I put in a small order to RACS yesterday, which shipped today (deliver Friday). Just three things: a statuette from the Ikki Tousen series, a BD of Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou, and the BD release of the Cowboy Bebop movie.
I've wanted to see that in high resolution for a long time. It was originally a theatrical release, and the rendered scenes of Ed searching through cyberspace always looked like they'd been ruined by resizing. I want to see those sequences at fill size.
I actually downloaded a BD rip of that series but I haven't watched it. Once my copy of the BD is here, I will.
And, of course, I've been watching Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou ever since it broadcast.
I don't know how to contact the owner of Karmaburn. Which drives me a bit nuts sometimes, because I find myself having feedback, and no way to feed it back. I seriously doubt that whomever it is reads here, either.
So I'm talking to the wind. But I'll do it anyway.
Karmaburn is coming up with nominees for "Girl of the Year". And he doesn't include Her Royal Highness Leonmitchelli Galette Des Rois.
...oh, you mean he isn't talking about "Babe of the year"? Never mind then.
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Leon is high up on the list. Yet another Seven Arcs antagonist that is not, in point of fact, a bad person. Very easy on the eyes, of course. In possession of more than adequate powers of ass-kicking. Fun-loving enough to play to the crowd, at least some of the time.
Were Homura not on that list, it would be worth giving him a poke. But she is, and unless Leon gets a massive, improbable boost at the end of Dog Days, she's just not in that league. (Though yes, Babe of the Year she's at least in the running for...)
Of course, Homura herself got a massive though not so improbable boost in the last few eps of Madoka...
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at June 28, 2011 09:34 PM (pWQz4)
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Evirus' e-mail is "evirus" at the site domain. It used to be on a site, in an image - presumably to reduce spam. I do not see the image now, I guess Evirus is trying to twitterize.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at June 29, 2011 02:04 PM (9KseV)
So I'm beginning to watch Dog Days. It's been long enough so that I wanted to start over from the very beginning.
Horie Yui does the voice of Millhiore. She also does the voice of Jens in AsoIku, which sounds entirely different. How many voices does she have, anyway?
After two episodes, I remember liking it to this point, and I still do. The combat sequence in the second episode was great; plenty of action, well choreographed, with lots of spectacular magic, and Shinku being outstanding but not perfect.
UPDATE: End of ep 4, and I think this was how far I got last time. Tomorrow I'll kick in with ep 5.
This was a series of comments but I decided to turn it into a post.
The way I figure it, the movie plot is this:
The sword gets found. At the end of the last episode, there's a picture of the Shinden and Reppumaru sitting on an Italian beach, not far from the hulk of the Yamato, and at the very last instant a human shadow appears.
The sword will turn out to be acting strangely. It will glow and hum, and if anyone tries to touch it, they'll get zorched. Even Sakamoto, who will realize that she no longer owns it. Miyafuji does.
Sakamoto will also realize that Miyafuji's magic all moved into Reppumaru -- but it didn't get used up. It's still in there, and that means that Miyafuji probably can use it, even if no one else can.
She'll travel back to Fuso with Reppumaru and with the Shinden. The Shinden will get repaired, and then Sakamoto will visit the clinic, and invite Miyafuji down to the base. Miyafuji will be able to pick up the sword, and when she does, then there are several ways to play it.
One way is that her magic flows back into her, and that's the one I like the best. A different way is that as long as she's holding the sword, or has it slung over her back, then she can use her magic. It's still in the sword, but as long as the sword is near her, she can draw on it.
Regardless of how it's played, Sakamoto will put it to Miyafuji that she may be able to do again what she did before.
No one else has ever been able to take out the core of a nest. Miyafuji has done it twice. The first one was a fluke, of course, and anyone could have done what she did. But the second one wasn't. A lot of people have been trying to come up with ways of taking out nests, and no one else has ever done it.
Even if she can't do it more than once again, it's still damned well worth doing. Taking out the Gaullia nest and the Venezia nest was worth doing, even though it didn't finish the war.
And she agrees. Her spirit hasn't gone away, just her magic. If she can get her magic back, she's certainly willing to rejoin the war.
Of course, a katana is a melee weapon. For her to repeat her miracle, she has to be within close range of the core, maybe 30 feet, and there's no way she can do that alone, even with her hyperpowered shield. She'll need a force of witches to get her in, and who better than the squadron she already knows and trusts? So orders will go out to collect the group together again, and they'll eventually set up and start working out a plan.
