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ofadoration asked if I was going to post about Blood+. I watched a fair amount of it while chatting with missdeep. All I knew about Blood+ was from
missdeep's LJ before viewing, which I summed up to her before watching as such:
missdeep: also in Russia we get Rasputin molesting Sayanyonyo: whatmissdeep: it's a ~flashback~ and I don't want to give much away, but yeah, Rasputin x Sayamissdeep: and Hagi walking around without a shirt onnyonyo: IN RUSSIA?missdeep: well he's inside so it's totally ok!!!1nyonyo: oh nevermindnyonyo: cardboard doesn't feel coldnyonyo: SAYA NOW I SHALL EXPLAIN YOUR PASTnyonyo: …THROUGH INTERPRETIVE DANCEnyonyo: and david going SAYA HAS INFILTRATED THE SCHOOLnyonyo: like it's hardnyonyo: OMG HOW RISKYmissdeep: infiltrating schools in Vietnam is v. difficultmissdeep: all, like, attending and shitnyonyo: THEY MIGHT SEE THROUGH HER AMAZING DISGUISEnyonyo: AS A GIRL FROM JAPANnyonyo: there is no sydney bristow stuff required herenyonyo: is hagi the gardener there??missdeep: lmao yeah, nobody is sydney bristow in this series, trust me.missdeep: Yeah, Hagi is the help lolnyonyo: because saya cannot be syd by herself, clearlymissdeep: even combined they're only like, half a sydney at best.nyonyo: ONLY HALF A WIGmissdeep: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAnyonyo: lol Kai has a VIETNAM pamphletmissdeep: I doubt Kai can even readnyonyo: like they just sell pamphlets for a COUNTRYmissdeep: LMAOmissdeep: YESmissdeep: VIETNAM IS FULL OF PAMPHLETS THAT EXPLAIN THE WHOLE COUNTRYnyonyo: "what's the capital of vietnam???"nyonyo: CHECK YOUR FUCKING PAMPHLETnyonyo: and saya is all outright EXPLAIN THE PLOT TO ME HAJInyonyo: and haji was like INTERPRETIVE DANCE OR NOTHING SAYAmissdeep: lmao YESnyonyo: I DON'T DO EXPOSITIONnyonyo: TOO WORDYmissdeep: And, like, if he'd just explained shit in more than dance steps the series could easily have been half the lengthmissdeep: since he knows everything about Saya, he just won't tell hermissdeep: or anyone else for that matternyonyo: EXCELLENTnyonyo: I look forward to more dance steps as he withholds information in the futuremissdeep: nobody ever bothers pressing him so they're all just as frustratingmissdeep: but only Hagi can dancenyonyo: of course notnyonyo: they know you get nowhere when you pressure cardboardnyonyo: it's okay I'm watching episode 14 now anyway where nothing happens lolmissdeep: omg how can you say nothing happens?! they eat bbq on the beach!!!!!nyonyo: NOW HAJI IS SERENADING THEMnyonyo: THAT IS NOT BEACH MUSIC HAJImissdeep: He knows his purposenyonyo: DON'T YOU KNOW ANY KATY PERRY FOR CELLOnyonyo: LOL KAI BEHAVE OR WE WILL DITCH YOU WITH A CREDIT CARD IN THE RUSSIAN WASTELANDmissdeep: Hahahahahaha. Then he'd have to live in poverty with Russian children for a while.missdeep: Teach them the joys of baseballmissdeep: oh oh oh did you enjoy Lewis getting chocolate bars for setting the chicks up with random men on a Russian train?nyonyo: YESnyonyo: though he should have tried to sell kai into prostitution instead for free gummissdeep: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I would be ok with thisnyonyo: what self-respecting vampire LICKS the