The Watchings of Yesterday - 07/06/15
Seems like I’m making a habit of writing the day after, but I just can’t help it. By the time I have time to write it’s so damn late. Anyway, started off yesterday with some more Initial D. As usual, it was pretty good, but I fell into the trap of fast forwarding through some more of the more boring bits. Oops. I’ve seen them at least once anyway. Something I remembered about was how the actual driving scenes are done with 3d models but sometimes you see a good old hand drawn car coming up. I then thought, well, despite looking kind of shite, those hand drawn cars closely resemble the models. That either means there were some damn good modelers, or the same people did drawing as modeling. That’s talent that. Also in the episodes I watched this one guy had some cronies. Gotta love cronies. They just sit there and agree with the guy they cronie around. That’s it for ID.
The other thing I watched yesterday was, I watched all of Gin-iro no Olynssis, for the first time. The first thing that popped into my head was, what the hell. Is it just me or does everyone look like they just fell out of Gundam Seed? For the first like 8 episodes this scared the hell out of me until finally I could differentiate them based on their character, or I just got used to it. One bit I did like was how piloting Silver was for Tia a metaphor of her body. You just don’t see enough metaphors these days, so I always pay close attention. It was clever and different… but it was about the only thing like that in the series. What really bothered me though, even more than the GS thing, was the complete, and I mean COMPLETE suspension of the laws of physics. No one even tried to explain it. They just disappeared. Usually they try and rationalize it and make it sound realistic.
Plot wise, it was pretty much the standard in the future something horrible happens to the earth deal. But yeah, this guy spends a thousand years terra-forming the earth from a black mass of pollution to a green planet while living on the moon. Now, don’t you think he could have done something about the moon in that time too? I’m sure it wouldn’t have been easy, but I bet in a thousand years you could have made some progress towards making the moon a nicer, greener place in your spare time if you’re already specializing on terra-forming the earth. I guess not though, that guy was crazy after all.
He had a cape too. I saw him wave that about in one scene, and next thing I know I’m picturing that scene from the Incredibles where the guy with the cape gets sucked up a jet engine. It distracted me so much I had to go back and re-watch about 20 seconds of that episode. It was worth it though, might have been the biggest laugh I got out of the series, because honestly, the ending was so-so.
The ending consists of essentially of Selena committing suicide. The same Selena, in fact, that was established is Tia from the future. Here’s where the lack of physics kicks in. Has the time line diverged or is it one way only? Everyone else’s time travel isn’t nearly as important, because you see, since Selena is Tia, if she’s come back in time that means two things to her time line. Tokito dies at some point and Tia survives that huge explosion at the end. So if time is what I for a lack of a better way of putting it call it one way only, that means nothing’s changed and we know all the main characters die in the end, which sucks. (’Cause they weren’t that bad a folks.) Or if the timeline is divergent (which seems unlikely due to all the weird random time travel) this means that simply Selena dies. But then we don’t know at all if Tia and Tokito make it out of that huge explosion. I’m all for choosing my own ending, but it’s not cool when the only choices I see lead to the death of at least one main character.