There will be critical training. She has to be able to do the shin reppuzan reliably before they can risk making an attack on a nest. And maybe the whole unit, or at least some of it, has to upgrade to jet strikers. Perhaps Ursula has figured out the problem and come up with a fix. (Having it be Barkhorn and Yeager allows for some fun character moments, for example.)
Miyafuji will continue flying the Shinden, which almost seems to have been designed for her, and I wouldn't be surprised if it has some surprises.
So, which nest will they take on? I think it'll be the one in Orussia, mainly because we can get some sweet character moments with Sanya the way we did with Lucchini in SW2.
So we get a fairly long and very tense battle scene which ends with Miyafuji not being able to get close enough for the version of shin reppuzan she used in Venezia.
She'll have to hype the power more, to make the resulting energy blade bigger. And it'll work, and the nest will be destroyed. But it will also vaporize Reppumaru.
I think Miyafuji gets her power back afterwards. But with the blade gone, she can't do it a third time. It's a major achievement in the war, but the war isn't over. The Egypt nest is still there.
A possibility I like is that it takes Sakamoto and Miyafuji working together to make that final attack, and a side effect of it is to power up Sakamoto.
In the epilogue, we'll see Sakamoto back in Fuso, working to see if she, or some other younger stronger witch, can replicate what she did with Reppumaru and can in turn do the shin reppuzan. And maybe it'll work, and maybe it won't, but it's certainly worth trying.
By the way, according to the Strike Witches wiki, there are four squadrons of witches already operating around the Orussia nest, in St. Petersburg, Suomus, Chelyabinsk, and Ostmark (Austria? Romania? Don't know).
For purposes of a movie, a mass attack by five full squadrons would sure as hell make for an exciting climax, wouldn't it? (Or four, if they decide to disinvite the Suomus Misfits.) And it might well take that many to get Miyafuji in through the nest's fighter cover.
Thing is, she'll use her shield when she has to but she can't use it much without risking not having enough energy left for the shin reppuzan. So she has to be a passenger, as much as possible, and leave the fighting to everyone else.
Sakamoto has to be there, because the audience will expect it. So I figure that she creates another sword for herself, and during the training phase she, too, tries to master the shin reppuzan, working alongside Miyafuji. And they both get it, and the final attack is both of them, side by side, each with her own blade, and pushing it to the max.
Sakamoto will be indispensible for a different reason: she's the only one who can figure out where the core of the nest is. So she has to be involved.
Anyway, absent any hints from those in charge, that's my best guess as to the story of the movie.
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At the end, directly addressing the Reppumaru, Miyafuji literally said, "I'll give you all my magic power," so it makes perfectly good (story) sense that at some point the Reppumaru might "give" it back. And you can see how Sakamoto might play a part in that, since she actually forged the blade. That would be a helluv'a movie.
Posted by: Dave Young at June 26, 2011 07:16 PM (ZAk0Z)
That scene at the very end of SW2 ep 12 has to have been put there for a reason. It's obviously a teaser for another story, and most likely for the movie.
That's why I think the sword will feature highly in the movie, the way I describe it. Chekhov's Katana, and all that.
Another interesting idea: Ursula works out the problems and Barkhorn gets the Me-262. Meanwhile, the Lockheed Skunkworks builds an F-94 Starfire and ships it to Yeager. It would be just a bit of an anachronism (the real Starfighter entered service in 1950) but would make for great competitive character moments between them.
Or maybe something else. I know that the Americans and Brits were both working on jets in the last couple years of the war, though none of their designs reached combat. The real Shinden didn't reach combat but we're seeing it in this series, so what American jet design might be plausible?
F-86 Sabre? (drool) First flight in 1947
P-84 Thunderjet? 1946
No, it would have to be the P-80 Shooting Star, which first flew in 1944.
For me it's the F-86 Saber, but there's no way that'll show up in this show. (Shame, too; it was a hell of a lot better fighting aircraft than anything that was available in WWII.)
You wouldn't know it to look at me now, but when I was about 4 years old, I was the cutest kid. Anyway, one of my cousins, who is about 18 years older than me, got married. It was a big, fancy wedding, and they asked my parents if I could be a ring bearer in the wedding.