bloodmissdeep: look at the series you're watchingmissdeep: THAT IS THE ANSWERnyonyo: oh rightnyonyo: no one has self respectmissdeep: oh what I'd do to have this show wiped from my memoriesnyonyo: ooh unbuttoned shirtmissdeep: you're desperately looking for any sort of positive, aren't you?nyonyo: lmao David and Joel talking over drinksnyonyo: DAVID FEELS SUCH HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY AND GUILT OVER KAI AND RIKUnyonyo: OH HOW TERRIBLE THAT THESE POOR INNOCENT SOULS WERE DRAGGED INTO THIS VAMPIRE WARnyonyo: TRULY IT IS A TRAGEDYnyonyo: IT'S NOT LIKE I DIDN'T LET THEM TAG ALONG PURELY FOR THE LULZ OR ANYTHING LIKE THATnyonyo: aww hajinyonyo: he's got to be likenyonyo: I GET A LITTLE BROTHER TO BE MY BRO IN SAYA WORSHIP FOR ETERNITY, SCOREnyonyo: I WILL TEACH HIM TO PLAY THE CELLO AND IMITATE CARDBOARDnyonyo: IT'LL BE AWESOMEmissdeep: do you think this show would actually let either of them be happy?missdeep: Knowing Saya is sufferingnyonyo: I'm not saying it'll turn out that way!missdeep: I wish it did turn out that waymissdeep: and they ditched Saya and started a bandnyonyo: they could be the love boat cello duonyonyo: maybe play poolsidenyonyo: as apparently it does have a poolnyonyo: do we get to see the pool???nyonyo: that sounds like a groovy filler episodenyonyo: kai is so into his gunnyonyo: he could almost be american!missdeep: honorary americannyonyo: lol lurking into the shadowsnyonyo: she doesn't want to show him her SKIN OF A KILLAAAAAAAAAAAH, clearlymissdeep: ahahahahahahahahahahahahamissdeep: oh if only they sparkled(much later)
missdeep: You've been enjoying B+ then I take it?nyonyo: I WILL BE YOUR BANDAID SHIORImissdeep: NOW DO YOU SEE?!missdeep: NOW DO YOU SEE?!nyonyo: IT'S ALL REALmissdeep: I DON'T LIEnyonyo: also the b+ dub has crispin freeman doing a bad french accent?!?!?!missdeep: YESmissdeep: OH GODnyonyo: fyi: the actress who played tess on smallville is crispin freeman's sister. our horrifying shows being so closely linked DELIGHTS MEmissdeep: His Van voice is just WTFmissdeep: oh my god it's like six degrees of fake babiesnyonyo: YESSSSSSSmissdeep: I'd like to know what he did in a past life to deserve this shit.nyonyo: HE IS LIFEBONDED WITH SAYA FFSnyonyo: THAT IS PRETTY MUCH BOTTOM OF THE BARREL AS FATES GOmissdeep: He must have been Judas.nyonyo: AND SHE ISN'T EVEN PUTTING OUT APPARENTLYmissdeep: NOmissdeep: SHE'S A FUCKING BLUSHING STUPID VIRGINmissdeep: OH NOES HAGImissdeep: I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU DO EVERYTHING FOR ME FOREVER BUT ANY TIME YOU GET CLOSE TO ME I WILL EITHER CUT YOUR HAND OFF OR SOMETHING EQUALLY AS STUPIDmissdeep: PS: WHERE'S MY FLOWER?missdeep: I TOOOOOOLD YOU TO GET ITnyonyo: I CAN'T EVEN. ALL THAT TIME OVER THE TIMEJUMP ALONE TOGETHER, AND NOTHING?missdeep: /nothing/nyonyo: WHERE IS THE TERRIBLE PORNO WHERE SHE DEMANDS HE DO DIRTY, DIRTY THINGS TO HER nyonyo: AND HE SOLEMNLY REPLIESnyonyo: *~IF THAT IS YOUR WISH~*nyonyo: this show is a disappointment on basically EVERY LEVELmissdeep: Dude, they're up to Joel six. FIVE JOELS HAVE LIVED AND DIED SINCE SAYA WAS BORN. FIVE LIFETIMES WITHOUT SEX.missdeep: Saya can't have sex, she's too emo about having this traaaaaagic life of hers. missdeep: