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Nightengale · 2008-10-13, 03:14

You guys sure know how to give one a headache for a return gift.

26 episodes is only a problem when you pace the series the way it is. Even in the Sound Stages, some of the filler scenes really drag out unnecessarily, even if they have the freedom of doing so since it's sound-only. To be fair, the pacing of StrikerS was not horrible, but it had no need to do the way it was done either. Repetitive foreshadowing, glossing tricks and structuring only works when you're dealing with a really large scale and a lot of intrigue, but StrikerS doesn't even scratch that in terms of plot and world-building. For one, did we even need the scene where they explained the history of how Jail got the Cradle and the prophecy discussions? The former barely shed anything to add to the depth of the conflict other than 'lol Belka' and the latter just piled 30 tons of bricks called 'horrible leadership and nepotism' on Hayate.

I refer to Toward the Terra for an example of a series that, with more than twice the scale of Nanoha in terms of epic, world-building and character development (( over 30 characters )), did everything it failed to do in merely 24 episodes. And it's not like it had horribly fast pacing either, but rather it understood how to prioritize story-boarding.

Judging StrikerS from a whole script (( from the anime material to the Sound Stages )), other than Jail/Brains, it's quite well-written. A lot of characters undergo interesting growth, and minor characters have elements of characterization to them that stands out, even if low in development. Keroko's points of NanoVivio-Fate-ErioCaro have their points left and right. Now, barring subjectives of what one prefers over another, there's a clear lean that horribly ruins both aspects of story-telling, one oversaturated and ruining the mood of the execution as a whole while the other undersaturated and demeaning the presence of both one who is well developed, even if disregarding the one who went through little development.

There's really no denying that much, unless you're blind, illiterate or never went through middle-school literature classes.

2008-10-13, 03:14	Link #194
Nightengale ~Night of Gales~ Author Join Date: Dec 2005	You guys sure know how to give one a headache for a return gift. 26 episodes is only a problem when you pace the series the way it is. Even in the Sound Stages, some of the filler scenes really drag out unnecessarily, even if they have the freedom of doing so since it's sound-only. To be fair, the pacing of StrikerS was not horrible, but it had no need to do the way it was done either. Repetitive foreshadowing, glossing tricks and structuring only works when you're dealing with a really large scale and a lot of intrigue, but StrikerS doesn't even scratch that in terms of plot and world-building. For one, did we even need the scene where they explained the history of how Jail got the Cradle and the prophecy discussions? The former barely shed anything to add to the depth of the conflict other than 'lol Belka' and the latter just piled 30 tons of bricks called 'horrible leadership and nepotism' on Hayate. I refer to Toward the Terra for an example of a series that, with more than twice the scale of Nanoha in terms of epic, world-building and character development (( over 30 characters )), did everything it failed to do in merely 24 episodes. And it's not like it had horribly fast pacing either, but rather it understood how to prioritize story-boarding. Judging StrikerS from a whole script (( from the anime material to the Sound Stages )), other than Jail/Brains, it's quite well-written. A lot of characters undergo interesting growth, and minor characters have elements of characterization to them that stands out, even if low in development. Keroko's points of NanoVivio-Fate-ErioCaro have their points left and right. Now, barring subjectives of what one prefers over another, there's a clear lean that horribly ruins both aspects of story-telling, one oversaturated and ruining the mood of the execution as a whole while the other undersaturated and demeaning the presence of both one who is well developed, even if disregarding the one who went through little development. There's really no denying that much, unless you're blind, illiterate or never went through middle-school literature classes. __________________ *Night~and~Gale: ~ The Final Mythology of the Man who Defied Destiny.* The sleeping lion shall awaken beyond the depths of time, crossing ten billion lights, come to Terra.