So I was, and it went well. I still remember how cavernous that church felt like, but I wasn't afraid, and I didn't make any mistakes. Afterwards, there was a dinner for everyone. Every setting had a name on it, and some of the settings had little presents. I asked my mom if one of them was for me, and she said that they were people who had been in the wedding.
"I was in the wedding!" She didn't have any answer to that.
Well, it turned out that one of them was for me. It was a tie clasp and a pair of cufflinks, and they all had little model F-86 Sabers on them, gold plated.
I loved those. Every chance to wear them I took. But I also used to play with them, flying them around "zoom! Zoom!".
They're gone now. I have no idea what might have become of them. But when I was a kid I really thought they were the coolest thing.
So for me at least, the F-86 Saber is the coolest jet of that era.
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The F-86 was an awesome jet, and certainly a Hell of a lot sexier then the P-80. For some reason I've always been attracted to the clunkier-looking machines. I adore the A-10. What a brute! And maybe the only jet (still) with a big enough gun to have a chance of cutting through a Neuroi's armor and taking out its core. (Of course, today we'd have other options.)
Posted by: Dave Young at June 27, 2011 08:59 AM (0K+Kw)
I wonder why it is that Sofuteni and Chu Bra give me the squicks, but Strike Witches doesn't?
I've been thinking about that, and I finally came up with this: the girls in Strike Witches are fighting a war. That makes them adults in my mind, irrespective of how old they might be.
But another reason is that they're all vivid characters to me. They're not caricature; they're not really stereotypes, either. They're all complex and interesting, and that makes them people.
I don't rewatch Strike Witches 2 (my favorite part of the series; it's a lot better than the first one) for the fan service, surprisingly. I rewatch it because of the character moments. My favorite episodes for rewatch are ep 2 (the unit reforms), ep 8 (Yamato explosion), and the last half of ep 12. Ep 6 (30,000 meters) is also pretty cool.
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I couldn't get past the teaser for episode 1 of Chu-Bra. I was at a friends house and we both fully expected Chris Hansen to come waltzing in with a microphone and a stool. Didn't even watch any of the credits that played longer than it took to cut the show off.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at June 25, 2011 12:56 PM (EJaOX)
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at June 25, 2011 12:57 PM (EJaOX)
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While they probably could wrap up all the loose ends in the upcoming movie, I think it would have to feel pretty rushed; whereas I think there's enough story left to tell to make for one more good 12 ep season. I hope they go that way.
Posted by: Dave Young at June 25, 2011 01:29 PM (ZAk0Z)
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Urk, sorry about the blank post. Double-clutched on the wrong key.
So, every season, there's always sat least one series that I say, "I'll never watch that" and then end up liking it. For the first time, EVERY series is eligible for that distinction.
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Dave, there are at least two nest remaining, in Orussia and in Egypt. I expect that the movie willl be about taking one of those out, leaving the other to sustain the franchise.
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Probably because Strike Witches, despite the in-your-face fan service, is actually trying to tell a pretty good story. "Yes, yes, they're not wearing any pants, BUT..." Divergence Eve anyone?
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at June 25, 2011 06:37 PM (mRjOr)
I've seen them all. I suspect you're referring to the "boob groping" episode in the first series. In the second series, ep 5 is "Trip to Rome" and it's actually pretty good. I sometimes rewatch that episode beginning with where the neuroi shows up.
I don't remember the last time I watched ep 5 of the first series, though. I always skip that one and ep seven.
Here are my mnemonics for the second series:
01: reunion with Sakamoto
02: battle in the Adriatic
03: training with Anna
04: ME-262
05: Trip to Rome
06: 30,000 meters
07: buns of steel
08: Yamato explosion
09: treasure hunt
10: idol from africa
11, 12: final plot arc
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Steven, handling it that way would leave open some interesting options for them. The movie could even focus on one of the other groups of witches -- an idea which a lot of people seem to like -- while the follow-on series could then return to the 501st to eliminate the final nest and end(?) the war, while also dealing with Miyafuji's "disability." (And maybe Sakamoto's too.) However they decide to play it, it can't come soon enough. The gals are a hoot!
Posted by: Dave Young at June 26, 2011 12:56 PM (ZAk0Z)
Sorry, folks, I'm gonna rewrite this. (The previous version was extremely pretentious. I don't know what got into me.)
The first Sofuteni BD has come out, and now we can see what it looks like uncensored. Frankly, the show itself gave me the squicks, and the uncensored version is even worse.
