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I just spent an hour and twenty minutes re-alphabetizing the videos at the library. My brain is kind of dead. (See, Bella? They don't give me cool jobs to do all of the time.) Thankfully, I wrote most of this entry last night when I was in a Comparison/Conspiracy Theory mood. That is a dangerous mood for me to be in, as you'll soon see from the rest of this entry.
Because I've given up on re-reading the Final Fantasy VII script again (because once you get to the middle of Disc 2, things just start to get a little confusing/ridiculous), I've instead decided to delve into the Final Fantasy VIII script, which has its own share of confusing ridiculousness (I remember my first time reading it, and all of a sudden they were in outer space and Rinoa was a sorceress and I was like "WTF IS GOING ON HERE?" and suddenly getting visions of when they go into outer space in Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator) But at least Squall is a normal person, not like the main characters of VII and X (in which Cloud is a failed Sephiroth clone and Tidus is a "dream of the fayth"). And if I were a Final Fantasy character I would probably be Squall, except with a little less angst (he has thoughts very similar to Harry idea of "the more you care about, the more you have to lose" in the OotP movie).
Anyway, FFVIII features lots of time-traveling type events, and I can't help but see the similarities between the time-travel of FFVIII and Lost.
Also? I'm in the process of sporking the second draft of "The Power of Light" (I'd love to do the first draft, because I think it's much more spork-worthy, but it's not typed up and there is no way that I'm going to go through the pain of typing up that abomination word-for-word just so that I can mock it) with the help of Karis (because sporkers often employ characters of existing fandoms or their own characters to help in the sporkage). It's been a lot of fun; I might later post it (or bits of it) here. I'm especially excited because I just fit in one of my favorite How I Met Your Mother references: "We are International Businessmen on a lucrative trip to Japan!" I also make a Princess Consuela Bananahammock reference and multiple references to Lost, Final Fantasy X, and Harry Potter. I mainly do the references and other miscellaneous stuff (including turning a fight scene into a poorly-written sex scene), while Karis questions the general logic of things and laments how much the story rapes her universe (because it was written before I really came up with good world travel/interworld contact).
Speaking of sporking, I was shelving Eldest at the library today and I was thinking that somebody should seriously do a spork of that and Eragon. I have a feeling that would be very amusing.
- Mood:
geeky
So the layout's working now, except the alignment's not quite right, but I think it's supposed to be that way. Oh well.
Now? On to my deep analysis crap that I wrote last night that probably nobody cares about
So I'm fairly certain that some aspects of "Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories" were borrowed from "Final Fantasy VII..
... And between this and the work I'm doing on my current writing project with Keira and her memory that was the target of Eltanin's experiments in memory-altering, I'm really getting sick of the word "memory."
I've decided that "The Drugs Don't Work" by the Verve could be Future!Jack's theme song on Lost...
Today's also the one-year anniversary of the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I'm going to celebrate by displaying three of JKR's ridiculously written sentences from HP&DH. First we have "Water filled Harry's eyes and mouth: He could not see or breathe: Then, with an awful lurch, the cart flipped over and they were all thrown out of it." There are a couple of things wrong with this. First, although I don't think it's exactly incorrect, I hate her habit in her later books of connecting sentences together with colons, especially because she capitalizes the first letter of the second sentence, which I'm pretty sure is incorrect. Secondly, why the hell does she connect THREE sentences in this way? Especially when two of them are rather short and choppy? Why couldn't she have just said, "Water filled Harry's eyes and mouth, and he could not see or breathe. Then, with an awful lurch, the cart flipped over and they were all thrown out of it." It would have eliminated a lot of unnecessary colons. Then she later decides to combine three sentences again: "He spotted Ginny two tables away; she was sitting with her head on her mother's shoulder: There would be time to talk later, hours and days and maybe years in which to talk." She actually used a semi-colon this time, but then she has to ruin it by tacking on another sentence, connected by a colon. Bad JKR, bad! The third sentence includes more absurd colon usage: "One shivering second of silence, the shock of the moment suspended: and then the tumult broke around Harry as the screams and the cheers and the roars of the watchers rent the air." Yes, I know that Voldemort's just been defeated, so maybe she should be granted a bit of creative grammatical license to convey the Drama (which is why I won't comment on all the "and's"), but that colon should NOT be there. A simple comma would have sufficed, damn it.
