'Do you know how many places there are in the world? Like, at least five!' by Kara
Monday, September 8, 2008 at 2:05 PM

Haw haw. So tired, I forgot to rant.

Now, I have not gotten my hands on takoyaki yet, but the daifuku and jasmine tea are me, indeed. No bolts, though. My teeth aren't nearly strong enough, and I'd imagine they aren't terribly tasty.

Notice I avoided saying nuts and bolts. I don't feel like giving out uncreativity penalties on a Monday.

So, slowly but surely, I'm learning what my duties are for the next few cons coming up. I'm judging karaoke at Nekocon again, and at Katsucon ... well ... I'm not telling just yet! It should be interesting, though. (If Iron Artist needs me, I'll be helping there, too ... but I think they're shifting gears starting in '09.) Everything else is up in the air, which might well be as it should be for me.

Incidentally, I accidentally finished Zambot 3 this weekend. 'How do you finish a show accidentally?' I hear you cry. Well, most robot shows of the era, at least in my experience, are 40-50 episodes. I could be wrong, in which case I'm sure someone will come along and correct me.

I've been in a mad dash to finish off (or catch up with) a lot of shows where I have maybe three or four episodes left lying around. Zambot up to 23 was sitting there on my J: drive, so I decided to go ahead and catch up.

All right, guys, this show came out in 1977, so the statute of limitations has truly expired. So I don't wanna hear it.

So I'm watching along, and the kids in their three-part mecha are fighting baddies and dealing with real-life drama and the like ... and then, outta nowhere, their fscking grandparents get blown up. I am not kidding. So I'm thinking, 'Okay, this'll be the thing that gets the second half of the show rolling. The old wise couple is gone and now it's up to the kids.'

So then I keep watching along, and I get to episode 23. And two of the kids get blown up. AND. THEIR. DOG. What the hell?? At this point, the 'main' pilot kid is having a chat with the big baddie about the whole truth behind this big alien battle. And I'm going okay ... either this show is about to GaoGaiGar me, or it didn't sell enough toys and got cancelled really damn quickly.

It was the latter ... because I promise you, once they jacked the body count and had a ten-second explanation of the point of the show, they shipped that kid back down to Earth, played the full version of the ending song, and that was it.

Well.

I mean, I'm sure it happens to everyone sometimes. Erm. So. Yeah. So much for Zambottlerocket.

If you have been, wrrrryyyyyyy?