Becca Stareyes

Dear Bones,

( Spoilers for Episode 42 of Eureka Seven and end of series spoilers for Fullmetal Alchemist )

I wish I could quit you,

Becca Stareyes

P.S. If anyone knows how I can see a couple of episodes of Eureka Seven, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, and Haibane Renmei, I would appreciate it. I'm going out of town, so will miss the anime club's showings, and don't want to be lost when I return. They also are starting Banner of the Stars II, but I own that (well, first two disks of three).

( I figured out what it is about Renton that bothers me! )

So, the anime club is showing Eureka 7. It's famous for only barely surviving the voting at mid-semester to get outed -- a lot of people use the excuse to go into the hall when we show it.

I have a love-hate relationship with Eureka 7. On the one hand, if you get past the goofy premise (mecha that surf on air!), it's not a bad show. On the other, it has moments of just head-bashing stupidity. ( Review follows -- spoilery bits blacked out )
So, there you have it. I'd like Eureka 7 a lot more if the gender roles didn't make me want to throw things.

So, anime club is starting back up again on the 26th. I'm looking over the schedule now.

• The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya I know the plot of this, but I'm not sure if I'll like it or not. We'll see.
  
• Eureka Seven I'm surprise this made it on the schedule -- we watched the first half and most people were in the 'sitting in the hall group' during it. At this point, I just want to know what the hell is going on. (Why is it half of all mecha series have Weirdness involved. Oh, yeah. Evangelion did it.) At the very least, I don't hate it, though the main characters are just meh to me. (Setting seems neat, though.)
  
• Haibane Renmei I've seen the first couple of episodes of this -- it's a bit slow, but I want to know what the heck is up with the setting.
  
• Banner of the Stars/Banner of the Stars II Hell yeah! I'm a big Kin of the Stars fan, and I didn't think that we'd get to watch past Crest of the Stars, since the first half of that series drags. I hope Banner/Banner II are better.
  
• Utawarerumono I LIKE this series, so I'm glad to see it's coming back. Plus, I want to see how the story plays out.
  
  There are also a few movies, and the Hellsing OAV later on on the schedule. The one downside is that Utawarerumono is being shown later in the evening than it used to be, so I'll have to catch a later bus home -- and 11 PM is about when the Saturday night buses start running not very often.
  
  So, it looks like a good semester. Anyone have any comments about stuff they've seen?

Okay, let it be known I am a nut for trivia. I am also very competitive. So, these two piece of news should be taken in that context.

1. My team got second place at Galaxy Lunch's Galaxy Jeopardy. Despite the fact three out of five of us were either planetary astronomers or physicists (Shannon was also a physicist, but she does galactic astronomy, so she counts). Part of that was aided by the fact the Daily Double we got was identifying a photo of a galaxy Shannon worked on.

Things were complicated by the fact Ann and Sabrina had expected everyone to know roughly how Jeopardy worked. Turns out that neither professor who showed up (and some of the grad students) was that familiar with the show. Their team still won.

(We also were hindered by the fact a lot of the ESL folks had problems reading the questions quickly.)

Comedy moment came when one category was about the professors who came to Galaxy Lunch. Ann has dug out a quote from Ricardo's thesis, and asked whose it was -- no one answered, including Ricardo.

2. I am one of the three finalists for the anime club's Semi-Annual Anime Trivia Gameshow. There was a written exam, and I somehow managed to pass -- I blame a good memory and fanficrants (How else would I learn who Naruto's parents are? I don't watch most popular stuff.) Root for me on the 1st of December.

3. I apparently am my seminar's way of knowing constants and orbital radii -- Seth asked me what the orbital radius of Callisto and I was able to give him an answer. (Well I gave him the period, and Jupiter's mass and asked for a calculator to find the radius from that.)