Sunday, September 28, 2008

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles S02E03

Michelle, Charley's wife, knows that Charley may be still in love with Sarah so she runs away with the terminator...


What a great movie that the terminator's alter ego was starring in the past...


Charley calls Sarah after the terminator captures his wife and Sarah decides to go even though she expects it's going to be a trap.


I guess Cameron can easily get a part-time job at a local computer store...


When Sarah instructs Charley to make sure the person on the phone is actually his wife, Charley actually asks where did they have their first sex @@


Michelle regrets her decision to leave her husband after she discovers the fact that the terminator likes sm...


The bomb is fake and their car is killed by the terminator. Now they're trapped in the house.


That's the reason why John wants to hang out with Riley...


After Sarah calls John, the terminator listens to their conversation and learns their code. After that, he detonates the cell tower to prevent Sarah from using her phone again.


Sarah, Derek and Charley are safe but Michelle's unfortunately stuck by the tower and injured.


During a meeting with Allison, T-1000 pretends to drink water in front of him but the water level is obviously the same.


Why would someone drives his/her van across the desert!?


Michelle dies slowly in the van...


The terminator imitates Sarah's voice and tells John to meet him in the pier. John immediately runs away when he sees the terminator.


Another dude in this episode. Why would he wear John's cap and sunglasses when John obviously seems to be chased by some bad guys?


You jump! I jump!


The terminator realizes that he cannot swim but it's too late.


Cameron finally arrives but tells John that she cannot swim so she cannot help him. She has really few scenes in this episode... (That's a good thing!)


John meets up with his mother and finds some blood inside the van...


Though the terminator cannot swim, he can still follow the ocean floor and walk out of the ocean.


John later tries to comfort Charley outside of the hospital.


In Michelle's funeral, Charley tosses away the bible that Allison gives him and walks away.


Comments: Charley's wife dies but who really cares? She's just so ignoring in this episode.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Zero no Tsukaima: Princesse no Rondo (ゼロの使い魔~三美姫の輪舞) 12 - End

In the beginning, Louise just loses her magic ability in a dream for no reason and later it becomes a reality.


Saito easily wins Tabitha's heart because he's her white knight... how about her schoolmates? They help rescuing her, too!?


Julio, like many other characters in this anime, becomes a minor character...


The Statue of Pride golem is finally constructed and sent to stop them fleeing.


The golem's magic shield protects itself from the attacks of Tabitha, Saito and other minor characters.


Louise, who cannot use magic at that moment and fears Saito wouldn't love her anymore because she's no longer his master, refuses to leave and jumps off the wagon.


Colbert brings a cannon, another WWII weapon in Saito's world, to the battlefield. (Where the hell they get this cannon?)


However, it's still ineffective.


In order to cure Louise, Tabitha kisses Saito to stimulate Louise...


Sigh... and Louise's ability reactivates ... that's just too easy!


With the help of Louise's void magic, the cannon shots through the golem's body and destroys it.


Kiss, the same prize over and over again to the familiar.


After they return home, Henritta doesn't punish Louise and declares Lousie as the second successor to the throne... is that because Henritta knows she's infertile???


Tabitha joins Saito's harem after three seasons and grabs him away before Louise uses explosion...


Comments: Zero no Tsukaima had the same pattern over all three seasons: it always starts with romantic school comedy and ends with major battles with some antagonists. This time, J.C. Staff only uses one episode to deliver the finale and the results seem to be rush. How could Louise suddenly loses her ability and then gets it back in the same episode. (Maybe her void magic battery is dead and needs to be recharged, and the best way to do that is to have somebody kiss Saito right in front of her...) Characters are introduced and trashed, and none of the new characters in the previous season is significant in the third season. I guess Tiffania will become Jane Doe next season if there's one.

Return to Home

My mom left USA on Thursday and went back to Hong Kong for a long stay, and she could be gone for half a year. Unlike her previous departures, I couldn’t go to the airport with her this time since I have to go to work. I wish her travel safe, take care of herself and have a nice time back home.

