Big O, its showtime!
>>292168622Cast in the name of good ye not guilty.
>>292168622my first time watching this was on a random saturday night in the bsement and it was the beck comes back episodesomething about the way dorothy says "roger i...love...you" as she's being mindcontrolled and blowing his back out just drew me in so muchfuck i miss being a kid so much
Hot take: the ending is FINE. Is it GREAT? No, but it's not terrible, either, and manages to complete the arc of all the characters in a satisfying way. It doesn't ruin the show, at least.
>>292169176We only got that ending because konaka had to go off what hasegawa did with the later half of season 1.
>>292169244You're a louse, Roger Smith.
>>292169244MY WALLS
>>292169216
Season 2 was a mistake.
>>292169870Yes.
When you ejaculate /a/, do you have a Big O?
>>292170868Yes. I also shout BIG O BIG O BIG O BIG O!
>>292168622that pic is of a rather small O
>>292171023Lower case?
Almost didn't notice this thread.
Cuddles with Dorothy!
>>292169916>konaka said in an interview if he ever came back to the show he would want to rewrite season 2How could that be done /a/? I say start it off with it being revealed that most of season 2 was another one of rogers schizophrenic episodes and pick up after episode 14.
>>292173572If that's what you're going to do, just don't even mention it, pick up from Season 1 / at some point in the future and carry on. If anyone asks in an interview just shrug and say "Paradigm is a city of lost memories". Trying to remove it from canon whilst still have references to it in canon will just snarl up your storyline.
Blonde mysterious hags owe me sex.
>>292174642Angel is my waifu
>>292169916I liked the moments between roger and dorothy but the ending was too ridiculous and felt like nothing mattered. Maybe not finding out everything especially if it was just going to be "it's a tv show bro" but I had been looking forward to more of their past being revealed.
>>292174692That's impossible because she's married to me.
>>292174746>it's a tv show broit's more like Dark City (everyone is trapped in a city physically isolated from the Earth, and are assigned their roles arbitrarily which they carry out due to memory fuckery) with some nietsche eternal recurrence for seasoning (the best life to live is one where if you hypothetically had to do it all over again forever and ever, you'd never make any different choices because you never strayed from your own principals or compromised on the person you want to be, and so have no regrets)
>>292174898>>292174692>>292174642Fuck off fake nerd boys
>>292175468There are people that like angel as hard as that is for you to believe. Not saying she's better than dorothy because I like both.
>>292175468Every accusation is a confession
>>292175392Schwarzwald was so cool
>>292168622I've been watching this with a friend. It's been a great time so far. We recently finished season one. There are a couple of things that bother us though. First, the opening theme is terrible, but that's what skipping is for. Second, why does everyone mispronounce "deus" in the English version? It's two syllables, but they keep saying "deuce".
>>292169244cant even pee in peace
>Still have my alarm set to Dorothy playing the piano
>>292177293It's a regional dialect
>>292177293I take a Big Deuce when eating tacos
>>292175392>Dark CityThat movie was pretty neat
>>292179013Mega shit!
>>292177293It's an early 2000's dub, everyone is going to mispronounce things instead of the proper way of saying them. Still better than most dubshit done these days that use zoomer speak.
>>292168622I watched a few episodes and mostly enjoyed it, but god bored before finishing the first season.
>>292179664That's frustrating. It's not even like it's an exotic word for English speakers, particularly Christians. My theory is the voice director read it like "Zeus" and stuck with that.
>>292169176It was fine.Better than most anime endings.>>292169916I believe if he'd be allowed to go without handrails, he would've just left it as another cliff hanger.Him saying "I wouldn't have done that" doesn't mean that whatever he would have come up with would have been better, go look at what happened to Eva for reference.Ultimately what was put out was at worst decent, trending towards great.
Thread Theme.https://youtu.be/BE3LTPEbWZc?si=wyJAeybvbXly2lLE
>>292179790Honestly I don't even know anymore, it just sounds like everyone involved in the writing process had their own idea of what the show was supposed to be and just kept changing the direction every few episodes. Most notably towards the end of season 1 with winter night phantom and R.D. which starts the whole off rails meta narrative of paradigm not being real. Both of those episodes were written by hasegawa who infamously loves to write that kind of shit when given the opportunity. Konaka wanted monster of the week and katayama wanted a zombie series that went on forever, once hasegawa got involved that all seem to go out the window and both konaka and katayama rolled with it which spilled over into season 2 going all the way with the subversion trope. Konaka did most of the heavy lifting for season 2 and it seems like he tried to do his best with what he had.
>>292168622Wasn't this whole world fake or some dumb shit like that?
>>292180646Sometimes, perhaps even often, people do better work with constraints.It pushes them to take things as close to the limit as possible and leads to greater creativity because of it.You see this quite often with creative minds, when they have someone to rein them in, they will create something wonderful, then because of that success they'll be allowed free rein and create trash because of it.
>>292180827There's always going to be that one person in the writing team that needs to be tard wrangled.
Dorothy? Cute.
>>292169244Dorothy!
>>292184184
>>292185347Noice
I've never watched the second season. The first season was great and I'm too afraid of what I've heard about the second season to press onward.
>>292186681Just watch it. The quality is a slight downgrade to s1 and there are weird discrepancies since it came out right around the time digital animation started to take over (plus the weird Disney animations that were brought over to help finish the episodes). The final couple of episodes are confusing but gives you some closure with the characters
>>292174642>hagIs that just anybody over 12
>>292180646It all fell apart as soon as they decided for 13 instead of 26>Keiichi Sato and Katayama make show, maybe its 26 episodes>Bring Konaka over to write it>Bandai only gives them 13>They write it. Paradigm and the Memories are only a backdrop to the show and plots and really were never meant to be answered>Bring other writers in the second half>They add more mysteries and esoteric plots>"Hey lets go all out on episode 13 because why the fuck not, S2 is never happening">Clifhanger ending>Mike Lazzo, Akins and DeMarco go "lets make 13 more">Konaka comes back to write S2>"Oh shit we"re gonna have to answer the shit we set up at the end of S1 aren't we">"tomatoes, stage play from that audio drama, reset the world">"If we get S3 we will ignore S2's ending
>>292186681The second season can't hold a candle to the first but it's not terrible.
>>292186976Bandai had nothing to do with, it was a staff decision. There probably just wasn't enough material to stretch across 26 episodes.
>>292168622Can't wait to rewatch the christmas episode on xmas week again
>>292177293The deus is loose
