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REVIEW: Trinity Blood DVD 2




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MorwenLaicoriel



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:45 am Reply with quote
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...a mad scientist named Barrie has been experimenting on children (with names like Peter and Wendy), turning them into vampire fairies.


...Wasn't that already done in a Buffy the Vampire Slayer book?

Although I guess the entire show is about doing things that already have been done...
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Eruanna



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:41 pm Reply with quote
I dunno, I think the review is a bit too harsh. Theres no crime in not being one hundred percent original, sometimes the old cliches still work.
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Nagisa
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:58 pm Reply with quote
But they don't work here. This show is a disjointed slop of ideas given a really paper-thin reason for co-existing. I mean we got robots, vampires, "Catholics" (and I use that term about as loosely as I use the term "vampires," given how many liberties this show takes with both concepts), steampunk sky navies, secret super powers, mafias, mad scientists, and very little of it clicks well together, much less all of it. Add the fact that Trinity Blood's approach to all of these ideas is horribly, horribly cliché, and you have a show that's just simply terrible. The show has trouble getting its basic premise to function (dragging the entire series down, as a result), and that premise doesn't even have redeeming luxury of being made of unique parts to compensate.
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Josh7289



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:16 pm Reply with quote
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Disjointed story makes it difficult to know or care what is going on.


I think that's the key reason I don't like this show. It just doesn't give me a reason to care, so I don't. It then becomes boring and I stop watching it back at episode three.
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Eruanna



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:34 pm Reply with quote
I see what your getting at, but... I geniuinly loved this show. Embarassed
But hey, each to his own. Wink
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