I felt like making a new journal entry. (shrugs)

So... who's been watching the new Avatar series? (or do I have many watchers who like Avatar, since I haven't made much fanart of it...) I recently watched a few of the first series' episodes again and noticed that it seems like the art got better as the series progressed. And the Korra episodes look really nice (I'm thinking there might be more emphasis on establishing shots and less emphasis on dialogue in the Korra series, but that's just based on a few minutes of one episode, since I don't usually pay attention to that type of thing). I downloaded the high definition version of the first episode from Amazon for free, and it's really, really awesome in high definition. You can see all these little details. The lineart seems so simple with how sharp the lines look when in that quality, but it's interesting like that, where it kind of contrasts with the backgrounds looking pretty realistic. I should try painting some backgrounds based on how they do it in that show (espeically since the art's so clear in the download). If I can figure out how to do it right.
I wish Mako was more like Zuko. ): He reminded me of him at first, but now I'm thinking he's too much of a good guy. (...although, I didn't really notice Zuko until like halfway through the series, and I didn't like how he acted in some of the last episodes... In my defense, I think he was written kind'a oddly near the end of the series at times. It probably would've been better if there were more episodes, instead of pushing all of that into only a few episodes)

I'm also still interested in the Aladdin series. Anyone watching me who likes that series? :/ I have some unfinished fanart (more fanart for Dance of Eternity, and the Mozenrath pic I'd uploaded a preview of before but may not finish for awhile), and a fanfic idea (or two). The fic idea I'm playing with now, I've been trying to figure out what the chapters will be about before I write them, instead of the other way around - which might be a stupid idea, but should help with some things (If I remember right, I think it was this tutorial [link] which mentioned that there should be some type of reveal in each chapter for them to be interesting. It sounds right, so it probably is.)
For the Aladdin series itself, the art's kind'a interesting. The clothes are different than what I'm used to seeing (although, I think some of the fashion is similar to Avatar's - at least in the first series), and it's kind'a weird how cartoony some things are drawn (and how it seems like something's drawn/colored wrong in every scene), but it's interesting at the same time. I recently noticed how different characters stand differently (like Mozenrath always leans way back), and a few days ago I watched some people walking around and noticed they all had different postures, too (I probably sound stupid, not noticing stuff like that until now >_>" ).
But, I still think I'm mainly interested in the show because I'd started thinking of Mozenrath as a new possible anti-hero/human-Antagonist type character. But maybe part of why Mozenrath interests me now, besides possibly not seeing his episodes when I used to watch the show, and finding Mozenrath fanfictions that twist his character into the type I like, could be because of Avatar (and maybe the other shows I'd seen in the years between then and now). Him and Zuko are kind of similar in a few ways. Zuko's clothes sometimes looks similar to Mozenrath's, they both have a power that resembles fire, they both are determined despite the odds, they both have pride, they both have scars that mark who they are and are ashamed of them, they don't try to cover these scars, they're both pale with black hair, they're both ruler/prince people. But while Zuko does the wrong things for good(ish) reasons, Mozenrath doesn't seem to care at all (although he does know what the right thing is, he just... doesn't do it himself. He thinks other people should do the right thing, though). I guess it's a moral/immoral thing, as well as Zuko trying to get something back, while Mozenrath just wants to get something. He might be similar to Kaiba in that way, where he wants to be the best at things. But Kaiba would be more underhanded and sneaky in what he does (like sneaking into Pegasus' castle and such) - Mozenrath is actually pretty honest and up front about everything. ...Maybe Mozenrath interests me partly because he's a strange character. Some things seem contradictory about him. Hmm... well, this ended up being a pretty boring journal.

Anyone watch Once Upon A Time? Interesting ending for last night's episode - it's not what happened, but how it happened. (I hope they don't draw out the storyline for that show for a long time, and then never end it. Shows like that are so annoying)