Skip beat ten
Jun. 24th, 2010 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrHave been feeling braindead and thus watching and reading Skip Beat(*) which I've really enjoyed. Thankyou to whoever recced it to me. Here's a nice unspoilery rec explaining why it's awesome. Plus there's a very nice central het ship and a non-canon-but-very-subtexty femslash ship both of which are also fun :)
Before that I was rewatching selected RTD Dr Who episodes with Cam which uh…reminded me how much I like the latest season (though it certainly wasn't all bad)
Anyway a somewhat paraphrased version of a conversation I and Cam had this evening…(SPOILERS for Skip Beat and Dr Who Season 4)
Me: The main character is awesome. To begin with she has a boyfriend and she totally devotes herself to him and is all traditionally feminine but then it turns out he was just using her. So she gets REALLY angry and reinvents herself, and she does find success but that's not the point, really what I've been enjoying is her character development. She learns not to overly obsess over people OR cut herself off from others, to find happiness within herself.
Cam: And you want to know what happens next?
Me: Yes!
Cam: Well obviously: She becomes part timelord. So she has to lose her memories and all her character development is for NOTHING.
Me: Nooooooo!
(And the main character of Skip Beat is a ginger and all, even if it's only dyed :))
(*)Watch the anime (legally and for free!), read the manga (free and…maybe legally?) Note that the manga is ongoing and the anime just covers the first few volumes ending at a natural pause so neither has a super neat ending.
Before that I was rewatching selected RTD Dr Who episodes with Cam which uh…reminded me how much I like the latest season (though it certainly wasn't all bad)
Anyway a somewhat paraphrased version of a conversation I and Cam had this evening…(SPOILERS for Skip Beat and Dr Who Season 4)
Me: The main character is awesome. To begin with she has a boyfriend and she totally devotes herself to him and is all traditionally feminine but then it turns out he was just using her. So she gets REALLY angry and reinvents herself, and she does find success but that's not the point, really what I've been enjoying is her character development. She learns not to overly obsess over people OR cut herself off from others, to find happiness within herself.
Cam: And you want to know what happens next?
Me: Yes!
Cam: Well obviously: She becomes part timelord. So she has to lose her memories and all her character development is for NOTHING.
Me: Nooooooo!
(And the main character of Skip Beat is a ginger and all, even if it's only dyed :))
(*)Watch the anime (legally and for free!), read the manga (free and…maybe legally?) Note that the manga is ongoing and the anime just covers the first few volumes ending at a natural pause so neither has a super neat ending.
