2013-03-26, 20:21 | Link #2781 |
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The whole past thing has been important for Einhart since her introducting. It's a core part of her character. It never lost importance.
And do tell me how Rio's role can be applied to "any" character. You seem to love throwing these general statements around, but I've rarely see you define them. |
2013-03-26, 20:30 | Link #2782 |
Manus ad Ferrum
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Yes, important to Einhart, who hasn’t been important to the rest of the stuff that is going on and this stuff wasn’t important to her past until the latest chapters. Again because of a reduce role.
What I mean is that when look from the outside none of this characters, and I mean none, are important or essential to the overall action going on. That is why I say their reduce roles allows us to freely take them in and out without affecting to much the rest.
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2013-03-26, 20:52 | Link #2788 |
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Because it was. At a point we lost track of Vivio and then of Einhart. Their stories and past didn’t matter because we were busy searching the rest. Some of them that start the series with us and the others that were add later on. So when we were busy with that the “main characters” were reduce to almost have no impact in such moments.
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2013-03-26, 20:56 | Link #2791 |
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On this case it does because the “story” focus everything on the new characters. Almost to the point where the others don’t even show up so we change the focus to something else and then we get back like nothing happen.
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2013-03-26, 20:57 | Link #2792 | |
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Don't watch many movies, anime, read much manga or books, do you, Sansker?
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2013-03-26, 20:59 | Link #2793 | |
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Unless by "others" you mean Nanoha and Fate, and not Vivio & co, who have so far barely left a chapter without their appearance. |
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2013-03-26, 21:04 | Link #2794 |
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I mean significant appearance not just say “hi” in one panel or look shook in another one and is done with that. Besides that isn’t the point. The point being how we shift focus we can’t really talk of a consistency story with any elements because all elements are close in their own little universe.
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2013-03-26, 21:16 | Link #2796 |
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Not the raw, I can’t read Japanese.
This isn’t everyone coming together this is when we finally start to kind of have a point. And I say start because I still don’t see it. For once a fight is over and it actually carries over something that won’t just be forget and deal with fast. That is the difference. But at no point this moment was help or any way riches because of all the fights that happen before. It was just a chain of events play in a sequence. And I should not feel it that way if this is a story.
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2013-03-26, 22:17 | Link #2798 |
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Uhh. Yeah. I'm not too big on ViVid myself, but seriously, Sansker.
'A chain of events playing in sequence' is a story by any other name. The main variables as far as structure are 'what kind of sequence' (chronology), 'how are the events presented' (style) 'who gets the spotlight for these next ten seconds?' (focus). If you think of Vivid as one long series of events making up a story, each chapter probably translates to a pretty short amount of screen-time. Not seeing a character for 'a while' (the total length of which you have yet to specify, I believe) isn't good evidence to say that they've been sidelined. And from what I read you also don't seem to have the foggiest what a 'scene' is supposed to be. Not everyone can be in a certain scene at a time, and especially not with a cast as large as ViVid's. With the number of pages the manga-ka has to put content in, they'd need text as verbose as Death Note's for us to get anything more than 'hi-bye' out of any one character if everyone were to appear in a scene. Scenes are limited in their 'active cast' or 'present cast' by definition precisely because there are other storytelling aspects the author needs to concentrate on, such as fleshing out characters and actually getting on with the plot! Both are important, even where supporting characters are concerned. It would be pretty boring if only the main character ever got development and everyone else was cardboard-cutout fetish material, wouldn't it? And making the main character the only source of plot development would make them a walking armory of plot devices. Pretty lame choices either way. Oh yeah, and did I mention that you need to make your stand clearer? That means actually looking through an online dictionary to find the exact words you want to use to make your point, and not settling for approximations that make a Triple Masters in Irony, Linguistics and Guesswork required reading to understand your comments. All I actually understood from your most recent posts was 'I didn't read the raws, but never mind that someone else has, from what I read so far the story sucks for reasons I can't explain in comprehensible English', and unless there's some mitigating factor in your argument that I missed somewhere, I think the only reply I can really give you is "for the first time in your life, bro, go read a book!" |
2013-03-26, 22:30 | Link #2799 |
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I do try to make myself clear. But this discussion is something that we already have in the past about ViVid and my personal disagreements with it.
You completely miss the point. Is not that the scenes are play in a sequence is that they are random things play in a sequence. When you have a collage of things that barely show some theme going and still playing one after the other you need something to connect them. Usually that is the story. But in ViVid the story is so shallow that I just feel they put this chapter, after this chapter, after this one with barely a narrative flow between them. Not because there isn’t one, since the tournament must move on, but because one event doesn’t seem to affect the others. Also, I know what a scene is. ViVid likes to put lots of characters in the same place, at the same time, so when most of them serve no purpose to that scene: why are they even there then? The lack of focus not just on character but on who’s story this is or where is going hurts the manga and makes it boring.
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And if you're complaining that the tournament felt disjointed, that's because it's done match by match. The scene, setting and circumstances for each one can be vastly different due to the setup of the competition itself. Actually, tournaments of this sort are designed to prevent events from one match from affecting others in the first place, so the point is a little moot. However, if you're complaining that the tournament felt rushed and didn't contribute to ViVid's plot I can only say that I'm glad it was rushed away precisely because it didn't contribute much to anything at all. Quote:
But that's not your main point, is it? Your main point is that ViVid isn't clear on the focus of its story. Well it is quite clear, on paper at least, that this seems to be about the past of Ancient Belka, as shown through the eyes of -conveniently!- cute little and not so little girls. I agree though, that the execution has muddled things a great deal so far. The live-action game of Marvel Vs Capcom wasn't the most brilliant idea for character introductions. |
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