Topic: All the result of an encounter with the dark side of the Internet
Shik
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In my mind, I hear the above monologue doen by a voice that sounds like a combination of Sam Elliott & Lance Le Gault, with a bit of Charles Napier thrown in for good measure.
And this is all starting to sound more than a bit like Trigun.
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What is with that show, anyway? "It's the greatest anime ever!" Eh, OK, pal.
It is because I do not like the amusing facial contortions designed to mark the funny periods, I think. Though I have only seen the first two episodes.
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Trigun's an aquired taste and certainly NOT the best in anime by any means.
That would be Cowboy Bebop.
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Of which I am a fan, perhaps because they restrict the wacky facial distortions to Ed, and even then not so much.
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The Big o is quite good as well (if you see it on Adult Swim-it's unedited there). Lots of mystery and things unsaid between characters. And giant city-smashing giant robots with greedy corperate types manipulating psychopaths into killing inncocents and causing billions in collateral damage to the city. Can't forget that.
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just made by the Presbyterian Church
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"Trigun's an aquired taste..."
I thought all anime was.
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Simon: Stick with Trigun. My apprentice was big into it and loaned them to me piecemeal. At first I was all, "HUH?" and then I was all "WHA?" and then I was all "WHOA!". No, but for the first several episodes it kind seems silly and 'wacky facial expresions�' and all, but then it kind of changes and it's good, the change. It's not TEH BEST EVAR!!1!, but it's very good.
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-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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quote:TSN was all: Apprentice? What are you, a village smithy?
What of it? You need your metal heated up and bent or something?
quote:and then Jason Abbadon was, like: Village something...
I'd prefer to be the Indian Chief, but they'd probably make me the Soldier or the Cop. Affirmative action sucks.
I wish I had something cool to teach him like how to swing a lightsaber or some shit, but we can't all be as cool as Ghislain. I'm teaching him to be patent draftsman. It's boring. I realize. I just like saying that I have an apprentice because that's how it works.
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Yes, now teach him how to levitate his ass in four directions and scare old ladies.
Re: Trigun, it looks nicely done, but that pacifist-streak, "armed to the teeth yet only disarms enemy with shots to his gun hand, making him feel awkward and repentant", it feels too Goody Two Shoes/MacGyver-ish to me. If I needed my TV-shows to teach me restraint I'd buy a damn Columbo DVD Collection.
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