ishime

What the fuck, self - you're not supposed to like TV shows! You're supposed to find them boring, with too little character development and bad screen writing and you're not supposed to get the humor and-
Oh damn you Doctor Who. DAMN YOU.

Now because I've seen this review on the weeping angels and I became curious, I went and watched the three episodes they're in, and I just got hooked, and now I've watched season 5 and I'm watching season 3.
Without subtitles. AND I CAN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND A THIRD OF WHAT THEY SAY BECAUSE OF THE DAMN BRITISH ACCENT. *sob*

Damn you Doctor Who. Damn you.
Your screen play is awesome, your fantasist world just works, your villains give me the creeps without being over-the-top monsters or spreading gore on the screen, the doctor is irresistible and the angels were wonderfully scary.

( Also season 3 has a black character I genuinely find interesting!  )
( ...On a less positive note, though, WHY ARE YOUR OTHER FEMALE CHARACTERS SO FRUSTRATING? )

...I think it's the first time I actually skipped pages from a Naruto chapter. *points to icon*
And almost all of the fucking chapter, for crying out loud!

Seriously. This wasn't bad, it was THE FUCKING ABSOLUTE ZERO of entertainment. It wasn't even annoying, or just boring, it was INFURIATINGLY BORING, okay?
The only interesting thing in there was the last page. (Thank you Madara, you are my true hero in this story.)

Gourou Naruto, please go die in a corner and give us back our adorable hero from before Shipuuden, you pathetic waste of ink.

My computer just CRASHED.

Bastard's not even ONE GODDAMN YEAR OLD. And he's been giving me blue screens of deaths and frozen screens and now MOTHERFUCKING WINDOWS 7 WON'T EVEN GET STARTED. All I get is a "boot failed" and the setup menu.
I hate this load of bullshit of an OS. It never gave me anything but a pretty screen and a truckload of problems. I hate my goddamn computer and right now I think  I HATE THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD. Especially my friends who can't be on MSN when I need them and the guy who set up this goddamn computer WITHOUT PARTITIONING MY HARD DRIVE. Useless MY ASS.
Why oh why did I let myself be persuaded NOT TO PARTITION MY HARD-DRIVE. I can't even try and get linux installed without erasing all my files.
*sobs*

WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME WHEN I HAVE A GODDAMN JOB INTERVIEW ON MONDAY AND I REALLY DO NOT NEED ANY MORE STRESS AND-

FUCK YOU, WORLD. FUCK YOU SIDEWAYS. ON TOASTS.

So I've been watching Extreme Ghostbusters (or at least what I could find on youtube) and now I got started on W.I.T.C.H. and I've been terribly disappointed.
I really liked Extreme Ghostbusters as a kid, and the W.I.T.C.H. comics had left a rather good impression, but really, these cartoons left me awfully frustrated. The pace. THE PACE. Or rather the lack thereof. Seriously, there was absolutely NO building of tension, of suspense, of emotion, of ANYTHING in Extreme Ghostbusters. And W.I.T.C.H. pretty much butchers what I remember of the comics by cutting the setting and background of the characters out. Events kept rushing one after another, without any work on the pace of the story. It feels as if the scenarists only wanted to put as many as they could in one episode.
I know japanimation has a tendency to make things longer and put fail!dramatic tension with everything going still and characters babbling forever, but damn, there must be a middle ground somewhere! Some cartoons manage just fine, without looking like japanimation either - go take a look at Kid Paddle for instance. >__>

Also, I can't really speak for W.I.T.C.H. yet, but Extreme Ghostbusters had absolutely NO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT whatsoever. Seriously guys, I know this cartoon is OLD, but Japanimation manages to put some in 13-episode-long series, and they couldn't get the tiniest bit in 40 episodes?

As for W.I.T.C.H., it's lucky I watched Legend of the Seeker before, or it would easily get the award of the poorest beginning ever. My memories of the comics are vague, but I'm pretty sure that it was more Will-centric, which allowed us to see her arrive to her new town, and have some setting around the 5 heroines.
Cedric's transformation are SO over-dramatic. What is he supposed to be, a magical girl? Also, WHY THE HELL doesn't Hayleen's grandma have white hair in the anime?! I'm pretty sure they were white in the comics, and it just look weird and stupid, damnit. She's her GRANDMOTHER, not her mom. (Seriously, at first I thought she was her mom instead. Tsssk.)

Back from the lands of the internet-deprived.
I'm kinda late like woa, but who cares, Kishimoto's still doing shit, ( I'M RANTING ANYWAY. )

I can't believe that I was disappointed so much by this beginning.

I am, of course, dissapointed that the cool people who seem in love with that series recommended something this awful. But more than that, I am horrified to realize that this series, who was recced as different from the Sword of Truth books and good and with great characters and characterization, is actually worse than the books.

