When Fringe started, I was psyched. I thought it was kind of like x-files, only more scientific – an epic win combo! And the first season was great, it totally delivered! I was pleased, Al was pleased, and we were both looking forward to season 2.
For a while, season 2 also delivered, but then confusion kicked in. The scientific side was starting to slip, and we entered Twilight Zone with hints of budding romance in the air. But with the positive feelings we had for the first season, we made it through the second and hoped the Awesome would return in season 3.
And then came season three. And it was, at first, still pretty confusing and we didn’t quite know what this show was about anymore. But now the season is half-way through and a few episodes ago…
“Oh, it’s a love story,” she said in a whisper of a cry.
A romance is also, in itself, quite OK. But when you think back on the promising season 1, you cannot help but feel like the show has curled up under a tree trunk and died a smelly death.
To illustrate this mess, here’s a typical scene from season 1:
And here’s a typical scene from season 3:
Can you hear it? Can you hear the bar being buried?
PS I cannot get over the fact that at first Walter said there were supposedly an infinite number of universes, but now, for some unexplained reason, there are only two. What happened to the rest?
Where did they go?!?
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March 15th, 2011
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We got it for last christmas. I love it.
For a while I was quite pleased with the option to exercise, but my willpower is quick with the vanishing act so no more shadow boxing for a while. Fortunately not all the games make full use of Wii’s movement recognition thingamabob or whatever, so you can laze on the couch and play Super Mario just as happily.
My favorite game thus far is Sengoku Basara 3. Since I’m essentially a girly girl, I hadn’t played that kind of games before. You know, the ones where you have to kick and kill and wreak havoc etc. So when Al forced me to play Basara for the first time I just pouted and pushed random buttons. But then after a while the pout disappeared and I started making sense of the game. And then I loved it.
My favorite character is Yukimura. He is awesome.
I heard they made Basara into an anime. huh.
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March 15th, 2011
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REALLY GOOD MUSIC, MAN.
So what if I don’t understand anything they’re saying. Who cares. You can enjoy something without understanding it. Yes. I like that explanation.
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February 1st, 2011
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Ivy making home at your feet and in your heart
You can tell it mends the twisted thoughts, the broken parts
With your back in the roots and your face to sunsets
All you have is nothing more than a concept of no more starts
Envision all that’s never to come
and with a lively hum and dying regret
let go of all that’s gone, to come
all dreams with chances unmet; all – not just some.
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December 14th, 2010
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I have never been a fan of hiphop, because that genre reached my ears at the stage when it was already mostly shit. So when I first heard Digable Planets in… um… 2005, I had no idea that it’s hiphop, I thought it was some cool modern jazz or whatever.
Now I am listening to them and loving them again.
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June 9th, 2010
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I have been absent from my blog for a while. There’s a good reason for it: I simply was not here.
I was having problems with my perception of reality after giving anime a chance and getting lost in it. Yes, I too have fallen victim to the Japanese. Of course, I did start with Samurai Champloo, so you can surely understand how a person could (the following is all hypothetical… yes, ahem) end up spending 12 hours a day on her butt doing absolutely nothing but search for new anime new new new anime more anime yes please more gimmegimmegimme no dishes we don’t have dishes who are you are you my boyfriend no yes new anime more more more what it’s already 6am what oh no school what’s that anime more more anime!
etc.
I have watched SO so many things since being captured and although I still steal an hour from time to time to watch anime, my perception of reality is once again intact. Of course, I have a looong long way to go before I reach the end of my anime craze.
To give you an idea of what I’ve been doing, below is a list of all the things I’ve seen. It is possible that some of the things are absent from the list. In some cases I just watched some of the episodes and then gave up on the series. In any case, if somebody was to mention any of these titles, I’d at least know what they are.
And yes, if you look at the list closely enough you can see that I have had a romance anime period in my life (Kimi Ni Todoke has THE BEST opening and ending theme), followed by things like Boku wa Imōto ni Koi o Suru. Say what you will about that theme, but Koi Kaze is one of the most beautiful love stories ever. And then came the yaoi period. Junjou Romantica is just SOOOOO cute! Not much of a hentai fan, though, so I can at least feel that much better about my morality. Aaaah, morality schmorality. Boy on boy beats anything anytime!
Now I am happily back to romance and will watch Peach Girl after finishing this post.
Oh, and I graduated from university. Yay.
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samurai champloo
cowboy bebop
kimi ni todoke
bokura ga ita
vampire knight
vampire knight guilty
chobits
fruits basket
ai yori aoshi
kare kano
ayashi no ceres
DNA2
the girl who leapt through time
hana yori dango
itazura na kiss
Kimi ga Nozomu Eien
skip beat
special A
marmalade boy
fight ippatsu juuden-chan
green green
ichigo 100%
please teacher
please twins
angel sanctuary
koi kaze
Boku wa Imōto ni Koi o Suru
kissxsis
okane ga nai
maiden rose/hyakujitsu no bara
papa to kiss in the dark
junjou romantica
fish in the trap
haru wo daite ita
close the last door
kirepapa
sensitive pornograph
ikoku irokoi romantan
ai no kusabi
gakuen heaven
gravitation
sukisyo
loveless
peach girl
lovely complex
inuyasha
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SO CUTE!
please bare with me 
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June 8th, 2010
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Mari and I took a walk down memory lane today. Well… we tried.
We tried to somehow get to the forest behind our houses. We used to go there every day when we were kids, pretending we were forest people who could hear secrets in the wind or whatever. We were those genuine country kids who wandered around all day long, discovering and rediscovering every rock and plant in the village.
In the forest there is a small dam. I remember it was the ultimate test of courage to jump over it. Those who could jump would then go deeper into the forest and those who could not would have to find something else to do. I had to find something else to do. The chicken that I am.
Finally, when I got the courage to jump I could join The Brave Ones to go eat ants (yes, dear reader) and climb trees on the other side of the dam. Fun!
But since today the earth was wet and branches were knit into impenetrable walls, we did not get to the dam. It’s a shame. But I will fix this.
I tried to google my home forest and found a picture taken in that forest by one of my childhood friends:
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April 24th, 2010
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April 23rd, 2010
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Just because.
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April 23rd, 2010
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Now that is just… amazing.
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April 21st, 2010
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