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faridatos



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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2014 11:50 pm Reply with quote
What does "great concept, but poor executed" anime mean? Could someone explain?

[EDIT: Changed your thread title to make it less ambiguous for everyone else. Also fixed your question to have better grammar and punctuation. -TK]
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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 1:01 am Reply with quote
"Great idea, poor execution," is generally what people say when expressing their opinions about an idea that they didn't subjectively enjoy as much as they thought they would.

It's like saying you liked that idea, but the way it played out was "poorly executed or carried out" (as in, you didn't like the way it was handled).

For instance, take your favorite manga. Let's say you read an entire series and love it a lot. But when they made it into an anime, they changed a few things that weren't the same, so the anime turned out to be worse than the manga.

Or, take a new and original anime concept that you're experiencing for the first time. It starts off really cool, but by the end of the series, you didn't like as much as you did in the beginning.

You liked the initial idea of it. But in the end, things got a little worse, and you didn't like it as much, anymore. "It was a good idea, at first, but something went 'bad' along the way," and most people would call that "good idea/concept, bad execution."
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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 2:24 am Reply with quote
Guilty Crown. I know it's not an original concept by any stretch of the imagination, but I really enjoyed the world it set up in the first third of the series. However, it started to go downhill from that point on and got really zany at the end. The overall product's only saving grace ended up being the high production values and music. Still, story is the most important part in my book, and despite starting strong in that aspect imho, it really fizzled out.
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ikillchicken



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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 10:19 pm Reply with quote
Tony K. wrote:
You liked the initial idea of it. But in the end, things got a little worse, and you didn't like it as much, anymore. "It was a good idea, at first, but something went 'bad' along the way," and most people would call that "good idea/concept, bad execution."


I would have disagree with you actually. I don't think starting good/getting bad has anything to do with it. A show can never really be good, even right from the start, but you can still like the idea of it. It's more a case of "general concept vs the specific way that concept plays out". They can play out poorly though right from the start. Let me put it this way: You can probably know whether you like the ideas a show brings to the table just by reading a synopsis or by having someone describe the show to you. But how well those ideas are executed will depend on all the little things that you only see by actually watching the show itself.

It doesn't just have to be just the premise though either. For instance, I might say: I like the general idea of [villain] turning out to be secretly good. But it wasn't well executed. It seemed at odds with their earlier actions and didn't make sense. Why didn't they just [plot hole]. I like the concept the show is going for. I just don't like the execution. Perhaps this is another good way to look at it: Can you see a way this could have worked? Can you envision other versions of the show where [X] still essentially happens but because it happens a bit differently, you like it? If so, you probably like the idea. Or does it just seem fundamentally bad, like no matter what you changed it would still be bad? If so, you probably just fundamentally don't like the concept.
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Bango



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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 11:52 pm Reply with quote
I sometimes use this analogy for it. Have you ever had somebody tell you a joke like this-

Darth Vader, Skeletor and Team Rocket walk into a bar... wait, was it Vader? Maybe it was Freddy Kruger? Oh well three guys walk into a bar and they're not the group you'd usually see together. The bartender looks up and says "We don't serve your kind here!" Oh wait! It was Freddy. Ok, let me start over again."

That could be the funniest joke in the world but it doesn't matter if it's told like that. Any type of story works the same way. If it's not told properly (executed poorly) then it can ruin the whole experience.
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