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spiderbraidsWarning, lots of rambling, and lots of personal reminiscing.
So, there are two factors have conspired to make summarizing uncut Winx a lot harder for me.
1. A confession: While I do watch the show on the tube (and even tape it using good ol' VHS), when I recapped the eps, I watched the eps on YouTube, courtesy of a nice Malaysian fan who uploaded a few S2 eps (plus a few S1 eps too!). Recently 4K has forced her to take down many of the clips she had, even though the clips are from a different version than the one 4K has its hands on. She's starting over again on a new account, but I've already emailed her that a) if 4K could take her vids off once, they'd do it again, and b) maybe she should consider putting them on Torrents.
2. If that wasn't enough, I also write my recaps by typing on the computer while watching TV. And my daddy REALLY doesn't want me to both use the computer and watch the TV. Even after I gave him my reasons, to boot.
3. #2 was aggravated by a huge argument I had. So I was watching Winx and typing a quick recap for the CT eps (using the breaks in the show to retype things), my father came in and yelled at me for throwing a small coin at a vendor. It's hard to explain, but where I live, some guy regularly comes into my small lane to buy old newspapers and used boxes and stuff. On this occasion, he came in like 5 minutes before Winx started. Then after weighing the stuff to determine how much he'd pay, he didn't have exact change how much he'd pay, so I rushed back in, got a small coin as change, ran to the door, and threw the coin (with an underhand throw) so he could catch it. It was only about a 2-3 feet throw. I run back in to watch Winx, and about a third of the way through the show, my dad comes in and yells at me about this. "I was just trying to save a few seconds..." "You'd still have to close the door and lock it. You save no time at all!" He then turns off the TV and blocks my way to the on switch. I get down on my knees and BEG him to let me watch. "Okay. But you have turn off the computer first!" "But I have to have both!" "No you can't!" So I hurriedly shut down the computer, and turn the TV back on (because I can't recap if I don't watch). I miss much of the scene in the library (meaning I have to work off the memory of my first viewing of this ep), and then Lucy and Mirta's flashabck. Then next ad break (Lucy and Mirta have their conversation after the flashback, and from what I remember, the next scene will be the one with the crystal ball gazing in class... I'm wondering if the teacher was deliberately trying to get the Winx to turn against each other like she was doing in the 4K version... which would be REAL DUMB [up there with mis-pairing the fairies] considering that protecting the Codex is priority), he forces me to turn the TV off again (during the off-time I keep telling mom, "But I already turned the computer off!") so I could pay attention to what he's saying, and then he told me to sit at the dining table for about 75 minutes, partially over throwing the coin, and partially for not paying attention to him. "And don't even TRY to leave the table to turn it back on!"
During TV off-time, I tried to justify throwing the coin with my mom. Not by saying, "I was trying to rush to watch the show", but "I was just trying to be friendly with the guy!" Mom tells me a) "You're trying to be friends with THAT GUY?" and b) that it's very rude to throw a coin at someone: "Trying doing this at the market and see if you live!" "But the market isn't a wide open space like the lane" didn't fly with mom (neither did, "What about throwing your keys to the valet?"). Mom then added to my dad's threat by saying, "If you turn on the TV, I'm stopping your allowance!" She also said something like "If you can make money off your interests, I wouldn't mind one bit, but you haven't made any money in your life!"
She then gave me an ultimatum. "Stop putting your shows in the computer and slowing it down!" For the record, I used to record the sound of the shows I watched (from the time Hey Arnold!, another show I loved, aired over here in '03, all the way to one morning in late '05 when my mom took away the audio cables I used from an easily accessible place, and made me to ask for permission to use them... of course, I've had no reason to ask permission, since she'd definitely say no for what I want). Of course, I said, "I've gone down from recording sounds to just typing up recaps!" (Also, I had copied my sounds over to CD, and so they don't take space on the computer anymore.) "I want you to stop doing even those!" "Stop typing my recaps?! But I let other people read my recaps when I put them up on my journal!" "Do you even know these people?" "Not really." "Then stop typing recaps, and stop doing your journal!" That pretty much kills not only my "live" recapping (typing as I'm watching), but also my non-"live" recapping as well (not as accurate since I have to rely on memory, which isn't exactly infallible). This is all in the name of focusing on my education, BTW. She'd be real mad to see this post online... which is why I'm not telling her where my journal is.
To add insult to injury, I later talked to my dad about the morning incident, and he told me "You can not control yourself, so I'm forbidding you from watching anything that makes you go nuts!" Of course, Winx fits right under the category. I remember being barred from watching The Simpsons for similar reasons, and "But it's the most popular show in America!" didn't fly with my mom, who just said, "But this isn't America!" (A popular local comic book also gets the cold shoulder from my family for similar reasons, even when I used a gag in one issue itself to justify myself: A thief has a tiger tattoo showing strength. He is mad at his son for being a comic book addict and having tattoos of his favorite comic artists. You'd think he was trying to be a cop! So I thought: "Thief hates cops. Thief also hates comic book addicts. So comic book addicts are on the same side as cops. Cops are good. So comic books must be good." Naturally that didn't fly at all. "Of course they'd be saying that it's good!"
