[episode 10] blade and bookem have been mortal enemies since the knights first arrived in dreamland. no sympathy for cops
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In defense of the original, while I do agree the episodic vibes were a bit much at times, and it was something I kinda had to work my way through slowly rather than binging all in one...
I do kinda prefer the more gradual approach to laying out the information; getting to know both the setting and who Vash is as a person and the different facets of both, before getting the context that lets it all click into place. Plus the main quartet having ample time to grow together so that later developments have stronger emotional weight.
I will agree that Knives definitely suffered in focus, and I am interested in how Stampede handles him, but admittedly he wasn't really what I watched Trigun for in the first place. ^^;
yeah my gripe is less with the way the setting and characters were handled and more with the way the. actual plot was handled. it honest to god felt to me like they realized about halfway through their run that they didnt have enough episodes left to get the backstory in in a cohesive way so they just shoved it all into one episode and pretended that that explanation didn't create more questions than it answered. you spend 20 episodes teasing your audience like "ooooh what is vash?? clearly hes not human!! clearly there's something going on!!! don't you want to know whats going on?? keep watching and you'll totally understand whats going on!!" and then your big reveal is that. He Is Not Human. which is something that any idiot who has watched the last 20 episodes has already figured out. the question the audience ACTUALLY has at that point in the runtime is what, EXACTLY, is vash, and what the context is behind the conflict he and knives are in. the backstory episode explains that Knives Is Here, and it gives context to the setting and everything, but it pissed me off that it STILL didn't answer the actual mysteries i cared about, i.e. vash's real identity and the thing with the gun and his fucking arm and knives's motivations and everything. maybe that gets answered in the last episode that i neglected to watch but personally I prefer a story where i UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON by the time the final confrontation hits. with trigun it got to a point where vash was going out for the final battle with knives and i STILL didn't know who vash was, who knives was, where they came from, or what the hell their motivations were. that just made that final confrontation seem so wholly uninteresting to me that i didn't even feel like watching it. it was like "hey look vash is fighting a cardboard cutout that he is Afraid Of. Why? lmao idk man. probably has something to do with that weird spaceship that shows up in one whole episode before this point. not going to tell you how tho." I think some writers have this tendency to think that mystery = good writing and that not revealing anything to your audience will consistently draw them in for more, but that only works for so long. after 20 episodes of virtually net 0 information it got to feel like I was being strung along and like my questions were never going to be answered, so I gave up on the show in the final hour. Again, i'm not saying it was BAD necessarily and i understand the context in terms of writing and production that led to the show being produced that way but i think it really noticeably suffers due to the fact that it refuses to give the audience ANYTHING but crumbs of information for about 80% of it's runtime. that being said. i did genuinely like a lot of it. it has its moments. im not trying to discourage anyone from watching it or anything lol i just think stampede is a little more successful in keeping the viewer engaged in the story throughout by constantly feeding you bits of information and actually answering your questions as they become plot-relevant.
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hey. what's kayne's deal <- said with immense interest @permafrown
WELL!!! OKAY. GIGGLES. Let me try to tl;dr this.
Kayne is an antagonist from Malevolent. Malevolent is a horror podcast following Arthur Lester and an entity. Kayne shows up for the first time later on when Arthur and the Entity are "in the pits" so-to-speak. It's worth noting, the podcast is loosely based off of Lovecraft's story/Call of Cthulhu. Recently, Kayne was (as we assume) identified as Nyarlathotep. To which Kayne went "WHO FUCKING CARES? THAT'S NOT THE POINT!"
Kayne's entire personality could loosely be described as chaotically insane. He's extremely powerful and he flaunts it while also hiding most of his powers until the latest episode he showed up in. He's using Arthur and the Entity for his own personal gain of an item! And he's killed many many many others for it. Even versions of them! Even if indirectly.
Also worth noting, he's barely described looks wise (podcast things) BUT he is described as having bloody hands and feet. Yes. No shoes. (I don't like it either but hey. Not like you can tell him put some in)
Kayne's also a jokester. Teasing. He teases the two main characters often, just to annoy. Very much a "he knows what he's doing" situation.
Umm hmm. What else to say about him?
Kayne's very interesting as well because he's been watching Arthur and the Entity for a long while. In the background. He's made deals with both of them. We didn't know the terms of the Entity's deal until recently.
I'm... Bad at explaining stuff ^_^; if you want a better more coherent explanation Omen I'd recommend asking my fiancé @kikinom-selfship! As he got me into the podcast and can explain the storybits better.
Basically though, Kayne is an all-powerful "god" whose main concern is getting a particular item and while doing so, he's playing dolls with our main characters watching versions of them die over and over again... Oh. Did I forget to mention? He's killed all other versions of himself~. He's the only one left! Lil' ol' him 8)
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RRR is incredible it's like. Okay there's these two guys who are unkillable. Do not worry about how or why. What's important is they are BEST friends. They are going to personally destroy colonialism with the power of friendship and extreme violence. There is a musical number.
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