Shinneth
Gonna be a tl;dr Master!
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Re: BW??? - Climax
... you really just went there. Wow. No, I actually have not been living under a rock, I know why the 2-parter was cancelled. But the fact remains that the show's episodes are mapped out 9 months before the finished products are aired on TV, so while I understand why the series stumbled around and dropped things it was building up to from the beginning because of what happened, I believe they could have feasibly picked this back up a lot sooner than they ended up doing.
Yeah, I think there's a good reason why no one considered the likelihood of another saga after Episode N: there's literally nothing else for Best Wishes to cover long-term. The main story is over. By the end of Episode N they'll have pretty much shown off all there was to adapt from the sequel games. Even the Genesect stuff will likely be wrapped up by the early summer. And Best Wishes is the first series to have sagas this short (and actually separate their sagas by name in the Japanese version); not that I'm putting incredibly heavy thought into counting up the weeks, but I'm pretty sure even the Orange Islands saga will end up being longer (at best only exactly as long) than whatever follows after Episode N. It's a bad medium of being too short to sustain a real story and too long to solely be nothing but filler until October.
Really, Best Wishes has come off like the most ADD storytelling I've ever seen. Instead of weaving things in together to flow naturally, it just abruptly switches gears on a whim. That's why I find it poorly planned. I just find it a pity that the one thing in this series that had some legitimate potential in quality is going to all be blown in just three months; I got this feeling that whatever comes after Episode N will be an afterthought by comparison and hardly "conclusion" material.
It's not like the writers could have done anything to stop the earthquake from killing thousands of lives and prevent the cancellation of the episodes.
... you really just went there. Wow. No, I actually have not been living under a rock, I know why the 2-parter was cancelled. But the fact remains that the show's episodes are mapped out 9 months before the finished products are aired on TV, so while I understand why the series stumbled around and dropped things it was building up to from the beginning because of what happened, I believe they could have feasibly picked this back up a lot sooner than they ended up doing.
We only thought that it would last until October because we mislead ourselves into thinking so because we didn't consider that the writers could possible put in another saga after Episode N. The amount of advertising has never meant that its amount would equate to there being more episodes. It could have meant that, but it could have also meant to show how important the small arc was. I'd hardly call it poor planning.
Yeah, I think there's a good reason why no one considered the likelihood of another saga after Episode N: there's literally nothing else for Best Wishes to cover long-term. The main story is over. By the end of Episode N they'll have pretty much shown off all there was to adapt from the sequel games. Even the Genesect stuff will likely be wrapped up by the early summer. And Best Wishes is the first series to have sagas this short (and actually separate their sagas by name in the Japanese version); not that I'm putting incredibly heavy thought into counting up the weeks, but I'm pretty sure even the Orange Islands saga will end up being longer (at best only exactly as long) than whatever follows after Episode N. It's a bad medium of being too short to sustain a real story and too long to solely be nothing but filler until October.
Really, Best Wishes has come off like the most ADD storytelling I've ever seen. Instead of weaving things in together to flow naturally, it just abruptly switches gears on a whim. That's why I find it poorly planned. I just find it a pity that the one thing in this series that had some legitimate potential in quality is going to all be blown in just three months; I got this feeling that whatever comes after Episode N will be an afterthought by comparison and hardly "conclusion" material.