They said the Wilds could never be tamed. If only they could see us now. Here’s the tl;dr version of Bastion’s setting. You know how JRPG worlds often feel like medieval Europe and medieval-Europe-flavored fantasy run through a strange and colorful culture grinder? Bastion’s landscape is like that, except its raw materials largely come from [...]
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Bastion: a colorful lesson in American history
Posted by Pontifus on 28 May 2012
http://superfani.com/2012/05/28/bastion-a-colorful-lesson-in-american-history/
(Utena II) Staging
I can’t think of Utena’s dueling arena as anything but a stage. It reminds me of the classical Greek chorus, which isn’t necessarily where all the acting would’ve happened, but the duels are musical enough for it to be appropriate anyway.
Posted by Pontifus on 2 April 2012
http://superfani.com/2012/04/02/utena-ii-staging/
(Cowboy Bebop 12-19) I wish that I could turn back time
This shit is pretty unambiguously pretentious and I don’t like it. But I don’t really hold it against the show. It isn’t just the creators jerking off. Opinionated metafiction is one convention in a set of conventions that Bebop calls upon, then shows us through the eyes of a cast that doesn’t hail from the [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 22 February 2012
http://superfani.com/2012/02/22/cowboy-bebop-12-19-i-wish-that-i-could-turn-back-time/
(Cowboy Bebop 1-7) Insert title of catechism song
I offer you a quote from Ghostlightning, whose ongoing effort to engage with Cowboy Bebop’s love-remembering elements is one of the most meticulous and goddamn heroic blog activities I’ve ever seen: We won’t find anything in Cowboy Bebop that has a reference that figures so significantly in the narrative so as to be the primary [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 6 February 2012
http://superfani.com/2012/02/06/cowboy-bebop-1-7-insert-title-of-catechism-song/
Being there, alone
Every once in a while Cuchlann mentions that he wants to write more about video games. And he has — over here. (Did you know he set up a new solo blog? Rather than talking about nerd stuff how he’d talk about classic literature, he talks about classic literature how he’d talk about nerd stuff. [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 28 January 2012
http://superfani.com/2012/01/28/being-there-alone/
Thank God for the apocalypse: setting and the authorial shell
Why thank God for the apocalypse? Because it gives me something to write about that isn’t Aria. Not that I dislike writing about Aria, but it has a way of possessing me via dark, indefinable magics and forcing me to serve its needs. It’s an unforgiving master. And I haven’t even watched the second or [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 9 January 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/01/09/thank-god-for-the-apocalypse-setting-and-the-authorial-shell/
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