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R.I.P.vtanne
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Like you,I haven't seen any episodes in advance. I have, however, gotten the impression from a few others out there that they have. In fact whatever it was that I read was a very veiled, but very definite spoiler for me. It really depressed me and I'm afraid to repeat it, because I think they are right. If you want me to tell you what they implied I will.

Given all that, I have this opinion. A good writer can fix any problem, can change, improve, redirect, or CONTINUE any story. Even a bad writer can, it just won't be very good. And, YES, I, too, want more. However, as has elsewhere been pointed out, even if Cartoon Network finances more and the animation studio agrees, there's going to be a looong turnaround time. Unless, the third season has actually been completed, which doesn't seem possible. Everybody in the know (which I am not)talks like Season 2 is all there is. Let's cross our fingers and toes!

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10-01-2003 03:46 PM
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Well people, I havent seen episodes n advance, but I will tell you what I saw when I examined the memories. I saw wars between the hordes of Big O's and the huge electric snake things. And remember it was a paradime city scientist who had part of the memories on how to crete these behemoths. I think (Possible Spoiler) that Rodger was in the war and realized it would never end and if it did the winning side would be just as decimated. The world would end. So then he and paradime city lone scientists got together and released a memory erasing drug into the air. He put imself into a position to pilot Big O when he lost his memories by obviously being near it. He knew that eventualy some ppl would get memories back and attack the city. Big O was there to defend the last bastion of advanced civilization on the world. I think in the end he will either give everyone back their memories or take them all away again.

 


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10-01-2003 04:15 PM
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It depressed you?
Maybe you read the same spoiler I did:
Was it that (**POSSIBLE SPOILER**) Roger & Dorothy will never be involved romantically? I heard that from two different places, both claiming it was straight from the director's mouth. When I heard that it made me very sad too...but I think if he said that it was during the first season's run, before the second was developed, and maybe once Cartoon Network had a say in it it changed. At least that's what I'm telling myself...

On a side note, wonder how much (if any) input CN got on the actual storyline? Did they just give them money and say go at it, or what?
10-01-2003 05:59 PM
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Well.... it's a little weird. I guess they COULD, yeah, but the ending itself is confusing enough. When I saw it the first time, though, I didn't think it was wrapped up. I basically thought "...what the ####??"

hehe.. ^_^;


I'm just guessing, but I bet CN didn't have much input. They probably just saw how the thing was a bigger money-maker over here than Japan, thought that was an interesting point, then decided to put up some money for more.

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10-01-2003 06:00 PM
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Y'know, I was thinking about it, and it's really not as much of a downer as I thought it would be... the Roger/Dorothy thing, I mean.

It's not like you see a completely one-sided unrequited kind of love (which seems notoriously popular in a lot of anime). The second season is GREAT because it shows, quite clearly, that Roger finally reciprocates Dorothy's affection. The first season was too vague, and I remember some people passing off his reactions as being more embarassed by a robot liking him than really reacting. But in examples like yesterday's episode where he tenderly placed the flower behind her ear (and you KNOW he bought that bouquet for her), there's no doubt he loves her.

In that sense, I'm satisfied because I don't have to wonder anymore if he'll ever feel the same the way.

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10-01-2003 06:10 PM
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I think the Gabriel guy that Angel knows is what Alex Rosewaters and George have been working toward. If you can fugure out how to transfer the human mindinto a machine you can just exchange the body for a new one and in effect have immortality. The other way to achieve immortality is to clone yourself and to transfer all that you are and all of your memories into a new clone body. When you awake in the new body you ahve the memories of the old self. As long as you can keep making new bodies you are in effect immortal.

He is an android with a human consciousnes. He is the blending of the man and the machine. A human intelligence and "soul" in a machine. If oyu notice he laso hates androids. I wonder if that is because he hates what he is become. He is now a human trapped in a machine.

I think anyone wh has seen Chobits can understand the situation between Roger and Dorothy.
10-01-2003 10:13 PM
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big o s.ucks major ####. rogers a fruitpie
10-01-2003 11:09 PM
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To question #2, I thought it was Alex Rosewater myself. I could, be wrong, though.

To Brakman: Run back to your DBZ, boy.
10-01-2003 11:21 PM
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#### you, if you dont like big o why do you go out of your way to be a jack ####.

