Enchantermon on 27/4/2009 at 01:21
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
. . . Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu (skip the other two series, they're are pretty terrible).
-Haruhi Suzumiya tries too hard and is just pathetic.
Seriously? I can't get enough of any of FMP or Haruhi. I haven't watched the dubs for either, though, so if you're speaking of those, I can't say. If not...different strokes, I guess.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is excellent (though I haven't seen all of the dub yet, just all of the original Japanese), and is all about the power of your spirit and pressing on against impossible odds. It doesn't get more feel-good than that. You just have to get past some of the artwork on the fourth episode.
Muzman on 27/4/2009 at 05:55
Quote Posted by henke
Fran decides to take up yoga but gets more than she asked for!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkWjuIW4w7Q)
and at the end where she backslides and gets completely blasted; "I quit when I had to give up peas. What wrong with fucking peas for god's sake?!"
Or the one where they've got this huge stock of a new super-book to sell.
Female holidaymaker: Hi, we're looking for...
[Bernard hands her a copy of Tempocalypse]
Bernard: Here's one for you.
Female holidaymaker: How do you know what we both want?
Male holidaymaker: We don't like the same stuff.
Bernard: You're going on holiday. You want trash. But different kinds of trash. You, you want social themes, believable characters. You, you want suspense, thriller. This does you both. It's this temp. She's 29 and she can't get a boyfriend. Oh my god.
Female holidaymaker: Sounds great.
Male holidaymaker: No way.
Bernard: And she's got 12 hours to stop a nuclear war with China.
Male holidaymaker: Well, one copy each!
Or when Manny runs away and gets picked up by this sleazy pornographer who specialises in beard fetish stuff.
And all the ones where they get really drunk, I mean more than usual.
All Graham Linehan's stuff is like that (Father Ted, The IT crowd) sorta cheap and hokey but strangely addictive.
Sulphur on 27/4/2009 at 06:57
Quote Posted by Syndy/3
Mushishi is very slow paced, serene and peaceful anime series. At least that's what I heard, I seldomly make it past the intro before falling asleep.
It's slow-paced all right, but its themes are not necessarily serene or calming. I see it as a contemplation of life and the effect of loss, regret, and family on it, aided and sharpened to unflinching clarity by the supernatural mushi.
It's best viewed on dark, quiet nights. And it doesn't let you go to sleep, not easily.
henke on 27/4/2009 at 07:12
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
The fucking housesitting episode with the "cheap old dusty bottles of wine"
I'd completely managed to supress all memories of that episode until you mentioned it thankyou verymuch.
Quote Posted by Muzman
All Graham Linehan's stuff is like that (Father Ted, The IT crowd) sorta cheap and hokey but strangely addictive.
Oh my god it's the same guy who wrote for Father Ted? I love that show!
Ah! Looking him up on iMDB reveals that he wrote all the episodes in the Black Books season 1 and none in the rest. That explains the drop in quality as soon as season 2 started. :sly:
Syndy/3 on 27/4/2009 at 08:05
Sulphur: You're right, the themes in Mushishi aren't exactly cheerful, but they're told in a peaceful way and have a conclusion. Admittedly I've only watched a few episodes so far. For me it works well as an end-of-the-day thing. YMMV
Judith on 27/4/2009 at 09:36
I love watching Scrubs before sleep, but I wish our local Comedy Central finally got more episodes than just the first four seasons ;)
june gloom on 27/4/2009 at 16:27
If I remember right, those four seasons are the only ones worth watching.
Not that Scrubs is in any way not the Cancer that is Killing Funny.
Kroakie on 27/4/2009 at 17:36
If you want a peaceful Mushishi, I'd recommend Natsume Yuujincho. Similar premise, about a teenage boy who can see spirits and how he interact with them and the people around him. The ending of every very single episode leaves me with a warm fuzzy feeling.
While I agree that Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is excellent, I really don't think it's good to watch it before sleep, because it'll keep you up all night thinking about how awesome the episode you just watched was.
For something newer, try K-On, by the studio behind Fumoffu and Haruhi. Cute girls + guitar = win.
vurt on 27/4/2009 at 18:01
Yeah he's fantastic.
I love this one:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw&feature=player_embedded)
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."
