Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Joseph Riggs" To: tenchi@usagi.org Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:12:55 -0500 Message-Id: <20050517211255.5206D3384C@ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com> Subject: [tenchi:105926] Re: [OT] Gradumacated! Reply-To: tenchi@ml.usagi.org ML-Count: 105926 Precedence: bulk ----- Original Message ----- > From: "J King" To: tenchi@usagi.org Subject: [tenchi:105923] Re: [OT] Gradumacated! Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 14:35:53 -0500 > > > > Joseph Riggs wrote: > > I don't think I'm that ancient. I think I joined more recently than that. > > > > Though I don't remember how long its been. I remember what I was > > doing in my life when I signed onto the list, but I can't for the > > life of me remember how long ago that was... > > > > Or even work backwards through the years to figure out how long its been. > > Nah you weren't around back then, but I know you've at least been > around 4 years. You were at the AX 2001 meet so I put you on the > list hah. > > Were you at AX 2004? I had a horrible time, the scheduling they > did for events was absolutely terrible and I missed out on pretty > much everything. I won't be going back (cost way too much!). > No, I skipped 2004. At 2003, I just couldn't get excited about 95% of the announcements/previews/what have you. And a good chunk of the time when I recognized a title, it was for a concept or storyline that I'd already dismissed. So I decided not to go in 2004. Every year I'll see a few series that catch my interest (Vandread, RahXephon, and GitS: SAC are all examples of this over the past few years ), and all of those series have come to my attention through other sources. So the episodes they show almost invariably end up being either stuff I've already seen, or stuff that ends up not interesting me at all (the only real noteable exception was Big O II in 2003). And the announcements are usually pieces of information that I can pick up from other sources. For instance, Gunota (http://aeug.blogspot.com) invariably has everything I'd want to know about Gundam information. It was nice seeing the Macross anniversary panel (which included, among other things, a story about Shouji Kawamori building a small scale transforming Valkyrie out of newspapers :p ), but I vaguely remember being disappointed with the time we all spent at the Funimation presentation waiting for information on GXP - and getting very little. The sensation that I remember the most from 2003 is boredom. I think part of the problem is that just about all that gets imported anymore is the newer stuff. And any given TV season is typically only going to have a couple of shows that you're really interested in. That's basic TV sense (or at least it is for me). I still haven't really looked at the schedule of events this year, and I have coincidentally asked for that time off at work, so its possible I'll decide at the last minute to put in an appearence. But at the moment I don't have any plans to attend. junior -- _______________________________________________ NEW! Lycos Dating Search. The only place to search multiple dating sites at once. http://datingsearch.lycos.com