Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141003002601/@comment-24993958-20141003145525

Zolnir wrote:

Actually, I rather like how RT handles these issues.

To begin with, they really AREN'T A BIG ISSUE. The conflicts are seriously pea small, and it's the Japanese animes that blows them completely out of proportion (especially the 'I will protect al the things that are important to me', so fucking exagarrated I roll my eyes every time I see them pop up).

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Honestly, I think these conflicts are all really well done. I despise watching some trivial sentimental issue being dragged on for ages (see FUCKING Bleach for example, I don't know how Ichigo lives to know that his one issue takes A HUNDRED of pages/episodes to solve, like fucking hell MOVE ON ALREADY). Ok first of, I do NOT want this show to follow in the footsteps of anime. I don’t want them to reach a point where someone aims a gun at the start of the episode, fires it at the end, and does nothing but angst in between them, and tops it off by missing the shot. I do not want them stretching out the amount of time a person can keep its breath underwater into 6 twenty minute episodes. And I DEARLY don’t want them to go into the perverted humor territory.

I think I may have improperly communicated my exact problem…I  am not talking about the time THEY had to solve the problem. I am talking about the time WE had before the problem was solved. Journey with me in a small hypothetical situation if you wil.

Say there are 2 ten minute episodes. Both feature the same character, let’s say a high schooler,  losing an item. The episodes exclusively features him frantically locking for it in his house, and both are found by the end, during which the importance of the item is told to us in the final minute. One of them is a report that was due that day at say 16:00 PM, the other was a cherished family heirloom that he lost on the day his parents wanted to come for a visit at 16:00 PM.

Are both of them as important to him? No.

Are both of them as important to me? Yes.

Regardless of the order I watch the episodes I have the same amount of care for both of those items cause when their importance was revealed to me, the conflict was already done, so I’m left feeling nothing rather than feeling relieved. I’m not saying the writers are doing a bad job at writing conflicts for the characters, but I do think they could improve their skill in writing conflicts for the VIEWER, and I think this little identity crisis the 3 of them are having could use either more focus or to be panned out more, that's all.