Round One: Thistle! (And Escaflowne)
Feb. 21st, 2003 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserThis was going to be just a post about Escaflowne and the weekend, but I paused to run to the bathroom first... and discovered an invasion. Ants! Gah! I hate hate hate ants! This damned apartment seems to attract them (I never had a single ant in my old place).
But this time, I was prepared.
Ant poison, ant bait.
My bathroom now stinks, I'll probably get cancer, my cat can't sit on the shelf or drink from the sink anymore, but for the moment all the ants are dead! Bwahaha!
Actually, so far, I've been lucky. The ants invaded my living room twice and my bathroom twice, but never the kitchen. I'd go crazy if ants were near my food...
Anyway, the weekend and Escaflowne. The MUSH is at under half-staff (four of seven folks are away for the weekend), so that means my butt is even less likely to leave this chair (plus I'm GMing on Saturday). So I decided to watch the Escaflowne "special edition" movie I bought a while ago. One disk of the movie, one of "extras" (boring), one of the soundtrack.
A number of years ago, I saw Escaflowne when it was shown on broadcast TV. I loved it, but a lot of people told me it was butchered, so I was happy to spot this movie. I had assumed it was the Japanese version of the series, but... if that's true, then the "butchered" version was better. It made more sense, had ups and downs in its plot. Ah well, what I really need to do is find the eps themselves on DVD.
But this time, I was prepared.
Ant poison, ant bait.
My bathroom now stinks, I'll probably get cancer, my cat can't sit on the shelf or drink from the sink anymore, but for the moment all the ants are dead! Bwahaha!
Actually, so far, I've been lucky. The ants invaded my living room twice and my bathroom twice, but never the kitchen. I'd go crazy if ants were near my food...
Anyway, the weekend and Escaflowne. The MUSH is at under half-staff (four of seven folks are away for the weekend), so that means my butt is even less likely to leave this chair (plus I'm GMing on Saturday). So I decided to watch the Escaflowne "special edition" movie I bought a while ago. One disk of the movie, one of "extras" (boring), one of the soundtrack.
A number of years ago, I saw Escaflowne when it was shown on broadcast TV. I loved it, but a lot of people told me it was butchered, so I was happy to spot this movie. I had assumed it was the Japanese version of the series, but... if that's true, then the "butchered" version was better. It made more sense, had ups and downs in its plot. Ah well, what I really need to do is find the eps themselves on DVD.
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Date: 2003-02-21 10:33 pm (UTC)It's common in Anime for a movie to be made with similar (or sometimes, not so) characters in a totally different continuity. It'd be like, let's make a Simpsons movie, but let's set it in outer space, and Bart is an adopted alien that breathes fire, and Kang and Kodos are the next door neighbors, and Marge is a sorceress from another time. That's how related some of these things are.
On the bright side, Escaflowne has the finest music you'll find, and the same director did the movie, so the soundtrack is awesome.
In the actual series, Hitomi isn't near suicidal, there's very little actual magic, there's a lot of fighting steam mechas, there's a very strong romantic plotline, and Van isn't a near-feral killing machine. Among other differences.
Don't ask me why the Japanese do this, but it's common. (And you think the Escaflowne movie was weird, check out the Utena movie. Well, don't, I'm sure it'd drive you nuts. :-) But the Utena series is excellent.)
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Date: 2003-02-21 10:37 pm (UTC)Ah ha! You know, that's exactly what I thought might be happening (but the idea of doing that just made too little sense). Huh. I think I liked this version of Van better, but that's about it.
And you're right, the music is amazing. I'm happy the soundtrack is on its own disk, I can bring it to work and such!
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Date: 2003-02-21 10:53 pm (UTC)See, TC, the two girls, at the end of the movie, turn into cars and get shoved into a carwash. (I could be remembering wrong. I /do/ know they turn into cars.)
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Date: 2003-02-21 10:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-21 11:00 pm (UTC)Kirby's right, though, Utena the series, while highly stylized at tmes, is really worth watching.
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Date: 2003-02-22 09:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-22 09:42 am (UTC)(Which is to say, the first 10 or so eps are... kind of slow. But I mean, I can understand other priorities.)
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Date: 2003-02-22 09:49 am (UTC)