![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
rosencrantz and guildenstern are just pining for the fjords
"What you loved was not her, but the time in your lives and your young bodies."
With that, I'm ready to start reading The Most Idiotic and Unromantic Love Story Ever Told, but Which Unfortunately Still is the Definition of True Love Even Today, a.k.a Romeo and Juliet. Why read it, then, if the starter opinions are that harsh? Because it has many pretty words in it, strung prettily together, and some people have had the nerve to deem it a "classic". And the more classics one has under one's belt, the better. I think I'm emotionally mature enough by now to laugh at the story instead of throwing the play at the nearest wall. (...I don't know exactly why Romeo and Juliet offends me so, but it does.)
Our library's English copies of Shakespeare's plays have nice explanations of some of the more obscure words and phrases used in the text, and they're very helpful (to this reader at least), but sometimes they underestimate the recipients' intelligence a bit. It isn't that hard to figure out what fictional character/occurrence is being referred to in, for example, "angels are bright still, though the brightest fell".
On the anime front, my three initial reactions to Gundam 00. ..."Initial" being a misleading word, as I'm in episode four already.
1) What is Loveless doing in my mecha?♥!!!!
2) What is The Back Horn doing in my anime?See above.
3) W-wow, are those some actual politics I'm seeing, or am I just blinded by the fact that this world could nearly pass for this Earth in three hundred years' time (as opposed to the worlds with half the people living on the planet's orbit, with countries and organisations that don't really exist, as seen in every other Gundam series I'm aware of)?
With that, I'm ready to start reading The Most Idiotic and Unromantic Love Story Ever Told, but Which Unfortunately Still is the Definition of True Love Even Today, a.k.a Romeo and Juliet. Why read it, then, if the starter opinions are that harsh? Because it has many pretty words in it, strung prettily together, and some people have had the nerve to deem it a "classic". And the more classics one has under one's belt, the better. I think I'm emotionally mature enough by now to laugh at the story instead of throwing the play at the nearest wall. (...I don't know exactly why Romeo and Juliet offends me so, but it does.)
Our library's English copies of Shakespeare's plays have nice explanations of some of the more obscure words and phrases used in the text, and they're very helpful (to this reader at least), but sometimes they underestimate the recipients' intelligence a bit. It isn't that hard to figure out what fictional character/occurrence is being referred to in, for example, "angels are bright still, though the brightest fell".
On the anime front, my three initial reactions to Gundam 00. ..."Initial" being a misleading word, as I'm in episode four already.
1) What is Loveless doing in my mecha?
2) What is The Back Horn doing in my anime?
3) W-wow, are those some actual politics I'm seeing, or am I just blinded by the fact that this world could nearly pass for this Earth in three hundred years' time (as opposed to the worlds with half the people living on the planet's orbit, with countries and organisations that don't really exist, as seen in every other Gundam series I'm aware of)?
no subject
I think the Gundam ED is going to convert me to a fan of that band. Still looking up some of their other songs, though. (And if this series is going to be anything like Gundam Wing, which people keep comparing it to, yes I think politics are actually going to play a big role! :D)
no subject
(:DD ...Just hoping they're politics with real-life logic instead of the MOON LOGIC witnessed in shows like Gundam Seed. "Running low on water. We could take water from this years-ago destroyed colony and disturb the rest of the deceased, or we could die. Somehow we're seriously considering the second option as a valid one." Yeah, a beautiful sentiment, but it doesn't work like that.)