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rionaleonhart) wrote2012-12-02 06:01 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2012-12-02 06:01 pm
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'Just Pretend I'm Not Here.' 'Okay.'
I could marry the fifth series of The Mentalist. Only five episodes in and it's already everything I ever wanted. I think I squeaked with excitement when I realised what 'Red Dawn' was dealing with. (AND WE GOT THE COUCH'S ORIGIN STORY, AMAZING.)
I tend to drift away from American television around the fourth or fifth series - American series are just so long, and I find they often start to feel like they're exhausting themselves by that point - so I'm thrilled that The Mentalist is still holding my interest so strongly. I suppose it doesn't hurt that Jane and Lisbon are two of my favourite characters of all time. Slightly worried about where The Mentalist might end up - the more it delves into Patrick Jane's considerable dark side, the less certain I become about just how deep that dark side goes; without his love for the team to keep him human, who knows what he would be by now? He's already gone terrifyingly far even with the anchor of his attachment to the team - but I'm certainly going to enjoy seeing it get there.
More Final Fantasy XIII-2! The plot of this game is completely incoherent and ridiculous. Normal time travel stories deal with the concept that changing the past changes the future; Final Fantasy XIII-2 insists that IF YOU CHANGE THE FUTURE, YOU CHANGE THE PAST.
It took me a while to warm up to Noel the first time I played, so it's nice to play through the early scenes again with a better appreciation of his character. He doesn't have much understanding of social norms, because he comes from a time when you'll probably be eaten by a monster before you're thirty and therefore have more important things to worry about than avoiding embarrassment in polite society, and he resents people who leave others to fend for themselves and he makes terrible jokes and he's fundamentally the ultimate Hufflepuff (not that that's a surprise, because every male party member in the Final Fantasy XIII universe - Sazh, Snow, Hope, Noel - is Hufflepuff through and through). The problem with liking Noel now (and with my fondness for the Noel-Serah friendship) is that I get really conflicted over which Live Trigger options to choose. I want to see all the possible dialogue! Stop restricting me to one option of four!
I sort of want to write Hope/Serah (when Hope is in his twenties, not when he's fourteen), because they would be adorable, but I can't because both the characters and I would feel too bad about Snow. Snow left and hasn't been seen for years, yes, but that's not exactly going to alleviate Serah's guilt; he left to find Lightning, because he was the only one who believed Serah when she insisted that Lightning was still alive. And obviously Snow and Hope have had a very strong connection ever since they got over that, you know, attempted murder thing.
You can't write Hope/Serah. It would be like that scene in (the original) Bedazzled where both the woman and her lover spend their entire tryst in tears, sobbing about how wonderful her husband is. Which is a shame, because Hope and Serah would be such a cute couple if they didn't have all that guilt to deal with.
I tend to drift away from American television around the fourth or fifth series - American series are just so long, and I find they often start to feel like they're exhausting themselves by that point - so I'm thrilled that The Mentalist is still holding my interest so strongly. I suppose it doesn't hurt that Jane and Lisbon are two of my favourite characters of all time. Slightly worried about where The Mentalist might end up - the more it delves into Patrick Jane's considerable dark side, the less certain I become about just how deep that dark side goes; without his love for the team to keep him human, who knows what he would be by now? He's already gone terrifyingly far even with the anchor of his attachment to the team - but I'm certainly going to enjoy seeing it get there.
More Final Fantasy XIII-2! The plot of this game is completely incoherent and ridiculous. Normal time travel stories deal with the concept that changing the past changes the future; Final Fantasy XIII-2 insists that IF YOU CHANGE THE FUTURE, YOU CHANGE THE PAST.
It took me a while to warm up to Noel the first time I played, so it's nice to play through the early scenes again with a better appreciation of his character. He doesn't have much understanding of social norms, because he comes from a time when you'll probably be eaten by a monster before you're thirty and therefore have more important things to worry about than avoiding embarrassment in polite society, and he resents people who leave others to fend for themselves and he makes terrible jokes and he's fundamentally the ultimate Hufflepuff (not that that's a surprise, because every male party member in the Final Fantasy XIII universe - Sazh, Snow, Hope, Noel - is Hufflepuff through and through). The problem with liking Noel now (and with my fondness for the Noel-Serah friendship) is that I get really conflicted over which Live Trigger options to choose. I want to see all the possible dialogue! Stop restricting me to one option of four!
I sort of want to write Hope/Serah (when Hope is in his twenties, not when he's fourteen), because they would be adorable, but I can't because both the characters and I would feel too bad about Snow. Snow left and hasn't been seen for years, yes, but that's not exactly going to alleviate Serah's guilt; he left to find Lightning, because he was the only one who believed Serah when she insisted that Lightning was still alive. And obviously Snow and Hope have had a very strong connection ever since they got over that, you know, attempted murder thing.
You can't write Hope/Serah. It would be like that scene in (the original) Bedazzled where both the woman and her lover spend their entire tryst in tears, sobbing about how wonderful her husband is. Which is a shame, because Hope and Serah would be such a cute couple if they didn't have all that guilt to deal with.