Burrowowl

Having caught up with the current progress of English-language fansubbers on this title, I’m finding Ergo Proxy to be well worth the time. Previous concerns have been largely unfounded.

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Settling in on a couple of shows mid-season is always an interesting exercise, as it affords one the opportunity to trudge through a couple episodes in a row, giving otherwise-marginal shows a better chance to grab hold. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni benefits well from such a viewing.

This show revolves around a boy that moves to a small town with a mysterious past. Specifically, there have been a series of brutal murders. This is a subject that nobody ever seems to talk about. Five years ago, a water project that would have flooded the entire town was halted. Townsfolk refer openly to the lobbying efforts of their mayor and other prominent townsfolk, who traveled to the capital to plead their case. They don’t talk about the bloody dismemberment of a construction site worker. Keiichi, the protagonist of this little drama, keeps running into little hints that something is very, very wrong in this small town.

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On a recommendation, I downloaded a few episodes of Ergo Proxy and finally got a chance to watch the first episode. One episode into a series is rarely a good point at which to make sweeping statements about it, especially when so many people have already seen up to episode 9 now, but here’s my two cents anyway.

One of the first things that struck me about this series before I gave it a shot was the alarming amount of eye makeup on this prominent character, presumably the main protagonist of the show. Her name is Lil, she’s a citizen of the dark-future megalopolis the story takes place in, she’s handy with a gun, and affects the kind of painfully-disinterested ennui that I generally associate with Vampire: The Masquerade enthusiasts and people that own too many Morrisey albums (frequently the same people). Shallow person that I am, this was enough to delay my acquisition of this title.

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In WordPress lingo, a “Page” (note the capitalization) is a more permanent form of document, unlike the fleeting day-to-day posts that flit by chaotically, flying along chronologically, occasionally wrangled into submission by categorization.  Posts, on the other hand, are intended to remain in the same, or strongly-similar, position navigationally as time progresses.

It occurs to me that using posts for updates to the work-in-progress IK Fate doc is probably a poor way to organize things.  Versions 0.10 and 0.11, as previously posted, are staying where they were originally placed, but new copies are being placed in a IK Fate Page for what I hope will be a more organizationally-sound, reasonably-permanent information architecture solution. Future updates will be marked by posts, the main purpose of which will simply be to draw attention to the updated Pages. Pardon my dust.

As part 0.11 of the IK Fate Roadmap, it is necessary to generate a representative sampling of Aspects that characters in the Iron Kingdoms may find useful or interesting. I will break them up into a handful of subcategories for organizational purposes. This is not intended as a complete listing of possible aspects, as a total lock-down of the character-generation process strikes me as antithetical to the Fate system.

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