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Okay, watching this park scene again, I have to say I'm with L-chan. It's beautifully drawn, with the pinks flying around and the shimmering tears streaming down Grandpa's cheeks, but I have about zero patience for the dialogue. When I was 20, it was tragic and heartfelt. Now I'm 34, and it's stupid. You're a rich and powerful man who runs corporations and owns mansions. Who's stopping you from getting to know your two descendants? NO ONE. What, are you so very busy? You must be in your sixties at least, maybe seventies, and you know you don't have much longer to live. It has been over a YEAR since you put forth that one pathetic effort into getting to know Sakura in the countryside, which by the way barely counts because she still doesn't know who you are. You have yet to attempt to meet Touya. What, exactly, are you waiting for? Until you're literally on death's doormat? Here are these two kids, one of whom is determinedly doing her best to make sure you're happy (and the other grudgingly helping her out), dropping everything to make you a birthday present just because you're family and they want to feel like they're a part of that family, and you can't even be bothered to pick up the phone and call. Write a letter. Introduce yourself (like, for real this time). Something! Get over yourself, stop whining, and stop punishing a couple of kids who had nothing to do with Nadeshiko's elopement and start treating them at least halfway as decent as you at least treat Sonomi and Tomoyo.
Sheeeeesh.
I don't know what to think of the Heidi outfit. Sakura looks cute in anything, but it's hard to imagine where that will be appropriate attire.
Has anyone else noticed that Grandpa doesn't get listed in the cast credits, either here or #16? It's weird. Are the writers trying to keep his identity some sort of secret or something? What's the big mystery about who voices him?
When I was 20, it was tragic and heartfelt. Now I'm 34, and it's stupid.
I've always thought it was stupid, and it's only gotten stupider. (Isn't that the same swell of music we were supposed to find overwrought and ridiculous in the Dream episode?) Why do the children always have to make the overtures? I see this so much in fiction/tv, the child who has been harboring hurt for years gets guilted into finally reaching out to the adult who abandoned them, and it sucks. Touya's a much better sibling than I would be for going along, but I know he did it for his sister and maybe for his mother, but certainly not for that old man who can stick it.
Sheeeeesh.
I don't know what to think of the Heidi outfit. Sakura looks cute in anything, but it's hard to imagine where that will be appropriate attire.
Has anyone else noticed that Grandpa doesn't get listed in the cast credits, either here or #16? It's weird. Are the writers trying to keep his identity some sort of secret or something? What's the big mystery about who voices him?
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I've always thought it was stupid, and it's only gotten stupider. (Isn't that the same swell of music we were supposed to find overwrought and ridiculous in the Dream episode?) Why do the children always have to make the overtures? I see this so much in fiction/tv, the child who has been harboring hurt for years gets guilted into finally reaching out to the adult who abandoned them, and it sucks. Touya's a much better sibling than I would be for going along, but I know he did it for his sister and maybe for his mother, but certainly not for that old man who can stick it.
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