A Week's Work

[omorka]

I should not be this tired. I was almost falling over at a couple of points at work. I may have to bring in a little plastic-glob-thing of half-and-half and a box of Morning Thunder. I've been way more sleep-deprived before and still able to function . . . I was only running an hour and a quarter short. Then again, Spouse has already fallen over.

Car back. Works. Yay.

Other set of silly clothes came in yesterday. Yay again.

The kids were really loud today. Not so yay. Then again, I'm having almost zero discipline issues otherwise, so yay.

We had, at various points, planned on doing things this evening with either moontyger or DM or both, but since the Spouse has alread gone to bed, I suspect neither one is happening. Too bad - I was looking forward to being social. Tomorrow, for sure . . .

On the way home, in the course of conversing with the Spouse, I made the following anime observation, which he insisted I post for posterity: Love Hina is like bad candy. You really don't want to eat it; it's not wrth the calories and it doesn't taste good. But when you're hungry, and alone in the room with the bowl of bad candy, you eat up eating it anyway, because it's better than nothing and it's available.

Comments

LH

[memeslayer.livejournal.com]

I still maintain that Love Hina is not actually a bad show, when you take into account what it's supposed to do. It's not supposed to be high drama, it's supposed to be an escapist fantasy for lonely college students. Abusive Naru issues aside[1], I feel that LH accomplishes exactly that. You're not *supposed* to like it if you're already married -- you have nothing to escape from!


[1] Although being Naru's object of affection is a much better fate than being, say, Mel Gibson's in Braveheart. :-p

Re: LH

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Heck, being Naru's object of affection is better than being Aragorn's in the film version of LotR - almost everone Aragorn actually embraces (as opposed to merely giving the Manly Special Shoulder-Clasp) ends up dying or coming perilously close to death . . . and this doesn't keep me from Mary-Sue-ish LotR fantasies about him (and the rest of the cast . . . mmm, hobbits . . . sorry, we were talking about anime here).

I admit that I don't really see Love Hina working even as escapist fantasy, unless one is some sort of poly super-sub who really just doesn't care about character development. Naru's not the only one of the girls who knocks him around, physically or emotionally; the only one who seems to actually care about him is Shinobu. As I've mentioned before, I don't understand the harem-anime convention of having the guy have to do instant penance for all the cleavage and panty shots by getting slapped around so much, or the standard anime convention of having the hero/heroine be ultra-clumsy (except that it often results in the afore-mentioned panty shots).

At any rate, even if the show is really only meant for an audience that is Not Me (I wouldn't have liked it even during my own lonely college days, which, granted, weren't very long), I can still critique it for its obvious flaws, the greatest of which, IMHO, is giving us just enough character development and plot to think that something might actually happen, and then yanking the rug out and yelling "Just kidding! They're flatter than cardboard after all!" over and over and over. Thus the bad candy simile.