DVD logging
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the_rckBirds of Prey - I watched DVDs 2-4 with Delia. She really liked seeing female superheroes. She's mostly not been interested in longer TV shows (as opposed to Disney sitcoms or twenty-two minute superhero shows), but she enjoyed this one with me. We both really liked the Gotham Girls shorts and were sorry that there weren't any on the fourth DVD. The stories were fairly cheesy, nothing really spectacular except for having so many women in them. I'd happily have watched more, though.
Breath of Life Yoga - This yoga DVD claims to be for people with limited mobility. I found it out of my ability. I only tried one of the two workouts on this DVD. I figured that, if the seated workout was beyond me, the standing one was likely to be utterly impossible. The seated workout started out fine, but about ten or fifteen minutes in, the instructions were to turn sideway in the chair with one leg forward, draped over the seat of the chair, and one leg back with the lower part of the leg running roughly parallel to the floor. At 5'2", I'm too short to do that on any chair in our house. I did my best to approximate the position next to the chair and discovered that it put too much strain on my bad knees, particularly the one in back.
Burn Notice season 5 DVD 1-3 - Scott decided to watch the rest of this season on his own, streaming, so I likely won't get around to watching it. I don't love Burn Notice enough to seek it out without Scott to watch it with me. I had wondered how this season would work with Michael having proven that he was burned without justification. In this case, the path back to his old status isn't smooth and gets complicated by someone doing an excellent job of framing him for murder.
Justice League season 1-2 - I rewatched most of this with Delia (she watched one DVD on her laptop with earbuds, so I missed those episodes). It's still good. Delia liked it a great deal, almost as much as she liked Teen Titans.
Negima: Magic 101 DVD 1 - This started too slowly. The episodes dragged. There were also too many jokes about panties and the nakedness of middle schoolers. I gave up after about four episodes. The fact that Netflix doesn't have the third DVD in the series had an impact on my decision-- Even if I pushed forward and it got better, I still couldn't see the whole series. Usually, I check for completeness of Netflix's holdings before I let the first DVD in a series get to the top of the queue (there are a ton of series for which Netflix has only partial holdings). I think this one slipped through because the listing looked like a standalone rather than the first in a series.
The Place Promised in Our Early Days - I almost stopped watching this because the first half hour felt so slow. I thought nothing was ever going to happen. Fortunately, things started to happen once the story skipped forward in time. I still don't really understand what was going on. I was never clear on why or how Japan was partitioned, where the pillar in Ezo came from or why anybody would think it was a good idea. I was able to take the girl's connection to the pillar on faith. It made no sense to me, but I accepted that that was how this world worked. I'm afraid that I also didn't fully understand the ending.
Princess Raccoon - There was quite a bit of this that I couldn't entirely follow because I don't have sufficient knowledge of Japanese culture and legends. I mean, I got the basic story. I understood that the father was evil. I understood that the hero fell in love with a tanuki princess and that neither humans nor tanuki looked favorably on that. I understood that the villain was evil and vain and treated everyone around him badly. I didn't understand the Virgen (sic) Hag or the bits of Christianity. I'm sure I missed a lot. I'm not sure I'd label this as an enjoyable experience. It wasn't a bad experience, just not quite what I'd hoped.
Redwall season 1 episodes 1-2 - I got this from the library and needed to return it before I finished it because there was a hold on it. I'm not sure, though, how much further I'd have pushed on because I wasn't by any means hooked. I didn't hate it, but none of the characters had grabbed me, and I wasn't on the edge of my seat, waiting to see what would happen next. I thought I had a pretty fair idea of what would happen next. The only question was how long it would take. Has anybody else seen this? Is it worth giving a further try? I haven't read any of the Redwall books.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - My main reaction to this was confusion. Some of that was that it was surreal, and some of it was that I wasn't paying close enough attention. I was trying to do other things while watching. It's been years (at least twenty) since I read the play, so my memories of it are more than vague. It's been at least as long since I last read Hamlet, but the details of that stick in my head better because I actually studied it in two different classes.
The Secret World of Arietty - This felt too short. There was nothing wrong with it that I can put my finger on. I just felt like there ought to be more to it when it ended. I can't say that it was brilliant or wonderful. It was serviceable. I'd have liked to see more of the characters, to have more sense of who they were. I'd have liked, too, to see more of the normal life of a Borrower. I'm not sure Delia watched all of this. I think she may have wandered away in the middle.
Slayers: Revolution and Slayers: Evolution R - I put off watching these for quite a long time, hoping desperately that Netflix would get it on DVD so that I could watch it in Japanese with subtitles. I finally gave up on that hope and started watching the dubbed version. I miss the Japanese voice actors. I wasn't sure how these thirteen episode arcs would work, but there was still time for silly episodes along the way. I don't think these two series are the place to start watching Slayers, but they're good for those who want more of Lina, Gourry, Amelia and Zelgadis. Xellos puts in a few appearances, too.
