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Three friends dragged me to Universal Studios Japan earlier this week. I am a huge fan of roller coasters and not much of a fan of Hollywood, so there was not much there to amuse me.
However, I have been a huge, huge fan of Terminator 2 since it came out. It was (and here I date myself) the first R-rated movie I was allowed to watch, and I think that was only because I'd read the screenplay so many times I'd memorised the entire plot before the thing even hit theaters.
Anyway, the passage of time (no way is that film taking place in 1995) and reality checks (aka: knowing what a douche Teh Governator is) have somewhat cooled my love for the franchise, but the 3-D ride was nevertheless the attraction at USJ that intrigued the most. Not only was pretty damn good, but it included the original cast, who are T2 as far as I'm concerned.
I've always known that Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor has pretty much set the bar for me in terms of female characters, but as I watched Eddie Furlong/John Connor clutching onto Ahhnuld's leather jacket as the Governator protected him from sundry baddies, the second revelation hit--Good lord this is probably where it comes from. Because in terms of character interaction, T2 pretty much reduces to the young, naive-yet-worldly kid instilling humanity the older, jaded-or-emotionless killer. Which dynamic also describes, to various degrees, Ishuca-Blood, Goku-Sanzo, Rakan-Chigusa, Ed-Roy, and a goodly number of my other fandoms besides.
My Preferences, I Sets Dem Early.
これで以上です。
However, I have been a huge, huge fan of Terminator 2 since it came out. It was (and here I date myself) the first R-rated movie I was allowed to watch, and I think that was only because I'd read the screenplay so many times I'd memorised the entire plot before the thing even hit theaters.
Anyway, the passage of time (no way is that film taking place in 1995) and reality checks (aka: knowing what a douche Teh Governator is) have somewhat cooled my love for the franchise, but the 3-D ride was nevertheless the attraction at USJ that intrigued the most. Not only was pretty damn good, but it included the original cast, who are T2 as far as I'm concerned.
I've always known that Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor has pretty much set the bar for me in terms of female characters, but as I watched Eddie Furlong/John Connor clutching onto Ahhnuld's leather jacket as the Governator protected him from sundry baddies, the second revelation hit--Good lord this is probably where it comes from. Because in terms of character interaction, T2 pretty much reduces to the young, naive-yet-worldly kid instilling humanity the older, jaded-or-emotionless killer. Which dynamic also describes, to various degrees, Ishuca-Blood, Goku-Sanzo, Rakan-Chigusa, Ed-Roy, and a goodly number of my other fandoms besides.
My Preferences, I Sets Dem Early.
これで以上です。