It seems we've given up on Season 3 for the moment. Doug wants to watch Noir next, which means it's what I'm doing next. Doug doesn't watch on his own time. Is irritating. All I know about Noir is that it's anime, has great music, and has a mystery theme. Except that that's just what Doug says: we'll see. We'll see whether I want to watch more than one ep. Actually I wanted to start Rurouni Kenshin before Peter and Owen find it. Phooey.

I've been looking at the names in FMP. The organization Sousuke works for is Mithril: the precious metal mined in Moria. The submarine Tessa captains is the Tuatha de Danaan: a possibly Irish name for elves. Getting a bit paranoid here, there's an extremely minor character named Dr. Goldberry: Goldberry is Tom Bombadil's, uh, wife, though it doesn't seem to fit her, also from Middle Earth. And Gauron's name is very similar to Sauron. The first two are indisputable references. I won't fight for the other two, though.

Doug and I have finished Season 1 and are trying to find a reliable source for Season 3. Nobody seems to have the vids. Veoh has two or three, and they're very available in, say, Italian, but not English. Strange.

Oh, yes, and Gauron the Immortal finally died. I think he was insane. Certainly a creepy weirdo.

AUUGGH!!! Sousuke beat Gauron again and he's still alive!!! People are starting to say he's like a cross between a cat and a cockroach! Grrrr.......What is he, immortal?!

Let's see. Episode 310 of One Piece, whenever I go back. Actually it's on hiatus until August 19, to give the manga a chance to get further ahead without using filler. Filler is annoying. And I'm on episode, um, 121? of Bleach. I have got to finish those. I'm probably not going to until I finish Full Metal Panic. Meh......

Okay, on ep. 15, been watching with Doug. Peter's turn is next, 'cause it's so convenient that he's on 16. We're in Sousuke's homeland, Helmajistan, tring to assassinate Gauron. Again. This makes the third time, though the first was years ago. The first time Sousuke shot him in the forehead: he says he survived 'cause he had a metal plate there. I forget why. The second time was in the Arm Slaves, and we don't yet know how he survived. He has a lovely new scar all down one side of his face now, though. Stuck with some grownups who don't want to take Sousuke's advice, even though he's fought this guy before.

Oh, okay. Fumoffu is just the goofy bits and is based on the manga. There are twelve episodes of that. Then ther'e s simple Full Metal Panic, which has plot and is serious, relatively speaking. Twenty-four eps of that. Fewer contests picking up girls and more terrorists and kidnappings--though Kaname got kidnapped twice in Fumoffu. It's just that the situations were generally resolved in an absolutely hilarious manner. There was also the time when Sousuke thought she'd been kidnapped, but she'd just gone off with someone without telling him 'cause he hadn't complimented her on her new swimsuit. :D It doesn't count.

Interesting. I'm on ep 6 now, and there doesn't seem to be very much ongoing plot yet. I mean, they like each other, Sousuke is Kaname's bodyguard for some reason, complete with a faceless command that showed up only once, and he's actually a sergeant. In the first ep there was this snapshot of him at the age of ten or so, wearing a burnoose or something, holding a submachine gun. Heh.

I need to kill the boys. They've found another absolutely hilarious anime that could almost be tailored for this family, title Full Metal Panic. High schoolers again. Sousuke is this insane military genius who is also a walking arsenal. He's designed and trained for a certain environment, specifically a battlefield, and this isn't it. He has trouble wrapping his mind around this simple fact. In the first ep, there was this girl who had a crush on him, and wrote him a really soppy love note and put it in his gym locker. He noticed that the locker had been "tampered with" and blew it up, just to be safe. There was enough left of the note for him to decipher that the writer wanted to meet him behind the gym after school. Kaname, the heroine and the girl he's supposed to be protecting, suggested that it was a love note, and he said "What's that?" She stammered and didn't really answer. Anyway, what happened was that she hid behind the gym, watching the girl, until some guys came along and started roughing the first girl up. Kaname tried to help, but it didn't go so well, and then all three guys were shot with rubber bullets, and we find out that Sousuke has spent the entire afternoon behind the gym, in a ghillie suit, with face paint, covering the girl who has a crush on him. When she realized all this, she ran off crying, cured. Kaname slugged him. She does that a lot.
Owen's going to B's until sometime tomorrow. Oh, yeah, and B and Darrel are going to buy one of the hogs, which lessens the cost of slaughter enough that we're able to send them to the butcher. Finally.