Teacher, mother, secret lover

On our weekly TV night, which we have been doing for eight years now, I just realised, D. and I finally finished watching Miracles. We had high hopes for it, but it mostly turned out to be too feel-good for us. But it was cool how all of Paul's important relationships were with dead people.

Since that left a hole in the line-up, we have started watching Angel again from the beginning. I'd forgotten how much fun it was back then. We've only just watched the pilot, but as I recall the first several episodes all have at least one Batman reference and some oblique comment about Angel's sexuality.

We're also most of the way through Buffy S5, which is pretty grinding, I must say. It's going to be harshness and gloom and Teenage Dawn Angst now until the end.

I wonder if that would have happened to Firefly, if it had run for several years, if we would have got to a point where even though there was the occasional light episode, so many bad things had happened that the overall tone was grim and unrelenting. I wonder if Mal would have made as many speeches as Buffy. I wonder if we would have ended up with another Dawn/Connor-type character.

I wonder if I'm going to be late for work now.

Tenipuri episodes 51-53

Note: There may be mild spoilers for future episodes in these write-ups. Previous: memories or tagged.

A lot of Inui and Tezuka today, with some TezuRyo implications. And, of course, the usual crack.

( 51. Inui's Challenge )

( 52. Seigaku's Biggest Crisis )

( 53. The Momo Who's Returned )

Dinosaurs beware!

A subbed version of the Prince of Tennis movie -- The First Game -- is now available! (It doesn't include the Atobe short.) It's done by ArabDreamers and there are subs in English and Arabic.

I got the torrent from Tokyo Toshokan, which is down again right now, but I think this should be the right link: http://www.tokyotosho.com/details.php?id=203 (If not, just use the search.)

Or you can go to the Arab Dreamers site: http://www.arabdreamers.net/torrent/browse.php Looks like registration is required to get it from there.

I have downloaded the file. It's an ogm file and I was able to get it to play in VLC Player on the Mac. You have to select the correct subtitle track to see it. The file is about 370 MB. I have only watched a few minutes of it so far, so I can't comment on the quality of the sub.

Whee!



In other news, do you remember Banner Blindness? That's when you're visiting a website and your eyes just slide over any banner ads there without reading them. Well, I have developed Lyric Blindness. I was at fanfiction.net, because I love me some badfic, and at the end of the story I had just finished, there was this strange line, like something from a poem, but it didn't make sense on its own.

Was there another line at the beginning and I just missed it? I wondered. So I looked. And there were many lines of lyrics, one between each paragraph. I hadn't seen any of them until the end.

Kind of nice, really.