§ Watching
So I've been watching and listening to a lot of Dora the Explorer recently. What started out as an attempt to learn why the adventures of a little Mexican girl and her monkey are so appealing to my neice, has also provided me with some strange observations to chew on: Is Dora short for Isadora or Pandora? Why does the more
§ Watching
Did you know that: Kit Fisto speaks in an unaccented and suave tone? Count Dooku is not as geriatric with a lightsaber as Christopher Lee? Ithorian Jedi are pretty damn cool? Mace Windu is one bad mutha? Neither did I, until I saw the beginning of the third season of the Star Wars: Clone Wars cartoon. A stylish animated series more
§ Watching
It took a few episodes for me to really get into this series, but certainly by episode #5 or so I was hooked. Take pinches of bounty hunting, space-faring, add a healthy dose of jazz and you have what is probably the most pleasingly unorthodox anime in existence. more
§ Watching
I'm about 7 episodes into this anime series and what's odd about it is that it seems to be the equivalent of traditional Gundam meets Macross and Gundam Wing in terms of space opera and style. The production quality is enough to make me think that most US tv-animation studios should simply close up shop in the face of what more
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