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"(S24) Year's End Confrontation Blues"
 
   LAST EDITED ON Apr-02-10 AT 01:37 PM (EDT)
 
218 Last seen in Scrapheap City Shuffle. Planet 03F8 owes its name to the fact that, when I first started work on the draft that would eventually become Shuffle, I was working in tech support for Leading Edge Products, a PC clone manufacturer. "03F8" was a code that was very much on my mind in those days, since it's the hexadecimal address for the serial port that was almost always disabled by default on Leading Edge machines, so I was constantly talking people through enabling it in the BIOS so they could hook up external modems.

226 The Mini was an icon of its time, immortalized in such films as the original The Italian Job (1969). Though tiny, it was both nimble and surefooted, and dominated the international rally racing scene in its class for many years. The "Cooper" in "Mini Cooper" refers to British racing legend John Cooper, who created the racing version of the Mini for the British Motor Company (which made and sold Minis under the Austin and Morris marques) in 1961. Bell's is a 1966 Austin Mini Cooper S Mark I with the 1275cc engine.

236 In Revolutionary Girl Utena, it is implied in a couple of flashback scenes that Utena's parents were well-off, and that they perished in a car crash when she was quite young (five, I think).

381 Perhaps because she is so normally placid and kind, Belldandy tends to be terrifying when she's angry.

408 It may not be entirely accurate - the Valkyrie are not themselves gods - but I couldn't resist the phrase "conduct unbecoming a divinity".

479 "Legend: The God's Name is Abraxas" is the short organ toccata that plays whenever we see the Student Council doing their elevator thing in the early part of Revolutionary Girl Utena.

536 Oh, to have this scene animated, or effectively comic-drawn. Anybody got an animation house that can work to spec, cheap? PJM

567 Which, as we will learn in another corner of the UF universe, is not so far-fetched either.

602 Corwin's not the only one who could use a "BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR" forehead tattoo. PJM

609 The color of the light shows that this is the Prince's power, not Bell retrieving her.

672 I think it was at around this juncture that I noted ruefully to Anne and Truss, "You know, for such strong, upbeat young people, our heroes spend an awful lot of time crying in the dark."

684 Near the end of the first TV arc. After losing a duel for the first time (to Touga, who cheated), Utena rather loses heart in the whole "dueling" thing and resigns herself to try and live an ordinary life. She even puts on her standard-issue girl's uniform. Wakaba, horrified, whops her one and tells her to get her ass back to work. (And Juri, though remaining maddeningly inscrutable throughout, loans her a sword for the re-match.)

700 A passage from Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms:

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.

Also quoted by DJ Croft in an episode of Neon Exodus Evangelion. Like Kate, I'm not overly fond of Hemingway, but I've always found this passage evocative. I first encountered it in, of all places, an issue of the 1970s O'Neil & Adams Green Lantern/Green Arrow comic.

711 Mock fried rice is baked in a roasting dish, not fried, but is seasoned with soy sauce and makes a surprisingly effective substitute (with considerably less fat) in many applications.

729 I like this little moment a lot. Not only does it reinforce that Saionji and Utena are friends now, it shows that Saionji is actually begining to understand her.

752 Later the inspiration for the Crush of Love song "Sport Fishing".

813 Festival Overture, "1812", Op. 49 by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. An outdoor-concert favorite, since it involves artillery.

900 Another, shorter word beginning with c.

947 Anne Springsteen, the model for Jedi Master Atin-Vae Springsteen, actually made me one of these, just as described.

950 The joke is, of course, a play on the immortal Raggedy Ann doll (created by Johnny Gruell in 1915), who is similarly yarn-haired, soft, and huggable. PJM

992 Raggedy Anthy (and the image of an entire Duelist cast of ragdolls) was inspired by the ending credits sequence of the You're Under Arrest! OVA series, which features yarn-haired ragdoll versions of the show's cast sitting in the back window of a police car.

