I wish there was a show or animated film which, like some of the old movies from the 30's and 40's, PAY ATTENTION to what people can and cannot do.  chase scenes in which people can only jump a few short feet, or where jumping out a window breaks legs, or where the actor actually spends 100% of his time carrying his possessions rather than merely producing them at the opportune moment.  Haversacks and canteens are needed for simple day-trips, the inability to carry a 8r0d5w0rd in their pocket is a real issue, etc.  I don't want to watch the characters piss, but it would be so much better if they had more human and less superhuman qualities about them.

In something like, say, Naruto? I agree. People often leave craters in various stone/wood objects and quickly pick themselves up and continue fighting. Bleach is something else, though. Bleach is much more superhero. It's got a whole 'I'm so badass I can cut buildings apart' that isn't half as painful as most anime make it; that show has some serious punk attitude, which makes the enormous-sword-toting pretty cool in comparison to Cloud who may or may not be male. Such scenes have completely ruined the series of late, though. When they were more infrequent, the series was awesome.

Oh, and FMA had very little filler; even the side episodes like the Lust/Lujon romance still served a purpose - namely, fleshing out the thinner characters.

Anyway.

anime is sure as hell overrated, but there a lot out there thats actually quite good imo.

That's like saying that sci-fi or fantasy is overrated; there are good shows in any genre. That, and every genre is flooded with more bad than good anyway. We've got all kinds of shit on the Sci-fi channel, but we also have Doctor Who and Firefly; likewise, we have fifteen thousand Dragon Ball Zs, but we also have Paranoia Agent and Death Note.

I know you said that there are some good ones, but calling a genre 'overrated' is just too broad.

But, yes, we need less Yu-Gi-Oh! and Dragon Ball getting the attention. On a side note, large hairstyles don't bother me much, but Cloud looks simply horrid outside Advent Children, in which he was actually in some freakish way almost normal.

Wow. I'm in the middle of watching Stargate SG-1 reruns and eating dinner.

Eeeh, I'm not a big Stargate fan myself. I'm more of a Firefly fan. And I only saw two episodes.

Soooo...who else is hyped about The Golden Compass?

Just wanted to show my remake of KAT's mockup.



Hope he doesn't mind.