How come I must know?
Apr. 21st, 2010 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarasvatiI just finished watching .hack//SIGN, and I have to confess myself very disappointed by the ending. Or rather, the ending that wasn't. (Note: I was watching this show on an anime streaming site, and thus was told there were 28 episodes to the series.) Here's a basic breakdown of my thoughts of the last few episodes.
Episode 26 - Ooh, Sora overstepped his bounds and got whomped by something new and deadly-looking that seems ready to kick ass and take names. And Tsukasa finally logged out and got to meet Subaru. I totally support them in a romantic relationship. I can't wait to watch the next episode to find out what's up with Skeith.
Episode 27 - Okay, a filler episode. Interesting, but dammit, I want to know what happens next!
Episode 28 - A flashback and recap episode... This had better be to bring us back on track after the filler episode.
Episode 29 - What the fuck, why is everybody dancing? Why is this making no sense? Where did all the characters from the 4-part video game come from? Why is Sora not a giant monster? And why are they still dancing? ...Fuck this noise, I'm watching something else.
My best guess is that everything is clarified in the video game, of which I only have the firstof four parts because when it first came out, each part was sold as a separate video game for the same price that most games retail for, meaning there was no way I could afford to get all the parts. Now they're hard to track down.
Frankly, I think it was a lousy way to end the show. The main problem got resolved, yes, but right at the end, another much larger problem revealed itself, and it's like the people in charge of the whole .hack idea started laughing and demanding we pay them over $200 for the video game that may potentially reveal what happened between episode 28 and the crazy dancing reunion episode.
So as interesting as the story was and as much as I totally ship Tsukasa/Subaru, I'm really disappointed in the fact if I want to find out what happens now, I'll have to wait a long time to be able to pay over $100 for the rest of the video games. And that's assuming I can find them used for a decent price. It feels like the anime was just a great big marketing scheme to make people buy the games.
I wonder if I'd just played all the games and not seen the anime, would there be bits of the game that wouldn't make sense too?
Blah. Now I'm going to find something else to watch that's hopefully more self-contained.
Episode 26 - Ooh, Sora overstepped his bounds and got whomped by something new and deadly-looking that seems ready to kick ass and take names. And Tsukasa finally logged out and got to meet Subaru. I totally support them in a romantic relationship. I can't wait to watch the next episode to find out what's up with Skeith.
Episode 27 - Okay, a filler episode. Interesting, but dammit, I want to know what happens next!
Episode 28 - A flashback and recap episode... This had better be to bring us back on track after the filler episode.
Episode 29 - What the fuck, why is everybody dancing? Why is this making no sense? Where did all the characters from the 4-part video game come from? Why is Sora not a giant monster? And why are they still dancing? ...Fuck this noise, I'm watching something else.
My best guess is that everything is clarified in the video game, of which I only have the firstof four parts because when it first came out, each part was sold as a separate video game for the same price that most games retail for, meaning there was no way I could afford to get all the parts. Now they're hard to track down.
Frankly, I think it was a lousy way to end the show. The main problem got resolved, yes, but right at the end, another much larger problem revealed itself, and it's like the people in charge of the whole .hack idea started laughing and demanding we pay them over $200 for the video game that may potentially reveal what happened between episode 28 and the crazy dancing reunion episode.
So as interesting as the story was and as much as I totally ship Tsukasa/Subaru, I'm really disappointed in the fact if I want to find out what happens now, I'll have to wait a long time to be able to pay over $100 for the rest of the video games. And that's assuming I can find them used for a decent price. It feels like the anime was just a great big marketing scheme to make people buy the games.
I wonder if I'd just played all the games and not seen the anime, would there be bits of the game that wouldn't make sense too?
Blah. Now I'm going to find something else to watch that's hopefully more self-contained.