P.S. I bought a figma figure on eBay three days ago and it’s right on my doorsteps this morning. I just couldn’t believe how fast the Japanese seller shipped this item. Meanwhile, I’ve bought other items from some US sellers days before this figure and I’m still waiting for them now. I hope they would be delivered as soon as possible.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Code Geass R2 (コードギアス 反逆のルルーシュ) 24

I've been deeply upset by Kaname Ohgi's survival already and why would he want to stay on the ship? (Trying to act like a captain?)


Nunnally, why the hell are you pushing the button when nobody is forcing you to do so? Trying to make Lelouch's sin look insignificant by making herself more sinful than her brother?


Not only does the Damocles dominates the battlefield with F.L.E.I.J.A. missiles, it's shielded from any attacks by its enemies.


While Lelouch's sister complex is healed by Suzaku and C.C., Li Xingke's lolicon is simply incurable. However, it also forces Li Xingke to take a goal-line stand and accept Schneizel's unreasonable order to break through Lelouch's defense within 10 mins.


I guess the Order of Black Knights is slightly stronger than the Knights of Rounds since Li Xingke and Kyoshiro Tohdoh could stay alive after being chopped down by Suzaku.


As a result, Lelouch's main battleship, Avalon, is sank by Li Xingke. (The power of lolicon is really unmeasurable…)


Shinichiro Tamaki does a great job in delaying Suzaku so he cannot stop the Black Knights from boarding the ship. What is not surprising to me is that he flees without harm again…


Kallen totally replaces Suzaku's role as being Lelouch's biggest roadblock at the end of the season two…


In 19.4 seconds, Lelouch succeeds to set up the anti-F.L.E.I.J.A. system and Suzaku throws the spear away just in time to neutralize the missile.


Lelouch and Suzaku break into the Damocles through this little opening after the missile is fired.


Schneizel wastes no time and decides to begin the self-destruction sequence of the Damocles and prepare to leave.


With a new Knightmare Frame, Gino tries to stop Lelouch and Suzaku, and he manages to disable Lelouch's Knightmare Frame.


Nunnally drops her missile launcher during the intrusion of Lelouch and Suzaku.


Orange vs. the Knight of Six.


C.C.'s pink Lancelot is no match to Kallen's Guren…which could be a piece of good news since it's so ugly (-_-) though it's sad to see C.C., the legal wife loses to the sex slave, Kallen...


I'm shock to see Cornelia Britannia alive but the biggest surprise is next...


... Guilford's only blind and not dead... Man, these two should just get married right away...


Lelouch must have very very run fast to take over the security of Schneizel's ship and prerecord this message which is actually intelligence enough to have a conversation with Schneizel so as to make him believe Lelouch's not on board so Lelouch could use his geass to check Schneizel and put an end on this conflict.


Code Geass: Schneizel of the Rebellion is over as he's totally obedience to Lelouch...


Diethard Reid tries to stop Lelouch but is shot by Schneizel in the chest and dies while wishing Lelouch to use his Geass on him, in which Lelouch refuses and replies Diethard isn't worthy of it... (The audience won't shed a tear to the death of an opportunist.)


Poor girl boy, the prince Schneizel that you love is gone forever~


Gino's new knightmare is cut in half but he takes out the shield and allows Kallen to break in.


Code geass never fails to amaze me in the end of each episode and the surprise of the week is that Nunnally finally cancels the geass that has been applied on her and open her eyes right in front of Lelouch. (Code Geass: Knightmare of Nunnally just starts...)


Comments: The trio of the imperial family each has a different ideology to the world with the emperor, Schneizel and Lelouch representing yesterday, today and tomorrow respectively. The emperor misses the old way and thinks the past in the best while Schneizel can't find any hope in the future and thinks the best he can do is to keep everything the same. Lelouch has a miserable family history which is still haunting him nowadays so he really wants to create a new world for both Nunnally and him to live. That's why he desperately wants to change and during the rebellion, the reason for the change alters as he's not merely changing for Nunnally (who Lelouch believes is dead at some point) and himself anymore but for the whole world. That may be what he realizes at the Sword of Akasha and why he takes the throne of the Holy Empire of Britannia. Anyway, code geass has only one episode left to make sense of everything out of the mess it creates in this season and I hope it'll have a great ending.