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Chas McGill posted:How did everyone watch the show? I restricted myself to only 2 episodes a day. I'd come home for lunch and watch the first, then I'd watch the second before bed. It took me about two months and it still felt too short. I just binged through it the first time I watched it, watching episodes whenever I had free time.
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I really enjoyed the routine of watching it twice a day. I think I deliberately chose lunchtime and nighttime so I wouldn't be as tempted to watch a dozen episodes in a row.
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Nov 12, 2013 16:44
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I got spoiled on basically all of the major plot twists a long time ago (I really don't remember how or why, but I can assume that I probably wasn't all that interested at the time if spoilers didn't bother me) but have only just recently started watching, and by recently I mean last night. I turned away from the computer to find that seven hours had passed. Being spoiled probably isn't the ideal way to experience it, but it does sort of feel like watching a really good Napoleon movie when you know what happens at Waterloo.
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Nov 12, 2013 19:20
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I did a few six hour marathons while watching 1-2 episodes at a time on days between those. I don't remember how long it took me to finish it but there were quite a few days where I didn't watch it at all, too, plus I had to reformat my hard drive a little into season four (my computer literally crashed while watching the show, just after Reuenthal was impaled through the chest) which killed my motivation for a month.
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Nov 12, 2013 19:33
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I worked as a proctor in college, so I had a lot of free time on my hands to get paid doing homework and watching anime. Start to finish I think I had it all wrapped up in a week or two.
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Nov 12, 2013 19:52
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It took me about a month and a half. I'd watch a couple episodes a week at work and then a couple more weeknights before bed. I'd watch more when the big moments were happening Kircheis and Yang's finales. If people are seeing this thread pop up and haven't watched it, you're really doing yourself a disservice by not watching. No matter how long it takes to watch it all, it's worth it.
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Nov 12, 2013 20:41
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You little bastards  When I first started reading this thread there were only subtitles for the first ~60 episodes. Eventually people got tired of waiting for CentralAnime to release the rest and went and got some batch torrent of some crappy subs from Hong Kong that were barely intelligible. For a while I even banished myself from the thread because suddenly people were discussing the last 2 seasons, and it was probably at least a year until I finally sat down and watched the final episode. Darn kids these days don't know how good you got it 
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Oh man. I'm just finishing up season one, and KIRUHIAISU It's really nice to be early into a series that you know is going to be one of those things that you are going to later wish you could forget and watch all over again. It's hard to believe that this is apparently going to get better after the first season. I can only think of a couple episodes that I suspect were filler, but they were still good (the one where that noble attempts to assassinate the Kaiser with the staff comes to mind). I also recognize a couple of the background music pieces from stuff I played back in youth symphony in high school. edit: I really hope that Oberstein actually decided to take in this old dalmatian as a pet, because it would be pretty funny. His character is really interesting and I genuinely do not know where his "arc" is going to go. Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Nov 15, 2013 |
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Nov 15, 2013 01:53
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Ytlaya posted:I also recognize a couple of the background music pieces from stuff I played back in youth symphony in high school.
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aparmenideanmonad posted:You might enjoy this page: http://www.yumei.com/gin/c_guide-e.html Ah, thanks. A couple are things that aren't really part of what I'd called "popular" classical music either, at least among laypeople. Dvorak's 8th Symphony is often overshadowed by his 9th (From the New World), for example.
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Wish Kaneto Shiozawa was still alive so we could get an OVA about Oberstein adjusting to life with a dog.
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Nov 15, 2013 03:20
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Oh man, awesome, Dvorak Cello Concerto in B Minor just popped up in episode 34. Never thought I'd hear this as the background music of an anime. edit: Ah, both movements 1 and 3 showed up, neat. That episode totally owned. Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Nov 16, 2013 |
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Nov 16, 2013 04:36
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The music if anything really makes the show what it is. Nothing like 100 000 ship battles to some classy rear end music  (Dvorak owns for those IT'S ON NOW *zooms in on that one stock panel of a fleet in + formation "rushing" in-scenes)
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Nov 16, 2013 18:43
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The music is definitely invaluable to the show in general, but I think the fleet battles would be pretty tedious without it. I probably would have been fast forwarding through stock-animation-of-battleship-blowing-up-#3 even on my first watch if it weren't doing so to Mahler/Bruckner/etc.
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It's really interesting to see how the characters, particularly Reinhardt, are developing. It seems like ever since Kirheis's death he's been gradually losing his direction and doing a bunch of morally questionable stuff, with his more moral actions usually being the result of him "conversing" with an imaginary Kirheis. Also, it seems like his mullet has been getting longer as the episodes go on. One question: Do they ever explain how/why the population went from ~300 billion in pre-Empire times and somehow was reduced to what seems like 30-40 billion in the present? I just wathced the episode where Julian is watching the documentary on his way to Heinessen and that stood out to me.
