unreasonable
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incandescensLove for a series, or a character, or a set of characters, or a setting, ambushes you. It sneaks up on you and takes you by surprise. It isn't necessarily heralded by beautiful art, or interesting characters, or elegant plot construction, though it can be all of these things. It isn't necessarily the ones you show to parents, or friends, or tell people that they ought to try (though one often does).
But it's what you think about.
You wonder what will be in the next installment to the extent that you have to pause and calm yourself down on the day of issue. You ponder why the characters are interacting/acting as they do, and you think "what if X" or "and then perhaps Y" about the plot. You consider what happened 500 years ago. You try the characters for size against each other, take note of who's taller, and follow the height rule obediently. Or not.
Love is unreasonable. You go round saying things like, "well, the series takes a while to get started," or "and of course the animation was a little cheap at this point," and "well, these are filler episodes, wait till you get to the good ones". You substitute the character names for the renamable characters in your new Gameboy game, just so you can grin when one of the characters in the game now says, "We just need to get Kou and Sanzo to talk to each other!" (Five-character limit on the names, blast it.)
You watch a clip from the new series, and quite unexpectedly you feel your heart turn over at the sound of a familiar voice, because you didn't realise how much you wanted to hear it again, to see these characters again.
You're made happy by your own daydreams, and by sharing other people's dreams via fanfic and discussion and all the other tokens of imagination and affection.
But it's what you think about.
You wonder what will be in the next installment to the extent that you have to pause and calm yourself down on the day of issue. You ponder why the characters are interacting/acting as they do, and you think "what if X" or "and then perhaps Y" about the plot. You consider what happened 500 years ago. You try the characters for size against each other, take note of who's taller, and follow the height rule obediently. Or not.
Love is unreasonable. You go round saying things like, "well, the series takes a while to get started," or "and of course the animation was a little cheap at this point," and "well, these are filler episodes, wait till you get to the good ones". You substitute the character names for the renamable characters in your new Gameboy game, just so you can grin when one of the characters in the game now says, "We just need to get Kou and Sanzo to talk to each other!" (Five-character limit on the names, blast it.)
You watch a clip from the new series, and quite unexpectedly you feel your heart turn over at the sound of a familiar voice, because you didn't realise how much you wanted to hear it again, to see these characters again.
You're made happy by your own daydreams, and by sharing other people's dreams via fanfic and discussion and all the other tokens of imagination and affection.
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Date: 2003-09-21 06:33 pm (UTC)Although I feel the first anime series is like the boyfriend that others, who don't know him, won't understand why we like him, even with his flaws and fillers. "If you just knew his histoy," we say, "Just from the beginning, when he was just a rougher, penciled version of the gem he is now, you'd understand...and I bet (sniff, sob) you'd love him too." Perhaps the new one will be like that cousin, the one you like to introduce to at parties, but if he isn't, I'm sure we'll give him a good home anyways.
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Date: 2003-09-21 06:41 pm (UTC)-mjj
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Date: 2003-09-22 02:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-22 07:45 am (UTC)For me, though, it's also the same with gaming situations or even novels and comicbooks...