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10-02-2003 02:16 AM
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I like your idea about Alan Gabriel being some kind of project to infuse human memories into a machine. It could have been that there was a huge accident and everyone ended up getting there memories removed as some scientist tried to save civilization as the bigs were attempting to destroy everything.
10-02-2003 05:41 AM
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Nooooo!!!!! Take it back! Or I may have to seriously hurt somebody. That director, maybe? (Next we can all tackle Brakman. Or, maybe, I'll just sick the fruitpie on him instead. Can anyone say, Big O, Time for Action!)

That's definitely not the spoiler that I glimpsd. It's even worse. . .the romance between these two characters is the heart and soul of the story. At least for me; the rest is icing on a glorious cake. Their bickering is classic. I mean where else could you hear a sassy android flat out tell playboy Roger "that he's a louse." And where else would you find the hero teasing his lady love (even though he isn't ready to admit his feelings) that he was so distracted by Angel (uckkk!) that he "forget" she was suspended from a magnetized ceiling? Or Dorothy's piano pounding. Or Roger empathisizing when he made poor Dorothy exceed the elevator's weight limit. It was poingnant for 2 reasons: because it publically humiliated her, and it more importantly reminded Roger that she is an android.
10-02-2003 02:18 PM
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Is that your cryptic way of saying that the final of these 26 episodes kind of implies that Roger and Dorothy can't/won't get together? Don't tell me they're trying to pull a George Lucas. . .And that Dorothy and Roger are sister and brother? Short of that, anything else seems false to all that has come before in their relationship.

Besides, Angel, I feel from what I've seen so far, is connected to Dan Dastun. So, she can't steal Roger away.

I don't think that CN had any editoral control over the story. But they might exercise more if they go ahead with a 3rd season? Then they can ORDER that Roger and Dorothy live happily-ever-after. What's your take on why it seems more popular here than Japan, anyway? They don't approve of a racy illicit mixed species couple?
10-02-2003 02:31 PM
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Well, just on a generational or age basis, it seems more likely that Alex's father, Gordon, would be a better candidate: he was in his prime 40 years ago. . .but I think it's too obvious to be him, although he is involved. Gordon Rosewater seems to retain enough (I think he has all)his memories to keep Roger on a tight leash. His "tomatoes" keep torturing Roger. He never gives Roger a straight answer (kinda like the show) but, instead, keeps stirring things up. For instance, he mocked Roger about not even remembering the contract that he was supposed to be negotiating for him. Maybe it is Gordon, but, like I said, that seems way too obvious. There could be a Monk yet to make an appearnce.
10-02-2003 02:45 PM
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Oohh. It's very interesting and appropriate that you used the word "Soul", considering how much religious symbolisim there is in this show. That's what led me to call the war that decimated the world as we know it a Holy War.

Think about it? A character called "Angel"; satellites that fall to earth being thought of as angels; the monk that trains the "striped" children (does anyone else feel that this little club looks exclusively male?); an episode about a holiday that was a twisted version of Xmas; a title for the pilot of the Megadueces', Dominus, that reeks of religion; and, the clincher, "Cast in the Name of God, Ye Not Guilty." Did I miss any?

That brings up another question. When Alex Rosewater thought that Big O had shutdown on Roger, he said, "So, does that make you another rotten Tomato, Roger Smith?"
So does that make Alex a rotten tomato? His message in Big Fau read only "Cast in the Name of God Ye Not."?
Is a rotten tomato someone who isn't "striped", barcoded, trained, to pilot a Big O? Or is it someone on the "wrong" side in the holy war?

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10-02-2003 03:04 PM
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can somebody please tell me what happened on big o sunday?
10-02-2003 04:21 PM
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Oh Oh!!! Uhmm......Roger...Uhmm!! ####! i was half asleep on sunday! I couldn't stay awake but i knew what happened! I think Roger Smith....Negotiated with that other guy. #### i was tired i didn't see the whole thing. All I rememember was that BIG O fought this three headed dragon and BIG O got this special...thing? i forget. Lol.
10-02-2003 05:05 PM
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that dragon was a genetically engineered creature created with the remains of the one killed in episode 3. They were using it to create energy to ressurect fau. Vera from the union set off a bomb and set it free. It electricuted roger and bigo, then he had some more flashbacks and unknowingly activated some new attack.

 

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10-03-2003 02:11 AM
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LOL, no they're not brother and sister. That would be awful. I'm just saying that I think people are hoping to see more than they're actually going to see.

