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Started watching this again to finish up this mess. Pretty bad episode again, but has some aspects that are tolerable.
I'm struck once again by how impossible it is to feel anything for any of these characters considering how inconsistent they have been. I really do think that the only even remotely decent handling of characters has been with any funeral parlor character not named Shu, Inori, Gai or Arisa, not because I find them exceptionally good characters, but just because everyone else is just whatever the plot wants them to be week in and week out while they are at least consistent in personality and motivation, something that is clearly incredibly hard for this show to do with the rest of it's cast. I'm also struck by what a terrible villain Segai proved to be in "the end". He was probably the closest thing this show had to a consistent familiar faced antagonist and he was pretty much just a joke the whole time. Shows like this need more interesting villains so that they can provide interesting conflict with the heroes, but alas Segai just proved to be nothing more than a laughing clown man. I'm almost certain he'll be back since this is still a Yoshino show and I'm more than familiar with his revolving door policy on character death which we've already seen countless times in Guilty Crown. Not much else to talk about, the budgets back, but the writing and characters are still as obtuse and simplistic in the extreme as ever. I just see no reason why the writing for this show couldn't have been better than this. It's just incredibly unprofessional and unbecoming of a show that billed itself as a sci-fi/war epic in it's early promotion and even in it's early episodes. |
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