{"id":36,"date":"2007-04-29T20:26:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T01:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/2007\/04\/29\/silliness\/"},"modified":"2007-04-29T20:26:13","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T01:26:13","slug":"silliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/silliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Silliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img src='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/wellber01.jpg' alt='wellber01.jpg' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Ludicrous though it is as Shakespeare, if you ignore the characters&#8217; names, <i><b>Romeo x Juliet<\/b><\/i> becomes a generic fantasy action show, a bit slicker than most but otherwise of no particular distinction. If it&#8217;s something truly ridiculous you want, I recommend <i><b>Sisters of Wellber<\/b><\/i>. In the first episode we have swords, guns, sword-guns, plate armor, a fairy, cigarettes, facial markings, a guy named Galahad, artificial intelligence and a tank that talks too much. There&#8217;s also mention of a &#8220;Killer Bee Man.&#8221; This isn&#8217;t schizotech; this is just plain silly. I suppose it&#8217;s part of the writers&#8217; strategy: if <i>anything<\/i> can happen, you don&#8217;t have to worry about consistency. What&#8217;s frustrating is that there might be a decent story about interesting characters here \u2014 the principals are a princess who may or may not have killed a prince from a different kingdom, and the thief who becomes her protector \u2014 but it&#8217;s lost under all the senseless gimmicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ludicrous though it is as Shakespeare, if you ignore the characters&#8217; names, Romeo x Juliet becomes a generic fantasy action show, a bit slicker than most but otherwise of no particular distinction. If it&#8217;s something truly ridiculous you want, I recommend Sisters of Wellber. In the first episode we have swords, guns, sword-guns, plate armor, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/silliness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silliness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[660,677],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-current-viewing","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-A","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}