| More Stuff in Life |
[04 Apr 2008|12:01am] |
I've been watching Full Metal Panic and am finally starting to get hooked. It takes some getting used to, because the dialog/plot isn't exactly awesome in the same way as Code Geass - it works better with recognition that FMP is more like a parody mech anime.
The beauty and the problem with things like this is that their world is based on different dimensions of difficulty. On the one hand, these action-anime worlds are full of near-death encounters and immediate crises. On the other hand, characters are capable of heroic acts, unrealistic stunts of awesomeness and comically happy resolutions to personal feelings.
So basically, while I'm not worried about sudden death by robots, I can't shake the feeling that I am so much lamer than these people. My worst fear is that I'll sit around being a non-heroic, non-awesome loser for about 80 years and then croak from heart disease.
Now I see the scientists, even the ones without giant robots, as heroic in their own way. But my worry isn't that I won't become a scientist, it's that I won't become a great one. I worry that I'll just end up like everybody else - silly and futile in life, dead and forgotten afterwards.
And I could go on for another 10 pages about why humans are silly and futile so often, but that's for later. Actually, I'm writing a story about that.
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