Manga Thoughts: Hayate x Blade

"Other people are talking about it" is of course a familiar enough reason to take in something for yourself. Every so often I get around to that myself, and of course there's always the chance I'll like the recommended work too. Growing to understand some of the more notable posters to the "Anime on DVD"/"Fandom Post" forums took their "screen names" from one particular manga series, I bought the omnibus volumes of it. With lots of other series to work through, though, I'd never quite got around to reading them until now, when at last I opened up "Hayate x Blade" (or "Hayate Cross Blade"). Perhaps I'd been a little too sure of what I'd find in the series, but as it turned out there were some surprises.
( Cross blades ahead )

Star Trek Thoughts: The Conscience of the King

In starting to watch some episodes of Star Trek, I suppose I had the impression this would be no more complicated than finally seeing the primary source of something I'd long known all about from secondary sources. With "The Conscience of the King," though, there did seem to still be some surprises. More than that, there were things about the episode that interested me that won't give away all of my surprises.
( 'Even in this corner of the galaxy, captain, two plus two equals four.' )