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unreasonable
Sep. 22nd, 2003 01:28 amLove 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.
