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Review Saint Seiya

Cassandra wrote:

It's a bad review because they gave the content a C+, where Zac gave it a D. That means the AoD reviewer liked it slightly more than Zac did. That's pretty much saying the first DVD is pretty mediocre, if not straight out bad.

Don't see your point. So, then, by comparing reviews, how would you think if you saw this one then: http://www.japanhero.com/animation%20hero%20reviews/saint_seiya.htm

All in all, reviews are guidelines, not the ultimate word on something. They shouldn't be followed blindly, especially if the reviewer is not into the same type of things you are into.

Saint Seiya sucks, I said it sucked, I pointed out WHY it sucked using evidence collected FROM the show, and therefore, the review is valid. So just own up to it, admit that you're whining because you disagree with the review, and kindly back away.

haha...am I psychic or what?

"But yours was really uninformed, and assumed things without knowing it."

So you're telling me that my information was wrong.

So you're saying that the show isn't mostly tournament-style fighting. You're telling me that the 60+ plot synopses I read were all completely wrong, and that I was misinformed. That they don't spend the bulk of the series fighting enemies who increase in power, where the stakes get raised for each fight. You're telling me that that isn't the main thrust of the story. You may want to go to this website:

"http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/6508/series.html"

And tell them that they're wrong.

If the show IS mostly tournament-style fighting, then my 'assumptions' based on collected evidence were correct and the show is little more than a series of fights, regardless of how much justification and 'character development' there is surrounding those fights. I hated the characters I saw. I gave reasons for that. That's what a review is; it isn't based entirely on objective things, which is what you're boling it down to. A review IS SUBJECTIVE. It's an OPINION. What exactly is it that you WANT here, aside from me to go back and change what I wrote so that it doesn't say what is, according to you, the truth, which is that Saint Seiya is yet another tournament-style fighting series?

When I say that other shows have long stretches of plot that aren't about fighting consistantly stronger enemies, I'm talking about shows like Naruto, where they focus on the training or on Naruto's past or something else for 5-10 episodes at a time. Or something like Kenshin, that concerns itself with politics or whatever else in between the tournament-style fighting. Even Hunter x Hunter had a series of trials and races designed to break up the endless fighting. From what I saw, Saint Seiya doesn't have much of that. It's mostly quest-item-dropoff, followed by powering up, followed by fighting strong enemies. Just like Dragonball (which I gave a positive review to, ironically).

I'm genuinely curious and will eat my hat if you can honestly give me good, solid evidence that Saint Seiya is NOT MOSTLY tournament-style fighting. I'm curious now. If you can literally prove me wrong on a FACTUAL level (do not try and prove to me that the show is GOOD, since that is, according to you, NOT the argument you're trying to make), then I'll happily change the review AND issue a public apology.

Okay?
-Z

Fencedude wrote:

haha...am I psychic or what?

Well, of course I'd be here. The temptation was just too much to bear when I saw the thread. I have a pretty good idea who Geri is too.

I'll make a deal with you: you admit that your love for the series clouds your ability to judge a 'good' review of the show, and I'll admit that in the future, I need to simply stick with what I've seen, regardless of how I know the show will turn out in the end.

Well..see..if you like the show (and I haven't even seen it), that would be a good review...because the guy pretty much raves about it. There isn't really one bad thing in that review. So I'm not quite sure what your point in linking that was.

*blink* I still don't get why people are complaining about Zac's review. It's his opinion of what was on the disc. And yet a comparable review is deemed better than what he wrote.
If you don't like his review, get a webpage and write your own. *shrug* Review = Opinion. There really isn't much to get upset about there.

That's what I said. That link was to refute the part that said "The show is mediocre" because of that review. Or that was what I could get from your post. So when I posted that it was to say a review is not a definite thing, but only a guide. So if someone reads that other review, they'll think the StS DVD will come bundled with a ray of sunshine and a choir of angels.

The only bit we were really arguing against was that the review said the entire show would be void of story and good characters, when he hadn't really seen it (and that's something we disagree with).

No, what I've gotten out of your posts is that you're mad at the way Zac worded "This show is bad." If Zac had sugar-coasted his dislike for the disc a little more, you probably wouldn't have complained. However, from what I've seen, Zac's writing style doesn't come sugar-coated. He says what he thinks....and that's his job.

"the review said the entire show would be void of story and good characters"

Please point out where my review says that exactly.

It specifically says that the show is 'little more than' one long tournament fight and that not much seems to happen outside of major battle after major battle. That's it. It actually says nothing specific to the characters and does not make any such statement about the show as a whole.

-Z