The Thin Man Goes Home - There's not much to say about this. It was a Thin Man movie. In it, Nick and Nora travel to the small town where Nick grew up. Their simple presence brings secrets boiling to the surface, resulting in murder.
Breath of Life Yoga - This yoga DVD claims to be for people with limited mobility. I found it out of my ability. I only tried one of the two workouts on this DVD. I figured that, if the seated workout was beyond me, the standing one was likely to be utterly impossible. The seated workout started out fine, but about ten or fifteen minutes in, the instructions were to turn sideway in the chair with one leg forward, draped over the seat of the chair, and one leg back with the lower part of the leg running roughly parallel to the floor. At 5'2", I'm too short to do that on any chair in our house. I did my best to approximate the position next to the chair and discovered that it put too much strain on my bad knees, particularly the one in back.
Burn Notice season 5 DVD 1-3 - Scott decided to watch the rest of this season on his own, streaming, so I likely won't get around to watching it. I don't love Burn Notice enough to seek it out without Scott to watch it with me. I had wondered how this season would work with Michael having proven that he was burned without justification. In this case, the path back to his old status isn't smooth and gets complicated by someone doing an excellent job of framing him for murder.
Justice League season 1-2 - I rewatched most of this with Delia (she watched one DVD on her laptop with earbuds, so I missed those episodes). It's still good. Delia liked it a great deal, almost as much as she liked Teen Titans.
Negima: Magic 101 DVD 1 - This started too slowly. The episodes dragged. There were also too many jokes about panties and the nakedness of middle schoolers. I gave up after about four episodes. The fact that Netflix doesn't have the third DVD in the series had an impact on my decision-- Even if I pushed forward and it got better, I still couldn't see the whole series. Usually, I check for completeness of Netflix's holdings before I let the first DVD in a series get to the top of the queue (there are a ton of series for which Netflix has only partial holdings). I think this one slipped through because the listing looked like a standalone rather than the first in a series.
The Place Promised in Our Early Days - I almost stopped watching this because the first half hour felt so slow. I thought nothing was ever going to happen. Fortunately, things started to happen once the story skipped forward in time. I still don't really understand what was going on. I was never clear on why or how Japan was partitioned, where the pillar in Ezo came from or why anybody would think it was a good idea. I was able to take the girl's connection to the pillar on faith. It made no sense to me, but I accepted that that was how this world worked. I'm afraid that I also didn't fully understand the ending.
Princess Raccoon - There was quite a bit of this that I couldn't entirely follow because I don't have sufficient knowledge of Japanese culture and legends. I mean, I got the basic story. I understood that the father was evil. I understood that the hero fell in love with a tanuki princess and that neither humans nor tanuki looked favorably on that. I understood that the villain was evil and vain and treated everyone around him badly. I didn't understand the Virgen (sic) Hag or the bits of Christianity. I'm sure I missed a lot. I'm not sure I'd label this as an enjoyable experience. It wasn't a bad experience, just not quite what I'd hoped.
Redwall season 1 episodes 1-2 - I got this from the library and needed to return it before I finished it because there was a hold on it. I'm not sure, though, how much further I'd have pushed on because I wasn't by any means hooked. I didn't hate it, but none of the characters had grabbed me, and I wasn't on the edge of my seat, waiting to see what would happen next. I thought I had a pretty fair idea of what would happen next. The only question was how long it would take. Has anybody else seen this? Is it worth giving a further try? I haven't read any of the Redwall books.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - My main reaction to this was confusion. Some of that was that it was surreal, and some of it was that I wasn't paying close enough attention. I was trying to do other things while watching. It's been years (at least twenty) since I read the play, so my memories of it are more than vague. It's been at least as long since I last read Hamlet, but the details of that stick in my head better because I actually studied it in two different classes.
The Secret World of Arietty - This felt too short. There was nothing wrong with it that I can put my finger on. I just felt like there ought to be more to it when it ended. I can't say that it was brilliant or wonderful. It was serviceable. I'd have liked to see more of the characters, to have more sense of who they were. I'd have liked, too, to see more of the normal life of a Borrower. I'm not sure Delia watched all of this. I think she may have wandered away in the middle.
Slayers: Revolution and Slayers: Evolution R - I put off watching these for quite a long time, hoping desperately that Netflix would get it on DVD so that I could watch it in Japanese with subtitles. I finally gave up on that hope and started watching the dubbed version. I miss the Japanese voice actors. I wasn't sure how these thirteen episode arcs would work, but there was still time for silly episodes along the way. I don't think these two series are the place to start watching Slayers, but they're good for those who want more of Lina, Gourry, Amelia and Zelgadis. Xellos puts in a few appearances, too.
The Thin Man Goes Home - There's not much to say about this. It was a Thin Man movie. In it, Nick and Nora travel to the small town where Nick grew up. Their simple presence brings secrets boiling to the surface, resulting in murder.
