when Ritsuko times out

I found it impossible to watch Maison Ikkoku in half size with earphones and in a corner of the screen my parents won’t see, because I keep on laughing. I’m sure they know I don’t go to many silly gag websites either, so there goes MI.

As for the special measures I undertook in order to watch Code Geass R2 episode 19, I played Quake 4 until 90% was done (by then it was 3am) and since my mom was nagging at me to go to sleep, I made that stupid download go again (god knows how many times I resumed that shit) and went to brush my teeth. Sneaking out after reading the Canterbury Tales in my room (just so if mom checks again I am reading a book instead of waiting for a certain file to finish), I surreptitiously stuck my USB flash drive into the back of the computer, because I couldn’t risk turning on the laptop to do a network transfer, which might have been faster (the light from the LCD screen, no matter how dim, would have shown that I was up to much more stuff. And so while everybody was sleeping, I gathered the power adapter and threw it into the room; once it had finished copying, I unplugged the drive and I was ready to watch it.

And it was quite worth it. Lelouch doesn’t spend that much time angsting, which is bad for his position as Zero, but gets up at the end of the show and still shakes his fist at the Emperor. I love Lelouch. Oh, and Rollo saved Lelouch too. His only redemption throughout the show, with his refusal to buy Lelouch’s confessions of attempted murder making it even more touching. Lovely stuff.

But back to business. C’mon Karen, steal the Guren and elope with Lelouch! I’m just waiting for it…

And to all those who refuse to believe that Nunnally is dead, stick this in your pipe and smoke it. Even poor old Sayoko is dead. That’s crazy man.

I still found myself very surprised, though, when I found myself unwilling to buy a dual layer DVD to store CG R2 in, unlike Ouran High School Host Club, which I seriously enjoyed (just like CG). Maybe it’s because I already burnt half of it off, but I think it’s mostly because of my contempt towards shows that always leave me hanging at the end of each episode. Heck, Season 1 ended with such a huge hanger. What the fuck, I haven’t really seen a single episode aside from the school life fillers that doesn’t end with a cliffhanger.