And if that mocking bird won't sing...

[thistlechaser]

Apparently it's that time of the year again. It's currently 10:51 PM, and I have birds chirping outside my apartment. Until they find mates and have oodles of happy birdy-sex, male mocking birds sing all through the night. Midnight, 1 AM, 2 AM, 3AM... Very loud and rather annoying, much like feathered car alarms that can never be shut off (they cycle through the same 4-7 songs over and over and over and over and over...). It's okay (odd as heck, but okay) when I'm awake, but they love the shrubs around my bedroom window, so it's a pain when I want to sleep.

This is the first night of their singing. Bets on when they'll start getting lucky and shut the heck up?

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In other news, I'm watching my seemingly weekly two eps of Wolf's Rain. I'm up to #10 (of 26), and still not hooked. The characters are flat as hell, the plot meanders and mostly goes no where, but... I like the idea behind the series and I keep hoping to get hooked. Well, okay, I'm not really expecting to get hooked anymore, I just want to finish watching the darned series so I can finally delete it and free up the space. It's a good idea and the animation and music are great, too bad it's pulled off so badly...

ETA: Ha! I knew if I kept watching that eventually something would happen. It appears as though all four main characters have been killed off. While this is very unlikely to be really true, it would be both a cool twist in a thus far weak plot, plus it would solve that pesky "flat characterization" issue! Hee.

Comments

[morinotokei.livejournal.com]

See, I had planned on watching Wolf's Rain a long time ago because so many people were reccing it, but never got to it because I was watching a million other things at the time. Now I don't feel so bad.

>While this is very unlikely to be really true, it would be both a cool twist in a thus far weak plot, plus it would solve that pesky "flat characterization" issue! Hee.<

~snort~ Ok, that really amused me. ^_^ No characterization is better than flat characterization, huh? Seriously though, I'm a very character-oriented person, and if characters don't draw my attention, I lose interest quickly.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I really, really couldn't rec Wolf's Rain. While it does have some good points (the animation is really nice, the music is great, and the idea is good), the characterization is probably the worst I've ever seen in any series, anime or not.

There are four main characters, and I've watched 11 eps now. Of those four main characters, I can only name a personality trait for two of them. One is "gruff", the other is "new age-y". The other two I just call "the chubby one" and "the one with bracelets". In ten eps, that is the grand total of what we know about them!

The animation and music are nice enough that I'm not deleting it without finishing watching it, but if I knew then what I know now, I would never, ever have downloaded it to begin with. It has such potential, but it's boring as heck and I have less than zero connection with the characters.

Part of me keeps hoping it'll get better, but since I'm at 11 eps of 26, that's not too likely...