How I Met Your Mother
Today I realized why I liked HIMYM so much. Although the humor is not particularly complex, and though the acting is sometimes rough around the edges, I find that HIMYM manages to capture a lot about the reality of friendships. There are the obsessive contextual jokes that would never be funny outside your circle, cute and somewhat awkward moments when you do something that's borders on plain weird but your friends laugh and accept it anyway, exciting as well as unsettling moments when you discover new things about each other, and quiet periods when you're just passing time together.
The characters have a different dynamic with each other, and you can see how the producers gave each relationship varying levels of intimacy (this is most obvious in the Marshall-Robin relationship- For various reasons they simply don't become so close and there are little to no 1-to-1 conversations between them). That's what I don't like about Friends. The friendships of the friends in 'Friends' never seemed to have that defining character about them. They all felt like plot devices, at least compared to what I'm seeing in HIMYM now. But I guess the two can't really be compared as they each have very different points of emphasis. HIMYM is very story-driven and intensive, while Friends is probably more focused on providing light-hearted, accessible entertainment.
HIMYM doesn't have perfect execution or complex scripts, but it rocks because its charmingly nostalgic and intimate...... I'd just like to make a note here to anyone who has watched the show: Doesn't the face of the main character, Ted, look very, very evil? Sick? Twisted? Malevolent? Manipulative? Sadistic? Opportunistic?
My dad bought me a Swiss army knife today. What shall I do with it?
HS102 feels too big for me to get a sense of easily. I'm shirking the work right now. Damn 100 pages.
I and Vicki started on Tales of Vesperia today. The opening song was downright horrible, but the game is otherwise living up to standards.
Speaking of horrible, my condolences to all who have been following the Blassreiter anime to the end. It's indeed a perplexing ending.
I had dinner with Chris and Amy the yesterday night. We talked about good movies, bad movies, school, her boyfriend (???), books. It's pretty much a confirmed fact that people who do not join the orientation camps for hall will have an incredibly hard time breaking in to the community. Hearing her talk about her boyfriend made me think back to two of my favorite books, 'Attachments' and 'The Five Love Languages'... I honestly believe that the ideas in those books could make the world a better place. Hmmm. Perhaps I shall buy a copy for Brendan's birthday, along with his main 21st gift.
I'm making it a note to catch 'Doomsday' somehow. It sounds like an epic bad movie. Haha.
There's something I've been thinking about for some time. Is there a word in the English language to describe something that is self-perpetuating, something that is a cause and an effect of itself? If not I guess self-perpetuating will just have to do... Soci seems to describe a lot of things that are self-perpetuating in some sense, and it gets tedious to see different writers express this in varying degrees of convoluted writing.
I haven't done any writing recently. Gotta find time for it.
The characters have a different dynamic with each other, and you can see how the producers gave each relationship varying levels of intimacy (this is most obvious in the Marshall-Robin relationship- For various reasons they simply don't become so close and there are little to no 1-to-1 conversations between them). That's what I don't like about Friends. The friendships of the friends in 'Friends' never seemed to have that defining character about them. They all felt like plot devices, at least compared to what I'm seeing in HIMYM now. But I guess the two can't really be compared as they each have very different points of emphasis. HIMYM is very story-driven and intensive, while Friends is probably more focused on providing light-hearted, accessible entertainment.
HIMYM doesn't have perfect execution or complex scripts, but it rocks because its charmingly nostalgic and intimate...... I'd just like to make a note here to anyone who has watched the show: Doesn't the face of the main character, Ted, look very, very evil? Sick? Twisted? Malevolent? Manipulative? Sadistic? Opportunistic?
My dad bought me a Swiss army knife today. What shall I do with it?
HS102 feels too big for me to get a sense of easily. I'm shirking the work right now. Damn 100 pages.
I and Vicki started on Tales of Vesperia today. The opening song was downright horrible, but the game is otherwise living up to standards.
Speaking of horrible, my condolences to all who have been following the Blassreiter anime to the end. It's indeed a perplexing ending.
I had dinner with Chris and Amy the yesterday night. We talked about good movies, bad movies, school, her boyfriend (???), books. It's pretty much a confirmed fact that people who do not join the orientation camps for hall will have an incredibly hard time breaking in to the community. Hearing her talk about her boyfriend made me think back to two of my favorite books, 'Attachments' and 'The Five Love Languages'... I honestly believe that the ideas in those books could make the world a better place. Hmmm. Perhaps I shall buy a copy for Brendan's birthday, along with his main 21st gift.
I'm making it a note to catch 'Doomsday' somehow. It sounds like an epic bad movie. Haha.
There's something I've been thinking about for some time. Is there a word in the English language to describe something that is self-perpetuating, something that is a cause and an effect of itself? If not I guess self-perpetuating will just have to do... Soci seems to describe a lot of things that are self-perpetuating in some sense, and it gets tedious to see different writers express this in varying degrees of convoluted writing.
I haven't done any writing recently. Gotta find time for it.
posted by moet at 5:04 AM
3 Comments:
i have to agree the blassreiter ending perplexed me.. how gonzo always manages screw us over in the end... yet we always see it coming... must be the morbid curiosity thing that keeps you coming to the narutos and bleaches...
btw.. u wanna catch that Chinese remake of that Hollywood movie one of these days? i hear its good...
Haha so you watched it. Lol. That ending transcends conceptions of good and bad. Seriously it is so out of this world. Haha. No. I didn't see something so epic coming, not this time at least.
Hmmm. The only thing I want to catch with you is Gurren Lagann. What Chinese remake are you talking abt?
Anyway Tower of Druaga's ending was a shocker but still very satisfying in the end =/
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