I dunno if CN would try to push its ideas onto the production of a third season. They might ask if some things are going to happen, but it seems more likely that they'll just oversee the results without too much interference.

As to why Big O's more popular here, I'm not sure. Sometimes I wonder if it's the same with Bebop... I mean, that show is CRAZY popular over here, and I'm curious if it's nearly as fan-crazed over there.
It probably has something to do with the overall design. I know it's a despised comparison for some people, but you can't deny the Batman-esque tones... at least in the first season, anyway. It seems a bit more westernized than some anime series, and makes a very smooth transition to english-speaking viewers. There's no japanese cultural elements (like Inuyasha or Kenshin) that have to be explained, and the setting itself seems like, as many have stated already, a New York style city. No japanese on signs (from what I can remember), and American-looking environments and mentalities abound. I think the whole design just lends itself to be more readily accepted over here.
10-03-2003 05:58 PM
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I think you're partially right--for the most part, the animes that get so popular over here just seem 'less Japanese', in animation, in style, in subject material, etc. There's just not much about Big O, Trigun, or Cowboy Bebop that seems inherently foreign to us, except the occasional Japanese sign, and the characters don't look or act Japanese at all.

They also seem to be less 'cute'. Japanese (esp. Japanese girls, which make up a substantial portion of anime viewers in Japan) seem to love everything small and cute; even their Cokes are smaller over there. InuYasha's very cute, not to mention the little juvenile romances thrown in there (another thing they love), thus it's extremely popular in Japan. Now, if you could combine cute and mecha, that would slay the whole d*mn country. =D

...man, it's already Friday?? *drool* Big Oooooo....

[FYI, I used to be nonattanutta. Changed my name cause I found out I was spelling it wrong...heh...]

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10-03-2003 07:12 PM
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"Now, if you could combine cute and mecha, that would slay the whole d*mn country. =D"

I think they called it Gundam Wing.

 

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10-03-2003 07:14 PM
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Bingo! I think that has a lot to do with it. I'm not well versed in Manga, but I think that Big O does have nothing but a western slant.

I just wonder, however, if American demand for a third season (if we would be fortunate enough to get it), would eventually draw the Japanese audience to reconsider? Ya' know, kinda like a write-in tv campaign here that saves a show which, in turn, becomes a cultural icon. That's the way it happened for original Star Trek. Look how long it it took for a broader audience to catch on.

No, I agree that CN wouldn't dictate story to the animator's. I just was going on and on and on, ad nasuem, about my hope that Dorothy and Roger get together. It would be a crying shame if they don't.
10-03-2003 07:55 PM
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I like your succint plot wrap-up. The only thing I would add was Dorothy's (strange) appearnce in the Ninja suit. It really has me re-evaluating her character. Dorothy is very central, very key to everything.
10-03-2003 08:05 PM
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Really??

I watched a few episodes on the Late Night Run when it was on, and it didn't seem cute at all...kinda dry, actually. Or, I donno, maybe that was Gundam something else. Anyway, how did it do in Japan?

vtanne: I feel exactly the same. They've just done way too much to make their relationship an issue for it not to be one. That's what I don't get about a lot of anime--the creators know exactly what the fans want, because they're the ones who set it up to make us anticipate it, and yet it seems like the majority of the time they don't give it to them. I can see the logic in that as a hook to keep people watching, but at the end of the series I say why not make the fans happy?? Maybe then they'll be more inclined to buy the DVDs, you know? For example, I might would have bought Berserk if it hadn't ended the way it did. I think I'll buy Big O either way, but dammit, I'm still going to b*tch about it...

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10-03-2003 09:51 PM
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You know me and my Roger-Loves-Dorothy fixation. So, while I would want and hope that he bought that bouquet for Dorothy, there is another possibility: he meant to give it to Angel to apologize for "holding back" with her.

Roger, as someone else pointed out, didn't offer the entire bouquet to Dorothy, just one flower --- but he did put it behind her ear (awwwww!!!). Another reason that the bouquest could have been meant for Angel (boo) over Dorothy is that flowers have already been associated with her; she admitted in a roundabout way that she was from somewhere foreign where the blue-bells grew, because they don't grow in Paradigm City.