993 They'd probably have trouble keeping the Juri dolls in stock too; at least if their stern expressions didn't scare customers away. PJM


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     RE: Annotations: Year's End Confrontation Blues Verbena Dec-13-06 3
         RE: Annotations: Year's End Confrontation Blues Gryphonadmin Dec-13-06 4
             RE: Annotations: Year's End Confrontation Blues Verbena Dec-21-06 7
  RE: Annotations: Year's End Confrontation Blues Verbena Dec-13-06 2
     RE: Annotations: Year's End Confrontation Blues Gryphonadmin Dec-13-06 5
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1. "RE: Annotations: Year's End Confrontation Blues"
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   >>381 Perhaps because she is so normally placid and kind, Belldandy tends to be terrifying when she's angry.<<

If you've seen the first season of the A!MG TV series, there's a moment in one episode where Belldandy confronts notorious jerk Toshiyuki Aoshima, who has just revealed one of his outrageous schemes to wreck the NIT Motor Cycle Club. Bell glowers at Aoshima, reads him off in quiet and measured fashion, and then says, just as quietly, "Please leave." Aoshima is literally trembling in terror. After he makes his hasty departure, one of the MCC guys (Keiichi? - I have to rewatch that particular episode) says something to Bell, who whirls around, still in a quiet fury with her blue eyes blazing, before she gets control of herself. Brrrrrrrrr.

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3. "RE: Annotations: Year's End Confrontation Blues"
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   >>>381 Perhaps because she is so normally placid and kind, Belldandy tends to be terrifying when she's angry.<<
>
>If you've seen the first season of the A!MG TV series, there's a
>moment in one episode where Belldandy confronts notorious jerk
>Toshiyuki Aoshima, who has just revealed one of his outrageous schemes
>to wreck the NIT Motor Cycle Club. Bell glowers at Aoshima,
>reads him off in quiet and measured fashion, and then says, just as
>quietly, "Please leave." Aoshima is literally trembling in terror.
>After he makes his hasty departure, one of the MCC guys (Keiichi? - I
>have to rewatch that particular episode) says something to Bell, who
>whirls around, still in a quiet fury with her blue eyes blazing,
>before she gets control of herself. Brrrrrrrrr.

I think the most important fact about this little exchange is something Corwin points out (to Juniper?), about the Norns having dimensions she hasn't seen. Not only are the Norns powerful gods, but their powers are such that at times they have to make the hardest, most uncompassionate decisions of all. (That's traditionally Urd's territory, I know, but still.)

"They say one should not speak unkindly of the dead, so I say, 'nice try'." --Lezard


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4. "RE: Annotations: Year's End Confrontation Blues"
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   >Not only are the Norns powerful gods, but
>their powers are such that at times they have to make the hardest,
>most uncompassionate decisions of all. (That's traditionally Urd's
>territory, I know, but still.)

Skuld, actually. As is noted in Twilight, Skuld's domain is the future, and while the future's aspect is mostly positive in the UF universe, it's also where everything dies. She is, in a way, a goddess of death; one of her many titles, which she very rarely uses, is She Who Cuts the Thread of Life.

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7. "RE: Annotations: Year's End Confrontation Blues"
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   >>Not only are the Norns powerful gods, but
>>their powers are such that at times they have to make the hardest,
>>most uncompassionate decisions of all. (That's traditionally Urd's
>>territory, I know, but still.)
>
>Skuld, actually. As is noted in Twilight, Skuld's domain is
>the future, and while the future's aspect is mostly positive in the UF
>universe, it's also where everything dies. She is, in a way, a
>goddess of death; one of her many titles, which she very rarely uses,
>is She Who Cuts the Thread of Life.

Aha. That's what I get for confusing the Greek Fates with the Norns. I was going by their relative ages and not what period of time they represented. Nevertheless, my more general point stands.

"They say one should not speak unkindly of the dead, so I say, 'nice try'." --Lezard


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2. "RE: Annotations: Year's End Confrontation Blues"
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   >236 In Revolutionary Girl Utena, it is implied in a
>couple of flashback scenes that Utena's parents were well-off, and
>that they perished in a car crash when she was quite young (five, I
>think).

IIRC, five is right.

>
>381 Perhaps because she is so normally placid and kind,
>Belldandy tends to be terrifying when she's angry.

I have a comment on this, and I'll make it in reply to the post made before mine.

>
>408 It may not be entirely accurate - the Valkyrie are not
>themselves gods - but I couldn't resist the phrase "conduct unbecoming
>a divinity".