Despite all of JKR's failures with HP&DH, however, there are still some redeeming moments.
- "NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!" (Molly Weasley FTW!)
- Hero!Neville cutting off Nagini's head and all that.
- The whole chapter "The Prince's Tale." I cannot tell you how much I adore that chapter.
- Remus and Tonks getting married and having a baby. Of course, that was pretty much ruined when they got KILLED OFF ;_; I don't think I've ever been angrier about a character death (or two characters' deaths, in this case).
Oh, and I have to say that the chapter when Harry's in between life and death on the Farplane in King's Cross, I couldn't help but think of a badfic that I read (well, actually, I just read the sporked version over at deleterius) about Female!Harry stuck on Luna's Astral Plane of Love where s/he experienced constant orgasms (yes, that did scare me away from the fic). My FFX brain also immediately thought "ZOMG IT'S UNSENT!HARRY!" Because, you know, he was caught between life and death...
Okay, analysis!brain has been shut off. It needs to be put to use on The Scarlet Letter now.
- Mood: geeky
... My comparison!brain really needs to be turned off.
- Mood: dorky
(No, I'm not trying to scare you away with my namenerdness. I will, however, scare you away with my Lost ramblings, inspired by last night's awesome episode.)
... It's episodes like this one that remind me that Lost is most definitely my kind of show.
- Mood: geeky
I've realized that my entertainment has been throwing me an abnormally large amount of Star Wars references (or quotes that are from or could be from Star Wars) as of late. There's been a few of them in FFX (not counting all the times a character says "So be it" and I immediately think "... Jedi" afterwards). Most noteworthy: Yuna says, "I am a summoner, my lord, like my father before me" at one point in the game, which is almost an exact echo of what Luke says to Palpatine in Return of the Jedi (except exchange "summoner" for "Jedi," obviously). A little later, Seymour (one of the bad guys) says, "I have saved him. He was a man who craved power. And great power he had, but he feared losing it." This is very similar to Palpatine's line to Anakin in Revenge of the Sith: "All who gain power are afraid to lose it." Then there's Lost, which is always rife with Star Wars references/similarities. In Thursday night's episode, Future!Ben says to Future!Sayid, "Once you let your grief become anger, it will never go away." There's not an exact Star Wars quote that corresponds with this, but it definitely sounds Jedi-ish and is almost reminiscient of Yoda's quote from The Phantom Menace: "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
Oh, and I saw the glee-inducing Tidus/Yuna kiss scene in FFX today and therefore have had "Suteki da ne" (the piece of music that plays during the scene) stuck in my head almost constantly. But yay, romance! It makes me eager to get further into my writing project so that I can get to the Sari/Perrin romance scenes that come later. I'm almost finished with the first part, though, the end of which involves ten-year-old emotional-and-filled-with-father-issuesl!P
- Mood: nerdy
I am strongly fighting the urge to (re)name a character Aurin. The problem? It's pronounced the same and is only one letter off from Auron (FFX/KHII character). And I already have enough names that are coincidentially similar to KH/FF names. (Okay, so maybe Axelle was intentional. But Leon and Elena weren't.) I just think adding another (albeit fairly minor) character whose name happens to be related to KH/FF would be a little too much. But Aurin is so SHINY. *flail!*
Also? Today I came up with three comparisons-of-school-related-things-to-tjungle wild moors). So if Hareton ended up killing his father (especially with harmful gases!), I would not be surprised at all. Also, I'm just waiting for one character (I'm thinking Heathcliff) to declare to a love interest, "Because you're MINE." It just seems like something that would happen. (And would be another link to Lost, whee!)
My second conclusion is that Jesus = Darth Plagueis. In Revenge of the Sith, Palpatine tells Anakin the legend of Darth Plagueis the Wise, and says how, "It's ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself." In the gospels of Matthew and Mark, when Jesus is being crucified, the chief priests mock him by saying, "He saves others; he cannot save himself." However, if Jesus = Darth Plagueis that would mean that Peter = Palpatine, and that wouldn't really work, yeah? But still.
I've had a strong desire to read the chapter in Deathly Hallows entitled "The Prince's Tale" lately. That chapter is one of my favorites, what with its portrayal of Snape as a Misunderstood Boy Who Only Wants the Love of Lily Evans. It makes me look at him in a whole different way, because hark! there is goodness in him!
- Mood: nerdy
