Blue Eye Samurai (Netflix)

[sbrothy]

I hope I haven't already mentioned this one but I think it was in a personal message.

I hate to do this but you have to see this one. The story is intelligent and extremely well thought out. If nothing else then just watch S01E05. Even though it's a cartoon The Matrix doesn't even come near!

EDIT: And here, we're talking no mercy. Those who get killed deserve it.

EDIT2: In fact, it's one of those rare ones where you root for both the protagonist and the antagonist because they're both so cool!

 

[sbrothy]

"My country's history is one of manufactured suffering. I was a boy when the Tudors burned any food the rebels under O'Neil might think to eat. We starved; everyone starved. Mouths on the dead stained green from chewing nettles. You become resourceful in a famine. My parents died early; left my sister and me catching rats. The rats ran out quick. Fed my sister on my blood. Kept her alive for an extra 2 weeks. I didn't sleep for three days protecting her body from the starving masses until the ground thawed. I cut out her kidneys and buried her. Fat on them like a pig. I haven't eating a single meal since then without my mind going to that bite. It was the last thing I ever did because I had to. I control my life now. Every bite."

[Loads rifle and kills a person who tried to trick him]

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As I said: Even the antagonists are so hardcore you can't help but root for them!

 

[Bandersnatch]

I really enjoyed the first few episodes. The animation is excellent, and the story initially seemed grounded and human-scale. But then it completely lost me. Turned cartoonish, superhero-y, uneven in tone, and felt like it was trying too much to be hip with its - misguided in my opinion - use of referential music.

There's been a number of pretty great western-style animated series released these past few years. Unfortunately, most of them seem to suffer a drop in quality, one way or another, in their latter part. This one is particularly egregious in this respect.
IMO, YMMV, etc., etc.

 

[sbrothy]

I understand your perspective. I admit it gets rather "cartoonish". Then again it is a cartoon and I think the plot (even though we've seen it before), is rather well put together. That it's made by a westerner and a japanese doesn't hurt. I wonder if there's gonna be a another season...?

 

[sbrothy]

I really enjoyed the first few episodes. The animation is excellent, and the story initially seemed grounded and human-scale. But then it completely lost me. Turned cartoonish, superhero-y, uneven in tone, and felt like it was trying too much to be hip with its - misguided in my opinion - use of referential music.

There's been a number of pretty great western-style animated series released these past few years. Unfortunately, most of them seem to suffer a drop in quality, one way or another, in their latter part. This one is particularly egregious in this respect.
IMO, YMMV, etc., etc.

I suspect perhaps you lost something for it at the same point I did. That is when the protagonist attacked Fowler's hide it went into a little silly "computer game" mode. I was about to loose my patience with it at that point, but I persevered. I'm glad I did. But as I said: even without that break I understand where you're coming from.

 

[Bandersnatch]

That is when the protagonist attacked Fowler's hide it went into a little silly "computer game" mode

Yeah, the hideout assault was when I stopped caring for it, even though I kept watching hoping for an improvement. But earlier already, when the soundtrack from Kill Bill started playing over a training montage, it was a sign of things to come.

 

[sbrothy]

Yeah, the hideout assault was when I stopped caring for it, even though I kept watching hoping for an improvement. But earlier already, when the soundtrack from Kill Bill started playing over a training montage, it was a sign of things to come.

I suspected that's where it went wrong for you (as it almost did for me). I didn't notice the Kill Bill score but if I had I may also have stopped there. I'm glad I didn't though.

 

[sbrothy]

I suspected that's where it went wrong for you (as it almost did for me). I didn't notice the Kill Bill score but if I had I may also have stopped there. I'm glad I didn't though.

I've never been a big Quentin Tarantino fan.

 

[DaveC426913]

IMDB seems to agree episode 5 was the bee's knees of the season. Did y'all get that far?

 

[sbrothy]

Ironically, I think E05 is the best of them all. Then the silly ones I meantioned came and in the end the quality increases again....

EDIT: Oh, I misunderstood the "bees knees" idiom. But yes. That and the 2 last ones are "the bees knees".

EDIT2: The Matrix has nothing one that particular episode. (Also, it's 1.6 1.9 GB! For a cartoon episode!)