The last reason to have him give the bouquet to Angel? To keep the love triangle going, of course.
10-04-2003 10:50 PM
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i dont know dude sorry
10-04-2003 10:59 PM
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Big-O = crap (but thats just my opinion)
10-04-2003 11:08 PM
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Yes, you are entitled to your own opinion. But, have you watched the show from episode one? It is intiguing, complex, romantic,(artistically) well-rendered and FUNNY. The thing is you ABSOLUTELY have to watch in order from the beginning. That's what bothers me about CN saying to bring friends on board to hike the ratings to get a third season.
To do so is a disservice to the show and the new viewer, because without having seen each and every previous show, it would be impossible to like, appreciate, follow, or understand anything.

So, I ask again, have you given the show a fair chance? If you watched episode #1 and #2 and still weren't hooked, then, I would say it just wasn't your cup of tea.

Why do you call it crap?
10-04-2003 11:21 PM
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Okay, normally, I don't like fans dictating plotlines, because, if the writer is doing his job, then the story unfolds out of character, without outside influences which can ruin story integrity. And, in this case, the story is Roger and Dorothy FOREVER!!!!!!!!!! Don't I have a one track mind?

10-04-2003 11:34 PM
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how come big o is the only show that has random people saying it ####?

 

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10-04-2003 11:47 PM
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I figured the entire bouquet was for Dorothy. After Roger gets electrocuted and has the crap beat out of him during his fight with the Hydra, most of the flowers got crushed. The one flower he gave Dorothy was prolly the only one left unscathed.
10-05-2003 12:06 AM
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Dunno. But if it's any consolation, I haven't yet seen a single person give a valid reason why they dislike the show, aside from the "therez a giunt roobot!" argument.

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Most of the kids who put one line negitive stuff are just showing their lack of intelligence. All they did was bump us up.

Anyways, I think the flowers were for Dorothy. Roger had to have guessed Angel would be in hiding and therefor wouldn't see her. Norman had to have said something to Dorothy about them ("Are those flowers for Norman?) and I don't think Norman would have if he thought they were for Angel.
UGH I am so not liking Angel!!!!

I was wondering, do Angel and Daston have a connection? He knew where to find her to return her gun a few episodes ago. Ya'll think he may be a forigner? Most likely not, but still, mabey a connection from 'Winter's Night Phantom'? Mabey Angel asleep on his lap?
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Ah, I'm not sure about that...
while it's definitely preferable to have seen it from the beginning, I know for a fact it isn't a necessary prerequisite for enjoying the show--one, because I missed like the first 6 or 7 episodes when I first watched Season 1, but a single episode got me hooked and I watched religiously from there, and two, because I convinced a co-worker to tune in last Sunday and he loved it, never having even heard of it before.
I think maybe you just have to have a peculiar combination of traits to appreciate Big O...you gotta enjoy a mystery, and you gotta be down with the dark element, and the robots, and it helps if you're a little bit of a romantic too. Or, you could just have mad luv for the eyebrows...oooh, those eyebrows. ; )

 

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Dastun and Angel are brother/sister. That girl he shot in Ep. 8 was his other sister.

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whaaaat? where do you get that from?
(you're not spoiling, are you?!?)

 

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Not spoiling in the least, this was actually discussed awhile ago, and I'm just getting my info from that (it makes sense, their mother was that old movie actor, and that's why the chick he killed looked like her, and he was very sad).

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I'm THE MOST rabid Dorothy/Roger fan there is. I want/hope/need the bouquet to be for her. . .So, how come when she point blank asked him, in her oh-so cute android way, "Are those flowers for Norman?" He didn't so "No, they are for you." I think it's part of the semi-love- triangle (Angel being the third side). You can't have Roger committing himself to Dorothy just yet, because that would spoil all the fun.

But, in the end, they better get together!!!!
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I agree that there's definitely a connection between Dastun and Angel. However, I just quickly read over some of the later postings on this topic and they are boggling my mind. I need to re-read, digest, and answer them because they are proposing that Dastun and Angel are brother and sister?

I think where I'm getting lost is in the memory flashbacks. Because each person THEN (40 years ago) is portrayed by today's counterpart, I keep thinking of them as who they are today and not who they were then. . .Now, I really am confused?!! I interpreted of all of Dastun's memories in the epidode where he shot the Union spy, who I thought resembled Angel, to be "flashfowards", more like premonitions, than memories. This event happened NOW; not then. So how could he remember what hadn't yet happened?

