"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and I don't mean this to offend anyone,
but just bring all the facts out in the open. It seems to me that Season 3 in inevitable--everything in the detailed series and the business end points to it. I recently posted this in response to a non-believer on Adult Swim's boards, and in response, I still had people ignoring this and adamantly saying there's NO CHANCE for season 3. As mentioned, I greatly differ. Please read this (especially the note on 26 additional episodes) and tell me what you think:
It's not over till the fat lady sings! I believe in BIG O Season 3 (and have come with proof of it). I've been a fan since its days on Toonami and supported the creation of Season 2 via letter. I have a different outlook on the series than some whiole others share it. Given all of the clues and poignant symbolism (religious and otherwise) it seems to me this is just the calm before the real storm. The end of an ACT in a larger 'play' that still has 'acts' to come.
Roger failed in his negotiations.By the full ending of Season 2, we see that Angel and Dorothy have apparently been carried over with some sense of memories, but
Paradigm is still a "City of Amnesia."Paradigm is still stuck in a purgatory like existence doomed to repeat its cycle of destruction and thus reset. However, Roger is supposed to stop that, to "Negotiate with the "Creator and get the memories back and a future. This is a show about heavy, thick plot.
The robot and mecha action is in a sense, red herrings.Each time you watch it, you can piece together a bit more of what's truly happening. This is much much deeper than a Cowboy Bebop here, and for closure's sake, we need more than what we have. This is the kind of quality series that shouldn't be limited by 26 episodes. Back in the day, there were series that exceeded that, and i think this one, which is a great epic, that should be allowed to finish its tale. Its not just simply a TV show by Angel...very little evidence for that. Though a sort of simulation is involved, there was some kind of Event that makes this (limited) simulation a nessessity. The simulation apparently has to do with the solution to a problem in the world of compelte reality, and until that solution is found, BIG VENUS will appear to Reset the simulation's failure--which is apparently when mankind tries to destroy itself again.
Of course this is not the solution, because I'm not the creator and also, we have not been
given all the clues yet.
Bottom line, until the Reset is stopped, the series goes on, and it will not be the same each time. Besides, looking at this as an anime, we, the viewer have been through/seen a full cycle of a reset.
Now the next part of the series is logically, how do you stop this--which apparently is
Roger's fate. How many times has he died?
This time he had Dorothy to save him from drowning in ACT 26, but previously he didn't.
It seems to suggest more and more things are falling into place each reset for Roger to set things right. Angel is now there and can help too possibly in the new existence since she and Dorothy TOGETHER watch Roger drive by in the end.
It can't be the same as 1 and 2, cause that's already different right there and also, the past hasn't exactly been the same, where Roger was a military pilot, Dorothy a human, etc, etc. I feel this series above any other has
EARNED a Season 3 that will more than likely be incredible. The were able to capitolize a lot on Season 1 in ways we from the Toonami days never could have never imagined. The writers working on this are experienced and good at what they do..
don't think they're out of ideas. Their show got cancelled way back when, and now that its back up and running, the accumulated ideas from over the years need this thing to be told to the finish.
Going beyond the story, and all the many mysteries that remain
, look at this from a creation/production standpoint.-Adult Swim talks in a bumper that premeired soon after the start of Season 2's US airing about a possible Season 3 if ratings go well and the execs can be convinced. (not word for word, but that was the idea of the statement)
-The last episode is called:
"THE SHOW MUST GO ON." (A metaphor for life, and also, that Paradigm's struggle remains....it's not meant to be literal, that it's a tv show.)
-Many new elements are added right at the end as teasers, just like the Barcodes and Tomatos of SEASON 1's ending.
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BIG ONE: Anime news sites report the following: "Cartoon Network has an option for an additional 26 episodes of BIG O (not including the 13 new ones that begin airing August 31 on Adult Swim)." (word for word right there)-Act 26 was dubbed a
"Season Finale" by Adult Swim,
not a series finale.-BIG O's ratings were reported as quite high just recently, even with competition like Wolf's Rain.
Now, I'm not saying expect another Season or two very quickly, especially with all the moves Adult Swim has been making purchasing Anime and Comedy shows recently,
but season 3 is gonna happen. There's no reason for CN to back down out of a "buyer option" deal like the one reported above if the show has been successful--which it has.
Like before,
there'll be a wait...but I've waited a long time before and I'm prepared. My guess is in a
year or two we'll see that once again, its
SHOWTIME,
and Roger will be in a whole new slew of situations COMPLETELY different than BIG O Season 1 and 2 as it reaches toward its ultimate climax and a final ending. " -
Paradigm Dog http://www.paradigm-city.com/forums/thread.php?threadid=7788&sid
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