The Weekend:
Recently, I had the privilege of purchasing the popular indie RPG, Undertale. I was suitably heart-warmed and amused, so I decided that I eventually needed to make a video on it. A review would be too obvious and overdone, so I opted to look at some of the music instead. After all, the soundtrack has 100+ tracks, it shouldn't be too hard, right?
Note: spoilers for all routes follow below, maybe. If you haven't played it, then "Escape" or you'll have a bad tEM, etc... etc...
I figured that it would be good to get in another episode of 16ths before I tried making a video with a different focus. Undertale had several short musical cues I could have looked at, but I chose one pretty late in the game. The track is called "Bergentrückung," a short, non-looping track that plays at the beginning of the fight with the Monster King Asgore. Simple procedure: read about the game, the composer, look at the piece in context and in terms of itself. Easy!
Or maybe not.
Almost none of my usual resources helped. The internet search turned up a single Wikipedia page and a few random Reddit posts. The library I was hanging out in had no German books, and none of the books even used the word, or the supposed English translation. Even after emailing an English and music professor, I was still fairly uncertain.
The wikis indicated that it means "king in the mountain," but the online translators showed "mountain rapture." None of the literature or mythology books mentioned it, but the collection was small to begin with.
Monday:
In a fortunate turn of events, a friend of mine (who works at BMW) had some German speaking friends visiting on Sunday. One of them confirmed for me that Bergentrückung does in fact mean "Mountain rapture." I am still at a loss as to how it could be translated as "king in the mountain," or "king under the mountain." Interestingly, her initial word for the second part (entrückung) was something akin to "escape." Both "escape" and "rapture" came up in my initial online search.
Thursday, June 30, 2016
TV - My "Big Three" People Categories
Just last month, the three CW superhero shows concluded their respective seasonal runs. (And Supergirl concluded the month before that - but it wasn't CW at the time.) All four shows full of fun characters, stupid characters, evil characters, etc... got me thinking about my favorite character.
But it's not so easy to narrow it down to just one favorite. For an example, on Prinson Break, the character called "T-Bag" is the worst person ever, but I admire the ability of the actor Robert Knepper to deftly portray such a scumbag. On the opposite side (some might say the reverse) of the spectrum is Kara Danvers, aka Supergirl. Her actor, Melissa Benoist, is just as good at being super sweet and adorable.
So, favorite person (in-universe, I don't follow celebrities' personal lives), favorite character and favorite actor. Heaver spoilers to follow, probably. So be careful.
As mentioned previously, Kara is the best person out of the four shows. She carries on despite setbacks and an awful boss, all while being what the internet calls a "cinnamon roll too good for this world." Plus, there is a good bit of character development, what with being the hero of National City and one of a handful of survivors of Krypton and all.
However, in terms of character development, I'm going with Mick Rory, aka Heatwave (and earlier/later, Chronos.) Starting off, Heatwave was just a pyromaniac that the Flash had to fight. Over the course of Legends of Tomorrow, however, his character shows more emotions than just fiery rage. Motivations are revealed and relationships established. (I don't know how comics fans feel, but I found the Chronos-is-Mick plot point quite interesting.) Considering the ending of LoT's first season, it'll be interesting to see how they work with his character.
For favorite actor, it was a toss-up between Stephen Amell as various "versions" of Oliver Queen during Arrow, and Tom Cavanagh, as several iterations of Dr. Harrison Wells. Stephen manages to draw distinct characters in pre-island and post-island Oliver. Nonetheless, I admire Cavanagh's abilities a little more. (Probably because Reverse-Flash is kinda cool.) He plays Eobard-as-Wells, the original Earth-1 Wells, prickly Earth-2 Wells, and E2 Wells pretending to be Eobard-as-Wells. (And a shapeshifting meta, but that's not as important.) That's a lot of similar, but very different, guys to be in one show!
Just a bit of rambling as I look forward to the next season of shows, particularly Flash and Supergirl.
But it's not so easy to narrow it down to just one favorite. For an example, on Prinson Break, the character called "T-Bag" is the worst person ever, but I admire the ability of the actor Robert Knepper to deftly portray such a scumbag. On the opposite side (some might say the reverse) of the spectrum is Kara Danvers, aka Supergirl. Her actor, Melissa Benoist, is just as good at being super sweet and adorable.
So, favorite person (in-universe, I don't follow celebrities' personal lives), favorite character and favorite actor. Heaver spoilers to follow, probably. So be careful.
As mentioned previously, Kara is the best person out of the four shows. She carries on despite setbacks and an awful boss, all while being what the internet calls a "cinnamon roll too good for this world." Plus, there is a good bit of character development, what with being the hero of National City and one of a handful of survivors of Krypton and all.
However, in terms of character development, I'm going with Mick Rory, aka Heatwave (and earlier/later, Chronos.) Starting off, Heatwave was just a pyromaniac that the Flash had to fight. Over the course of Legends of Tomorrow, however, his character shows more emotions than just fiery rage. Motivations are revealed and relationships established. (I don't know how comics fans feel, but I found the Chronos-is-Mick plot point quite interesting.) Considering the ending of LoT's first season, it'll be interesting to see how they work with his character.
For favorite actor, it was a toss-up between Stephen Amell as various "versions" of Oliver Queen during Arrow, and Tom Cavanagh, as several iterations of Dr. Harrison Wells. Stephen manages to draw distinct characters in pre-island and post-island Oliver. Nonetheless, I admire Cavanagh's abilities a little more. (Probably because Reverse-Flash is kinda cool.) He plays Eobard-as-Wells, the original Earth-1 Wells, prickly Earth-2 Wells, and E2 Wells pretending to be Eobard-as-Wells. (And a shapeshifting meta, but that's not as important.) That's a lot of similar, but very different, guys to be in one show!
Just a bit of rambling as I look forward to the next season of shows, particularly Flash and Supergirl.
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