Back to watching anime...
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matrixrefugeeSorry for the angry entry that proceeded this one: I've had a bad week and I've been trying to get down from being at the boiling point, but every time I try to, something else comes along to set me off again.
My marathon of watching Stargate SG-1 is on hold for the moment: I'm up to Season 9, and I'm having a few problems with it. Mostly due to the new Big Bads, namely the Ori and their servants the Priors. I'm finding them a bit disappointing and irritating: while it's interesting that their mythos is somewhat based on Gnostic Christianity, it's also a bit irritating for that reason. I mean, I suppose there are some Christians who are going to point at it as a sign of demonizing Christianity, but I don't see it that way, really, since it's clearly not *actual* Christianity. God and/or Christ never get mentioned, and the only thing that could be problematic is the use of the term "Prior" for the chief acolytes of the Ori, but it's not enough to be a real problem, at least for me: considering the context, it's completely divorced from the real-world Earth use of the word. That isn't what's bothering me about the Ori: I guess it's something about the execution, but I can't put my finger on it. I might just have a case of series exhaustion, or it might just be the week I've been having, and so I've decided to to take a break from SG-1 till I feel ready to go back to it.
I will say this: I love how they drew Arthurian legend into the mix (which, if I ever bring Daniel Jackson to a Certain Mansion will get interesting, due to a Merlin being there...), and I utterly *love* Vala Mal Doran, the new gal they brought in: she's like Jack Harkness's twin sister who wandered in from the Firefly 'Verse.
Till I do get back to Stargate, I've gone back to rewatching some anime series that I cut my teeth on, specifically GitS:SAC (Someone tell me *not* to bring a trio of Tachikomas to the Mansion, as cute as they are: Togusa would be a much better fit, and I need someone in law enforcement to balance the rogues' gallery that I have in headspace).
I've also discovered that I'm out of anime recommendations and I'm looking for a few series to watch that I haven't seen before. To the anime fans on my f-list, what say you?? I have a list Here to give you an idea of what I've already seen.
My marathon of watching Stargate SG-1 is on hold for the moment: I'm up to Season 9, and I'm having a few problems with it. Mostly due to the new Big Bads, namely the Ori and their servants the Priors. I'm finding them a bit disappointing and irritating: while it's interesting that their mythos is somewhat based on Gnostic Christianity, it's also a bit irritating for that reason. I mean, I suppose there are some Christians who are going to point at it as a sign of demonizing Christianity, but I don't see it that way, really, since it's clearly not *actual* Christianity. God and/or Christ never get mentioned, and the only thing that could be problematic is the use of the term "Prior" for the chief acolytes of the Ori, but it's not enough to be a real problem, at least for me: considering the context, it's completely divorced from the real-world Earth use of the word. That isn't what's bothering me about the Ori: I guess it's something about the execution, but I can't put my finger on it. I might just have a case of series exhaustion, or it might just be the week I've been having, and so I've decided to to take a break from SG-1 till I feel ready to go back to it.
I will say this: I love how they drew Arthurian legend into the mix (which, if I ever bring Daniel Jackson to a Certain Mansion will get interesting, due to a Merlin being there...), and I utterly *love* Vala Mal Doran, the new gal they brought in: she's like Jack Harkness's twin sister who wandered in from the Firefly 'Verse.
Till I do get back to Stargate, I've gone back to rewatching some anime series that I cut my teeth on, specifically GitS:SAC (Someone tell me *not* to bring a trio of Tachikomas to the Mansion, as cute as they are: Togusa would be a much better fit, and I need someone in law enforcement to balance the rogues' gallery that I have in headspace).
I've also discovered that I'm out of anime recommendations and I'm looking for a few series to watch that I haven't seen before. To the anime fans on my f-list, what say you?? I have a list Here to give you an idea of what I've already seen.
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Date: 2011-07-17 12:42 pm (UTC)