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More Fantasia reviews!

Ghost in the Shell S.A.C.: Solid State Society: the problem with trying to wrap a Standalone Complex-style plot in 1h45min is that the exposition gets really, really clunky. "As you know, Ishikawa, the political quandary caused by the fall of the Seok Republic..." And the ending felt like a bit of a copout, somehow. But basically it was just a long, excellent episode of the TV series.

T and I were talking about Transformers later that evening, and I said that at Nickelodeon-age I was alienated by "boy" cartoons - wouldn't watch anything that had robots, cars, or muscly men. I didn't even like muppets as most of them were funny-looking (the bulk of my Sesame Street-watching was done as a pre-teen, at which point I was old enough to get the puns). I did, however, enjoy watching G.I. Joe. XD;; Thinking about it that was basically like GitS:SAC for six year olds (insert own American foreign policy zing). Scarlett! Snake Eyes! OSHI IT'S STARTING TO COME BACK TO ME.

I was reading an article in Adbusters by a college professor who lamented that her twentysomething students were utterly refractory when asked to assess the influence of consumer culture on themselves, even though they accept the theory readily - that in effect the generational brainwashing by the likes of Hasbro was a total success. "Yes ma'am, child-targetted advertisement sure is nefarious, but don't you go hatin' on Strawberry Shortcake."

Yellow Fellas: bit of an amateur production. I do care about how films look, very much so, and this wasn't it. ^^; It was a free showing (the line stretched futilely around the block as the theatre only had 300-something seats) and a tale of personal endeavour so the crowd was inclined to be indulgent, I think. The script was the best part of it but I find that kind of humour only mildly amusing, and to be honest I don't relate to the existence of a greater North American "Azn Pride" identity, even defined parodically. Insofar as it strikes its mark it must be with regard to Asian men, at any rate, not Asian women, of whom there are a grand total of zero in the film (if you don't count the baby daughter).

And yet more

The latest round of drabble_trade is up! Ouran fic for me:

Kyouya/Tamaki + Haruhi
Nekozawa (ahaha)

I am having difficulty formulating a guess, though. XD;

Overheard in an Aerodrome in the Imperial City of Archades, by canis_m [FFXII/Swordspoint]
Privilege-timeline, insofar as that stretches; an AU of sorts (but then who knows what strange lands one might encounter in the course of one's travels XD). Also a giftfic for me. ♥

Berlin, by atdelphi [Harry Potter/Petshop of Horrors]
Recced by issen4 (who is on fire these days). Also a dashedly clever crossover. The key to the genre, I think, is identifying a hinge where two or more series are in exact if accidental agreement and writing from there, rather than simply having characters from series A meet characters from series B. Here the conceptual hinge is Fawkes. *g*

Not very on the ball for the upcoming Potterdämmerung (to steal from keelieinblack) - no firm plans yet for acquiring the book or going to see the movie, somewhat to sororial unit's frustration. But I'll have to do both ASAP, like everyone else, or miss the LJ spoiler boat.