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teddogYo! For all ye fellow MiSTies out there, I've got a question:
I'm outta town on Wednesday, but I have time to download one or two more episodes to watch. This is what I currently have; any more suggestions?
Episodes:
Gamera
Fugitive Alien
Master Ninja
Master Ninja II
The Castle of Fu Manchu
Fire Maidens for Outer Space
Operation Double 007
Santa Claus
Samson and the Vampire Women
Laserblast
Soultaker
Phase IV
And the following specials or what not:
1st and 2nd Annual Summer Blockbuster Review
Little Gold Statue Preview
Academy of Robots' Choice Awards
Turkey Day '95 bumpers
Deleted scenes from MST3K: The Movie
PSXUnderground video
Best quote ever:
"Scar is like Gamera. Adults fear his power, but he is a friend to children."
Come on! Tell me that is not the greatest quote ever. That just screams crossover.
And, after lots of searching, I have found a Fullmetal Alchemist ficcy that I deem "slightly MiSTable":
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2098637/1/
It's bad. The important parts get no detail, but we get random, run-on details like "Wandering over to the table that was rested nicely in front of a window where you could see the first of the horizon".
The Plot... and sweet heavens, I wish I was making this up:
There's a new attendant in the military with a decidely Japanese name. Despite that culture in Amestris is very European based, this doesn't seem to bother anyone. Anyway, she gives Jean Havoc (called "John" here) a few folders, which freaks the living crap outta. I'm going to assume from his reaction that it's the government's files on his love life.
Then there's some strange talk of symbols and formulas, but the writer decides not to clue the readers into any detail whatsoever. I'm lost and confused.
Hawkeye seems lost and confused too, so she breaks into "John"'s apartment to thin out the herd. Sadly, she forgot to stock up on bullets at the local S-Mart, so all she can do is poke him with the barrel of her pistol. We know who's pitching and catching in that relationship. After a brief few lines of hmmm... fanservice, the two head to work.
Shortly into the work day, the new attendent taunts "John" with a sandwich(WTF?). Turns out she's a Homunculus with a tattoo in plain slight that nobody noticed before(WTF?). Oh, and she can perform alchemy too(WTF?) and tries to change "John" into a Homunculus (WTF?). Also, Roy can see Armstrong's sparkles (Again, WTF?).
And it turns out that "John" has a sister with another non-European name and then my brain breaks and everyone lives happily ever after.
I'm outta town on Wednesday, but I have time to download one or two more episodes to watch. This is what I currently have; any more suggestions?
Episodes:
Gamera
Fugitive Alien
Master Ninja
Master Ninja II
The Castle of Fu Manchu
Fire Maidens for Outer Space
Operation Double 007
Santa Claus
Samson and the Vampire Women
Laserblast
Soultaker
Phase IV
And the following specials or what not:
1st and 2nd Annual Summer Blockbuster Review
Little Gold Statue Preview
Academy of Robots' Choice Awards
Turkey Day '95 bumpers
Deleted scenes from MST3K: The Movie
PSXUnderground video
Best quote ever:
"Scar is like Gamera. Adults fear his power, but he is a friend to children."
Come on! Tell me that is not the greatest quote ever. That just screams crossover.
And, after lots of searching, I have found a Fullmetal Alchemist ficcy that I deem "slightly MiSTable":
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2098637/1/
It's bad. The important parts get no detail, but we get random, run-on details like "Wandering over to the table that was rested nicely in front of a window where you could see the first of the horizon".
The Plot... and sweet heavens, I wish I was making this up:
There's a new attendant in the military with a decidely Japanese name. Despite that culture in Amestris is very European based, this doesn't seem to bother anyone. Anyway, she gives Jean Havoc (called "John" here) a few folders, which freaks the living crap outta. I'm going to assume from his reaction that it's the government's files on his love life.
Then there's some strange talk of symbols and formulas, but the writer decides not to clue the readers into any detail whatsoever. I'm lost and confused.
Hawkeye seems lost and confused too, so she breaks into "John"'s apartment to thin out the herd. Sadly, she forgot to stock up on bullets at the local S-Mart, so all she can do is poke him with the barrel of her pistol. We know who's pitching and catching in that relationship. After a brief few lines of hmmm... fanservice, the two head to work.
Shortly into the work day, the new attendent taunts "John" with a sandwich(WTF?). Turns out she's a Homunculus with a tattoo in plain slight that nobody noticed before(WTF?). Oh, and she can perform alchemy too(WTF?) and tries to change "John" into a Homunculus (WTF?). Also, Roy can see Armstrong's sparkles (Again, WTF?).
And it turns out that "John" has a sister with another non-European name and then my brain breaks and everyone lives happily ever after.
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Date: 2004-12-19 06:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-19 03:57 pm (UTC)You aren't missing much in the fic because of your lack of knowledge. I guess the author wanted to mix the anime theories about how to make a Homunculus (a human created through Alchemy) with the manga factoid that most characters have a few dark secrets in their pasts that explain their actions in the present day. However, Jean Havoc's manga issues seem to be connected to how he prefers office jobs yet he's got insanely good hand-to-hand combat skills. Odds are he was a member of a Special Ops team at some point, NOT an artificial human.
I guess that makes manga Havoc the Walter C. Ddollneazz of the FMA universe. There's a funny mental image. o__O
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Date: 2004-12-19 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-19 04:34 pm (UTC)I didn't mind Soultaker too much. EVERYBODY FEST!
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Date: 2004-12-20 03:05 am (UTC)It's not that Soultaker is BAD, it's that I'm too busy watching for the bathroom scene and altunitivly wanting to smack Joel and wanting to write AU slash... I mean the host segments... to really pay attention to the movie.