I've been keeping an eye on four ongoing series, and actually it kinda sucks whenever you finished watching them and crave for more.
They are:
- Heroes, Season 3
- How I Met Your Mother, Season 4
- Pushing Daisies, Season 2
- Tales of the Abyss, The Animation
As I've always criticized the series,
Heroes, for it's repetitiveness, I gotta admit this week's episode takes on a better turning. The twist, though not as good as other stories out there, is good enough to hold my attention. This is a very good example of plot-driven story, rather than my preferred genre, character-driven approach.
Well, I guess you would ask what does these mean. A good way to illustrate my point is that, what your remember the most about the story itself? The goal of the protagonist, or the main character he/herself? As simple as that.
This is why I'm begining to like more of the developed characters (they are very scarce inside Heroes), rather than those hey-I'm-still-the-same-person-from-Season-one characters. Elle was my first choice (her sadistic nature thrills me) and now here comes the turn for Sylar.
"Every villain needs a legion of evil supporters." was the motto for a Sylar's fan-based site.
Cool line.
Next, I'd like to point out the character-driven series -
How I Met Your Mother &
Pushing Daises. And also
Tales of the Abyss which I fall head-over-heels for all of its characters.
How I Met Your Mother is one of the series which I've learned about the ironic truth of human's nature from. Gotta say it teaches me a lot in my own motto "Being a Better Human", learning what's lack in us that we'll need to amend or correct ourselves.
Like paradigms, how hard it'd need to be fractured without first watching some real life case studies/situations.
Barney Stinson is pure awesomeness, holds a great influence over me. Have to get his book, entitled "Bro Code" if I ever got the chance.
Next, Pushing Daisies is pure fantasy. Very dream-like story-telling which weaves you together with its character, namely Ned & Chuck. And occasionally Emerson Cod & other side characters. The story has not got a clear plot, but its the protagonist and his sidekicks which brings the show moving.
Okay, finally it comes to one of my favourite game, which is by now, translated into an animation. First I thought it might be horrible (since game-to-anime franchises always failed badly - even though the manga isn't too bad) but I'm dead wrong. It's better than I could've imagined, with the original Japanese Seiyuus (voice actors) and incorporating most of the funny skits into the story elements.
One word to describe it. Awesomeness. (I blame Barney for that, lol!)
I'm seriously looking forward for
Jade's super-dupa sarcastic, cynical jokes & comments. He's just too much for a brain to handle whenever he speaks. Don't get me wrong though, the other characters -
Luke, Tear, Anise, Guy, Natalie are all great person to get know of. See, I remember their names so well! TotA is a mixture of plot and character driven approach.
Well, after all
Mieu is too adorable to resist (and also his sweetsie-pie voice). That's no wonder the almighty Tear Grants fall for its cuteness!
So, what do you guys think of?
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