Fight through the Wall

I'm a very Attack on Titan mood tonight (or just...all the time) so why the heck wouldn't I want to talk a little bit more about the show. But instead of talking about what the series is, I'll be using what I think the message of the series might be instead.

The series revolves around humanity being preyed upon by giant monsters, Titans, whose only motive is to eat or crush humans (what we know for now, at least). Thus, humanity erected three walls: Maria, Rose, and Sina, to protect themselves. However, Wall Maria gets destroyed and the Titans are left to run inside Wall Maria, forcing humanity behind Wall Rose, and for a third of the population to die.

Thus the series becomes a fight against the Titans to save themselves, find out the secret of the Titans, and take back Wall Maria and their lives.

Bridge to Anime--ithia

Pretty much anytime someone in middle school and beyond sees something in cartoon form, they'll call it a cartoon. That's just how it is. Most kids will watch cartoons growing up and most parents won't distinguish between what is a cartoon and what technically isn't.

A cartoon, though, is typically created with a humorous edge geared toward the proper demographic of children. Some older people will watch cartoons to catch some of the innuendos thrown in for a good "Ha...I see what they did there," but besides that, cartoons are often regarded as something to be looked down on. Like: "Really, watching a cartoon? Pft. Lame. I'm going to go watch something real like rednecks in Louisiana be dumb."

Might Avengers: Age of Ultron be...meh?

Maybe not bad bad (like Iron Man 2) but I mean, with all of the news we've gotten, it certainly isn't pointing us in the entirely correct direction. The toys will sell and the kids will like the explosions, but, what else? What about, you know, respecting the characters?

And hey, maybe it's just me. I'm a HUGE Ultron fan-boy, so I'm very strict about anything done to him. I love his origins and I love his essential invulnerability. He's a great villain and counter for not only Iron Man and Ant-Man (who, haha, is still not in Avengers 2), but for the Avengers overall, defeating them more times than I care to count.

Are trading card games really for children only?

Trading card games, or TCGs as I will call them for the sake of my typing skills, have seemingly exploded out of nowhere following the great release of Magic: The Gathering back in the 90s, and only furthered with the creation of the Pokemon cards and the well-known and well-made-fun-of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. TCGs have a reputation about them like most things that the "nerdy" community has about it--that only geeks play it, that they're just things and they don't have value, and that above all else:

They are made for children.

The Decision of the Door

The Twilight Zone has never been one to shy away from the concept of the Devil in the world, or at least his influence. Few times have they actually shown him, but one did they did have the William Shatner square off against a fortune-machine with the Devil's head on it. It seems his influences pump the fuel and the conflict of several episodes. Yet in each one of these episodes, it is quite the expected or typical situation. A man strikes luck and after making a deal with the Devil everything seems to go his way, only to come out on the bottom in the end thanks to the trickery of the Devil.