Canaan #01 — Recycled
July 4th, 2009
Gee. A lead character with magic eyes. I’ve never seen that from Type-Moon before.
New Season Disclaimer:
I try to watch at least the first episode of every new show in a season. However, do not expect anything I say to be fair or balanced. I value my own entertainment above all else and there are some genres or methods of presentation that I just plain do not like and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. I’ll attempt to at least make a cursory explaination of what did and did not please me about each show, but it’s just a simple fact of life that my tastes are mine alone. Feel free to express your own opinions in the comments, just keep it under control. This is just television after all.
Impressions:
I can’t deny that it looks rather good. Production’s solid, music’s good, and the festival really felt like a bustling celebration. One does have to wonder how many corpses or men running around shooting automatic weapons it takes to create a panic though. A few shots going unnoticed is perfectly acceptable. A squadron of men running around with assault rifles exploding in a shower of blood in the middle of a crowd and nobody noticing… not so much of a realistic festival. Not to mention the men having seizures, throwing up blood, and then children wandering over and playing in it. Grisly, sure, but seizures are how you tell somebody knows how to party hard, and throwing up blood just means more liquid for the kiddies to play in.
My main problem is that it did an absolutely terrible job of convincing me that I should care about any of these characters. An awesome and likeable cast can make any number of faults forgiveable. Inversely, characters you don’t care about can turn the rest of a show into gruel, regardless of the quality. Perhaps if it didn’t spastically jump from one character to the next every four minutes, they would have been able to put together more than just a generic character sketch for each. The fact that there were approaching nearly 10 characters, almost all of which got equal screen time certainly didn’t help that either. The general plot was also pretty unfocused, with almost equal parts EVIL PLOTTING, running around shooting things, people with animal heads having seizures, and soldiers roaming around, but the four are related to each other only by geographic proximity thus far.
Honestly, I’m content to just leave this to other people to cover and somehow just have to find a way to carry on with a minimum of SZS for Saturdays. I’m convinced it’ll develop the characters more than it did this episode, but it could take the better part of a month if it keeps bouncing around as much as it did this episode. It wasn’t bad by any means, it just needs at least another week or two to turn this into something other than a bunch of cardboard cutouts… with magic eyes. If you find a totally obfuscated story hopping merrily around every couple minutes is intriguing instead of frustrating, then by all means, go ahead.
Canaan OP
Preview:
Big boobs and old men.
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