BOO HOO. OKINAWA. NANKURUNAISA. HURR DURR DURR.nyonyo: clearly this is why she's so grumpy all the timemissdeep: She's such an assholemissdeep: Seriously, she's the worst main character I think I've ever had to suffer through.nyonyo: she is SO TERRIBLEmissdeep: I can't believe people ship Hagi with her. He'd be better off dead.nyonyo: WHY DID THE SHOTA HAVE TO DIEnyonyo: HE AND HAGI WERE GONNA BE BFF FOR LIFEnyonyo: THEY WERE GONNA PLAY CELLO TOGETHERnyonyo: AND GO SHOPPING AND MAKE KAI CARRY THEIR BAGSnyonyo: i don't blame david for becoming an alcoholic hobonyonyo: I want to become an alcoholic hobo after watching thisnyonyo: and I didn't have to live itnyonyo: alsonyonyo: "corpse corps" is the best name for anything evermissdeep: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA IKR?nyonyo: someone really stayed up all night thinking up that onemissdeep: I never got sick of hearing them say corpse corpsmissdeep: it was too hilariousnyonyo: after a really long brainstorming session with a white boardmissdeep: I bet they did market researchmissdeep: lots of surveysnyonyo: I can't wait to see the amazing writing to come out of this as I don't think it's going the route that, you know, EVERY SHOW EVER would donyonyo: i.e. she goes to the airport without telling anyone and then there is a thrilling fast-paced montage of okamura racing through the city streets going DON'T GET ON THE PLANE MAOmissdeep: If B+ did that Okamura would get diverted on the way to the airport to go fishing.missdeep: And Kai and Saya would look all :( in the backgroundnyonyo: and there'd be a whole episode about it.missdeep: OR TWOnyonyo: lol collinsnyonyo: NOBODY COULD HAVE FORESEEN THIS CRAZY BREAKDOWNmissdeep: IT CAME OUT OF NOWHEREnyonyo: NO BUILDUP OR FORESHADOWING WHATSOEVERmissdeep: NONEnyonyo: THE RANDOM BOUTS OF CRAZY LAUGHTERnyonyo: NOT A CLUE AT ALLnyonyo: o hai solomonnyonyo: saya to futari de ikiteitainyonyo: WHAT HAPPENED TO "DON'T WORRY HAGI"nyonyo: "I'M NOT HERE TO COCKBLOCK YOU"missdeep: he's full of shitmissdeep: he always wanted to cockblock Haginyonyo: OMG YOU JERKnyonyo: HE JUST LEFT HAGI THEREnyonyo: WITH KAI!!!!!!!!!nyonyo: A FATE WORSE THAN DEATHmissdeep: Hmm no, Hagi already drew that lotnyonyo: AND HAGI HANGGLIDING SAYA IN FOR THE KILL. AMAZING.missdeep: SEE? DO YOU SEE? BLOOD+ IS JUST A COMEDY WITH A VERY SLOW START.nyonyo: The animation for Hagi getting WINGS OF SHAME was so "AHHHH THEY ARE TRYING TO BE ESCAFLOWNE DON'T TRY IT SHOW YOU ARE JUST GOING TO EMBARRASS YOURSELF OH WAIT THAT HAS NEVER STOPPED YOU BEFORE."nyonyo: KAI HAS AN ASCOT FOR THE SHOTA OPERAnyonyo: MY LIFE IS COMPLETEmissdeep: I wish he'd go solve mysteries in a van and gtfo this series.In conclusion: THIS SHOW, I CAN'T EVEN.
(Bring it, CLAMP.)
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Date: 2011-06-20 07:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-20 07:49 am (UTC)...LIKE HAGI ONLY WISHES HE COULD, EVERY NIGHT FONDLY FANTASIZING OF THE SWEET RELEASE OF DEATH THAT WILL NEVER BE HIS ALL BECAUSE SAYA JUST HAD TO HAVE THAT FUCKING FLOWER
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Date: 2011-06-20 07:57 am (UTC)I have never wanted to punch a main character more than I did at that moment.