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Yay! I found a bunch of lovely Everwood pictures for my desktop, but they were all way too big. I asked ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alleycatstrike to resize them, then mentioned I wished I could do it myself, so she directed me to a few possible programs I could download. And I found sexy, sexy GraphicConverter, which enabled me to resize the pics myself, plus if I figure out how to work it more indepth I should be able to make some LJ icons with it! AND, while I was at Download.com, which has the most entertaining URL ever, I found HTML and FTP programs formatted for Macs, which means
I CAN GET INTO MY WEBSITE AGAIN!!!!
*insert shriek of joy here*
Why, yes, I have just started my morning coffee, and I am experiencing that sudden jolt you get before the caffeine works out how to slip smoothly into your system. Why do you ask?
In other news, I finally got to watch the final episodes of Cowboy Bebop last night. I am quite pleased about this, as I have been collecting the series, slowly but surely, for two and a half years, so this is balm to my completionist soul. (I also recently purchased the last volume of Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic series, which I've been collecting for just as long, so it's a double jolt of happiness.) I had heard, of course, all about the famous sad ending to the show, so I was prepared when Spike died, and I did not cry. Which is weird, because I cry at everything. Just earlier last night, I'd shed a bucket or two over The Incredible Journey, and I care about Spike, and even Julia and Vicious (and certainly Faye and Jet!) way more than I care about those animals. Anyway. I actually really loved the ending. It seemed so very fitting. Firstly, the whole show is about how things don't always, or even often, go right, but we go forward anyway. Things couldn't have gone wronger in the finale, but Spike went forward anyway after Julia's death, and Jet and Faye will go forward after they learn of Spike's death. Secondly, while Faye, Ed, and Jet all got their share of screen time as major characters, Cowboy Bebop was always really Spike's story. It makes sense that the show should end with his death, because now Spike's story is over.
One thing that fascinates me about the ending: Vicious's motivations. Why the murder/suicide with Spike, right when he was on top and things were going his way? We know more or less what was going on in Spike's head, but what of Vicious? Did he want Spike dead so badly that he was willing to die himself to accomplish it? Did he care for Julia more deeply than we all realized? Did he care for Spike more deeply than we all realized? Because this could certainly be construed as an act of fierce devotion to either or both of them. Vicious has been presented to us as being nothing but sociopathic, but that doesn't mean anything. Jet, Faye, and Spike all do their share of matter-of-fact cold-blooded killing, too; presented in a different way than they are, they could each seem as cold and heartless as Vicious seems. We only know that they aren't because the show gave us a much closer look at them than it did at Vicious; we saw him mainly through Spike's, Gren's, and Faye's perspectives. And he pretty much screwed each one of them in one way or another.
I love ambiguous characterization and motivation. I love Cowboy Bebop. And to think, whensubservient first intrduced me to the show, I wasn't that impressed. The episode she showed me, by the way (number five, "Ballad of Fallen Angels") is now one of my favourites. Oh, sweet irony.
Okay. I really need to go work on my Everwood Flash Fic now. Not only is it due in either days, but it carries the Hoedogg Stamp of Approval. So, better get cracking!
alleycatstrike to resize them, then mentioned I wished I could do it myself, so she directed me to a few possible programs I could download. And I found sexy, sexy GraphicConverter, which enabled me to resize the pics myself, plus if I figure out how to work it more indepth I should be able to make some LJ icons with it! AND, while I was at Download.com, which has the most entertaining URL ever, I found HTML and FTP programs formatted for Macs, which meansI CAN GET INTO MY WEBSITE AGAIN!!!!
*insert shriek of joy here*
Why, yes, I have just started my morning coffee, and I am experiencing that sudden jolt you get before the caffeine works out how to slip smoothly into your system. Why do you ask?
In other news, I finally got to watch the final episodes of Cowboy Bebop last night. I am quite pleased about this, as I have been collecting the series, slowly but surely, for two and a half years, so this is balm to my completionist soul. (I also recently purchased the last volume of Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic series, which I've been collecting for just as long, so it's a double jolt of happiness.) I had heard, of course, all about the famous sad ending to the show, so I was prepared when Spike died, and I did not cry. Which is weird, because I cry at everything. Just earlier last night, I'd shed a bucket or two over The Incredible Journey, and I care about Spike, and even Julia and Vicious (and certainly Faye and Jet!) way more than I care about those animals. Anyway. I actually really loved the ending. It seemed so very fitting. Firstly, the whole show is about how things don't always, or even often, go right, but we go forward anyway. Things couldn't have gone wronger in the finale, but Spike went forward anyway after Julia's death, and Jet and Faye will go forward after they learn of Spike's death. Secondly, while Faye, Ed, and Jet all got their share of screen time as major characters, Cowboy Bebop was always really Spike's story. It makes sense that the show should end with his death, because now Spike's story is over.
One thing that fascinates me about the ending: Vicious's motivations. Why the murder/suicide with Spike, right when he was on top and things were going his way? We know more or less what was going on in Spike's head, but what of Vicious? Did he want Spike dead so badly that he was willing to die himself to accomplish it? Did he care for Julia more deeply than we all realized? Did he care for Spike more deeply than we all realized? Because this could certainly be construed as an act of fierce devotion to either or both of them. Vicious has been presented to us as being nothing but sociopathic, but that doesn't mean anything. Jet, Faye, and Spike all do their share of matter-of-fact cold-blooded killing, too; presented in a different way than they are, they could each seem as cold and heartless as Vicious seems. We only know that they aren't because the show gave us a much closer look at them than it did at Vicious; we saw him mainly through Spike's, Gren's, and Faye's perspectives. And he pretty much screwed each one of them in one way or another.
I love ambiguous characterization and motivation. I love Cowboy Bebop. And to think, when
subservient first intrduced me to the show, I wasn't that impressed. The episode she showed me, by the way (number five, "Ballad of Fallen Angels") is now one of my favourites. Oh, sweet irony.Okay. I really need to go work on my Everwood Flash Fic now. Not only is it due in either days, but it carries the Hoedogg Stamp of Approval. So, better get cracking!