BTW, the comic book I'm referring to is not the serialized storyline kind of stuff you'd read in America or Japan. It's mostly a collection of 3 or 4 frame gag sketches. E.g. Frame 1: A man is sniffing. Frame 2: A cop thinks he's sniffing glue. Frame 3: It's revealed that he's sniffing a nose he ripped off of someone else's face [it's drawn in a comical manner].)
In a nutshell, that pretty much limits my opportunities to watch Winx and recap it. (As if the scheduling of the show over here wasn't enough: 4:00pm weekdays? Mom watches cooking shows. 9:30pm weekends? Dad watches the sometimes-outrageous Japanese game shows then [though there was once a time I watched the show in that time slot]. A full hour on 10:30am weekends? Perfect for me, but even that's being eroded by other shows that my parents might be interested in. And the 10:30am slot is meant as a rotating slate, too.)
For the record, I made a full recap of 2x15, but don't be surprised if many of the other recaps are just the mini-versions. Don't be surprised if I don't recap an ep at all either.
(Sighs) Also for the record, I'm more than 20 years old, so my parents really don't approve of me watching cartoons. And they also tell me, "If you want your bloody way, then go move out!" Of course, having no job means I have to rely on my parents financially. Sheesh!
(And there was once a time when my daddy punished me for saying "Sheesh!" too. I remember walking out of the dining room and saying "Sheesh" in exasperation, and then dad yells from the dining room "Did you say 'sheesh'?", and my excuse "You weren't meant to hear it" doesn't fly with dad, so I get a spanking on the hand! I subsequently once read the name of the band Solid Harmonie as SHE [those letters were capitalized in the band name so that it could be abbreviated that way], and since it was so similar to Sheesh, my daddy had a "What did you say?" reaction. "It's 'SHE', and it's just the band's name" did fly with dad. So that puts the "No Sheeshing" phase of my life around '98, since that's when Solid Harmonie was around. For the record, my dad thought I said "Sheesh" a la Baby Kermit a lot, and it sounded so similar to another s-word... we were relative puritans then, and even today, my mom doesn't approve of me saying the f-word.)
Yeah, so my parents have slapped a serious ban on my recaps.
So, there are two factors have conspired to make summarizing uncut Winx a lot harder for me.
1. A confession: While I do watch the show on the tube (and even tape it using good ol' VHS), when I recapped the eps, I watched the eps on YouTube, courtesy of a nice Malaysian fan who uploaded a few S2 eps (plus a few S1 eps too!). Recently 4K has forced her to take down many of the clips she had, even though the clips are from a different version than the one 4K has its hands on. She's starting over again on a new account, but I've already emailed her that a) if 4K could take her vids off once, they'd do it again, and b) maybe she should consider putting them on Torrents.
2. If that wasn't enough, I also write my recaps by typing on the computer while watching TV. And my daddy REALLY doesn't want me to both use the computer and watch the TV. Even after I gave him my reasons, to boot.
3. #2 was aggravated by a huge argument I had. So I was watching Winx and typing a quick recap for the CT eps (using the breaks in the show to retype things), my father came in and yelled at me for throwing a small coin at a vendor. It's hard to explain, but where I live, some guy regularly comes into my small lane to buy old newspapers and used boxes and stuff. On this occasion, he came in like 5 minutes before Winx started. Then after weighing the stuff to determine how much he'd pay, he didn't have exact change how much he'd pay, so I rushed back in, got a small coin as change, ran to the door, and threw the coin (with an underhand throw) so he could catch it. It was only about a 2-3 feet throw. I run back in to watch Winx, and about a third of the way through the show, my dad comes in and yells at me about this. "I was just trying to save a few seconds..." "You'd still have to close the door and lock it. You save no time at all!" He then turns off the TV and blocks my way to the on switch. I get down on my knees and BEG him to let me watch. "Okay. But you have turn off the computer first!" "But I have to have both!" "No you can't!" So I hurriedly shut down the computer, and turn the TV back on (because I can't recap if I don't watch). I miss much of the scene in the library (meaning I have to work off the memory of my first viewing of this ep), and then Lucy and Mirta's flashabck. Then next ad break (Lucy and Mirta have their conversation after the flashback, and from what I remember, the next scene will be the one with the crystal ball gazing in class... I'm wondering if the teacher was deliberately trying to get the Winx to turn against each other like she was doing in the 4K version... which would be REAL DUMB [up there with mis-pairing the fairies] considering that protecting the Codex is priority), he forces me to turn the TV off again (during the off-time I keep telling mom, "But I already turned the computer off!") so I could pay attention to what he's saying, and then he told me to sit at the dining table for about 75 minutes, partially over throwing the coin, and partially for not paying attention to him. "And don't even TRY to leave the table to turn it back on!"
