Like I’m gonna depressed about a thing I didn’t intend to do. I can see the insult.
LESSON? We all have our share of unguarded moments; there are just some people who, having seen you build your walls carefully, rejoices upon finding a crack in them. I have insecurities, too, but I’ve never been like these people.
ineedtofindmywaybacktothestart:
best intentions by alexandradevon on Flickr.
After interviewing the ever-so-cool publisher of PULP magazine about the upcoming Summer Slam, he made me listen to one of the songs from this album. I told him I like Paramore and he told me to check this band out. I think they’re pretty cool.
fuckyeahgirlwiththedragontattoo:
Rooney Mara VS Audrey Hepburn
These two might have proven to have more in common than striking looks and dramatic cheekbones…
for some reason this reminds me of the brady bunch.
….if all of them were Greg Brady.
….and also Alice was Greg Brady too.
….and if Greg Brady were a bit more feminine
….but somehow less of a pussy
Miles Kane everybody!
Miles Fucking Kane.
Shades of Gray. When I was a kid, I always root for the good guys in TV shows and storybooks. Who doesn’t? Distinguishing white from black, siding with the goodies and going against the baddies…it’s one of the few lessons the earliest media we’ve been exposed to and our parents fed us. So when I watched Gundam Wing for the first time, I was intrigued.
With all the promo materials I’ve seen, I readily tagged the five pilots and Relena as the heroes before I even watched the series. But when I sat down for a GW marathon, I found myself asking—just like how some of the characters found themselves asking—who are the real enemies? Zechs Merquise? Treize Khushrenada? The Alliance? The Romafeller Foundation? White Fang? And who exactly are the good guys? The Japanese boy, who always opts to do the supposedly “right” thing (in consonance with his missions) instead of doing the obviously “kind” thing? The braided one, who believes he’s some kind of a god of death? The green-eyed soldier, who follows the example of guys who think life is cheap? The blond kid, who blasted a whole colony into smithereens? The Chinese guy, who once commented something to the effect that women’s place is right next to bleeding hearts?
For me, the lack of central antagonist (or the cookie-cutter goody heroes) is one of the beautiful intricacies of Gundam Wing. No one’s pure black or pure white: everyone is made up of several shades of gray. The personality of each character is labyrinthine, and trying to find the easiest way out of it requires a lot of work and thinking. That’s why I love how the fans are drawing their own maps of the characters’ identities through analyses and fan fiction. Actually, just watching the show then trying to figure out the team you’re going to cheer for already explains how you view the characters! It’s only expected that the five pilots would get lots of love, but even the folks who would normally be placed at the ‘evilest’ end in a clichéd story’s good guy-bad guy scale also get sizable love-chunks from the fandom.
I love Gundam Wing up to now because it is the first fictional work that taught me to appreciate the characters because they’re more like humans—complex, flawed, a mixture of good and bad, capable of growth—instead of because they’re obviously portrayed as the good protagonists. :)
