So I've sorta been having an anime marathon
I've had the Escaflowne movie on my hard drive for about a couple of years now, so I decided to watch it whilst doing Uni work a few days ago. I rather enjoyed it, so being the fan of alternate continuities that I am, I decided to try watching the TV series. I was not expecting to be on episode 22 after 3 days. I was fully expecting to have got to episode 7 and lost interest; but I find myself completely engrossed in the back story and plot. Mind you, the dub has a bit of redundancy problem, although it has a certain charm to it (and it's way better than the X:1999 dub). Also, Van as a kid is cute as a button, which is problematic seeing as these flashbacks tend to happen during moments of dire peril.
I've also been working my way through the first FMA series again and it's still awesome (and I'm still not seeing the major angst here people). Although an exchange in episode 15 is now unintentionally hilarious:
Al: "Brother, what are we going to do now?"
Ed: "I don't know Al, lets just get some distance from that guy with the glasses."
I'm a fan of the That Guy With The Glasses site and ended up having to pause the video to get rid of the resulting mental image.
And whilst we're on the subject, why is it that FMA is reading more and more like one of Rusty's Doctor Who finales? The similarities are so striking it's borderline hilarious.
I actually had a stroke of fridge brilliance with the whole "absorbing God" thing what with the main goal of alchemists was, traditionally, to become a 'perfect' being with complete spiritual enlightenment. Seeing as back in those days God was considered a perfect being, the parallel makes perfect sense. This does not save the whole scenario from being completely WTF though.
And I'll tell you now, the moment you have someone create a goddamn sun in the palm of their hand, you can forget any chance that the resolution to this is going to be saner than the first anime. A ball of energy I could accept (Lyra as I recall did something similar on a smaller scale in the first anime), but an actual sun undergoing fusion (and from the looks of it, intended to go supernova), regardless of the fact he's practically God, should. Not. Happen.
I mean, where'd the hydrogen needed for this reaction even come from? Only 0.000055% of the atmosphere contains Hydrogen, and I doubt there's enough in that room to create a sphere that size. The only logical explanation is that Flask converted the other elements in the air into Hydrogen, but the fission reaction would be immense and probably do what Flask intended in the first place.
I know I'm being pedantic over this, because it blatantly stated that Flask was showing off his new God-hood and it needed a demonstration to show us that he's one now. But the thing is, Truth and the Gate have been shown to operate on equivalent exchange so... how? It just doesn't add up. We're not at Tomb Raider: Underworld levels of "WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY DOING!?" yet (I really hate that game), but this is coming close. At least the characters acknowledged the absurdity of it.
Moral of the story: throwing in hand-held suns enrages astronomy geeks, especially those who know the life cycle of a star inside and out.
PS: The English dub for episode 4 of Brotherhood - it should not be possible to make that episode even more heart-breaking that it originally was. Oh Nina. ;_; (and kudos to Tucker's VA for completely freaking me out)
I've also been working my way through the first FMA series again and it's still awesome (and I'm still not seeing the major angst here people). Although an exchange in episode 15 is now unintentionally hilarious:
Al: "Brother, what are we going to do now?"
Ed: "I don't know Al, lets just get some distance from that guy with the glasses."
I'm a fan of the That Guy With The Glasses site and ended up having to pause the video to get rid of the resulting mental image.
And whilst we're on the subject, why is it that FMA is reading more and more like one of Rusty's Doctor Who finales? The similarities are so striking it's borderline hilarious.
I actually had a stroke of fridge brilliance with the whole "absorbing God" thing what with the main goal of alchemists was, traditionally, to become a 'perfect' being with complete spiritual enlightenment. Seeing as back in those days God was considered a perfect being, the parallel makes perfect sense. This does not save the whole scenario from being completely WTF though.
And I'll tell you now, the moment you have someone create a goddamn sun in the palm of their hand, you can forget any chance that the resolution to this is going to be saner than the first anime. A ball of energy I could accept (Lyra as I recall did something similar on a smaller scale in the first anime), but an actual sun undergoing fusion (and from the looks of it, intended to go supernova), regardless of the fact he's practically God, should. Not. Happen.
I mean, where'd the hydrogen needed for this reaction even come from? Only 0.000055% of the atmosphere contains Hydrogen, and I doubt there's enough in that room to create a sphere that size. The only logical explanation is that Flask converted the other elements in the air into Hydrogen, but the fission reaction would be immense and probably do what Flask intended in the first place.
I know I'm being pedantic over this, because it blatantly stated that Flask was showing off his new God-hood and it needed a demonstration to show us that he's one now. But the thing is, Truth and the Gate have been shown to operate on equivalent exchange so... how? It just doesn't add up. We're not at Tomb Raider: Underworld levels of "WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY DOING!?" yet (I really hate that game), but this is coming close. At least the characters acknowledged the absurdity of it.
Moral of the story: throwing in hand-held suns enrages astronomy geeks, especially those who know the life cycle of a star inside and out.
PS: The English dub for episode 4 of Brotherhood - it should not be possible to make that episode even more heart-breaking that it originally was. Oh Nina. ;_; (and kudos to Tucker's VA for completely freaking me out)