Archive for March, 2010

The internet is buzzing with news that seems like confirmation of Chris Evans being cast as Captain America. But Marvel and Evans’ reps have said nothing of the kind. We’re still holding our breath, America, to find out just which actor is going to be our Captain.

I am sure there are more examples of this than I would even know how to address. All of us can think of at least one show we loved in its beginning that dragged on well past its due and then finally died, sputtering and gasping for breath.

And that’s a shame, because a good show should be able to go out on top, leave us with a feeling of catharsis, of satisfaction that we followed a good story from beginning to end and were rewarded for our loyalty.

Like Battlestar Gallactica.

Well, so I’ve heard. We’re still finishing up season two.

But all too often we are left unsatisfied waiting for a show to get ‘good again’ until it’s suddenly just done.

In rare cases, a show that has started to drag can come back with an amazing ending, like Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but not often.
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Latest in Captain America news:

Chris Evans, also known as the Human Torch in two Fantastic Four films, may have been offered the role. We’ll see how that pans out.

For six years friends and I attended the Anime Detour anime convention in Bloomington, MN (St. Paul this past year), starting from its conception in 2004. At last we are breaking free and will be attending Anime Central in Chicago.

We were getting so sick of the same old thing every year, without any new people, new management (I could not HATE the girl that runs the cosplay masquerade more) or new panels/guests/anything.

One aspect of our con-going that we are not changing, however, is that we will be cosplaying and entering into competition.

I have two awards under my belt from those 6 years at Detour. In 2006 my friend Alexandria and I won Best Novice Performance for our Tifa vs Tifa skit. She was classic Tifa and I was the Advent Children version.
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Still no official news on Captain America, although The Office guy, John Krasinski is thankfully out, as are others, and a few more are in, so who knows at this point.

Looks like Mr. Smith himself, Hugo Weaving, will be playing Red Skull, which I couldn’t be more thrilled about. I’ll keep you posted.

First let me start by explaining what I originally used role playing handbooks for. I owned the 3.5 edition Player’s Handbook for D&D, and White Wolf’s Vampire: The Masquerade early on, but not because I was actually playing either of them with a DM or storyteller, or a crew of fellow geeks. I used them for character creation.

I am a writer, if you haven’t figured that out yet, and not only for ranting opinionated blogs like this one. I write fiction. The format of role playing handbook character sheets and subsequent measurements for, say, strength, as an example, really helps in imagining the actual strength of a character. And it doesn’t just have to be a character for role playing.

You can fill out a character sheet and by the end have a well-rounded character for a story, or your latest role playing endeavor, with a clearer picture of what that character is like and what they are actually capable of.
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Yes, I realize that this is not the promised blog about role playing handbooks, but the deluge of Captain America rumors has overtaken my mind recently. Every day my husband and I check for updates on whom the lucky man might be.

We were promised that we would be told the identity of the Captain America actor by the end of February. Obviously, that has not happened.

While I do have my own two cents that I will add later about the actor I think should be chosen, the real fascination here is in how public this whole process has been.

Now, to be fair, Marvel has stated that we should ignore all the rumors, because none of them have been official statements. We simply know that certain actors have read for the part, and some of them have announced/tweeted that they are no longer in the running. That hardly confirms anything on who might actually be chosen.

Plans for a new Captain America movie have been in the works for some time. After the huge success of Iron Man, and the slightly better numbers for Edward Norton’s The Incredible Hulk compared to Eric Bana’s Hulk, plans for an eventual Avengers movie has been the ultimate goal.

Thor is confirmed and cast. They won’t scrap Ant Man rumors no matter how much we groan. And now…Captain America.
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If there was one literary/fictional device that I hate most it would be the love triangle, or even worse, a love shape. I hate them in reality too, but it’s even worse to throw them in where we’d like to have a happy ending, thank you, since happy endings happen even less often in real life.

Anime is one of the most rampant mediums that use such tactics. Love triangles and shapes are literally everywhere you turn, in almost every setting, especially shoujo.

SHOUJO: This title is used to describe anime that is intended for an audience of young females, and is usually centered on emotion-based storylines.

While this blog is called “The Shoujo Love Triangle” that is more in reference to the usage of triangles, not to say that I will only be looking at shoujo anime examples.

Let’s start with a couple classics, shall we?
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