I've got four NSFW frame grabs, two pairs of before/after, below the fold, because I want to share the discomfort (and because I don't have anything else to post about). Both are of the strange-but-shapely green haired one who I think is supposed to be 15 years old. (There was another frame later which had a text overlay of her that included the number "15". I haven't translated it yet, so I'm not sure what it said.)
There was an omake included with the first BD, in which all the girls go to an onsen. Aroduc has frame grabs from it (which he himself censored), and I confess that I'm afraid to look at the full 1080p uncensored version.
In Asobi ni Iku Yo, Eris and the other catgirls aren't the real Catheans. They are advanced androids, and they don't know it. Lawry was the prototype, and the reason Lawry makes Eris uncomfortable is that Eris is beginning to suspect.
So who are the true catheans? Well, they really do look like cats. Aura is one of them. She was inserted into the planet as a scout, and has been sending back reports. And now, with the Cathean mothership in the Sol system, there are a lot of real Catheans on the planet.
They're inside of the assistaroids. The assistaroids are like tiny mechs. Without really realizing it, Antonia's giant assistaroid (which she herself operated) was more realistic than she knew. The small assistaroids are like that, but more sophisticated.
Eris et. al. are not mechanisms; they are biological creations. That's why ...spoiler at the ending... doesn't contradict this theory. He didn't really become a Cathean.
Um, no, I don't really think this is true. But it's an interesting idea, isn't it? Now where's my morning coffee?
UPDATE: "But the assistaroids are too small for a cat to live in!"
Remember how the bridge of the ship escaped into hyperspace? They can do those kinds of things. Each assistaroid has a space-time bubble inside, which is actually rather large and includes full living quarters for the Cathean which is operating it.
Anyway, after long exploration, Aura decided the Earth was ready for a contact mission, but realized that the Catheans in their true form couldn't do it. So she sent back a report to that effect, and a ship full of androids was sent. Eris was the first to reach the Earth, but she screwed up and got lost and also forgot to bring food for herself. Aura had to go out and find her and give her a nudge in the direction of Kio's family gathering.
UPDATE: This makes me think of Larry Niven's "Down in Flames".
I thought about the possibility that Muttley is a true Dogisian, and Jens is another android. The regular doggiebots are not the same; they really are non-sapient machines.
Ichika is really a human converted into a catgirl. She has figured out what's going on, and that part of of why she's bemused by it all. But she's keeping the truth secret because revealing it would be dangerous (for her) and also because she approves of the contact mission and doesn't want to scuttle the process.
Muttley is indeed a true Dogisian. But his mech's form as a doggie, and Jens looking like a human except with dog ears, are all in order to be acceptable to humans. The true Dogisians are genuinely alien, exactly the kind of thing that Beautiful Contact was expecting and hoping for.
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Which would help explain why the Cathean/Human DNA is nearly identical. The androids were probably made from Human DNA (retrieved on an earlier scouting mission, no doubt.) The Catheans probably make their androids resemble whatever species they're making first contact with. I like it!!
Posted by: Dave Young at June 22, 2011 07:52 AM (0K+Kw)
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Seems as if they've been observing the Earth for a very long time, in fact, and have been waiting on the contact mission until humanity reached a certain level of technical and cultural sophistication.
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Okay, so the true Catian civilization is partially based on magic, something they've kept a secret from their androids in order to maintain control. Ichika was one of the original mission's test subjects, who escaped into the wild after figuring out enough magic. She's been keeping a low profile on Okinawa ever since, but when her observations revealed that their mission was benign, she partially reconciled with them and made a deal with Aura to help things along. She's still a bit of a subversive, though; they can't be happy that she explained magic to Eris.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at June 22, 2011 08:44 AM (2XtN5)
By the way, the reason magic is important is that it explains how a species without hands was able to create high technology: they don't need hands because they're doing it with their minds.
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"Doing it with their minds", you say? Hmm, has anyone ever actually seen one of these "Orsonians" Eris talks about?
-j
Posted by: J Greely at June 22, 2011 09:26 AM (2XtN5)
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Sounds a little doubtful to me, honestly. The Catians are clearly interested in a long-term and open diplomatic relationship. Starting it off with a deception that's eventually going to come out could be a diplomatic faux pas. "Hi, we are gorgeous and sexually compatible cat-women" is a bit of a stretch. "We're a race of cats that created android cat-women to pretend to be us and incidentally to sleep around with some of you" is a lot creepier...
