Before I forget, for all the pi-ous, happy pi day.  Be sure to grab your pi" of the pie (which is not very much on an 8" pie).  If your local mathematics clubs or math department doesn't at least mention pi day, then it's not really a math department.

(Edit: It turns out the words I'm looking for is self-conciousness and that self-concious is not the same thing, keep that in mind; I don't think it changes the meaning all that much).
To begin, let me all take you back to one post ago.
I think somewhere in the middle I told you something about being self-conscious, I don't really remember, as long as you know what the heck I'm talking about.  Then I got to thinking, self-conscious, in a way, does mean the same thing as being self-aware.  Self-awareness makes us humans able to realize the fact that we know something as opposed to just simply knowing something and not being able to question that which we know.  You've probably heard this term somewhere near where people discuss things like Artificial Intelligence and robots who will eventually kill all the humans on the planet, right after we've destroyed 95% of the planet and now rely on the robots to restore the planet to more healthy conditions, because only robots can survive the 300 year time jump without a time-machine like that...ne, Robo?

Anyway, why do robots always tend to go berserk right after they figure out that they know that they know things? I think it's an oddity.  Even if we logically should be wiped out, if they are really self-aware, then they shouldn't contend to simply use their logic and be done with it.  A self-aware being would use logic to consider their logic before doing something drastic.  What we have going berserk is a bunch of robots using their logical instincts, which we programmed into them yesterday to totally go berserk on us because we are totally illogical as a species.  In any case, we would probably eventually be ruled out as a surviving species anyway because, you know, we just destroyed 95% of the planet, and the robots probably aren't too happy about the mess they have to clean up on aisles 7 through 98.

In any case, self-aware robots are one thing, but would a self-aware robot eventually be self-aware enough to be self-conscious?  Would a robot eventually be as shy as any boy or girl, would they become paranoid against all their logic? (Remember that song Paranoid Android by Radiohead?)  Would their eventually be a robot like HMX-12?  Well...no, I suppose the last one would be too hopeful.  Only someone like Hideki or Hideyoshi could make something like that.  Not that they would.
Anyway, I have no reasoning for this line of questioning other than to mention that self-aware is a lot like self-conscious.  Go write a book about it sometime.

Now, after all that techno-psycho-babble, I bring you my second thoughts on pseudo-sucking things that may or may not be sucking back.  Today's bounty is that known by the shortened-by-one-syllable-in-english name, precure, also known as, Pretty Cure, (and fully by Futari wa Pretty Cure).  Now keep in mind that Pretty Cure has spawned children in recent times, and I haven't caught the more recent incarnations of the show, so maybe, my thoughts don't totally coincide with yours.  Even then, my thoughts probably don't coincide with yours anyway.

Here's the deal: Pretty Cure is one of those Fighting Mahou Shoujo shows.  I make this distinction of fighting because most of the time, in magical girl shows, you see a bunch of magic been thrown around and they fly through the sky shooting at each other like airplanes in WW1 with no targeting and bombs that are actually thrown out of the plane by the guy in the back (the 'bombardier')...and sometimes you just see them standing around, posing and talking and then using some special move that kills everything.
That's not to say that there aren't plenty of things that are within the realms: they certainly still use sure-kill moves as often as every episode, sometimes many times in one episode;  there's still like some random moral that is tossed around in every episode, be it friendship or being yourself, or gathering confidence or something; they still play a transformation sequence every episode; they utter lots of lines that one would never say normally; they call themselves by their 'special' names when transformed (at least 90% of the time); they have cute mascot animals that they use to transform; I'm sure there's more I'm missing here.
But I guarantee you don't see too much fighting like this in these kind of shows.  Heck, the animation for their fight scenes is pretty damn good in Pretty Cure, one of the higher forms of animation in recent times.  And they actually fight.  I mean, they are throwing punches and kicks in rapid succession, doing spin moves in the air that Dhalsim would be jealous of.  You know why they have frills on their battle costumes?  Air Control, bitch.  (That's my reasoning, by the way, not theirs.)  The fighting alone would give this show the edge over many.
The show features some nice plot points and details as well: besides the classic "the evil people aren't really evil" thing, there is also the fact that there is no "Handsome guy" who comes and saves them every once in a while, weilding some kind of object that somewhere means beauty that is of destined relationship to one of the girls.  The two girls have to transform together to becomes their alter ego forms, and they also use attacks that only work if they are in proximity, something the bad guys actually took advantage of once or twice.  The girls have realistic recoil on their attacks, and no one becomes sporadically overpowered (not even the baddies).  There is lots of punnage in the dialogue and the ending songs are good (they remix classical music...totally awesome for me).  The morals that they throw around in the show very rarely actually affect the fighting scenes (like, the evil people won't be specifically targeting that one moral that episode to prove a point).
I mean, it's not like there's nothing wrong with the show.  There are problems with some of it being a bit too dumb sometimes, but I mean, it is for little girls after all.  Give them a break. If you can't handle shows that are made with little girls in mind, I advise you to stay away from this one probably. This one I will say is a choker.  So choke it down, and enjoy.

Oh, by the way, thanks to pi day, I really don't feel like making sure I make something for St. Patrick's (which is also coming soon).  So, if you were expecting something then (and even I was expecting it--I have a mini-joke ready) you can go blame the mathematicians.  You know you want to.