...with bits and bobs
...ROBERT!

Well, that is that bit over with.

A collection of two random things today.

1) As a nice break from the daftness of others, more of my own special brand of the aforementioned.
Ever get to the end of a shop-assistant totalling up your goods to realise that the debit card you used to pay for your parking in the city centre didn't make its way back into your wallet from the car pocket after you had used it?


2) I invented a new verb when describing the end of a series to a friend, "To Wolf's Rain". It is applicable in any kind of TV series but most often crops up in anime. I will be nice and impose a cut for the sake of those who haven't seen the series and might want to one day...


To "Wolf's Rain" [buhg-er uhp]

Verb

1. To spontaneously slaughter the entire cast for no bloody reason, in a way that suggests that the writers couldn't think of a plan to get a climactic one-on-one battle while the other group members were still alive.

Usage: "Did they really need to Wolf's Rain this one? The bastards."


...in the case where I used it, it was actually to describe a WR-fakeout. A situation where everything pointed to a good, hard WR-ing and they Deus Ex Machina'd their way to a (comparatively) Happy Ending. This is rare in anime. I have only seen the Machina imposed Happy Ending once before... and that time my response was much the same. I was ready to cast away the disc in fury after they had killed my favourite characters... only to find that everyone who had died so far got resurrected in the last scene or two. This shift wasn't quite that drastic, but it still left me blinking in surprise in between bouts of the Mildly Warm Fuzzies.


All better now? Good.

NED SLEP!