Snake Plissken, Fighting Bad Guys and Algae

[talkingsoup]

I finally have a snail. FINALLY. He's brown and kind of tiger-stripped and his snail-self is pink and kind of speckly.

His name is Snake Plissken. Just cause.

In the course of cleaning the tank Calypso accidentally got sucked up the tube, but I got him out quick enough. I think he's okay.

The tank is very pretty now, with clean water and clean walls. Woot.

The 4th Death Note episode came out the other day, and it was quite awesome.

And in Naruto, Julie and I have reached the Final Arc. Which I love, but...

In ASIC, with Gankutsuo over and done with, we've moved on to Noein. Which is weird, with weird animation and a really "...the hell?" storyline. It's confusing as all get out, but the action sequences are well done and I like the characters so far. Even emo, razor-carrying, "I'm losing my miiiiiiind!!!one!!" Yuu. The storyline--what I understand of it--seems to be rather unique, too. Cross-dimensional travel and all that. So I rather like it.

While I'm still in the anime vein, I have a query about Naruto. So, like, this filler arc. General opinion holds that it's going to end pretty soon and begin in with the Kakashi story and stuff. But here's the query--once they get back into manga storyline, how are they going to treat the filler arc? Are they just going to kind of go back into the storyline and pretend like the fillers never happened? In other words, everything that people learned and did in the arc won't have happened? Or will they kind of tie things in? That was pretty much the only reason I bothered with the mini-filler arc, the Country of Tea thing, because they managed to tie it in really well to the overall storyline. Now of course I'd much rather they just forget the filler arc and pick up where the manga left off--since I only made it up to the Scent Bug thing in the fillers (fail. FAIL.) But that doesn't seem very...smart. The production company wants the fans to watch the fillers as if it's part of Naruto as a whole. That way when the DVDs come out, people, yanno, actually buy them. So what's gonna happen?

Seeing as they've kept quiet about when the damn arc is gonna end I doubt anyone knows whether they're going to treat the arc as having been a real part of the show, but anyway.

In the meanwhile, I'm back on the Mot wagon, YES, and I'm debating whether or not to really go ahead with NaNo. The fic is going well, Desert is going well, Spirits is kind of dead in the water, but overall I'm happy. Especially concerning Mot. I suppose they're right when they say the best treatment for disillusionment with a project is to let it alone for awhile.

I wrote a section with Scryes, which made me like him more (even though he's the bad guy), and now I know where I'm going with everything. Hooray!

It snowed today! First snow of the year! Crazy weather, first it was raining, then snow, then sun, lots of wind. But dude! Snow! Yay!

Reading Melusine which was supposed to be the September book for ladyjaida's book club. Yeah, I'm really behind. But in any case, hell yes it's an awesome book so far. I've been insane in the book department lately and now I have something like 18 books what need reading. Guh. I'll finish Melusine and Reading Lolita in Tehran, then get into the Tammy books, and go from there. Fortunately I've got a plane ride coming up. Nothing but reading. No iPod, no computer, none of it--just reading, dammit.

Oh, we watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer for our movie night yesterday. I actually rather like that show--it's campy. Probably because it's a Joss Whedon show, ("Grr! Arg!") oh man, Joss Whedon is my master now. We also watched a piece of Shadow Tracker, which is the movie that Kate was in when she was eight or nine. HAHAHAHAHAHA. It's...so...ridiculously bad, but it was funny to see Kate in it. (I think the best part was the beginning when like, the caption said "Vietnam 1967" and it was like, "Um...that's a maple tree. There...are no maple trees in the Vietnamese jungle"). Oh man.

Good times.

Lewis Black is going to be downtown on the 5th, XOMG, I'm so going.

Happy Day Light Saving's Time Ends Day!

Comments

[ddrussianinja.livejournal.com]

Actually, the fillers have been pretty harmless to the story line. Almost all of the character development has either already been dealt with or just reiterates something in the manga. There shouldn't be any need to speak of the fillers again, except maybe in other fillers.

However, don't get ahead of yourself. The fillers probably won't be gone until either late December or early January.

But if you're contemplating watching the fillers on the off chance that they'll reference them in future canon episodes, DON'T! Coming from someone who has masochistically seen them all, DON'T for the love of God DON'T!

[talkingsoup]

Thanks, I was wondering. Lol, don't worry, I had no intention of watching the arc. I just remember watching that Scent Bug thing and seeing all the stuff Hinata had learned and thinking, "How're they gonna explain this when they have to go back to the manga storyline?" But I suppose it makes sense since everyone at this point is a Chuunin/Jounin.

By the way, do you know if Naruto ever actually made it to Chuunin? (I remember Sakura telling him that he was the only one still a Genin when he came back).

[ddrussianinja.livejournal.com]

No he hasn't made it to Chuunin. However, he doesn't really need to be. Right now all he's interested in is being strong enough to bring Sasuke back. All the Chuunin Exam would do would be waste a month of the time he has before Orochimaru will take Sasuke's body,

[talkingsoup]

Oh, well I thought there were ways other than the literal exam to become a Chuunin. But you're right, it's not like it matters. Strength-wise he's already a Chuunin, if not a Jounin.