cabbitzilla | (no subject)

I've been through season 2 twice, including the infamous 'Not-the season finale' fiasco on Cartoon network.

...

*facepalms* It's gonna do it to me again, isn't it. It's gonna get to the 'end' and leave everything up in there air like they did with season one, isn't it.

*shakes a fist in futile android rage*
ARRRRGGGHHH!

Chiaki is the louse, not Roger Smith ;P

....

Words fail. So where multiples fail, I'll offer but a single one that I trust will properly convey my thoughts on the matter...

KHAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!

*mutters and stalks off, having now gotten to episode 23 and no longer having hope for complete satisfaction*

Please... humor me... Dorothy at least gets a kiss, right? Please?

A kiss. Such a simple thing.

Instead I get a farewell that tears my heart out...

... and 'reality' unraveling to do the same to my mind.

'Louse' is ... but a pale reflection of the flash of a blade. I'm staring down the throat of the last two Season 2 episodes, and it may yet prompt a return of the mechacabbit...

Worse. :)

So, the series builds up to an impossible finale that -somehow- a half hour episode is supposed to solve...

S and I have the candy, the soda, we even have the adult swim message board on. People are posting '10 minutes to go!' '5 minutes to go'! We're all waiting to see episode 26 of the series...

...Only to have adult swim show a repeat of episode 22 accidentally. No explanation, no defense, nothing.

To make up for the error, AS promised to show ep 26 the next week, and devoted the entire thursday 'viewer mail' to the death threats they'd received.

So, the next week comes, and...Episode 22 appears again...And then stops.

"We were just messing with you"
"We had to do it".

Episode 26 appears on screen.

The thing is...I -still- want to kill the writer.

And now I sit, episode 25 having just finished. I'm ....

I don't know that I can easily explain this. Reality being... malleable... adjustable... is a foundational point for me. I've seen things, done things, that I know are simply impossible. I've walked out of catastrophes over and over again, accumulating scars but little else.

Four years ago, I was taught rather brutally just how easily 'memory' is erased. Skills, knowledge, mental snapshots... stripped away in the time it took to gasp and fold up in a pile. A year or two later, I was introduced to a novel form of 'big silly robot' anime that from the first episode hit both passion -and- horror chords.

Passion was winning when I put episode 14 in and hit 'play'. All that's left is horror... and frustration that what I've endured as a personal hell has been inflicted also on my dearest friends and family.

Yes, dolly, I'm 'taking things too seriously' again. Memory, function, reality...

I'm going to watch the final episode now. I'll probably be sobbing by the end of it. I've had to stop four times already to get the tears back under control since I began with episode 14. 26 is sitting there. Waiting. I know what it'll likely do to me... but I have to watch it.

I don't turn back. Not even when the choice is destructive. I choose, and then I reap the consequences, good or bad.

...

ok, I'm lost.. what am I missing?

Ah. Now that I'm conscious again, I can explain. This will be copied for both

invader_tak_1 and

shikyrie, don't feel bad, darlings, you simply both seemed to be asking the same question, and I'm feeling thrifty or some such.

The Big O (official site), split into Season One and Season Two, is an anime series that on the surface looks to be simply another silly robot series. The animation is done in the 'flash mouth' style, and has an odd sort of retro feel to it that gives it almost a film noir glimmer.

Beneath the pretty art and stylized characters, there's a very complex plot that deals with memories, what happens to folk when they lose them... and questions on just how real 'reality' is. The first season of thirteen episodes had really just started to explore those concepts, and ended with three or four different plot threads hanging on a cliffhanger ending.

And then word got out that that was all there was. There was silence for a bit, and then outrage from the people who'd had TBO strike a chord within them... which included me. Several 'give us more' sites sprang up, along with fan fiction sites, message boards, letter writing campaigns, and a growing wave of polite but insistent pressure on Cartoon Network, Sunrise, and writer Chiaki Konaka for more. (The same writer is responsible for Hellsing, and left -that- series up in the air as well. Bastard.)

The pressure finally netted a second season of thirteen episodes... episodes that were advertised as 'the answers to your questions'. And I'm here right now to tell you that that advertisement is complete and utter horse shit - they leave things hanging, IMHO, /worse/ than with the first season.

But when I made the original post, I wasn't sure if either of the duo that'd introduced me to so many other lovely anime series had seen it. Silly me... EVERYONE else has cable, so they had. It contains elements that are central to all three of us, and I figured it'd be best to err on the side of caution.

The sheer nuts and bolts of this is that I was frothing at the mouth for a cartoon... one that reeled me in and then shot me through the heart with a meson cannon...

And my link to the official site is fragged. Ignore it. :/

ok.. i'll go check out the links for a better idea... thankee

I have NO idea what you are talking about.

Ah. Now that I'm conscious again, I can explain. This will be copied for both

invader_tak_1 and

shikyrie, don't feel bad, darlings, you simply both seemed to be asking the same question, and I'm feeling thrifty or some such.

The Big O (official site), split into Season One and Season Two, is an anime series that on the surface looks to be simply another silly robot series. The animation is done in the 'flash mouth' style, and has an odd sort of retro feel to it that gives it almost a film noir glimmer.

Beneath the pretty art and stylized characters, there's a very complex plot that deals with memories, what happens to folk when they lose them... and questions on just how real 'reality' is. The first season of thirteen episodes had really just started to explore those concepts, and ended with three or four different plot threads hanging on a cliffhanger ending.

And then word got out that that was all there was. There was silence for a bit, and then outrage from the people who'd had TBO strike a chord within them... which included me. Several 'give us more' sites sprang up, along with fan fiction sites, message boards, letter writing campaigns, and a growing wave of polite but insistent pressure on Cartoon Network, Sunrise, and writer Chiaki Konaka for more. (The same writer is responsible for Hellsing, and left -that- series up in the air as well. Bastard.)

The pressure finally netted a second season of thirteen episodes... episodes that were advertised as 'the answers to your questions'. And I'm here right now to tell you that that advertisement is complete and utter horse shit - they leave things hanging, IMHO, /worse/ than with the first season.

But when I made the original post, I wasn't sure if either of the duo that'd introduced me to so many other lovely anime series had seen it. Silly me... EVERYONE else has cable, so they had. It contains elements that are central to all three of us, and I figured it'd be best to err on the side of caution.

The sheer nuts and bolts of this is that I was frothing at the mouth for a cartoon... one that reeled me in and then shot me through the heart with a meson cannon...

And my link to the official site is fragged. Ignore it. :/