by MemphisR56 » Mon Jun 01, 2015 5:35 am
- Motto: "An inconvenience is just an adventure wrongly viewed!"
- Weapon: Crossbow
Just a few points I wanted to talk about since I read this thread,
Newtypes: As far as I can tell, the original authorial intent with newtypes was that with the human brain having to adapt to now thinking on the 3D plain and from multiple orientations from making the jump to flat earth, to floating around in space in zero gravity, underwent some minor changes to cope.
The people that developed these changes are newtypes. Their ability is based around being able to understand the emotions and intent of people without speaking to them. Sort of a psychic power of empathy. This is why they're able to 'flash' and predict incoming attacks, because they can feel the killing intent of the people launching attacks.
It has particularly adverse affects on Amuro and Char, because they were both able to sense the purity of intent within Lalah. They adored how true she was to her goals, and how she understood that she had to fight to make them a reality. They both wished to become more like her, and follow her example (hence Char's "lalah could have been a mother to me!" line. it's meant as more allegorical for someone who raises him from the mistakes of his youth to be a man of virtue).
This went Pear shaped when she died, as Amuro and Char could both feel her pain and emotions as she was killed when the Elmeth was shot down. They literally felt her passing on into the afterlife.
Later entries to the series suffered from misinterpretations, and newtype abilities because little more than psychic powers akin to the force. Particularly later on in zeta, where Haman Karn is able to create giant pink ghosts, and Scirrocco tries to pull Kamille into the next life with him when he dies.
SEED Destiny's clipshows: The script writer for SEED Destiny was the director's wife. She suffered from a really poor work ethic, and would repeatedly hand in scripts at the last minute, late, or even not at all. Because of her husband's position she was never fired from the show for her incompetence. It's also generally accepted that she would feud with the voice actors from the show from time to time.
As a result of late scripts, the animation team had to rush the episodes out the door, without being able to patch plotholes, or complete propper keyframe animation, which resulted in the amount of stock footage padding out the show, and the terrible about of poor quality animation.
The clip shows came into being where she'd not turned in her scripts at all, the director had no other choice but to create a clipshow to fill in his timeslot where he didn't actually have an episode to air that week.
Apparently plot developments like Cagalli being reduced from a frankly awesome strong female pilot to a mewling damsel in distress in a wedding dress, and Kira hijacking the role of Lead character from Shinn were partly to do with her feuding with the voice actors. Definitely so in Cagalli's case. They hated eachother. Fukuda's wife decided she would punish her by running her breakout character into the ground.
This was also supposedly in part to sell merchandise. Shinn was not as popular as Kira, so they handed over the reins to him in the hopes of selling more model kits. That's pretty much it.
It's not just destiny that suffered from this kind of thing, SEED was also plagued with it. Dearka switching sides? Sales of the buster gundam were waning, so they wanted to manufacture an increase in his popularity to bring the sales back up, and this was just one example.
Legally acquiring anime these days: The best places to look are The Crunchyroll, Animax and Funimation websites. Netflix usually is pretty good about putting up full shows, but they seem to be 3 seasons behind on most things, at least on british netflix, but as I understand it, the US version of the app has a much larger library.
Anime DVDs just never sold. They were absurdly overpriced compared to western DVD releases, and because media discs (CDs etc) in japan are usually much more highly priced, they saw the prices we percieve to be huge to be absolute daylight robbery to them. We didn't buy them, they weren't prepared to put the prices any lower. That's pretty much why the anime bubble burst over here. The publishers simply could not front the capital to make threadbare profits, when we were all fansubbing and stealing their shows for free.
Compared to how it used to be (paying £20-30 for 5 episodes of a show per disc) paying a few quid/dollars for a subscription to a streaming service like animax or cruchyroll is a god send. In my opinion, streaming it through subscription TV on demand services is the only way to save the industry.
The Big O ending: Jesus, why. It was so awful.
As I understand it, Sunrise didn't want to do a second season. WB's funded a second season for simulcast in the states. They thought that the westerners riding in on their white horses providing the capital for the show would keep it afloat for a while (probably based on the success of G Gundam, Gundam Wing, Outlaw Star and Cowboy Bebop) so when it came to the end of the season, and it turned out that airing a second season of a show some 2 years after the end of the first means that the fanbase have buggered off onto other things, the show wasn't the money spinner they hoped for. They promptly cancelled a third season to stop from bleeding money, and they had to write a quick ending with little time to prepare. Hence "what if it was all a dreaaaam!". I honestly think the ending that we got was not the original intended payoff of the Tomatoes plot thread.
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