OMG her Alien eyes will EAT YOU!!!
Jun. 28th, 2004 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
croikSo, in the fashion of anime marathoning, my roommates and I sat down last night and watched all of Fruits Basket in one sitting.
(With the exception of running out to torment a friend of ours when one of my CDs wouldn't play).
The series was pretty good. I was kind of annoyed with the lack of plot (it was more like a string of "Meet Person - Solve their Problem" over and over), just because that's a personal preference of mine. Until the end when it almsot seemed to have plot and then...I didn't really like it XD
I think the reason the end didn't really do it for me was because by then, I was sick of Tohru being able to fix everything. Whoever she came across, whatever their problem was, she was able to say EXACTLY the right thing at the right time to regain all their confidence (or most of it, at least). Which wasn't necessarily bad the first few times, but by the time they got to Kisa, and Riku, and so on, it was kind of annoying. Just by meeting a person once she can see all of their problems and fix them.
Some cases are understandable. Of course Tohru can empathize with certain problems, like the loss of a loved one or the hardships of trying to change yourself. But things like being rejected by your parents because they're disgusted with you, or not having friends at school, or suffering from a terminal illness--I'm sure most people would want to offer some kind of comfort to a person in those situations, but how likely is it that, having never experienced anything like it, you'd be able to say exactly the right thing they've been waiting to hear? When they've been surrounded by people who care for them that have been trying to figure it out all along?
So, um, basically, Tohru was Mary Sue. She had no faults, she cured everyone, they all loved her, she knoew and understood the very workings of the universe, etc.
But at least the boys were pretty XD
(With the exception of running out to torment a friend of ours when one of my CDs wouldn't play).
The series was pretty good. I was kind of annoyed with the lack of plot (it was more like a string of "Meet Person - Solve their Problem" over and over), just because that's a personal preference of mine. Until the end when it almsot seemed to have plot and then...I didn't really like it XD
I think the reason the end didn't really do it for me was because by then, I was sick of Tohru being able to fix everything. Whoever she came across, whatever their problem was, she was able to say EXACTLY the right thing at the right time to regain all their confidence (or most of it, at least). Which wasn't necessarily bad the first few times, but by the time they got to Kisa, and Riku, and so on, it was kind of annoying. Just by meeting a person once she can see all of their problems and fix them.
Some cases are understandable. Of course Tohru can empathize with certain problems, like the loss of a loved one or the hardships of trying to change yourself. But things like being rejected by your parents because they're disgusted with you, or not having friends at school, or suffering from a terminal illness--I'm sure most people would want to offer some kind of comfort to a person in those situations, but how likely is it that, having never experienced anything like it, you'd be able to say exactly the right thing they've been waiting to hear? When they've been surrounded by people who care for them that have been trying to figure it out all along?
So, um, basically, Tohru was Mary Sue. She had no faults, she cured everyone, they all loved her, she knoew and understood the very workings of the universe, etc.
But at least the boys were pretty XD
