Random Media Commentary
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chuckro- Clueless - When I watched Empire Records and commented that it was a quintessential 90s movie, TrinityVixen argued that Clueless was a better choice for that title. After rewatching it (Amazon Instant Streaming is awesome, y’all) I agree, but I think it’s quintessential in that it was a trendsetter, not a reflection. It invented or codified a ton of slang that caught on; it’s like our generation’s Casablanca in terms of being quoted out of context.
- Zits - I periodically buy the omnibus collections of various newspaper stripes, and recently did a catch-up. I don't think I realized until recently that, like Garfield's hatred of Mondays, Zits has a number of fallback punchlines they use every month or two: Jeremy eats a lot, Jeremy has big feet, Jeremy has a messy room, etc. It’s also interesting how they’re occasionally allow changes to the world—relationships change, the van was repaired enough to actually run, Hector’s style change has stuck, etc.
- Speaking of Garfield, I hit Garfield & Friends episode 35 in my slow plodding re-watch, which I suspect I'd seen a lot as a kid (I could still sing the Abu Dhabi and Hamelot songs and it includes one of my favorite shorts, "How to Be Funny"). It's up there in the list of most memorable episodes for me, along with Dr. Garbanzo Bean's first appearance in #25 ("Robodie") and the important life lesson in #29 ("It Must Be True").
- We watched all 12 episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team with some folks on Saturday. It's a side-story series set during the original Gundam series, and though it mostly stands alone, having folks who knew the series to provide context helped. It has some tone issues, it has "reality ensue" in a bunch of places but not in others, and at heart it's about star-crossed lovers who make terrible life choices and are really rather crap at their jobs. My feelings were mixed, overall. An interesting note: as I was watching, I could swear I knew Norris' English voice actor (Michael McConnohie) from something. Turns out he's done voice acting in pretty much everything everywhere, but I was recognizing him as Margulis from Xenosaga.
- We’ve been periodically re-watching episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, since Amazon Instant Streaming has all of them available. Besides “The Best of Both Worlds” and “Trials and Tribble-ations”, does anyone have votes for the best episodes we should re-watch?
- Zits - I periodically buy the omnibus collections of various newspaper stripes, and recently did a catch-up. I don't think I realized until recently that, like Garfield's hatred of Mondays, Zits has a number of fallback punchlines they use every month or two: Jeremy eats a lot, Jeremy has big feet, Jeremy has a messy room, etc. It’s also interesting how they’re occasionally allow changes to the world—relationships change, the van was repaired enough to actually run, Hector’s style change has stuck, etc.
- Speaking of Garfield, I hit Garfield & Friends episode 35 in my slow plodding re-watch, which I suspect I'd seen a lot as a kid (I could still sing the Abu Dhabi and Hamelot songs and it includes one of my favorite shorts, "How to Be Funny"). It's up there in the list of most memorable episodes for me, along with Dr. Garbanzo Bean's first appearance in #25 ("Robodie") and the important life lesson in #29 ("It Must Be True").
- We watched all 12 episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team with some folks on Saturday. It's a side-story series set during the original Gundam series, and though it mostly stands alone, having folks who knew the series to provide context helped. It has some tone issues, it has "reality ensue" in a bunch of places but not in others, and at heart it's about star-crossed lovers who make terrible life choices and are really rather crap at their jobs. My feelings were mixed, overall. An interesting note: as I was watching, I could swear I knew Norris' English voice actor (Michael McConnohie) from something. Turns out he's done voice acting in pretty much everything everywhere, but I was recognizing him as Margulis from Xenosaga.
- We’ve been periodically re-watching episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, since Amazon Instant Streaming has all of them available. Besides “The Best of Both Worlds” and “Trials and Tribble-ations”, does anyone have votes for the best episodes we should re-watch?
