1st September 2005, 8:14 PM
Quote:I guess he's now saying that American stuff is just as bad overall?
No idea.
Quote:I think with the flashbacks thing he's more talking about stuff like all those scifi show episodes where they rewind time in the end, erasing everything they did in order to get a better present to happen...
No, I'm pretty sure he means flashbacks that show events that happened before what's covered in the series.
Quote:in a case like Haibane Renmei it was the only thing they could have done at that point to continue the story.
Right. It just wasn't something that could have been at the first of the series and having it the middle really casts a shadow on everything that happens before then. The same thing happened in Trigun, near the middle of the series and also close to the end it features some flashbacks to Vash and Knives when they were younger. That's just not something that would have worked out as the intro to the series. It would give too much away too early.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.