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omg the Duwang subs for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure are glorious. I'm only three minutes in and I'm already crying from laughter.
I still can't comprehend how subs can be this bad, lol.
Swag
I got three free customized mousepads thanks to 4chan's ongoing anime mousepad racket.
The one on the right is of Reinhard and his merry band of cohorts, the middle is Kaworu, and the left is Akira from Togainu no Chi. :)
This, of course, is following on the heels of 4chan's Great Engraved Chalice Racket of Spring 2012. Mine is pictured below:
NEW INITIAL D ANIME
TIME TO PARTY LIKE IT'S '99, BITCHES!!!!
You guys have NO IDEA. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR YEARS!!! In fact, I was rewatching Keisuke's last race from 4th stage just a few weeks ago and all but convinced myself that a new anime wasn't going to see the light of day. OH HOW BEAUTIFULLY WRONG I WAS!
I'm hoping for fifth stage over a reboot, but hell, I'll take anything at this point. <333
I can't wait to see the new animation. AND THE NEW EUROBEATS omg omg.
GOATS ON A TREE
THAT ISN'T PHOTOSHOPPED. THERE ARE GOATS ON THAT TREE.
Man, if I was walking around Morocco and saw some motherfucking goats chilling on a tree, I would flip the fuck out.
This is one crazy world we live in, guys.
And since I'm here:
The Olympics are pretty much the only major sporting event I care about. I like the Winter Olympics more, but still. I'm excited. :)
All the stories I like are about the same damn thing.
So I saw the Dark Knight Rises. And yeah, I liked it. I have a huge boner for The Dark Knight, so my liking Rises was pretty much a foregone conclusion. The only thing I didn't like was Miranda Tate. I understand why Nolan included her, but it still doesn't sit well with me. One other thing I will say is that Joseph Gordon Levitt gets WAY more screen time than the trailers would've had you believe. (Not complaining.)
I've heard some people complain about the ending being a cop-out. I myself felt this way until I read this on the IMDb FAQs (SERIOUS SPOILERS): The screenwriters had the option to end the Batman and give Bruce Wayne the happy ending he deserves. In the end, Batman can retire because his legacy of sacrificing everything for the city has been passed on. Every single cop running to their probable death against the mercenaries embraced the idea that Gotham is more important than themselves. In The Dark Knight, the cops are depicted as deathly afraid when it came to defending the city against the Joker. But at the end of the trilogy, the true crime-fighters run fearlessly into battle. Peter Foley, who was consumed by dreams of becoming a better commissioner than Gordon and a bigger hero, is inspired by Batman to lay aside his selfishness and cowardice and lead the charge, ultimately sacrificing his life. Selina Kyle, the apathetic burglar concerned only with getting a new life for herself, eventually follows this idea as well. John Blake, walking into gunfire to evacuate citizens, had little care for his life. Thus, because the defenders of the city no longer need a selfless hero, Bruce Wayne can retire. This trilogy is the story of a boy who had his family stolen from him, but with the help of loyal allies, manages to restore justice to the city that wronged him. In the end, Bruce has given Gotham everything that it needed. The day has come that neither Gotham nor Bruce Wayne needs Batman any longer. He can live the life that he was keeping from himself. This is a more optimistic view of Batman than I myself hold, but I definitely appreciate Nolan's interpretation.
Anyway, this got me thinking about how the trilogy has developed and the contrast between the themes of TDK versus the themes of TDKR, when I realized something. TDK is basically about a force of absolute evil (the Joker) working against a force of absolute good (Batman). Gotham City and its inhabitants are the playing field. The Joker uses other people in order to prove that all humans are corruptable, even the best ones. The Batman is the only person he can't corrupt, because no matter how much he baits the guy, he just WON'T kill him.
I could probably see this same basic plot line ten more times and still be happy. ^^;;
