I finished my blu-ray rewatch of Firefly + Serenity. The series was as good as I remember on this umpteenth time or better. All the episodes were great, but I think 'Serenity,' 'Safe,' 'Jaynestown,' 'Out of Gas,' and 'Objects in Space' were exceptionally brilliant. Also of course the movie, but with all the money and time it had I should hope that would be the case. I came away from it with slightly more respect for Kaylee than before, which was enough to tip her over the top and get into my fictional character hall of fame.
Izumiko is the alien in the pink bear suit who for whatever reason decided to infiltrate Hatusnejima, was caught out by Junichi, had a romance with him, zapped him with a memory fry ray, left, then eventually came back and retracted her memory deletion so that they could live happily ever after. She was more a comic relief character in Da Capo Plus Communication than anything else. It was never really clear why she made any of the decisions she made, and they always seemed to contradict one another. I guess that makes her a multi-dimensional, deep character, but you could also say just a fickle girl. It doesn't help that her story only exists in the original Japanese and I had to read it via machine translation. So whatever nuance to her character was entirely lost to me.
Compared to the living teddy bear kigurumi, Kaylee stacks up pretty well. She's a gorgeous, genius mechanic. She's friendly, honest, cheerful and fights bravely when needed despite a complete lack of martial prowess. She's busily thinking of others' welfare even while lying on her own deathbed. She loves everyone around her and everyone universally loves her. That's a great trait in a person -- enough to be one of the greatest fictional characters of all time. I'm not keen on her somewhat loose sexual mores but it's a fault I can live with given all her other excellent facets. It's a small demerit weighed against a million merits. At some point you gotta give a gal a break.
Izumiko is from Da Capo and so has an actual tie-in to the 100 waifus, but that's only worthwhile as a tiebreaker. When Kaylee is so much stronger as a candidate the tie-in doesn't make any difference.
The next problem is that "Kaylee" is actually a nickname. The real name of the character is Kaywinnet, which is brought up only once in the series, when she's introduced at a formal ball. I wish her name really were Kaylee, it's much better sounding than Kaywinnet, but I established early in the series that children would be named after the real fictional names of the fictional characters they were meant to honor, not their nicknames, so even when the nickname sounds better there's nothing I could do. Thus 'Kaywinnet' replaces Izumiko, with the nickname given after the official name, 'or 'Kaylee.'' so people know who the hell I'm talking about.
Kaywinnet joins Malcom in Firefly and 100 Waifus, who also has a 'or 'Mal.'' nickname.
Hopefully the girls of Healin' Good Precure will enable me to replace yet more undeserving names in my fictional character hall of fame. The girls debut next week, but it's not like I'll be able to judge their worth the first moment I see them. So maybe a few weeks from now I'll be able to make use of them one way or the other.
Hatena Illusion's third episode wasn't bad as far as plot goes -- though I hope it doesn't turn into a fighting series (I don't think it will) -- no, the real problem was the horrible art and animation. Everything looked so janky, like it was missing tons of lines and frames. The faces didn't look right. It felt like an entirely different studio was drawing the episode than the previous two. The first two episodes were so promising I was sure it would easily make my great anime rankings, but after seeing that third episode I'm not sure anymore. I'll go on hoping the series pulls itself together and the later episodes relieve my worries, but bleh, just when I thought I'd found a winner. . .it goes and tanks itself. Maybe everything will be fixed in the blu-rays? But what hope is there of getting a blu-ray version when even Crest of the Stars hasn't?
At least some good news -- a new chapter of Fate/Kaleid Liner has been scanlated. Maybe the useless, lazy author is finally getting back to work. It doesn't feel like the series has to last much longer, so how hard is it to write the last remaining part? Illyasviel deserves her happy ending.
I'm about a 1/3 of the way through Bonfire of the Vanities. It has some good points, is funny and well-written. The psychology of the characters is very immersive. I just can't seem to sympathize with the characters as people. They're all so flawed. I guess that's kind of the point, but I'm used to cheering for heroes in my stories. I'm still not sold on Tom Wolfe novels as a whole.
In a few days the latest Imouto Sae Ireba Ii novel comes out on Amazon. And in a week there's the Super Bowl between two very deserving teams. It's been a rewarding January and it'll be a great February, Hatena Illusion's third episode notwithstanding.
The Daily Stormer is now denouncing white nationalists, ie, people who want the white race to survive by isolating itself from its persecutors and the more insidious but just as genocidal miscegenators, as well as people who want a new beginning with a new law code and a new cultural code and realize the decaying America can never have that, thus placing themselves to the left of Amren, Vdare and the like. Despite all his edgy curse words he's actually a coward (and traitor) who has abandoned the only position that actually matters in this world. Andrew Anglin is the new Derek Black. On top of that, he's excommunicated anyone who isn't pro-christian. So anyone who doesn't want to worship the God of the Jews is a bad person. Anyone who doesn't think a Jew was God incarnate is a bad person. Anyone who doesn't think a scripture written entirely by Jews is holy writ is a bad person. Anyone who thinks Noah's ark is preposterous and logically impossible is a bad person. Anyone who objects to any of the dumb teachings in the Bible which inevitably lead your society to ruin, (like 'turn the other cheek'), is a bad person.
The Daily Stormer is excommunicating the entire pro-white community with this. You cannot be pro-white and christian. Christianity believes in the divine soul of every human being, not just whites. It's a universalist religion. On top of that, it doesn't care about our welfare on Earth, but only in heaven. So its main focus is on saving the souls of the heathens, ie, the third world. To be a christian is necessarily to abandon all pro-white stances and give yourself wholly over to charity. If you believe the christian tenets there is no possible room left for politics that exclusively favor white people.
But the hypocrisy gets even more ridiculous. On top of excommunicating non-Christians, he keeps claiming he's a communist, which is a militantly atheist philosophy that kills religious people and burns down all their meeting places as a matter of principle. So simultaneously he's a fervent Christian, so much so that there is no further room for secularists in his movement, and a Communist revolutionary who will impale all nuns to barn doors like the socialists of Spain did when they got their chance.
Luckily this burning heap of contradictions will all be ending soon, because Andrew Anglin has also announced that his website only has enough funding for the next few months. Maybe he isn't receiving any donations because he's completely betrayed every last segment of his base? Somehow Amren, Vdare, Unz.com, etc. all meet payroll. It's only cowards and traitors who seem to slip away. Go figure and good riddance.
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