I don't care for all the Star Wars backstory stuff myself, that didn't need to happen, but I feel completely differently about Sailor Moon. There are so many interesting things in Sailor Moon which had the potential to develop fantastic drama, all of which then get dropped and barely explored, and the best thing the new series could do is to actually pick up on them and use them to their full potential. The fact that Anakin's past was badly handled doesn't mean that the new series is going to drone on poorly about the character's emo backstories for hours, Lucas had no business trying to write a tragic love story anyway. But with Sailor Moon the backstory sections are some of the most interesting parts, even minor characters who only appear in one episode get interesting backstories and I find that my favorite episodes in the anime are very focused on how events in characters' pasts lead up to who they are and what's happening now.
I care nothing for 'mystique', if you're going to introduce something it better actually contribute to the drama in a significant way instead of leaving me hanging and then popping out of existance with no explanation. Ami has her whole "You Asian, why you not doctor yet?" thing going on, and yet we never meet her mother; I shouldn't even need to mention everything about Makoto and how terrible the series is in general at exploring her life. The celestrial kingdoms are just another example of this, the stuff that happened keeps getting brought up all the time, but the potential it has to get explored more so that it impacts on the character's present state of mind just isn't taken advantage of. That's what seperates this from something like the Star Wars prequals and extended universe, the celestrial kingdoms and their stories can be brought up within the context of the main story itself and this can impact the course of events as the characters become aware of what happened and the potential consequences of this. Surely that is far more interesting then having endless arcs of energy stealing monsters dominate the series? Not to mention all the interesting characters who only pop up in a couple of episodes and then serve no further purpose. I'm not interested in 'interpreting' important events outside of the narrative, instead of having to make stuff up I want what is there to be interesting enough that contemplating it and how it contributes to the whole is satisfying in its own right.
I care nothing for 'mystique', if you're going to introduce something it better actually contribute to the drama in a significant way instead of leaving me hanging and then popping out of existance with no explanation. Ami has her whole "You Asian, why you not doctor yet?" thing going on, and yet we never meet her mother; I shouldn't even need to mention everything about Makoto and how terrible the series is in general at exploring her life. The celestrial kingdoms are just another example of this, the stuff that happened keeps getting brought up all the time, but the potential it has to get explored more so that it impacts on the character's present state of mind just isn't taken advantage of. That's what seperates this from something like the Star Wars prequals and extended universe, the celestrial kingdoms and their stories can be brought up within the context of the main story itself and this can impact the course of events as the characters become aware of what happened and the potential consequences of this. Surely that is far more interesting then having endless arcs of energy stealing monsters dominate the series? Not to mention all the interesting characters who only pop up in a couple of episodes and then serve no further purpose. I'm not interested in 'interpreting' important events outside of the narrative, instead of having to make stuff up I want what is there to be interesting enough that contemplating it and how it contributes to the whole is satisfying in its own right.
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has a lot of my favorites! Amami Yuki, Tamayama Tetsuji! I loved them in boss.
