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EireformContinent



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 8:46 am Reply with quote
Dragon Ball Z and Frieza's Army. What is the purpose of it's existence? Who is who there? Where it's mercenaries and supply come from? How is it's relation with regular planets? It could be explained even if it cost some volumes of fights. Unfortunately, even ff's writers rarely pick up this topic.

Even in the best series there are threads that fans feel to be neglected. What are you types? Have you ever tried to explain them on your own? Are they popular among ff's writers?
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naninanino



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:39 am Reply with quote
Mist Folk from Beast Player Erin. I am very disappointed that this was neglected in the show. It's crucial for fantasy shows to have exploration of the world.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:24 am Reply with quote
-While Saikano is supposed to take an anti-war stance depicting Chise's circumstances, the series never went into details over who the Japanese were fighting and the circumstances that led to said war.
-A major issue I found with Gilgamesh was that the Gilgamesh faction barely got any exploration of their motives and characters. It was kind of irritating when only one of the Gilgamesh were given an opportunity to expand upon their character and the sudden appearance of spoiler[Terumichi and the three scientists that the Orga-Superior children were cloned from at the end of the series had me wondering what led them to want to do a purging of the human population on Earth.]
-The very nature surrounding Paradigm City in Big O as the finale of the second season threw enough of a baffling curve ball involving spoiler[Angel, a mysterious glowing megadeuce and the "reset" of events within the city.]
-Enough things I'd want to ask out of Neon Genesis Evangelion that it isn't even funny such as spoiler[who shot Kaji, the soul within Eva 00, the exact words Gendo said to Ritsuko before shooting her and the fate of Earth's population after Shinji rejected Instrumentality.]
-In Noein, spoiler[how the Yu of the parallel world in Shangri'La became the quantum being Noein and gained the army of Others.]
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ThePoliced



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:59 am Reply with quote
everyone knows spoiler[GENDO SHOT KAJI OMG OMG]
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Unicorn_Blade



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:24 pm Reply with quote
naninanino wrote:
Mist Folk from Beast Player Erin. I am very disappointed that this was neglected in the show. It's crucial for fantasy shows to have exploration of the world.



Exactly! 50 episodes, and the People of the Mist made an apprerance twice (when they were debating what should happen to her) plus the random bits with Erin's mom's friend. I kind of expected them to have more interactions, and play a more promiment role in the series, knowing hom much Erin owned to her 'genes'. Never happened. Shame, because I think that would have added interest to the long part in the middle, before the big politics kicked in.
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doctordoom85



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:45 pm Reply with quote
IIRC, Anno already said that in Evangelion spoiler[some nameless NERV agent shot Kaji.] Which really, I never saw how that it could be any other way. I rolled my eyes at the spoiler["Misato did it"] theory, and spoiler[why should Gendo risk himself or someone important to do something like this? I mean, it COULD have been them, but it makes more sense to send some expendable minion.]

The next two questions are legit, though I think any writer is free to leave some things unanswered. The last one, uh-uh. Eva ended there, unless the Rebuild continuity ties into it in an intriguing way, I don't want some "here's what happened to EVERYONE" Harry Potter BS. Heck, I remember Stephen King eventually getting tired of getting letters asking what happened to the characters of The Stand after the book ended, and essentially said that the characters' story was over and he has no idea what they're "doing now" unless one of them sends him a letter. Laughing

So with Eva, spoiler[some people will return from Instrumentality, but probably not all. Who exactly, we're not sure, but I never want it spelled out for me definitively on which of the characters make it back.]
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