First of all, please know that yes, I am completely aware that this is the first actual (substantial) entry I am posting to this currently-barren blog (I apologize) but allow me to say that that is going to change - starting now! Exams are on temporary off-peak season - hallelujah - which leaves me with just enough spare time to update, hopefully regularly.
I was thinking about it earlier, and I decided that I wanted to write about the profoundly productive activity that has kept me occupied for the better part of this lazy Friday evening - watching episodes of the retro (aka old) X-Men animated series. Now, any kid or teenager who grew up in the 90's has to know this cartoon, but for those of you who don't, here's the first part of the first episode:
I was thinking about it earlier, and I decided that I wanted to write about the profoundly productive activity that has kept me occupied for the better part of this lazy Friday evening - watching episodes of the retro (aka old) X-Men animated series. Now, any kid or teenager who grew up in the 90's has to know this cartoon, but for those of you who don't, here's the first part of the first episode:
(Mutants and Sentinels, oh my. Note how the characters' faces never actually look the same from shot to shot -- that's 2D for you.)
Seriously though, once you get past the slight "crudeness" of its execution, you may, like me, end up really enjoying it - so much though that you'd choose staying in and marathon-ing with a bag of chips over going out and partying it up. The later seasons get better and more intense, and (I may be over-analyzing here) have generally more pronounced political and social themes: equality, oppression, discrimination, moral discernment between what is right and what is ideal - you know, the usual stuff you overlook when you're a child because you're too busy focusing on wanting mutant powers of your own (and also because well, you're 4 years old and don't even know what half those words mean).
I guess the reason why I'm talking about this is a result of both some sense of nostalgia (boo, college workload) and amazement over the vastness of technological progress resulting from just a decade or so of innovation. The world has changed so much. Hell, I've changed a whole lot, too.
In a time when much-anticipated weekly TV shows have been replaced by downloadable episodes, and 2D mutants by blue 3D alien humanoids from Pandora, I think we all just need to take a breather to re-appreciate the things we loved in the past and to realize how far we've come and just how much we've grown since then.
And also, perhaps, how a part of us will still always stay the same, no matter how much everything else hasn't.
I guess the reason why I'm talking about this is a result of both some sense of nostalgia (boo, college workload) and amazement over the vastness of technological progress resulting from just a decade or so of innovation. The world has changed so much. Hell, I've changed a whole lot, too.
In a time when much-anticipated weekly TV shows have been replaced by downloadable episodes, and 2D mutants by blue 3D alien humanoids from Pandora, I think we all just need to take a breather to re-appreciate the things we loved in the past and to realize how far we've come and just how much we've grown since then.
And also, perhaps, how a part of us will still always stay the same, no matter how much everything else hasn't.
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