SOMEBODY HELP ME REMEMBER: DIDN'T ALEX ROSEWATER MAKE A COMMENT THAT "THINGS OF THE PAST ALWAYS AFFECT THE FUTURE" WHEN HE KNEW ABOUT THE FALLING SATELLITE BECASUE OF THE ANDROID SENATOR'S DISK OF MEMORIES? I'M NOT EVEN SURE OF WHAT I'M TRYING TO TIE TOGETHER. . .Please, hellllp mmeee!!!
10-05-2003 10:40 AM
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Yeah, Roger has nice brows, but the rest of him ain't bad either. Too bad he's taken. By R. Dorothy!

Which episode did you initially catch? Was it the "cat created from the kid" episode 'cause that one really was outstanding. (Gee, that phrase sounded awfully cold hearted).

I guess, having been fortunate enough to catch the recent repeat of Season One that directly led into this original airing of Season Two, I have real sympathy for anyone who doesn't get to experience the entire Series unfold from the beginning. Because it is so VERRYY complex there is no way to recap the story, say like they do in Inuyasha to bring new viewers up to speed on the Kikiyo/Naruku/Shikon Jewel saga. I'm glad your friend likes the show, and proves to me that you can come on board late and still LOVE it!

I know I'll catch flak for saying this, but could the most important trait for enjoying the show be intelligence? Or, maybe, it's that peculiar mix of traits that you listed? I have most of them, emphsis on the peculiar. (I just insulted my own self.)

10-05-2003 11:00 AM
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I really wish I had a copy of Season One to review, instead I have to rely on my spotty memories (Pun intended?). Seriously, I interpreted that semi-bizarre episode differently. The bizarre aspect is: when Dastun sat in the movie theatre watching a "foriegn" film, which symbolized the "foriegness" of the lady in the front row with the red balloon --- which we have come to learn is one way the Union signals between members --- whom I thought looked-like/was Angel(?), it seemed to me more like he witnessed the events of tracking down and shooting the assassin beforehand?! But that shoots down my theory of Dastun being connected, possibly romantically, with Angel because, if you carry my line of thinking to it's conclusion, then Dastun shot Angel on the bridge and she is very much alive.

Unless you bring up the issue of people/androids having twins? Because R.D. was R. Dorothy's evil counterpart, wasn't she? And was the Dorothy MD, then, their virtual triplet?

There is also the entire issue of WHO is behind the plot to murder all the 20 something's who had the implanted 40 year-old memories? I guess this same plot extended to destroying all of the higher-order androids like R. Dorothy. The question is why, why, why???

I'm now experiencing a psychotic breakdown. Somebody, give me some pills.
10-05-2003 11:25 AM
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"I really wish I had a copy of Season One to review, instead I have to rely on my spotty memories (Pun intended?)."

I read somewhere that all of Big O will be repeated starting November 3rd, so check your local listings :smileyhappy:

 

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I wouldn't say intelligence is necessarily a prerequisite, as I've seen the occasional dingbat on paradigm-city.com's forums, but there's definitely a strong correlation.

To be honest, I don't remember what episode it was that I saw first...I know it wasn't the cat one; it might have been the one immediately after that. I still haven't seen that one, actually, but I've read the script of it.

Has anyone read the manga? I just wonder why Roger's so much skinnier in it. Which came first?


 

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I have the first two mangas (in English). They are similar but not exactly the same.

The anime came first in this case.

 

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That's great! Can't wait!
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I might really be missing what your trying to say, but let me try.

Daston was watching a movie with a girl. The woman in the movie was an actor who later on was found to be a spy who excaped to her home country. Years later, She had a daughter who came back to destroy Paradigm and that is who Daston shot on the dock. The memory flashbacks were actually of the movie Daston saw as a child with perhaps Angel or the woman he shot, not a premenetion.

It kinda ties in with the whole everyone is an actor thing. Especially since it was played out just like the movie he saw as a child. Even the 'Your so sweet' she says in French. That's what makes me think it was her asleep on his lap and not Angel.

I wonder if it's the union that is trying to destroy all those implant kids in episode 13.