In addition, it can't be much harder to make assistaroid-shells and biological cat-women than it would be to make a biological cat-woman assistaroid shell. Why not just cut out the middleman, build a catgirl suit, and drive it around?
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at June 22, 2011 10:55 AM (mRjOr)
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What I want to know is, if Avatar's use of logic here is killing catgirls, is it the real Catheans, or the artificial ones?
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Avatar, you've assumed that this is a temporary deception, when in fact it's been going on for centuries, with no end in sight. Trying to explain things to Kio, Eris was confronted with the contradictions in her story: 70,000 years of social and genetic stasis with a perfect balanced economy, but civil wars within the past thousand years, fought over assistoroids! Was Lawry's ship truly "lost" for 800 years, and was it an accident? How is it that her master "randomly" picked Earth out of all the worlds in the galaxy for their very first contact?
-j
Posted by: J Greely at June 22, 2011 04:01 PM (2XtN5)
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at June 22, 2011 04:22 PM (pWQz4)
14Each assistaroid has a space-time bubble inside, which is actually
rather large and includes full living quarters for the Cathean which is
operating it.
Oh, great. The assistaroids are actually TARDISes, which makes the Catheans... Timelords.
Posted by: Wonderduck at June 22, 2011 07:08 PM (n0k6M)
I stopped watching Dog Days but it wasn't terrible. There was a lot to like. And recently I learned that it was directed by the same guy who directed Nanoha A's and Nanoha Strikers, so it's got a decent pedigree. (Sort of. He also directed Sekirei...)
Anyway, the series is almost over, and over the weekend I caught up on the downloading. One more episode to go, broadcasting tomorrow, I think. I don't really remember any more. The last sub probably appears next weekend.
I'm trying to decide whether I should start rewatching now, or wait until the final episode appears. I think I'll wait.
Most of the recent episode was denoument from the big battle, with a large dollop of princess in concert (i.e.: let's sell some music). Bad point to be hung on; the climax seems to be an episode early and nothing is happening here.
But at the end of it there's a twist; something is being forshadowed, and it's not obvious which way it's going to go. Spoiler, so behind the tag:
The orange-haired technical expert gets an emergency message scroll, after which she makes a lame excuse and goes off by herself. She's obviously very upset; I'm thinking that this is news into the research on how to get Cinque back home. But does it mean success or failure?
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ubu, the episode you refer to is 11. 12 has already aired, 13 will be the last episode, airing Saturday.
I concur with waiting btw. Watching everything up to date would probably piss most people off.
Posted by: Jordi Vermeulen at June 20, 2011 12:10 PM (AJZdn)
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I liked Sekirei and have no issues with the direction in it. What made me stop watching was its endless nature (point against the recent article about anime having contained stories... I mean, you just looke at Dragonball and the way Toriyama was made to extend it!)
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at June 20, 2011 01:09 PM (9KseV)
It depends on how well they're done. I actually thought that that the ending of the Fruits Basket anime was good.
On the other hand, the Venus Versus Virus ending was a travesty. And the ending of Mahoromatic is legendarily awful.
There are series which kind of split the difference, doing a reasonably satisfactory ending that doesn't necessarily prevent followon series. Strike Witches is an example of that.
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Anime that gets a "new" ending like that isn't really in the same basket, though. Those are derivative works, not new productions. The original Naruto story simply wasn't affected by its suitability as an anime. Heck, every one on your list is from the "manga series converted to anime" style. Making conclusions about anime narrative structure based on them is as sensible as taking superhero movies and using them as the source of your critical theory of the art of film...
I watched enough to get the idea that they actually had a plot in mind, so that's good. And the frisbee scene was very cute indeed. (Lese majeste a little, but he got away with it...) It's not the best thing going this season, but that's more because this season turned out to have an unusual number of good shows.
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at June 20, 2011 08:12 PM (pWQz4)
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If you talk about long-running anime series, you have to mention Sazae-san. 6400 episodes and counting! Granted, the episodes are only 6 minutes each, but still, it has been in production since 1969!
Posted by: Jordi Vermeulen at June 21, 2011 12:53 AM (AJZdn)
One of the things that makes anime different from virtually all of American TV is the way that so much of it tells independent, encapsulated, complete stories. That's not invariant, of course, but it's certainly the majority. Anime is, for the most part, what in America is known as a "mini-series".
