GX writers, a lesson. It takes talent to mix crack into a serious story and make it successful. Part of the key is actually making the serious story good, and either making a clear delineation between the crack and the serious, or making the crack actually meaningful in the end. Shoujo Kakumei Utena succeeds at the first, Princess Tutu succeeds at the second. You fail at both.
I... This isn't just me personally not being much moved by the humor. Sure, some styles of humor don't affect me much (I can only handle pure comedy for so long before getting tired of it, no matter how good it might be), but I can still recognize that they succeed at what they're trying to do. But I don't even KNOW what this series is trying to do. That wasn't amusing crack. That wasn't a gripping serious story. That wasn't any sort of combination of the two. THIS SERIES JUST HAS NO FREAKING TONE OR DIRECTION.
On TV Tropes, it mentions that people have wildly different reasons for disliking this series: some think it takes itself too seriously, others think it doesn't take itself seriously enough. Personally, I think that its wildly veering tone results in both flaws.
Also, you only get to deconstruct something if it's actually relevant and you can do it well. The aforementioned shoujo series deconstructing fairytale archetypes make sense and are very successful. GX's attempts at deconstruction are...I'm not even sure what their goal was. This is like the claim that it deconstructs the notion of someone being expected to save the world by playing a card game (except that, you know, no one actually did that in the original manga). There's no deconstruction going on, they just included it and left it lying around.
Oddly enough, I almost (note the almost) like Shou for showing logic here and pointing out how dumb Kenzan is. Where's Misawa to point out the bad science when we need him? Perhaps the writers know he has the power to make their plot vanish in a puff of logic, and that's why they keep shoving him out? Aha, and that's why Asuka and Manjoume had to be brainwashed, too! Now everyone who ever tried to point out the stupidity of this series in season one is suborned or shoved aside.
Fubuki is our only hope! And he's been written out almost as badly as Misawa from day one, so we just might be doomed.
Sorry, I think GX temporarily broke my brain ^^;
Who in the world is going to believe that Saiou is young enough to be attending high school? I'm going to comfort myself now with my usual daydream of a realistic reaction by the teachers in all of those bad fanfics where Malik/Seto/someone else supremely ill-suited to high school is forced to attend. "Whoever you are, you clearly aren't a student, so if you don't have business here, please leave now! Your odd looks are distracting the students."
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I... This isn't just me personally not being much moved by the humor. Sure, some styles of humor don't affect me much (I can only handle pure comedy for so long before getting tired of it, no matter how good it might be), but I can still recognize that they succeed at what they're trying to do. But I don't even KNOW what this series is trying to do. That wasn't amusing crack. That wasn't a gripping serious story. That wasn't any sort of combination of the two. THIS SERIES JUST HAS NO FREAKING TONE OR DIRECTION.
On TV Tropes, it mentions that people have wildly different reasons for disliking this series: some think it takes itself too seriously, others think it doesn't take itself seriously enough. Personally, I think that its wildly veering tone results in both flaws.
Also, you only get to deconstruct something if it's actually relevant and you can do it well. The aforementioned shoujo series deconstructing fairytale archetypes make sense and are very successful. GX's attempts at deconstruction are...I'm not even sure what their goal was. This is like the claim that it deconstructs the notion of someone being expected to save the world by playing a card game (except that, you know, no one actually did that in the original manga). There's no deconstruction going on, they just included it and left it lying around.
Oddly enough, I almost (note the almost) like Shou for showing logic here and pointing out how dumb Kenzan is. Where's Misawa to point out the bad science when we need him? Perhaps the writers know he has the power to make their plot vanish in a puff of logic, and that's why they keep shoving him out? Aha, and that's why Asuka and Manjoume had to be brainwashed, too! Now everyone who ever tried to point out the stupidity of this series in season one is suborned or shoved aside.
Fubuki is our only hope! And he's been written out almost as badly as Misawa from day one, so we just might be doomed.
Sorry, I think GX temporarily broke my brain ^^;
Who in the world is going to believe that Saiou is young enough to be attending high school? I'm going to comfort myself now with my usual daydream of a realistic reaction by the teachers in all of those bad fanfics where Malik/Seto/someone else supremely ill-suited to high school is forced to attend. "Whoever you are, you clearly aren't a student, so if you don't have business here, please leave now! Your odd looks are distracting the students."