0031 | in which I beat Dragon Age: Origins, wax lyric about Zevran, & watch Buffy for the first time

I have literally been writing this entry on and off again for weeks. To give you an idea of how long this has been in progress: I started it two days after posting my last entry.

► One of the book blogs I follow posted a link to How To Tell If You Are In A Brontë Novel. I found it amusing, though I think it applies more to Charlotte Brontë than her sisters. (Granted, I have not yet read anything by Anne Brontë, so I can't speak for hers.) Most of them sound like they came straight from Villette, with smatterings of Jane Eyre.

► I beat Dragon Age: Origins about two days after my last entry, and now I have a lot to say about it. Please bear with me.

Also, I decided to do this update in bullet points, because all my transitions were beginning to sound repetitive.
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So.... tl;dr I'm madly in love with Zevran, and I repaid poor Alistair's trust and affection by screwing him over at (nearly) every opportunity. Poor guy.

I do have to say, thugh, that I really loved this game. Just... it was so, so good. The battle system may not have been perfect but, with the exception of the final boss, I enjoyed it well enough, and any flaws that the actual gameplay had were more than made up for by the fantastic story and characters. Especially the characters.

(And, okay, especially Zevran, because I have a one-track mind.)

But still. When we were talking about our thoughts on the game after I beat it, my brother mentioned that he'd read before that Dragon Age: Origins' real strength was in its writing, and I have to say, I definitely agree. I'm already looking forward to playing it again, and to exploring the universe its in a little more.

► I also watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the first time. Because I actually want to get this entry posted sometime in the next century, I'm only going to give the short version of my thoughts (though I might talk about it a bit more in subsequent entries. Maybe.)

Basically, I liked it! I liked it a lot, even more than I thought I was going to.

Buffy was a wonderful character— there were just so many moments where she impressed me— and Spike hit so many of the right buttons for me. I can't say that I ship them without hesitation, because there were definitely some squicky moments, but I do still ship them. I also was a fan of Giles and Willow, though how much I liked them varied from season to season, and Cordelia as well.

Overall, I think the fifth season was the one which was technically the best (and I did like it quite a bit), but the second and sixth seasons were probably my favorites.

And... that's all I'm going to say for now, because, like I said above, I actually want to get this posted before I grow old and die.