March 05, 2014

Space Dandy - Ep. 9

WTF did I just watch? This show has had some funny episodes, some surprisingly touching episodes, and some beautifully animated episodes. This one was none of the above. It was so utterly pointless, and nothing happened in it.  Hell, Dandy himself spent an awful lot of the episode just laying back with his hands behind his head doing nothing.  Even the animation was utterly lazy.

All I could find myself thinking of were those inevitable sections of any Tezuka movie where crudely animated "Strange creatures" are shown through a few cycles while the characters (offscreen) gaped about what strange creatures they were.

There was no real threat (Meow got fat, supposedly to be eaten by primitive plant people who didn't appear to have any mouths, and if there were no animal lifeforms on the planet, how'd they know he was edible?) no real plot, no development. It was stone soup, minus the stone (And all the other ingredients, if you go with the real meaning of stone soup).

I'm guessing this is the episode where they ran out of money, but they inserted it earlier into the sequence so they wouldn't end on a bad note.

This one is not a keeper.

Posted by: Mauser at 04:59 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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1 It was rolling downhill for a while and others noticed.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at March 05, 2014 07:32 AM (RqRa5)

2 The previous episode was also a little cheap, and lightly written, but still had at least a little heart to it.  And I WAS rather amused at the refrigerator of rotten/living food from Cowboy Bebop making an appearance.

Posted by: Mauser at March 05, 2014 01:30 PM (TJ7ih)

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