FLCL on Adult Swim

Smiling Bandit · Post by **Smiling Bandit** » 2003-08-08 09:19am

On a similar note, I hate it when a series like Trigun gets to a pretty serious and deep moment (like near the end of episode 25) and totally RUINS it with a bunch of super-deformed giant face and streaming tears crap. I absolutely hate that.

You mean where they take the super-serious moment and laugh at it? Heh, that's just what Vash is like.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-08-08 05:29pm

Smiling Bandit wrote:
Dalton wrote:On a similar note, I hate it when a series like Trigun gets to a pretty serious and deep moment (like near the end of episode 25) and totally RUINS it with a bunch of super-deformed giant face and streaming tears crap. I absolutely hate that.
You mean where they take the super-serious moment and laugh at it? Heh, that's just what Vash is like.

I know. But it's the only thing keeping Trigun from perfection in my mind.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-08-08 07:18pm

Dalton wrote:On a similar note, I hate it when a series like Trigun gets to a pretty serious and deep moment (like near the end of episode 25) and totally RUINS it with a bunch of super-deformed giant face and streaming tears crap. I absolutely hate that.

You didn't like that? I loved that part! Pretty much embodied the series, in my opinion.

StimNeuro · Post by **StimNeuro** » 2003-08-08 08:08pm

Andrew J. wrote:
Dalton wrote:On a similar note, I hate it when a series like Trigun gets to a pretty serious and deep moment (like near the end of episode 25) and totally RUINS it with a bunch of super-deformed giant face and streaming tears crap. I absolutely hate that.

You didn't like that? I loved that part! Pretty much embodied the series, in my opinion.

It's fine when it's used sparingly, but they occasionally over do it. By the way, I missed the end of Paradise(Vash vs. Wolfwood). Would someone please PM me a summary of the last half?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-08-09 07:03pm

Update: Adult Swim has apparently done wonders for this series. I drove around for hours and went through almost half a tank of gas looking for Vol. 1 today, and finally found it a pretty out-of-the-way Media Play. The guy told me they were having trouble keeping them on the shelves.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2003-08-09 08:48pm

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Shadowhawk · Post by **Shadowhawk** » 2003-08-10 12:20am

You can get Vol3 + Box + an exclusive Haruko shotglass at http://www.omochabox.com/s/home?item=8391

Figures I had to pre-order mine from rightstuf. I want that shotglass.

Smiling Bandit · Post by **Smiling Bandit** » 2003-08-11 12:40pm

I know. But it's the only thing keeping Trigun from perfection in my mind.

May I point out the irony of your screen-face?

And to the other poster, unfortunately, no can be told what Paradise is like. You have to see it for yourself.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-08-11 07:31pm

Smiling Bandit wrote:May I point out the irony of your screen-face?

Given that Lupin III is primarily a humor series, I an given to expect that kind of stuff.

Smiling Bandit · Post by **Smiling Bandit** » 2003-08-12 08:46am

Errr... Trigun is primarily a light-hearted series. Things tend to work out when Vash gets involved, if for no other reason than because he is such an innocent. When they give the super-deformed-face, its because the creators know that section is really just an overwrought melodrama. Its their way of winking at the audience.

If I recall correctly, that doesn't happen in the serious episodes.

Trigun and Cowboy Bebop spoiler] Spoiler

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-08-12 08:52am

Re: your little CB suggestion:

That's preposterous and insulting from a dramatic point of view. Spike's dead and everyone with a functioning brain knows it...

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-08-12 01:42pm

I shouldn't have started chatting with Dalton on AIM when FLCL was on. I had to translate all the sound effects for him.

Smiling Bandit · Post by **Smiling Bandit** » 2003-08-12 01:51pm

That's preposterous and insulting from a dramatic point of view. Spike's dead and everyone with a functioning brain knows it...

NoooooooooooooooOOOOOOoooooOOOOOoooOOOOoOOOOOOOOOoooO!

*sniff*

I nearly had myself fooled there! Why for you must destroy my dreams!?

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-08-13 12:02am

DPDarkPrimus wrote:I shouldn't have started chatting with Dalton on AIM when FLCL was on. I had to translate all the sound effects for him.

