I haven't really settled into a show I'm in the mood to watch lately, so I've just been watching a little of a bunch of shows (mostly anime). So some quick impressions:
The Walking Dead (s2 ep. 2) - I'm very quickly getting to the point where I want to see half this cast suffer horrible, agonizing deaths. Despite the appearance of seemingly likeable characters in this episode, the sheer amount of angst and whining from much of the cast is getting really annoying. And this show really needs to start picking up the pace, because this show is getting really hard to watch. It's still not a bad show...yet.
Fire Emblem (anime OVA) - Yes, this is a show that actually existed. It was made in 1996, and looks like it was made in
1986. ADV's English dub also sounds like it hails from that era, and if you remember their dubs from that era that's mostly not a good thing (especially with the horrendous lip-synching. The animation's about average for mid-90s anime, but the show's surprisingly not that bad. It's pretty standard-issue fantasy, with Prince Marth (or "Mars" as this show calls him) trying to start a revolution to retake his kingdom and it feels pretty true to the games.
The main problem with this show? It's only
two episodes long, so the show
literally begins just as it gets going and doesn't even attempt to resolve its story. It just
stops. Yeah, why'd you even bother, Nintendo?
X-Men (anime) - Completely pointless so far (with only the pilot having aired). There is
literally NOTHING this show does that hasn't been done before and done better in either comic or animated form. Of course it looks like the show's going to take place completely in Japan with a new Japanese schoolgirl mutant as the McGuffin, because apparently that's all the Japanese writers know how to do after pretty much using this same plot in the Iron Man and Wolverine anime series. Not a bad show, but so far it doesn't look like it has a reason to exist. At least Steven J. Blum is playing Wolverine again after the character was horribly miscast in his own anime.
Monster (anime) - I just started watching this show, and as it is 74 episodes long and I'm only 3 episodes in I have a long way to go. Right now, I could go either way on this series. The art and animation are pretty poor by Madhouse standards (man, I've had reason to say that a
lot lately), but the dub is pretty decent and the story
has potential.
The story is about a young surgeon in 1980s Germany who sacrifices his career to save a young boy dying from a gunshot wound...who then grows up to become a serial killer. Yeah, this show's looking to be a rather dark character study, and it's certainly intriguing. I just wish the show would pick up the pace a bit, because it moves incredibly slowly.
And hey,
Thundercats is back with an episode focusing on everyone's favorite Ewok clones from the original series: the Ro-Bear Berbils.
The hilarious thing about the episode is the moral of the story:
Wily-Kit and Wily-Kat getting high on Candy Fruit to make themselves so buzzed that they can dance around attacking enemies. See kids? When you're in trouble, just get high!