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Originally Posted by Warm Mist
It is the only thing that matters.
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No, it's not. The premise behind a show
does matter.
Let's say you have a choice between a well-executed high school romance comedy and an equally well-executed show with a rarer premise like what we have in Psycho-Pass right now.
I don't know about you, but I would pick the Psycho-Pass option every time if forced to choose between the two.
Fresher ideas are naturally conducive to fresher shows. Sure, good execution can also provide some of that fresh feeling, but there's no question that some narrative ideas are simply fresher (or at least less commonly used) than others. That does make a difference.
And your TTGL example is a weird one given your position. The core idea of TTGL was
not done thousands of times before. TTGL was a genre reconstruction, the antithesis to NGE.
Part of what made TTGL so great was that metalevel strength to it, which is not that commonplace.
Edit: As for shows were execution made a huge difference, I definitely agree with
Tari Tari. I felt that
Mashiro-iro Symphony did the absolutely most it could with its core narrative concept.