Friday thoughts, a drawing, a link, and Wii.

[la_belle_laide]

Fairly normal Friday, except for one of the shadow kids keeling over in surgery today. (The shadow kids, as I call them, are high school kids that come by to shadow the vets, for career day or something.) Most of the kids get queasy or fainty when they see surgery for the first time, but this one actually hit the floor. It was my friend's boyfriend, too, a real cutie. I felt kind of bad for him. (And it's weird calling them "kids" when they are taller than I am. Aren't "kids" supposed to be little?)

Hula is cancelled for tomorrow, so I can sleep in a bit, then hit Kung Fu. Then home to clean the house, for TRICIA is up for the weekend and is coming to visit! So it's going to be Tricia, Kim and I, just like old times (and by old times I mean, like, a few months ago, before she moved away.)

Oh, so, yay for me, I got Advent Children yesterday. I promised myself I'd get to bed early last night, and that I'd just watch a bit, honestly, just, like, the deleted scenes, and then hit the hay. Oh yeah, right. I forgot how much I am in love with this movie. I sat there by myself, on my sofa with some pudding, just fanpoodling over Cloud. The dubbed voices are not as bad as I thought they were going to be. Steve Burton does all right by Cloud, I guess, and even Mena Suvari isn't as awful as I thought she was going to be (read: as awful as she is in KH2.) I couldn't believe my ears when they actually had Barett saying "foo'" a few times. Your'e kidding me! "Foo'"?! After all these years of trying to pretend that he was not, in fact, supposed to be Mr. T.? But what kills me is what they did to Cid. It's just plain awful. Cait Sith's accent was, uhh, confusing (Scotland? In Midgar?) but Cid's voice is just bad and wrong. In fact, it's badong.

In other geek news, the new Nintendo game system--you know, you thought it was going to be Revolution?--is now Wii. Pronounced "we," or, hell, let's be honest: "wee." Oh, this is going to be swell, when I am forced to buy Twilight Princess on the new system because of the SUPER SPESHUL extra features, and I have to tell my friends, "Don't call me, I'm playing with my Wii." Because, you know, geeks are too popular as it is, and they need something to make them less socially acceptable. WTF?

And speaking of WTF, I'm trying to post a drawing, and photobucket is down. I'm using the LJ scrapbook, but you know what, I'm not wild about it. I'll try photobucket again in a while. Ahh, here we are.




That's just the original sketch. I thought that the Calabi Yau space was going to be a bitch to draw, but it wasn't that bad. Admittedly, I traced some of it. Although if I could draw a Calabi Yau on my own, I'd probably be getting pretty good at drawing dimensions--pun more or less intended. I colored this, or began to, anyway, in hopes that colors would make it look cool and mysterious and whatnot. As it happens, it looks like he's standing in front of a screensaver.

And I think he looks a little too feminine for my taste. Proportions seem wrong, too.

However, this is one of the only drawings I've done that I've deliberately named, as opposed to just thinking of any old thing because I had to call it something. This one is called "Can I get the door for you?" We'll see how it turns out if and when I finish it.

Well, I just watched an episode of Buffy ("Go Fish,) the one with the swim team,) and now maybe I'll head off to bed.

"Wii" indeed. >_>

ETA: David Byrne's journal. Interesting.

Comments

[lehorin.livejournal.com]

Just watched Advent Children (I've had it for five days and I still haven't watched it? Crazy, I know.) I'm inclined to agree with you about Cait Sith's voice. It's not that it's Scottish - Cait's a mechanical cat, or possibly an AI created by the wonderful Reeve (I've never really understood the link there) why shouldn't he be Scottish? - it's just that the accent is so... bad. There is only one person in the world who can get away with a Scottish accent so bad, and Sean Connery he is not. And I found the deleted scenes to be a bit of a disappointment. I think all thiose non-speaking scenes were in the movie, and some of the speech scenes were there too with different words.

[shonagonchan.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that Reeve not only used Cait Sith, and that Cait Sith was an AI program, but also that he created him, as well.

The question isn't "why not Scottish?" but, "Why Scottish?" It makes no sense in the context of the world.

[lehorin.livejournal.com]

True, there isn't a Scotland; but there also isn't an America and Cloud speaks with an American accent. Cait Sith sounds odd because the accent is exaggerated that it stands out. There isn't a reason why any of them should have the accents they do, but there should be a law against butchering an accent so badly.

[shonagonchan.livejournal.com]

Okay, here's where it gets down to opinion. Cait Sith sounds odd to you because it's a bad Scottish accent. It sounds odd to me because it's a Scottish accent, period. You're entitled to your opinion, just please don't try to tell me it's mine, too.

True that there is no America in the context either, but Scottish seems too arbitrary. He sounds like Shrek. There was no reason--that I could tell--for Cait Sith to be Scottish. In the game, Cait Sith had the bad hick accent, if you recall that. (Which was bad enough.) I understand the need for Cait Sith to speak differently than Reeve, especially in the game, where it was a diversion. In the original Japanese, I'm sure that Cait Sith doesn't speak with a Scottish accent. Even if there isn't an English equivalent to whatever Japanese dialect he spoke, that doesn't make it cute or funny--to me--to just pick Scottish.

It's not a big deal. I didn't like the choice, but I'm not going to hurl myself out the window over it. At worst, I'll just laugh about it with my goddaughter when we watch it together. It's really not even worth an argument, if you get me?