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Aug. 13th, 2009 09:56 pmThe week is almost at an end, which is a nice thing. There's a pretty busy weekend planned at this point. Syracuse Requiem on Friday night. Saturday we're doing lunch and a movie and then playing Changeling. Sunday I'm getting together with some old college friends. At some point I'd like to lay down some more weed killer on parts of my lawn I think it didn't take on.
Sat down Wednesday night and watched the Gundam Seed Destiny Final Plus episode that they put out. This is the expanded version of the final episode of Gundam Seed Destiny - 45 minutes as compared to 20 minutes. It, actually, helped a lot. The biggest problem with the ending of Gundam Seed Destiny is that they had to wrap it up too fast. The final battle took place entirely in the last episode - they didn't have time for the kind of character moments or tension building that they needed for an episode like this and, as a result, the entire thing had a feeling of just being an explosion, a couple lines of dialog, and then some explosions - really short service was paid to resolving Shinn's storyline and Rey Za Barrel's change of sides was very, very sudden. The new episode managed to solve a lot of these issues - the episode felt dramatic rather than simply being a 20 minute Gundam slug-fest. They even managed to have time to wrap-up the series in a way the original just didn't do - they followed it through to the political after-effects and to a short meeting between Shinn and Kira at the memorial in Orb. All in all, this was definitely worth it.
Also picked up a bunch of comics this week - this was actually a pretty heavy week, due too their being three different Blackest Night tie-ins, two "Batman" books, Titans, Adventure Comics and Action Comics (now with 100% more Codename: Patriot action).
( Thoughts on Comics - INCREDIBLY Spoilery )
Whew. Next week should be shorter, since there are less books coming out.
Sat down Wednesday night and watched the Gundam Seed Destiny Final Plus episode that they put out. This is the expanded version of the final episode of Gundam Seed Destiny - 45 minutes as compared to 20 minutes. It, actually, helped a lot. The biggest problem with the ending of Gundam Seed Destiny is that they had to wrap it up too fast. The final battle took place entirely in the last episode - they didn't have time for the kind of character moments or tension building that they needed for an episode like this and, as a result, the entire thing had a feeling of just being an explosion, a couple lines of dialog, and then some explosions - really short service was paid to resolving Shinn's storyline and Rey Za Barrel's change of sides was very, very sudden. The new episode managed to solve a lot of these issues - the episode felt dramatic rather than simply being a 20 minute Gundam slug-fest. They even managed to have time to wrap-up the series in a way the original just didn't do - they followed it through to the political after-effects and to a short meeting between Shinn and Kira at the memorial in Orb. All in all, this was definitely worth it.
Also picked up a bunch of comics this week - this was actually a pretty heavy week, due too their being three different Blackest Night tie-ins, two "Batman" books, Titans, Adventure Comics and Action Comics (now with 100% more Codename: Patriot action).
( Thoughts on Comics - INCREDIBLY Spoilery )
Whew. Next week should be shorter, since there are less books coming out.