The most distinctive feature of Noir, was that the story being told was particularly well conceived and well paced. There are no filler episodes. Every single episode contributed to the overall series story, which came to its conclusion in the last episode. There are few series as well handled.
But if that kind of thing is the rule for anime, it's by far the exception for American TV, for a simple reason. I think the big nightmare for an American TV producer is to create a show, write it so that it comes to an identifiable end, and then have the damned thing be a big hit, with huge ratings. Because he's preemptively prevented the possibility of any sequels or additional seasons.
That's why conspiracy-theory shows don't work in America. X-files was the classic of that genre, and what ultimately happened was that they couldn't allow themselves to resolve the conspiracy because it would have ended the series. So there came a point where even the writers didn't know what was going on. They just kept stacking up mysterious things, because that was what the show was about, but there wasn't any rhyme or reason to it.
And then the ratings started failing, and the show was cancelled, and the audience never did find out what the truth was that was "out there" -- because not even the writers knew what it was.
That's what I expect to have happen here. Assuming it really does go into production -- and that's by no means certain; a lot of shows get this kind of nod without ever reaching production; this is definitely the preliminaary stage of it all. But if it does go into production, it will be written in such a way that if, luckily, it's a hit, they can come back and make more episodes of it.
They won't tell the story we saw, because the story we saw came to an end, and that would shut down the gravy train. The conspiracy will never be resolved. And it will gut the show, by cutting out the things that made Noir so good.
In the end the truth was revealed, and it all made sense. Everything that happened in the series made sense. That won't be the case for any American remake, which will end up being exactly the kind of incoherent mess that X-files became.
The only real question is whether it'll be a short-lived incoherent mess, or a long and popular one. Either way, include me out.
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I agree that the American version of Noir probably won't be good. However, the American TV networks occasionally make decent programs, though I suspect that's mostly due to the network execs not being quick enough in some cases to mess things up before filming is done.
Any chance that the license to the live-action production company is for one season only, with no renewal option? That might give the executives incentive to wrap things up, instead of dragging it out...
Posted by: Siergen at June 19, 2011 06:29 PM (PvrXx)
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they should just make 3 seasons of Noir, 10 episodes each.
Posted by: johnmarzan at June 19, 2011 07:04 PM (9gJdT)
Any chance that the license to the live-action production company is for one season only, with no renewal option?
There's no benefit to anyone to include that kind of clause in the contract. If the show is popular, then making more is to the benefit of the producer, the actors, and the network too.
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There's a benefit to the original Japanese company, who can then yank up the price for "rights to produce further seasons" by a lot. These options don't typically sell for much up front, as rare as it is for them to end up in a production...
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at June 19, 2011 08:12 PM (mRjOr)
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Babylon 5 was one of the few shows to have a planned, overall arc, and even then, they had to flex it a bit as the network played games with their commitments. And that made hash of the planned continuity.
Posted by: Mauser at June 19, 2011 08:16 PM (cZPoz)
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I'll be in when it airs, if I can figure out how to watch it when it happens. I fear it'll be awful, but considering that NOIR is one of my four favorite series of all time, the completest in me demands it.
Posted by: Wonderduck at June 19, 2011 08:27 PM (n0k6M)
The one promising thing about this is that it's a pay station on cable, not a normal network. While some of those have been known to ramble on for seasons with no discernible purpose, it's not uncommon for a series to tell one complete story in a season. I guess you could still call them 10-13 episode mini-series, but it's far more common to see them on cable pay channels than regular network TV. Even shows that go for multiple seasons tend to have a satisfying conclusion for each season - the operative example being The Wire. Then again, I just watched the last episode of Game of Thrones, and nothing is resolved (though that's based on a very long series of books...) Several shows are based on book series, and each season seems to roughly correspond to each book - Dexter, True Blood, etc...
The problem is that it's Starz, which is trying to play catch up to HBO and Showtime. This could go either way, but I wouldn't be surprised if they made it self contained (especially if Raimi is behind it - Spiderman 3 aside, I don't see him as the kind of guy who would try to draw this out) or at least finished off the first season like the original series.
Martin has 4 more years to get his act together and finish The Winds of Winter. That's if they decided to do both A Feast for Crows and A Dance With Dragons at the same time, with 2 seasons.
Posted by: BigFire at June 21, 2011 06:29 AM (jSRcl)
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That still leaves one or two more books, though.
Posted by: metaphysician at June 21, 2011 08:22 AM (hD30M)
