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[ryanitenebrae]

^^ I just had hot chocolate and re-watched some Firefly, and now I am content.  Firefly is one of the shows that I like more the more recently I've watched it, weirdly enough.  I tend to have weird relationships with things.  Like Rent, which I'm not sure I agree with, and whose initial motivation-plot-set-up makes no sense, and, yet, I watch

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[ethelflaed]

I keep on reading Herland as Heliand and wondering why on earth you would hate it. XD

The only work of fiction I've got an genuinely odd relationship with is Utena (though Melody of Oblivion is probably going to join that list for obvious reasons). Well, This Ugly Yet Beautiful World made me feel that maybe banging my head against a wall for six hours would have been more useful and productive than actually watching the show.

How they could take such a good idea and make it so relentlessly mediocre baffles me.

[ryanitenebrae]

Ha! Heliand sounds like an incredibly interesting work. Herland is just . . . almost propaganda. But nostalgic propaganda . . .

Ah, did you finish This Ugly Yet Beautiful World?

Yeah, I remember back when I either liked things, or I didn't. Ah, those were the days! And, well, your relationship with Utena is complicated, true. It's also bizarrely fascinating.

I'm disappointed that it managed to live up to the rumors of mediocrity, as what you told me about it sounded mostly intriguing.

[ethelflaed]

I generally either like things or I don't, and even on this post most of these fall into those two categories more or less. ^^; Liking something out of nostalgia is still liking it, after all.

Unless there's something extraordinary going on, I will probably finish everything in the backlog. ^^; This Ugly Yet Beautiful World has maybe four excellent episodes and a handful of outstanding moments and the rest is junk.

Also, contains the dialogue "people's feelings are like half-melted ice cream."

[ryanitenebrae]

^^; True. Very true.

Also, contains the dialogue "people's feelings are like half-melted ice cream."

They're both messy, but really, really tasty, and come in all sorts of flavors!

[ethelflaed]

I think it was something like "they come naturally whether you like it or not" which. . .doesn't make much sense.

I would have liked "are sticky, uncomfortable, and leave stains that are difficult to remove" myself. :P

[ryanitenebrae]

Uh . . . okay, if one needed to make that analogy, wouldn't "People's theories are like thunderstorms," work better? Or something along those lines? (Of course, one could easily jokingly finish that with, "They don't have them in Southern California.")

XD Yes, that fits a great deal more.