Last Cass Post

Since we only needed to do ten posts for Comm. 340 this will be my last post for class. And the subject of choice is Fans and How Far Is To Far. Ok, not I will happily admit to being a Trekee. Hell I went to my fifth grade Halloween party as Spock. I still have the ears. I’ve seen every episode of the Original Series, The Next Generation, and Voyager, a minimum of six times each. And I own both the Official Star Trek Trivia Game (purchased in 1992/1993) and the Star Trek Monopoly game (technically my mother owns the Monopoly game – she collects Monopoly games). I even have a Star Fleet manual from the original series, and several other pieces of memorabilia.

Now I see no problem having a uniform mad if you wish to go to a convention, or even if you just want to have one. Going to jury duty in it is a bit eccentric, but whatever floats your boat. As for baying a thousand dollars for a costume piece worn by one of the characters in an actual show; Hell the guy got a deal. Do you have any idea how much time and effort when in to making those pieces. And when you consider how rare it is for a studio to offer on of its props/costume for sail. That only usually happens for charity events. They’re normally either locked in a vault, placed in a museum, or destroyed (last option doesn’t happen often, but if the item is damaged or something along those lines it my be scraped for its materials depending on what it is). Studios don’t like to give up their property, that’s why people bay through the nose for the stuff.

As for a Star Trek or Star Wars wedding. Can we say Vegas? There has got to be and Elvis Wedding Chappell every fifty feet or so.

Ok some people take it way to far. But I'm not going to judge how far is actually too far. Of course when that person starts to personally scare me (and it takes a lot for a fan to actually scar me – if you ever see me at an Amine convention you’ll understand), then I’ll admit they’ve crossed a line and have left sanity far behind them. But until then I say let them be and have their fun.

P.S.
Ok the guy who bought the “Q-virus” and actually drank it went too far. That was almost seemed Stacker creepy.

Gay or Striate

In regards to the picture shown in class last week of the young Asian and weightier or not he was gay’ I think it was a pointless question. Weightier or not some one is or is not gay can not be determined by the way they look. Not even by the way the act. Personally if I’d seen a guy dressed like that walking down the street my first thought would have been weightier or not he was gay. It would have had to do with the fact that he was rather attractive. And what he was wearing wasn’t really a “Gay” outfit it was a dressy casual look. The point is that you can’t tell weightier of not someone is gay or not going just on looks and behavior. Until that individual informs you other wise it’s really none of your bonuses, and you should speculate on it.

Anime and Disney

Ok this is probably a pit off topic but it’s the best I can think of right now. This past weekend I attended an anime convention called NekoCon. I love anime (Japanese’s Animation). Now it’s mostly a purely anime convention but you can also find items of Japanese culture such and Kimonos and Tea ceremony items and such. There is also usually a weapons booth featuring items of both Eastern and Western origin. But the Con also has a video game aspect. If you walk through the game room you find more than a dozen games of Japanese origin and maybe one or two of Western origin depending on the Con.

Now it’s common practice to dress up at these Cons and people go as both characters from actual animes and video games. What got me this year was the number of people dressed as Disney characters. At first I didn’t know what they were doing dressed and these characters, but then I realized that they were dressed as characters from the Kingdom Hearts video game. A game that features not only Disney characters but several anime characters from games and shows that Disney either holds the American license on, or is affiliated with (Final Fantasy being one).

Until then I hadn’t really associated Disney and anime even though Disney sponsored the American release of the Japanese’s animated films Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle. Even though I knew about it before hand it was still surprising to see. Disney and some of the more popular animes aren’t something people tend to put together.