Silent attendance.
Oct. 12th, 2003 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elwen[So I go from lame subjects to even lamer subjects!]
Showings today were really depressing. For the first half, there were basically only officers attending. I wasn't aware of any particularly notable activities going on, so I hope it's not because people have already lost interest in Nadia and Arc the Lad.
I mean, Nadia isn't great, but it's nothing for people to drop like a stone after only two episodes -- unless they really can't stand the eyecatch. And considering the number of people who watched Yami no Matsuei, I can't believe that Nadia is such an unacceptable title.
It reminds me a lot of Pokemon, with the incompetent villains and all. Except Team Rocket is so much more fun. I actually really like TR, or rather, Jessie and James. Grandis is a bit more grating, and I think having a pair works better than a dominant villainess with two henchmen. I have to keep watching, though, if only to see exactly how much they drew from Jules Verne. (I need to finish reading 20,000 Leagues, too. *sweatdrop*)
And of course Arc the Lad is my baby, so I'd be very sad if no one wanted to watch it anymore. Although I'm feeling a lot more lukewarm about it now, but it is extremely slow-moving, so I might not warm up again until after Arc starts getting a lot more screen time, and also when Clive gets darker. Maybe it's just because I've been half-joking and half-serious with Clive x Arc for so long, but I seriously think he shows special interest in him, even at the very beginning. But that could be for plenty of other reasons, I suppose.
Then today's feature was The Silent Service, an action film about a nuclear submarine built by the U.S. and Japan, which declares itself an independent nation. I'm not much of an action movie person, or rather, I don't actively seek them out though I usually don't particularly dislike them, but I really liked this one. The politics were very interesting and thought-provoking. Also, the naval battles were cool. I don't enjoy things like car chases and extended fight scenes *cough* Matrix Reloaded *cough* but battle tactics are fun when you can see how each side is trying to read and outthink the other. And the one moment of Spiral-type logic at the beginning was amusing, when Fukumachi concluded that Kaieda was still alive.
I wasn't quite happy with the ending; it was rather open-ended and inconclusive. On the other hand, I recognize that I probably would have been even less satisfied if they had tried to tie things up in any way. I mean, the only options I could think of are the U.S. giving in, which would never happen, or the Yamato somehow being destroyed, which would have sucked, or the U.S. bombing the hell out of it and Japan, which would have been a bit dark even for their message against America's hegemony. So I think leaving it hanging was the best option, just not a great one.
When they showed the folder of the plan against Japan, and then later at the conference they started accusing Japan of having nukes, I immediately thought, "So it's just like Iraq! Accuse them of having WMD and invade." The predictivity is disturbing, no?
Showings today were really depressing. For the first half, there were basically only officers attending. I wasn't aware of any particularly notable activities going on, so I hope it's not because people have already lost interest in Nadia and Arc the Lad.
I mean, Nadia isn't great, but it's nothing for people to drop like a stone after only two episodes -- unless they really can't stand the eyecatch. And considering the number of people who watched Yami no Matsuei, I can't believe that Nadia is such an unacceptable title.
It reminds me a lot of Pokemon, with the incompetent villains and all. Except Team Rocket is so much more fun. I actually really like TR, or rather, Jessie and James. Grandis is a bit more grating, and I think having a pair works better than a dominant villainess with two henchmen. I have to keep watching, though, if only to see exactly how much they drew from Jules Verne. (I need to finish reading 20,000 Leagues, too. *sweatdrop*)
And of course Arc the Lad is my baby, so I'd be very sad if no one wanted to watch it anymore. Although I'm feeling a lot more lukewarm about it now, but it is extremely slow-moving, so I might not warm up again until after Arc starts getting a lot more screen time, and also when Clive gets darker. Maybe it's just because I've been half-joking and half-serious with Clive x Arc for so long, but I seriously think he shows special interest in him, even at the very beginning. But that could be for plenty of other reasons, I suppose.
Then today's feature was The Silent Service, an action film about a nuclear submarine built by the U.S. and Japan, which declares itself an independent nation. I'm not much of an action movie person, or rather, I don't actively seek them out though I usually don't particularly dislike them, but I really liked this one. The politics were very interesting and thought-provoking. Also, the naval battles were cool. I don't enjoy things like car chases and extended fight scenes *cough* Matrix Reloaded *cough* but battle tactics are fun when you can see how each side is trying to read and outthink the other. And the one moment of Spiral-type logic at the beginning was amusing, when Fukumachi concluded that Kaieda was still alive.
I wasn't quite happy with the ending; it was rather open-ended and inconclusive. On the other hand, I recognize that I probably would have been even less satisfied if they had tried to tie things up in any way. I mean, the only options I could think of are the U.S. giving in, which would never happen, or the Yamato somehow being destroyed, which would have sucked, or the U.S. bombing the hell out of it and Japan, which would have been a bit dark even for their message against America's hegemony. So I think leaving it hanging was the best option, just not a great one.
When they showed the folder of the plan against Japan, and then later at the conference they started accusing Japan of having nukes, I immediately thought, "So it's just like Iraq! Accuse them of having WMD and invade." The predictivity is disturbing, no?
