Random Ramblings

* Un número creciente de terapeutas recomiendan algo sorprendente para los pacientes deprimidos y quienes sufren de ansiedad: lea un libro. - La idea per se me agrada, a pesar de lo mucho que me molestan los libros de autoayuda (aún los recomendados por los especialistas... no, ESPECIALMENTE los recomendados por especialistas >w<), aunque tal vez yo sugeriría audiolibros más que el formato impreso.
* Author Stephen King was mistaken for a vandal when he started signing books during an unannounced visit to a shop in Australia, according to local media. - Now I want to be a famous author just to do this sort of things. XD

* You know? I read "I used to love X character, but her fangirls made me hate her" or some variation just too often, so I end up terrified of going near any fandom because I enjoy liking what I like (otherwise I wouldn't like it, but that's pretty much obvious, I think) and I don't want to stop. :/

* telrunya made me watch Gintama. I've watched up to episode three. It is crack and I like the premise of a pre-Bakumatsu Japan being invaded by aliens. Also, the protagonist seems addicted to Shonen Jump and wants a bankai. And what's his sword made of? Oo;; Why in the world the damn, wooden thing can break metallic buildings?

* I'm (finally) reading Watchmen. I'm on issue number three and, among other things, it's making me think of a conversation I had not-that-long-ago with someone whose identity is not that important. What matters is that we were talking about Heroes and it turned out that the reason why I like the show is the exact same reason why he doesn't: the drama.
What he likes, he says, is the story to begin with action, with the superheroes coming and do superheroic stuff, saving the day with their special abilities, the less of a struggle --either physically or morally-- the better.
In other words, he doesn't like to have them coming down and being more human and I usually can't stand them when they're up there. I feel they're practically impossible to relate to if they at least don't question themselves 'why me?', for example. Or at least once in their lives consider there are other things they can do with their superpowers besides helping people and nothing more. Just that, consider it, even if they never stop helping.
There's a reason I like Batman better than Superman, and Donald Duck better than Mickey Mouse.

It has to do a lot with characterization and character growth, with endless continuity, with McCarthyism, and with many of the things I said in my post about Mary Sues --which remains untranslated to English. :D

I could go teal deer on this, but I'm lazy and Umberto Eco said it better in his essay about Superman.