Physically painful.
The whole concept of the show smacked suspiciously of a widely known (I believe) anime that's been around for *several* years, syndicated, and anyone who has watched five seconds of Cartoon Network would probably run right into it. Hello people, "Outlaw Star"? Come on, there has to be somebody else that sees that they are practically the same show... the "Chick In The Box" routine is a direct steal, and there's no way that this show came up with it first. The characters seem to be copied over, only with a couple of extra people in there for no reason.
And I'm told the show aired without a first episode.
(As you can tell, I'm not exactly a fan of this series.)
Every commercial spot that I saw for this series had the fact that it was from the same creator as "Buffy (TVS)". Yeah, that's great, I don't care. I wouldn't care if this was made by Coppola. If a series is being pitched with a big name behind it, I automatically assume that the show couldn't stand on it's own.
Unfortunately, my mother disagreed or disregarded my suggestions to *run* *away* *screaming* and forced me into watching the first (or should I say second) episode. It was boring, slow, etc etc and I still had that nagging feeling that I'd seen it all before....
Because I had! Twice! At first I thought it was just "Outlaw Star" but then I saw some "Cowboy Bebop" in this also. Bounty hunters... My God, they couldn't even think up new professions for these people. I suppose they couldn't out and out call the main character Gene, even though they are the exact same character type... (deep, calming breath) so now I see "Jane". Gene... Jane... And this "space hooker" or -whatever-, that's obviously Faye Valentine.
And so, "in conclusion", I might have liked this series more if I didn't perceive it to be a total and complete rip of two of my favorite anime titles.
The whole concept of the show smacked suspiciously of a widely known (I believe) anime that's been around for *several* years, syndicated, and anyone who has watched five seconds of Cartoon Network would probably run right into it. Hello people, "Outlaw Star"? Come on, there has to be somebody else that sees that they are practically the same show... the "Chick In The Box" routine is a direct steal, and there's no way that this show came up with it first. The characters seem to be copied over, only with a couple of extra people in there for no reason.
And I'm told the show aired without a first episode.
(As you can tell, I'm not exactly a fan of this series.)
Every commercial spot that I saw for this series had the fact that it was from the same creator as "Buffy (TVS)". Yeah, that's great, I don't care. I wouldn't care if this was made by Coppola. If a series is being pitched with a big name behind it, I automatically assume that the show couldn't stand on it's own.
Unfortunately, my mother disagreed or disregarded my suggestions to *run* *away* *screaming* and forced me into watching the first (or should I say second) episode. It was boring, slow, etc etc and I still had that nagging feeling that I'd seen it all before....
Because I had! Twice! At first I thought it was just "Outlaw Star" but then I saw some "Cowboy Bebop" in this also. Bounty hunters... My God, they couldn't even think up new professions for these people. I suppose they couldn't out and out call the main character Gene, even though they are the exact same character type... (deep, calming breath) so now I see "Jane". Gene... Jane... And this "space hooker" or -whatever-, that's obviously Faye Valentine.
And so, "in conclusion", I might have liked this series more if I didn't perceive it to be a total and complete rip of two of my favorite anime titles.
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