Nothing says the terminology quite means what each word in it means, either. It could have changed somewhat to become an idiom of sorts, the law changing after its inception to cover those who aren't technically divinities. But this is -really- pointless, fiddly stuff. =P

>
>479 "Legend: The God's Name is Abraxas" is the short organ
>toccata that plays whenever we see the Student Council doing their
>elevator thing in the early part of Revolutionary Girl Utena.
>
>536 Oh, to have this scene animated, or
>effectively comic-drawn. Anybody got an animation house that can work
>to spec, cheap? PJM

I couldn't help but think of Exalted when I read this.


>
>684 Near the end of the first TV arc. After losing a duel for
>the first time (to Touga, who cheated), Utena rather loses heart in
>the whole "dueling" thing and resigns herself to try and live an
>ordinary life. She even puts on her standard-issue girl's uniform.
>Wakaba, horrified, whops her one and tells her to get her ass
>back to work. (And Juri, though remaining maddeningly inscrutable
>throughout, loans her a sword for the re-match.)

Anything to kick Touga's ass.

>900 Another, shorter word beginning with c.

*choke* I hadn't picked up on that.

>
>947 Anne Springsteen, the model for Jedi Master Atin-Vae
>Springsteen, actually made me one of these, just as described.

I remember the post it was featured in. That was -awesome-.

>
>950 The joke is, of course, a play on the
>immortal Raggedy Ann doll (created by Johnny Gruell in 1915), who is
>similarly yarn-haired, soft, and huggable. PJM

>
>992 Raggedy Anthy (and the image of an entire Duelist cast of
>ragdolls) was inspired by the ending credits sequence of the You're
>Under Arrest!
OVA series, which features yarn-haired ragdoll
>versions of the show's cast sitting in the back window of a police
>car.

Ohhh, I had forgotten about this! I've only seen a couple episodes of YUA and really don't remember a thing about what's in them.

>
>993 They'd probably have trouble keeping
>the Juri dolls in stock too; at least if their stern expressions
>didn't scare customers away. PJM

"They say one should not speak unkindly of the dead, so I say, 'nice try'." --Lezard


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5. "RE: Annotations: Year's End Confrontation Blues"
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   >>900 Another, shorter word beginning with c.
>
>*choke* I hadn't picked up on that.

No, not "choke". Still too long. :)

>>992 Raggedy Anthy (and the image of an entire Duelist cast of
>>ragdolls) was inspired by the ending credits sequence of the You're
>>Under Arrest!
OVA series, which features yarn-haired ragdoll
>>versions of the show's cast sitting in the back window of a police
>>car.
>
>Ohhh, I had forgotten about this! I've only seen a couple episodes of
>YUA and really don't remember a thing about what's in them.

You've gotta love Raggedy Natsumi. :)

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6. "RE: Annotations: Year's End Confrontation Blues"
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   >>>900 Another, shorter word beginning with c.
>>
>>*choke* I hadn't picked up on that.
>
>No, not "choke". Still too long. :)

Oh, I know. I was choking at what the word was. =)

>
>>>992 Raggedy Anthy (and the image of an entire Duelist cast of
>>>ragdolls) was inspired by the ending credits sequence of the You're
>>>Under Arrest!
OVA series, which features yarn-haired ragdoll
>>>versions of the show's cast sitting in the back window of a police
>>>car.
>>
>>Ohhh, I had forgotten about this! I've only seen a couple episodes of
>>YUA and really don't remember a thing about what's in them.
>
>You've gotta love Raggedy Natsumi. :)

I gotta go back and see some of that again.

"They say one should not speak unkindly of the dead, so I say, 'nice try'." --Lezard


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8. "RE: Annotations: Year's End Confrontation Blues"
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>>218 Last seen in Scrapheap City Shuffle. Planet 03F8 owes its name to the fact that, when I first started work on the draft that would eventually become Shuffle, I was working in tech support for Leading Edge Products, a PC clone manufacturer. "03F8" was a code that was very much on my mind in those days, since it's the hexadecimal address for the serial port that was almost always disabled by default on Leading Edge machines, so I was constantly talking people through enabling it in the BIOS so they could hook up external modems.<<

I remember those machines; my family used to have a hand-me-down one, way back at the beginning of the 1990's. I never used it much, actually, it was more my sisters who did, mainly for wordprocessing and such; the first computer I ever owned was a Tandy 386SX/33 at the end of 1993.

-Joe-


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