[FFML] ffml Digest, Vol 35, Issue 3

[Steven Cornett]

And here I thought it was Joss falling back on the BTVS schtick.

Yep, River the Reaver Slayer!

On May 15, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Joseph Rispoli Jr wrote:

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>> From: Richard Lawson<nouma at msn.com>
>> Subject: [FFML] Ranma and Iron Man 2
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>> In "Serenity" it's especially bad.  I love the movie and I love the  
>> character of River Tam, but I found her two major fight scenes  
>> utterly unconvincing.  There is no way I believe that a gangly  
>> young woman with no appreciable muscle mass could take out a bar  
>> full of patrons or a room full of Reavers.  Yes, yes, I know she's  
>> supposed to be a genius who can calculate angles of attack etc  
>> etc.  But the choreography just wasn't convincing.  At no time did  
>> I believe the fights were anything other than well-staged dances.
>>
>
>     Funny, I always believed the River Tam fights were beautifully  
> done
> sequences for another Takahashi character, Asuka Mizunokoji of Urusei
> Yatsura.  A beautiful and completely innocent young girl of 16 who was
> raised in absolute isolation from any male contact by her mother and a
> horde of female servants, guards and trainers.
>
>     Her unfortunate introduction to boys was Ataru Moroboshi, so she
> doesn't think much of boys, with one exception... her brother, who  
> came
> to her rescue when she was pursued by both Ataru and Shuutaro Mendou
> (who fell in love with her at first sight).  I've always thought she  
> was
> Takahashi's version of Wonder Girl, with her typically sick and
> delightfully twisted Tomobikian reality.  The fact that she can rip a
> tank apart with her bare hands doesn't hurt either... unless she tries
> to give you an affectionate hug...
>
>     When a friend of mine (who is the biggest Asuka fan I know of)  
> went
> to see Serenity with me (my 2nd time), he almost choked on his drink
> when River Tam  dived thru the lock to face the horde of Reavers...  
> and
> I yelled out "OTOKO!!!" ( "BOYS!!!")... Sorry Mike, but I had to do  
> it!
>
> The Old Takaholic
>
> Joe Rispoli
>
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Steven Cornett
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"We've had enough of exhortations to be silent!  Cry out with a  
hundred thousand tongues.  I see that the world is rotten because of  
silence." - St. Catherine of Siena