO ONE will get this because it's obscure and old ;_; )
7. Dead or Alive/Ninja Gaiden series
8. Soulcalibur Raphael Sorel, guessed by elbarto252
9. Guilty Gear (cos Blazblue would be TOO OBVIOUS)
10. Left 4 Dead (series, but if you wanna try favorite in each game you can do that too~) Louis, guessed by mouette_lunaire
11. Xenosaga (series; BONUS ROUND!: guess fav. character from Xenogears)
12. Ghost in the Shell
13. Neon Genesis Evangelion
14. Revolutionary Girl Utena
15. Ah! My Goddess! Urd, guessed by hamimifk
16. Cowboy Bebop
17. Star Wars (series)
18. Battle Royale (movie only, the book is fail and i've never read the manga) Mitsuko Souma, guessed by hamimifk
19. Y the Last Man 355, guessed by hamimifk
20. Watchmen (comic only, haven't seen the movie)

man thinking of 20 things that i actually have a clear favorite character was hard WTF meme

Comments

[terabient]

yeah, my fave character for Final Fantasy Fanservice is probably not surprising BUT my appreciation for Vanille's ~adorableness~ also obscures THE TRUTH.

h00ray4dolphins told me about the distinct lack of squid in the ending which is one of those things that struck me as both understandable - because 'giant squid destroying NYC' is one of those things that would be hard to make look good, even in today's super-duper-amazing-effects environment, and for the hypothetical mainstream movie-going public SUDDENLY, A SQUID is stretching suspension of disbelief or whatever, but it is a change that really messes up the ending the more you consider it.

my cousin also told me that aside from the ending, the movie's like Watchmen: Abridged and he couldn't see the point of making what was essentially a lesser version of the comic. which is actually what has kept me from seeing the movie - it'd be one thing if it was a terrible, misguided take on the comic, but if it's a by-the-panel reconstruction (which is what i gather much of the movie is) only weaker because it's impossible to transfer everything to the movie screen...why not just read the comic again? it's not because i have no attention span for movies longer than 2 hours, no.... :P

AND!!! are you trying to tell me that YOU WERE MY FAVORITE GODDESS IN YOUR TEENAGE YEARS????

because idk what to say to that >:T

[snapcakes.livejournal.com]

Sazh was my second guess, but idk, I'm no good at this kind of thing. I'm not even going to try guessing at Utena business.

I will spare you 99.9% of the volumes I could write and have written re: the squid, but yes, it totally fucks up the ending in ways that never stop. My biggest complaint is that an unstoppable, godlike force of destruction would hardly be a catalyst for international unification and world peace. It seems more likely that having an indestructible terrorist hanging over everyone's head would inspire more panic and terror than anything. Rioting, doomsday trembling, rushes to appease him or go to ground. As I understood it, the perceived failure of an alien attack was a key element in preventing all that. The world was suddenly falsely aware of some huge, alien threat to band together against, but what would be the point if the threat weren't obviously vulnerable? Feh. And it bugged me to no end to listen to people refer to the squid as deus fucking machina, when everything from the moment the Comedian is shown weeping like a little bitch leads directly to it. And for fuck's sake, after the whole thing about the Comedian setting himself up as the Ultimate Lulz, I don't see why none of Mr. Squid's detractors appreciate the way the climax is all the more terrible for its absurdity in a very similar way. 8| squid ;;

{AND!!! are you trying to tell me that YOU WERE MY FAVORITE GODDESS IN YOUR TEENAGE YEARS????}

I drank less, my hair was not white, and I was a size 10, so not exactly. But I am still referred to as "Urd" by some people, lol.

[snapcakes.livejournal.com]

deus ex fucking machina, whatev.

[terabient]

Sazh is *CORRECT!* :) even though you were not guessing technically? whatever~

and yeah, the sheer what the fucking fuck aspect of the squid ending is THE POINT. iirc Ozymandias' extra-long soliloquy at the end shoots down the possibility of a more traditional threat anyway because they'd been done before and didn't work. if his speech is largely unchanged in the movie he'd come off as really...dumb. :

[snapcakes.livejournal.com]

:DDD Really?! OMG I get to be on the list of ppl who pay attention to things! I suppose I wasn't officially guessing but it was a guess so it still counts.

You've made me so happy. TnT I love that you are so fucking smart. TnT So many idiots on internets, so much pain.