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But the internet is full of very interesting things sometimes. Like TV Tropes... which is most useful if you search for something you're familiar with and look at all the tropes therein. It's weighted heavily toward anime in some ways, which left me treading water in unfamiliar territory until I got to searching for random things like Xenogears, which then somehow led to how Hughes, The Doctor, and Hamlet all operate on the same trope. Mostly useful to me, though, because it's a semi-concrete way to look at the way mixes of tropes turn into certain character types. Plus a lot of the tropes have amusing names (and some of them allow me to track when something became a trope. I am such a nerd.). And proof positive that I cling to Philosophers and those who are Obsfucatingly Stupid.
And now I have a word for thelast few chapters of every chapter of Death Note (which I just finished reading... eesh. That made my head hurt. But in a good way.)
Also (somewhat unrelatedly), I want to play Xenogears again. It's been like, four years. And this time, I've actually read Nietzsche, so I can laugh at the philosophical train wreck even more effectively.
On a tangent that overlaps somewhat with the original intent of the entry, but has nothing to do with the previous paragraph (but provides a necessary tie-in to the tag), I've been thinking I should be working on useful writing right now... the sort that might come in handy when the writer's strike is over (provided it doesn't destroy the world first). I should write a spec script. One that's less of an utter disaster than my Scrubs script for my TV class (I mean, I can re-read fanfic I wrote years ago and be less embarrassed than I am of that script). And I'm thinking the best show to do, for me, would be Doctor Who. Because it's sci-fi, it's comedy, and it's got some good philosophy to it, too (once in a while). But... I dunno. Thoughts, anyone? And I worry that American studios and whatnot wouldn't really... get it. Hm.
And now I have a word for the
Also (somewhat unrelatedly), I want to play Xenogears again. It's been like, four years. And this time, I've actually read Nietzsche, so I can laugh at the philosophical train wreck even more effectively.
On a tangent that overlaps somewhat with the original intent of the entry, but has nothing to do with the previous paragraph (but provides a necessary tie-in to the tag), I've been thinking I should be working on useful writing right now... the sort that might come in handy when the writer's strike is over (provided it doesn't destroy the world first). I should write a spec script. One that's less of an utter disaster than my Scrubs script for my TV class (I mean, I can re-read fanfic I wrote years ago and be less embarrassed than I am of that script). And I'm thinking the best show to do, for me, would be Doctor Who. Because it's sci-fi, it's comedy, and it's got some good philosophy to it, too (once in a while). But... I dunno. Thoughts, anyone? And I worry that American studios and whatnot wouldn't really... get it. Hm.
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