And do believe me, in my opinion, this was no small task. I hated the Sword of Truth books. Granted, there were some interesting ideas in them, but I hated how manichean they were. I loathed how the author keeps making those oh so subtle allusions that Darken Rahl = Stalin. Like, seriously. Bad guy. Reigns in the east. Eating over the poor countries of the middle. His speeches in the books sound everything like an American parody of communism. And he even was called little father Rahl by his people, for fuck's sake!
Oh and yeah, just in case there were some really thick people (or maybe hidden communists?) among us readers, and they still hadn't got that Darken Rahl was EVIL... His one and only true friend and follower is a homosexual pedophile whom he gives little boys to rape and slaughter. Yeah, we're talking that level of manichean.
Also the author has an obsession with SM mistresses, and keeps portraying women's empowering as overtly sexual, and (empowered) women's sexuality as dangerous and destructive for men. See the confessors, who change men into submissive little dogs, the sisters of the light and their incredibly brutal, intolerant and humiliating methods of teaching, and motherfucking MORD SITHS, with their cult of sadomasochism.

Now, this first episode?
Oh, yes, of course it's pretty. The effects for magic come off as somewhat cheap sometimes, but overall it's really pretty.

And it manages to be more manichean than the books. Honestly. Seeker of truth? No! Hero who fights evil! Magic state of uncontrolable rage? No! Flashback of cheap quotes induced power up!
Everything feels rushed - no, wait, everything is rushed, and they keep explaining everything instead of showing us the damn story and I hate hate hate when things are explained and not showed/told. It ruins everything, and it feels like sheer lazyness from the writers. The details in the episode sounded so wrong and empty and just damn illogical. Like, why does Richard speak about the spirit in the lantern as a she, when he wasn't even explained that it wasn't just a magic lantern? He doesn't even sound hesitant about it! How does Fane get to Adie's house?
And the rushing completely ruins the characterization of Richard's brother! Together with the reaction of the other villagers. Also where are my powerfull, amazing female characters?! All I see here is them being weakened compared to their book's counterparts! Where did Kahlan cold godess aura went? And her lady-ness? Her determination? I mean, she just keeps whining and yapping and - book Kahlan sounded cold, detached, put up a ruthless front and was ready to make any terrible choice fir the sake of her mission! She's a confessor, damnit! And not just any confessor, the mother confessor!
Also yay for added moments of female characters being powerless and terryfied and a liability. Yay.
And Darken Rahl. Darken Rahl. What is this generic, empty, plastic-like vilain?! Where is his terrifying charisma? Where did the man who could get people to beg for the privilege of being walked over by him go?! His manipulative speeches? His two-faces? The chilling impression of a terrible power he gave in the books?

So.
I'm downloading the following episode and hoping that this was just a crappy beginning for a good series (since they obviously didn't care about their storytelling...) And the Mord Sith seem worthy to watch. But still, I am so very disappointed.

And here I was, thinking that maybe this show would get me into TV series. Ha.

Edit:
ZOMG. It seems that my poor brain had erased the sheer horror that is Terry Goodkind's style (bad-translated into French!) from my memories. Well, no wonder where the episode's shitty dialogues came from, I guess. X__x

Aujourd'hui, alors que nous nous apprêtions à partir des jardins ouvriers, mon père a profité de ce qu'il m'avait envoyée ramener des trucs à la voiture puis ranger la brouette pour embarquer mes affaires à ma place, les poser sur le toit de la voiture et s'éloigner pour m'attendre en discutant avec un autre jardinier.
...les petits malins qui ont lu mon titre doivent se douter de la suite, pas vrai ? Quand j'ai rejoint mon père à la voiture, 'avait p'us, le sac !

Le pire, c'est que je suis tellement sleep-deprived et à la ramasse que je n'ai ni l'énergie de chialer, ni celle de hurler.
A la place, je rumine et je rante.
Histoire de faire profiter ma f-list de mes malheurs et de mon amour des jurons.

( Où l'on trépigne, jure et compte ses pertes. )

Oh Kishimoto.

( ROARanting, feminist-rage and SPOILERS. )

Seriously? 
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY I KEEP READING THAT CRAP.

Note : ceci est un RANT. Comprendre : j'évacue ce qui a besoin de sortir. Ce qui va suivre est donc de parti pris et n'a pas été rédigé la tête froide. Si vous voulez discuter ou argumenter, pas de souci. Juste, ne vous énervez pas parce que ce que j'écris n'est pas objectif, okay ?

Non Kishimoto. Massacrer les flash-backs règlementaires de Pein ne me fera PAS changer d'avis. Je ne prendrai PAS parti pour Konoha. Le seul intérêt de ce village, c'est que l'équipe 10 s'y trouve et quand je vois les effets désastreux sur leur esprit d'équipe, le cerveau et les chevilles de Shikamaru... >__>
( CENSURE pour cause de spoilers )

Purée. Ca soulage de ranter.
'faut vraiment que j'arrête de lire les commentaires d'askerian alors que je sais que je ne suis pas d'accord avec elle, ça me met les nerfs en pelotte à chaque fois