| 9/27/2007 10:45 PM |
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Impossible
Member since: 9/27/2007 | | RE: Medabots? | I really enjoyed Medabots when it was first on, and I just want to make a request. It relates to the episode order, so I should explain for people who don't know about this. Medabots was a 52 episode anime in Japan (followed by a horrible series that was season 3 in the dub), but because the dub wasn't guaranteed to get more than a 26 episode season, the dubbers restructured the show so that one of the main plotlines from later into the show could happen earlier. Which is somewhat good, as Medabots takes AGES to get the main plot going otherwise. You just have to ignore the plotholes created by the first 10-20 season 2 episodes, by assuming them to take place before the big plot stuff. However, there are a couple of problems with this. Most of the early episodes kept for season 2 were filler, although I would argue that one, "Dance with the Mantis", included some important enough character development to belong in the first season. The big problem occurs here, almost exactly when the main plotline gets going:
Fifteen Minutes Of Shame
Enter Rintaro
The Ace From Outer Space
Me And My Shadow Sword
As you can see, following Fifteen Minutes of Shame, three episodes are skipped, which I think really screws with the pacing of the show at that point - they talk about all these challengers who will be wanting to battle Ikki, but it never really happens. Anyway, more important is that in between the last two episodes there, the episode "Bridge Over Troubled Squidguts" is meant to occur. This isn't optional, it's a vital plot episode. Me and My Shadow Sword actually recaps one of the events that happened in that episode, while "Dude, Where's My Ma?" makes a direct reference to something else that happened in that episode, which we haven't been told about. What this means is that if you leave out Bridge Over Troubled Squidguts, viewers are going to be confused as hell. They'll probably think an episode is missing from the set, and be pissed off, having no idea what happened. So even if you have to go with the dub order, I really hope you can at least make that change. If you have to remove an episode to do that, you could always just put Ban All Medabots as one of the first episodes on the season 2 set instead. It's completely useless to the plot. Running Scared is useless in that season, too, because it introduces a minor character whose only major roles are in the second season anyway (and a minor one in Ban All Medabots).
Although to be honest, there's no reason to keep the dub order anymore. You have all 52 episodes, and the plot only makes sense if they're in that order. The only reason they were originally shown out of order was to make sure some major plot could get into the first season, just in case that was the end of it. In the very least, though, do what you can to make the plot make sense. I don't know why they left out an important episode, though, as the plot makes no sense without it. Instead it's just shoved into season 2, where it makes no sense. You can't watch the show in that order. |
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| 9/27/2007 10:46 PM |
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Impossible
Member since: 9/27/2007 | | RE: RE: Medabots? | | Oops, sorry, I mean to post this as a reply in another topic. Can someone delete this? God, I'm stupid. |
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| 9/28/2007 10:49 AM |
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andrewcrawford
Member since: 2/12/2007 | | RE: RE: Medabots? | | brain has already annouced its goign to be dub order as that the way nevlanna wants it i think its not goign ont the japanese way at all |
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