Sorry if I misunderstood what you were trying to say!!
I love this show! The next 6 days are gonna kill me!!!
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Well, "Twisted Memories" certainly was a wild ride! Few answers, only more questions...not in order of importance.
#1 The apparent patricide of Gordon Rosewater by Alex: I once posed the color scheme of the Big's, Roger/Big O in black, and Alex/Fau in white, yet, now, in this episode, there was indisputably a physical resemblence between Gordon/Alex/&Fau. So does that same arguement (of physical resemblance) carry over to Roger/BigO? Also, wasn't Michael Zabach, alias Schwarvald, (nearly) murdered by fire?
#2 Dorothy spake so, "I am not like the robots or Roger. I will have this body, this heart forever." Meaning. . .What? That she will age/die like a mortal, while he (his memories) will get incarnated into another him, again and again? 3# The duel between Alan Gabriel and Vera of the Union. (Apparently)she won. Afterwards, Alex had a red stain on his white face, like a bloodstain; she lived to taunt Roger. Only, after the one bullet exploded, they cut to the red balloon. Now I'm not so sure that this is a Union signal. Vera used a rocket to contact her "hitherto unseen" compatriots. (To be continued. . .) as time allows. Angel! Angel!

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No, I think you are right on track, and somewhere I got scrambled. It doesn't help that I can't go back and refresh my memories.

About the actors/Paradigm City is a stage issue? That is upsetting because it has the ring that the reality of the show will ultimately be shattered. I don't like cheat endings where "nothing was real", or the "space time continuum" solved all the problems, or "it was all a dream." Do you think the writer's could be that cruel to such a devoted audeince?

I'm out of time for now. I started a posting that dissected everything of "Twisted Memories". Thanx, especially for the refresher on Dastun at the Movies.

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I like this thread...it's reassuring to know that other intelligent people sit around and puzzle over a cartoon. XD

OK, I'm mad confused about the burning farm. Who did it? Why? And how do you know??? I felt like I was doing pretty good up until that point...*sigh*

As for Dorothy's statement, I don't know what she meant by saying she wasn't like the robots (what robots? the megadeuses?), but when she said she would have the same body/heart forever, wow--that could be interpreted in so many ways, in the context of what was going on. It could be her way of saying her existing as a human was pointless and if this (what Rosewater needs her for) is her role then she's resigned to it...or she could be subtly saying "don't love me/care so much for me Roger, we're too different"...I also think it was significant that she referred to herself as having a heart (=emotions), which to me is pretty much the nail in the coffin for any ambiguity over her being in love with Roger...gah!! my head hurts. No matter what the nuances, I think it was meant to call attention to the innate contrast between her and Roger, and to the fact that she's also unique among machines. The point? *shrugs* good question.

 

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I sadly can't answer any of your questions,but I do agree with you Big O is a great show.

 

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Riddles, riddles, and more riddles. Gotta love this show.

#1: Wasn't Vera wounded and bleeding from an abdominal wound after the duel? It looked like she was clutching her stomach the way Annie did in Bebop, and I thought I saw a bloodstain. But it was in a dark tunnel, so I'm not sure. Anybody else see it? That could be where Alan's bloodstain came from, too.

#2: Time scale. Exactly how old are each of the major characters? Roger and Angel look like they can't be much older than 35, tops. Roger looks to be in his 20s when he was in the MP, and Angel looks younger than Roger. Dastun has that scar, and looks to be in about his 40s. Rosewater the Younger has the gray hair and facial lines of a man in his late 40s/early 50s. I'd bet that he might be the tall kid in the Tomatoes Class Reunion, if we're limited to the major heavies already shown. I honestly wonder who may have been old enough to have lost *any* of their own memories, and who may be just getting memories from someone else.

#3: Out of curiosity, is there anyone who's read any alternate history? Or perhaps Stephen King's The Dark Tower books? We have, as previously pointed out, a city that has a lot of geography and place-names in common with our New York City (Could that central dome have been held up by the Empire State Building, that got cut down by Big Fau?). But the flashback looked like a stylized NYC from the late 1950s or early 60s. Could this "incident" from "40 years ago" have been in our equivalent of the 70s or 80s, where instead of Stealth Bombers and ICBMs, humanity develops Deus-es? Now to tie into TDT: Instead of a Captain Trips superflu in one of the infinite possibilities going out and killing everybody, this one has "the incident" and time kinda stands still for a while while we rebuild in one of the last bastions of civilization? If you read the
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CN provided, where can Rosewater go after leaving Paradigm? Except back to that time, or an unaffected timeline? Did he and/or Roger maybe cause The Incident?
*End Spoiler*
I really hope that they eventually answer that question, whether Paradigm is a renamed NYC or if it's like Metropolis or Gotham.
10-07-2003 09:35 AM
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