Forum - View topicOh no cliffhanger.
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opaquescum
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Some of you may or may not remember this series, and its not a shock if you do not. Considering it usually aired at six in the morning. Anyway its along the line of one of those american anime, or what ever you choose to call them. Anyway I bought these series the full compilation and got a great surprise at the end.
Roughnecks - The Starship Troopers Chronicles is the name of the series by the way. Anyway the episodes are usually grouped into a series of five which act as a sort of movie. You know the whole serialised concept. Anyway I never had seen the end of the series, and for me it was a personal badge of shame. I always thought I had just missed it, or never found the time when they aired the new ones. So here I am ordering it online, and low and behold 4 bonus episodes. Oh well they must not have aired the final episodes, or the series got closed down, and the series never got to have a ending. Well those four episodes turned out to be the standard compilation nonsense. You know all of 2 minutes of footage, and really have no good spot in the series. Just a character remembering scenes you have seen anyway. I finally wrapped up watching the series tonight, and what do you know cliffhanger. Well I went a digging being somewhat disappointed, and found out Sony was obligated to make 40 episodes, but kind of decided to dump and run. So they made 4 cheap episodes to meet quota. The shame being those 4 episodes were probabally already written. Anyway the show has been off the air for five years now, and the fact you can get it for a song speaks volumes that you will never see a little mini movie come out to fill that empty void. Anyway I am still satisfied. Since its a arc series you get a number of good endings throughout, but I wonder would I be happier if Sony found a way to work out a deal where instead of 4 episodes they just had to make 1 more. So you know they could wrap up the series. What my question is I suppose is this, and this really is a anime question. Lets say your watching a anime series, and its arc based serial, and suddenly it does what this series did, and the company tried to get rid of it like a rash. Would you rather it abandon its framework to strap on a weak closure. Which it about has to be to fit in a episode, or can you accept that sort of oh man that really urks me fealing. Personally I am one of those purists who like refuses to see anything sacraficed from what I like, but on the other after you watch 700 plus minutes of something, and to not get even a small ending. Well it leaves you fealing hollow. How do you guys feal about these kind of cliffhangers. P.S. if anyone has any clue if there is a site out there that might actually have the script to those final episodes that never got animated. Could you just pop in a link. I have no clue where to being looking for something like that, but I would really like to know how it ends. Even if it is just in print. |
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Randall Miyashiro
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This is what happened to SPT Layzner. In the last episode the main characters are sitting around how Eiji is doing as things heat up for a big climax and then the credits roll. You don't even get to see the Layzner Mk-II which iss seen in the opening credits. Fortunately an OAV was made to help wrap things up, but still it feels rushed. Southern Cross also has this feeling. I believe Tatsunoko wanted the series to be long running.
I believe they recorded the audio for the last couple of Starship Troopers Earth arc episodes, but it was never animated due to budget problems. The compilation episodes were aired during the initial run, since I've seen them on tv. I don't know if you can find the unanimated scripts out there, but I did enjoy the San Francisco and Hawaii episodes. |
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opaquescum
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Well the Hawaii episode is the last episode, and the san francisco one was the third to last. In between is the lieutenants funeral episode. Anyway the shame of it all is this was a very good series. Had a solid story line. Nice animation even being CG which I know some people hate. Plus it had some really nice character developement.
I guess it goes to show that any series that gets aired at a bad time slot will go the way of the do do even if it is well done. Just to expand the topic a bit anyone else have a good CG series they saw and want to talk about? Might aswell make this a CG thread curious to see what else was out there. AKA hidden at obscure timeslot. |
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jaybug39
 Posts: 552 Location: Oregon, Is it FOOTBALL yet? |
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Yeah I remember that series. Always look for old school sci-fi writers works. I worked graveyard then so I would watch those on my days off. I got it at 3am, as Dish network gives me east coast stuff for some reason. I only live 3,000 miles from there!
Kind of odd that a series made in Canada to cut down costs ran out of money, eh? But I guess that was the problem to begin with, not much money to ensurea full run. Did you make the mistake of seeing the direct to video of "Starship Troopers II?" Warning! Danger, Will Robinson. Warning! Warning! I don't like any series which peters out. I kind of thought Last Exile had that problem. It built and built and then it ended so abruptly. They tied everything altogether in less than 10 minutes. Blink and you miss something that explained it all. If not for that, I would have thought the series superior. |
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