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See, to me I feel the complete opposite. I don't think Mr. Higuchi or anyone involved with these fillers had any major understanding of any of the characters or the progress they were making in the canonical episodes of the story. What we see these characters do in these filler arcs are stuff...

Of course they had a son. My real question is where did those two lion cubs come from?

Episode 38 really does go all out with the stops. The animation and direction in this sequence is so spectacular that it's almost hard to believe we had to sit through 12 half-hours of absolute rubbish beforehand. That these final five episodes act like the previous dozen (save 30 and 31)...

Hanson did say in episode 31 four months, but I reckon it was probably longer than that. Then again who knows. Did some interesting research on the actual day of the real-life Paris World Expo. It started on May 6, 1989. So if we go by that, we can assume it took a full year and 25 days for...

Agreed. Even when the show gets back on track I did feel there were some missing pieces of the puzzle. Just how did Nadia end up at the circus? How did Nemo and Gargoyle become enemies? Indeed. The moment I watched that episode I knew that the show was back on the right track. Considering...

Exactly. That's the point of the story: for Nadia to learn how to communicate properly with other people and that doing so requires better methods than anger. Case in point: whenever Jean has a problem, he thinks about what is the best solution for it and keeps trying. He admits when he has...

Also regarding the deer bit: Initially I was a bit bothered at how Jean comments on Sanson's skill in bringing down the deer, but then I eventually realized that he and the others were hungry for food and only saw the practicalities of killing for food. While I do somewhat understand where...

A bit too late, but here's my thoughts on certain aspects: I don't perceive Jean as lying, because he's genuinely a very honest character. Just because the camera doesn't always show everything doesn't mean that we couldn't have assumed that Jean didn't ask about the ether's composition to...

I apologize for bumping this thread up in advance, but when I saw that there was a Studio Ghibli thread, I wanted to give my personal opinions. 1) For me, my top favorites are CASTLE IN THE SKY, PRINCESS MONONOKE, MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO, KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE, and WHISPER OF THE HEART, although...

Great show overall, but too ridiculously long at 39 episodes. It really should have been a 27-episode series, not a 39-one. Especially with those awful filler episodes that killed much of what I loved about the series in the first place (derailing both Nadia's character and her friendship with...

Re: Simulwatch - Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water [current ep - 38] If I talk anymore about Nadia at this point I'll be providing spoilers but I'm going to hold off on doing so, because I don't want to give it away. But yes, these final episodes are really good. Just what the doctor needed.

Re: Simulwatch - Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water [current ep - 38] Episode 38 is awesome stuff. It's almost like Nadia becomes Star Wars or something, what with the skirmish between the two battleships. Anno really pulls out all the stops for this climactic showdown between the two titans as...

Re: Simulwatch - Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water [current ep - 37] There was the reference to Sodom and Gommorrah in episode 7 when Gargoyle was touring Nadia around his base. Also, Noah's arc in episode 35. Huh. I didn't really pick up on Gargoyle acting surprised about Red Noah as a case...

Re: Simulwatch - Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water [current ep - 36] Augh, the animation in these episodes is so crappy.

Re: Simulwatch - Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water [current ep - 30] Wendee Lee may be a talented actress, but as Nadia she doesn't really sound right, at least to my ears. There's something about her voice that sounds very breathy in quality and artificial. The European accent could have...

Re: Simulwatch - Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water [current ep - 36] He DID direct episodes 35-39, but I'm not sure if he actually wrote it or not. My guess is he probably did, because during his tenure as a director, he basically discarded whatever scripts he was sent (literally, by shredding...

Conan, the Boy in the Future, episodes 1-8 As a fan of Hayao Miyazaki, I hard recently made it a goal to myself to watch his earliest works in preparation for creating a video biography about his earliest films. One of these, is Conan, which bears no resemblance to Conan the Barbarian. Like...

Re: Simulwatch - Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water [current ep - 35] Yes, it's obvious that the filler episodes didn't do a good job of portraying the characters' personalities accurately. Anno was in the director's chair for episode 35 onward, and honestly it shows. There was hardly...

Re: Simulwatch - Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water [current ep - 31] I actually mentioned a few posts back that this wasn't supposed to be a recap/musical, but it turned out that way due to budget cuts. Incidentally, Anno and company used fake Korean aliases when they worked on that episode...

Re: Simulwatch - Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water [current ep - 31] It's a miracle you were able to find something to enjoy. I can't stand these two episodes at all. To me they really destroyed Nadia, and whatever happens in these episodes are all but completely discarded. Even Anno...