During TV off-time, I tried to justify throwing the coin with my mom. Not by saying, "I was trying to rush to watch the show", but "I was just trying to be friendly with the guy!" Mom tells me a) "You're trying to be friends with THAT GUY?" and b) that it's very rude to throw a coin at someone: "Trying doing this at the market and see if you live!" "But the market isn't a wide open space like the lane" didn't fly with mom (neither did, "What about throwing your keys to the valet?"). Mom then added to my dad's threat by saying, "If you turn on the TV, I'm stopping your allowance!" She also said something like "If you can make money off your interests, I wouldn't mind one bit, but you haven't made any money in your life!"
She then gave me an ultimatum. "Stop putting your shows in the computer and slowing it down!" For the record, I used to record the sound of the shows I watched (from the time Hey Arnold!, another show I loved, aired over here in '03, all the way to one morning in late '05 when my mom took away the audio cables I used from an easily accessible place, and made me to ask for permission to use them... of course, I've had no reason to ask permission, since she'd definitely say no for what I want). Of course, I said, "I've gone down from recording sounds to just typing up recaps!" (Also, I had copied my sounds over to CD, and so they don't take space on the computer anymore.) "I want you to stop doing even those!" "Stop typing my recaps?! But I let other people read my recaps when I put them up on my journal!" "Do you even know these people?" "Not really." "Then stop typing recaps, and stop doing your journal!" That pretty much kills not only my "live" recapping (typing as I'm watching), but also my non-"live" recapping as well (not as accurate since I have to rely on memory, which isn't exactly infallible). This is all in the name of focusing on my education, BTW. She'd be real mad to see this post online... which is why I'm not telling her where my journal is.
To add insult to injury, I later talked to my dad about the morning incident, and he told me "You can not control yourself, so I'm forbidding you from watching anything that makes you go nuts!" Of course, Winx fits right under the category. I remember being barred from watching The Simpsons for similar reasons, and "But it's the most popular show in America!" didn't fly with my mom, who just said, "But this isn't America!" (A popular local comic book also gets the cold shoulder from my family for similar reasons, even when I used a gag in one issue itself to justify myself: A thief has a tiger tattoo showing strength. He is mad at his son for being a comic book addict and having tattoos of his favorite comic artists. You'd think he was trying to be a cop! So I thought: "Thief hates cops. Thief also hates comic book addicts. So comic book addicts are on the same side as cops. Cops are good. So comic books must be good." Naturally that didn't fly at all. "Of course they'd be saying that it's good!"
BTW, the comic book I'm referring to is not the serialized storyline kind of stuff you'd read in America or Japan. It's mostly a collection of 3 or 4 frame gag sketches. E.g. Frame 1: A man is sniffing. Frame 2: A cop thinks he's sniffing glue. Frame 3: It's revealed that he's sniffing a nose he ripped off of someone else's face [it's drawn in a comical manner].)
In a nutshell, that pretty much limits my opportunities to watch Winx and recap it. (As if the scheduling of the show over here wasn't enough: 4:00pm weekdays? Mom watches cooking shows. 9:30pm weekends? Dad watches the sometimes-outrageous Japanese game shows then [though there was once a time I watched the show in that time slot]. A full hour on 10:30am weekends? Perfect for me, but even that's being eroded by other shows that my parents might be interested in. And the 10:30am slot is meant as a rotating slate, too.)
For the record, I made a full recap of 2x15, but don't be surprised if many of the other recaps are just the mini-versions. Don't be surprised if I don't recap an ep at all either.
(Sighs) Also for the record, I'm more than 20 years old, so my parents really don't approve of me watching cartoons. And they also tell me, "If you want your bloody way, then go move out!" Of course, having no job means I have to rely on my parents financially. Sheesh!
(And there was once a time when my daddy punished me for saying "Sheesh!" too. I remember walking out of the dining room and saying "Sheesh" in exasperation, and then dad yells from the dining room "Did you say 'sheesh'?", and my excuse "You weren't meant to hear it" doesn't fly with dad, so I get a spanking on the hand! I subsequently once read the name of the band Solid Harmonie as SHE [those letters were capitalized in the band name so that it could be abbreviated that way], and since it was so similar to Sheesh, my daddy had a "What did you say?" reaction. "It's 'SHE', and it's just the band's name" did fly with dad. So that puts the "No Sheeshing" phase of my life around '98, since that's when Solid Harmonie was around. For the record, my dad thought I said "Sheesh" a la Baby Kermit a lot, and it sounded so similar to another s-word... we were relative puritans then, and even today, my mom doesn't approve of me saying the f-word.)
Yeah, so my parents have slapped a serious ban on my recaps.
