Saturday, October 25, 2008

Alas! It is unclogged...the HELLSING SAGA CONTINUES

This is the measure of my madness. For almost a month now I have been working on the never ending essay. At this point in time I don't know if I'll ever present it for consideration, since a bit of an economic downturn is leading me to put the idea of a Master's aside and go for a good old plain certification as a Medical Billing Specialist (choices, choices- money or fun- while there's debts to pay I'll be a happy little ho').

However, as this is therapy, I keep on writing as if it's serious business. Of course because I need no more stress in my life, I write myself into a corner... is Hellsing a reinterpretation, a continuation or a whole new approach to Bram Stoker's Dracula?

Continuation seems like the chosen path as the main character is in fact, eternal and seems to consistently fight against madness by trying to reconstruct a pattern that he is comfortable with- re-planning what he sought as a winning strategy once.

See, Alucard is kind of a hot-headed stubborn monster who doesn't like to loose. It took him a little over a hundred years to put it all in place, there's Lucy and Mina and Renfield, they just don't know it... and this is no Romantic vampire trying to redeem himself either. This is back to basics personification of the id monster unleashed, so that means that this time around everyone is in when he goes and cashes the IOU's.

The stage was perfect for my little theory and then, a complete block...DAMN IT!!!!
And here I've been until today, when all of a sudden it hit me. This is a graphic novel you twit, as much it is said in the panel as in the images...bless your heart Hirano, you bastard, keeping the character's integrity until the end even if it all "reads" other wise.

10-4 Boys and girls, I have to give shape to this, and finish it or burst.

No quote today, the video is from youtube, called Alucard's Story, not of my making, pretty cool though.

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