In case anyone’s planning to rob my house really interested, I went ahead and updated the Collection page, over to your right. I’ve been on the verge of wanting a second ‘big’ shelf to put the cabinet stuff in for quite some time now, and while I still have plenty of room, the primary purpose of the big shelf is to give me an at-a-glance look at the backlog. Despite my best efforts, this is becoming increasingly difficult to accomplish.
Anyway. Enough bragging, I go now to eat and relax for a little while.
In certain cultures, the number 4 has unlucky or dangerous connotations. Some folks associate it with death, while computer geeks associate the number with loss (as in “404″). However, this coming weekend and the week thereafter, the number 4 is looking to come up with alarming regularity. To wit:
* I’ve just picked up the core rulebooks for Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition, and will be reading over those to provide impressions at some point in the near future.
* I currently have four “active and new” series to watch: Avatar S1, School Rumble, .hack, and Veronica Mars S2. Furthermore, I’ll be starting Disc 4 of V.Mars.
* Metal Gear Solid 4 comes out on Thursday. There are 4 midnight launch parties at Gamestops in Pittsburgh (none of which are the store I pre-ordered from).
* And I’m thinking about taking a run through Wild ARMs 5 or XF. The connection’s not obvious until you realize that it would be the 4th Wild ARMs game I’ve cleared (I skipped 2 and 4 thus far).
There’s a fifth incidence as well, but mentioning it here would be bad. Anyway. I’m likely to be hip-deep in dice for the rest of the night, so I’ll catch you folks later.
Note: I’m in abject misery; an honest-to-god cold has struck me, as opposed to surprise!badfood from two weeks ago. I don’t know how my parents managed to digitize their plague and transmit it over the telephone to me, but they did, and I have them (and the crystal-clear reception of my cell phone) to thank for this round of “will it nauseate?”. What I’m trying to say is that you probably shouldn’t count on a big long diatribe tomorrow.
I came across an interesting little factoid yesterday: apparently, the HD-DVD drive for the Xbox 360 is now priced at $50. That would certainly make it a very tempting prospect if I had not also come to a realization– a fundamental paradigm shift that better explains how I’ve been looking at the whole, now-over “format war”. The revelation is this: ( I’m not ’smart’ enough for anything better than standard DVD… » )
So. I figured out what caused my troubles on Wednesday. Long and gross story short, “bonus beef” is not always a good thing. Just trust me on that one.
I never did give much of a set of impressions on Torchwood. What really bothered me more than anything else, before I actually saw the whole thing for myself, was the constant references to the series’ seeming ‘fixation on sex’ in the reviews and recaps that I read. I just sort of figured that it was something that the reviewers and critics were unable to get over; on some level I imagined each one of them being a priest or nun, standing up, pointing at their televisions and screaming “OMG TEH GHEY!!” at random intervals whenever Captain Jack decided to show the audience that He’s Not From Around Here. As you might have gathered, I thought that harping on the series’ more loose play with gender pairing was a discredit to the series.
Of course, the problem arises when I actually watched it, and found that of all of the episodes with the exception of maybe two were centered completely around sex. And it’s not like the ones which weren’t sexually oriented weren’t good– the “camping” episode was one of the most powerful ones, I thought, and the episode centered around the alien eye was very well done– but apparently to join Torchwood you need to have three things: one, an open mind; two, exceptional intelligence; and three, raging uncontrollable nymphomania.
Still, even with all that, the whole series was quite fascinating, and I’m looking forward to seeing more. Assuming, y’know, I remember to start recording it again. Also, I have just picked up on Doctor Who where I left off– watched “The Christmas Invasion” last night, and I can definitely see why some folks like Tennant better than Eccleston. I’m actually growing quite fond of Baker, as well.
Anyway. Over on the LJ I put up my thoughts on Gunslinger Girl– one of the better things to have happened on Wednesday, actually– and this weekend should be filled with Valkyrie Profile, Professor Layton, and possibly Ai Yori Aoshi. If anything interesting happens– perhaps some Weekend Memery?– you know where to find me.
