Watching, and to Watch?

 For what I have been up to the last several months, I’ve been struggling to keep up with my usual watches. The work for classes could get so intensive that I would be up long hours. Even when I struck out my usual writing schedules, sometimes coming up with something to say for a school assignment could take a while. I eventually started only writing every ten or so Tumblr posts in the last few weeks, which has put me quite behind on the watching department. Hopefully I would be able to slowly catch up in the next coming month or two so. The shows I watched on the weekend now take up just one day, so week by week I could gradually catch up.

I’ve been watching the usual programs. I’m slowly ticking off the small backlog for shows like Atop the Fourth Wall and Last Week Tonight since there’s now time to watch these shows now I cut down on Tumblr posting. I might even be able to clean through the Tokuladies podcast episodes by the end of next week. That would leave me time to see non franchise shows like Last Exile: Fam of the Silver Wing among others I’m vaguely planning to watch. I would like to give shows that are usually standalone a chance after all. I’m currently stalled with how to fit Power Rangers Dino Thunder on and my monster movies into the mix. Time might open up for them once I catch up and watching the weekend Melissa Harris Perry show takes its usual two hours instead of four. By the time classes for me begin in the fall, I should be caught up and on track and my classwork won’t interfere with my watching and writing schedules like before. This is a vague hope but one I want to cling to.

That leaves the liveblogging of Digimon and Pretty Cure in an interesting position. Within a few weeks I’ll finish Xros Wars and Fresh, leaving Hunters and Heartcatch as technically the last pair. Since Hunters is part of Xros Wars and is half as long, that means the last half of Heartcatch would be liveblogged back to back. This leaves liveblogging the rest of the Pretty Cure series in an interesting bind. Do I continue no matter how long the franchise goes on or do I stop at a certain point? It would be sad to do so but liveblogging takes a lot of time and I’m thinking vaguely of doing some liveblogging of, Godzilla, Gamera, and other monster movies. I’ve been vaguely itching to do so for a while. If I do ever stop liveblogging Pretty Cure, Smile would end up as the final series for me. For DokiDoki on, I could just make a single post leaving my impressions of the episode, with at most a photo or two that represents the events there. Seeing these Cure series mostly for the first time would be fun. I have some idea what happens in each of them but not totally and this time I want to be surprised. So those extreme few who check out this journal, don’t spoil me!

Rewatching Xros Wars at least has given me a refresher on the Digimon series I’m getting most ideas for at least and doing the same for Godzilla and Gamera several months from now would hopefully do the same. I do want to write that story about how Godzilla and Anguirus became friends in the Showa continuity as well as the sequel story for Gamera the Brave. With Land Before Time nostalgia enveloping me, I might later this year set aside time to watch the movies and TV series before I actually start writing a story I’m having in mind that might be titled “We Shall Hold On, Forever.” That tale has been twitching in my mind off and on for years and I would like to know my canon before I really start writing. Granted, said canon isn’t always consistent but I have a few ideas on how to explain those away and they would be quite fun. The new 14^th LBT movie coming out might throw some wrenches into the plan but I’ll see the film and take its events into account when I do. I might consider liveblogging that as well but tentatively it might only take place on the weekends. The only snag would be me seeing if I could track down English subtitles for at least some of them since a lot of liveblogging relies on this to communicate the context scene effectively. Either that, or I would have to type the dialogue by hand. I’m certain the TV series doesn’t have English subs. Oh well. I’ll tackle that when it comes.

That’s all for today. Might come in with another update tomorrow on what I have been up to and any specific events of the semester since I now talked about what I’m watching or plan to watch. Despite my talk about the work that interfered with my usual routine, some interesting and notable things did happen. I like noting down these things so when I look back in this journal they would jog my memory. Until then, see you!