I didn't ask you to. I was wondering what particular anime they were parodying at the time, since the only one I recognized was from Lupin III

Smiling Bandit wrote:Errr... Trigun is primarily a light-hearted series. Things tend to work out when Vash gets involved, if for no other reason than because he is such an innocent. When they give the super-deformed-face, its because the creators know that section is really just an overwrought melodrama. Its their way of winking at the audience.

If I recall correctly, that doesn't happen in the serious episodes.

I'm going to have to disagree with you on Trigun being a light-hearted series. While it might present an innocent and fluffy facade most of the time, the underlying themes are deadly serious and I think the super-deform faces cheapen the impact of the series when done at the wrong moment - such as at the end of Live Through.

Smiling Bandit who does not know there is no spoiler tag wrote:Trigun and Cowboy Bebop spoilerAnd if I recall correctly, if they'd had anyoen with some decent knowledge of medicine Wolfwood, like Spike from Cowboy Bebop, wouldn't have died.

Nobody realized that Wolfwood was dying, except perhaps for Vash.

Smiling Bandit wrote:On the other hand, they did not aqtcually show Spike's corpse, so there is a miniscule but non-zero chance that the syndicate fellows grabbed him, put him back together (since he was Spike and he did kill Vicious.)

Spike is dead. That is canon. His star faded. He fulfilled his life and found his answer.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-08-13 03:32am

For the Record, the superpowers exhibited during the final battle are now part of my repitoire

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-08-13 03:53am

Huh?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-08-13 04:22am

Darth Fanboy wrote:For the Record, the superpowers exhibited during the final battle are now part of my repitoire

Which series are you talking about? FLCL?

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-08-13 04:26am

Shinova wrote:
Darth Fanboy wrote:For the Record, the superpowers exhibited during the final battle are now part of my repitoire
Which series are you talking about? FLCL?

Of course, that is what the threads about.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-08-13 04:28am

Ah.

So which are you thinking of specifically? MM? Haruko? Naota?

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2003-08-13 10:18pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote: Did you honestly expect much else from AJ?

Sheesh, either he's humping your leg or he's pissing on the carpet...

That may just make its way into one of my sigs. Someday in the far future, of course, but still...

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-08-13 10:38pm

I watched a dubbed episode on Sunday night. The Southpark parody, imo, was the only thing in the series that I thought was truly funny.

They did a fantastic job on the dub~ performed a good imitation of the original japanese voice actors.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-08-13 10:44pm

Hamel wrote: They did a fantastic job on the dub~ performed a good imitation of the original japanese voice actors.

I disagree. While some of the VAs sounded like the original seiyuu, it's just not a series that can be translated to English without losing much of it's appeal.

Shadowhawk · Post by **Shadowhawk** » 2003-08-14 03:15am

Christ, I just got into an argument with some nutjob on another board about FLCL.
He posted this big, long-winded analysis of how FLCL was chock-full of deep sexual metaphors (and I don't mean the obvious stuff like the horns growing out of Naota's head; he actually compared how cats mate to some of what went on in Ep3, and laughably compared Naota slamming Eri in the head to a pair of virgins' first sexual experience) and even Christian symbology (this one based entirely on the colors some of the characters wore).

I was short with his Freudian sex-is-everywhere crap, and he got offended that I didn't offer a 'reasoned counter-argument' to his 'look and ye shall find' analysis of FLCL.

Then he pulled out the "Eva is full of Christian metaphors!" shit, and even said a friend of his wrote his undergraduate thesis on how understanding the Kabbalah will help you understand Eva. He tried to use this to bolster his argument, despite Eva's Christian influence being no more than skin-deep.

I'm really beginning to think college philosophy classes are a plague upon the world.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-08-14 03:42am

Shadowhawk wrote:I'm really beginning to think college philosophy classes are a plague upon the world.

They're nothing more than training classes in How to Bullshit People.

Dark Hellion · Post by **Dark Hellion** » 2003-08-14 11:40am

While its deeper than some may give it credit, it ain't about sex that much.
Its mostly about maturity, and the fact that some people never grow up (Haruka) and that some (eyebrows) grow up too completely, that one must find a balance. This is what Naota does at the end.
It has a lot of symbolism, guitars, basebal, the brother in america, and while it deals with sex, it mostly deals with things like momimi's (sp?) lonelyness, and longing for a companion than with actuall hardcore fucking.