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Nov 18, 2013 02:22
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Man I typed up a spergy fanwanky post but I don't remember how comprehensive that episode or any following episodes were regarding that topic, so I'll just summarize it as this. I think it's an unrealistically huge drop, but the Goldenbaums were basically a dynasty of Space Hitlers to the extent that calling them Space Hitlers is actually not a harsh enough epithet but it'll have to do because in the real world we mercifully have yet to top Hitler. And they ruled for hundreds of years. And also waged a long incredibly bloody war that kills millions of people in solitary battles just in the part of the war shown in the series. A war that has gone on for, what, a hundred years before the show started? Yeah.
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Ytlaya posted:Oh man, awesome, Dvorak Cello Concerto in B Minor just popped up in episode 34. Never thought I'd hear this as the background music of an anime. The music in the show is amazing. I'm surprised that more sci fi series or space operas don't take up using classical music. Ytlaya posted:It's really interesting to see how the characters, particularly Reinhardt, are developing. It seems like ever since Kirheis's death he's been gradually losing his direction and doing a bunch of morally questionable stuff, with his more moral actions usually being the result of him "conversing" with an imaginary Kirheis. Also, it seems like his mullet has been getting longer as the episodes go on. Kircheis is definitely one of the best characters in the show, even after his death. He ties in the historic narrative as a character who died before his potential could have been realised. Even after his death and near the end of the series, the other characters in the Empire are still asking what Kircheis would have done in their situation. As to the population drop, I think it was due to war, eugenics as well as the split between the Empire and the Alliance. Goldenbaum forcibly sterilised the poor and the handicapped and he abolished the various social support programs which I think implied that people simply starved.
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Kegslayer posted:The music in the show is amazing. I'm surprised that more sci fi series or space operas don't take up using classical music. IIRC, the soundtrack took shape due to financial, not artistic constraints. NHK just had this whole huge library of classical music they already owned the performance licenses to.
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Khagan posted:Sounds like friends hate good anime, convert or ditch them. You don't have to be an anime fan to enjoy this one. It pretty much transcends its genre. That said, I've had friends I've tried to convert to this one who've pretty much said "Anime? gently caress that". And alternatively when my japan worshiping, sailor-moon loving 14yo raided my anime collection for new stuff, she hated this one. not enough magic princesses or something. Well thats OK, at least a 14yo girl actually IS the demographic for that drivel. (She loved Banner/Crest of the stars. I guess at least we have that in common.)
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aparmenideanmonad posted:The music is definitely invaluable to the show in general, but I think the fleet battles would be pretty tedious without it. I probably would have been fast forwarding through stock-animation-of-battleship-blowing-up-#3 even on my first watch if it weren't doing so to Mahler/Bruckner/etc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9D1svZ9Y0s I'm listening to Mahler for the first time and it's like I'm watching new episodes. It's so dreamy 
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Also, you can never hear Bolero the same way again.
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I'm at episode 20 and speeding through. It's an incredible show, I like its explicit leftism. I'm a bit concerned about Phezzan though, since I heard that it will turn out that they were behind a lot of things, I generally dislike that kind of plot move, because it essentially substitutes the real plot with a conspiracy-like deus ex machina. I don't expect it will be quite like that though, and that there will be a twist to it like most things on this show.
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Shibawanko posted:I'm at episode 20 and speeding through. It's an incredible show, I like its explicit leftism. I'm a bit concerned about Phezzan though, since I heard that it will turn out that they were behind a lot of things, I generally dislike that kind of plot move, because it essentially substitutes the real plot with a conspiracy-like deus ex machina. I don't expect it will be quite like that though, and that there will be a twist to it like most things on this show. Its kinda funny because(not a big spoiler but yeah) its even deeper then just phezzan, something that gets foreshadowed and hinted at frequently enough
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Shibawanko posted:I'm at episode 20 and speeding through. It's an incredible show, I like its explicit leftism. I'm a bit concerned about Phezzan though, since I heard that it will turn out that they were behind a lot of things, I generally dislike that kind of plot move, because it essentially substitutes the real plot with a conspiracy-like deus ex machina. I don't expect it will be quite like that though, and that there will be a twist to it like most things on this show. It's not true that they are really. Mederlock posted:Its kinda funny because(not a big spoiler but yeah) its even deeper then just phezzan, something that gets foreshadowed and hinted at frequently enough *Really huge episode 80+ spoilers* the terrarism is an interesting faction to add to the two main ones. Very relevant to modern day politics. I'm mad that they killed Yang Wenli, just finished that episode, but it is more interesting than him dying in battle. Still, pretty bummed right now how underwhelming his death was..
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Shibawanko posted:I'm at episode 20 and speeding through. It's an incredible show, I like its explicit leftism. I'm a bit concerned about Phezzan though, since I heard that it will turn out that they were behind a lot of things, I generally dislike that kind of plot move, because it essentially substitutes the real plot with a conspiracy-like deus ex machina. I don't expect it will be quite like that though, and that there will be a twist to it like most things on this show. I like Phezzan and the storyline that goes with it. The resolution to all the various schemes and plots involving Phezzan is very much true to the 'historic' nature of the show.
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Just finished up to Episode 84... No, no, no, WHY DID THIS HAVE TO HAPPEN 
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The preview from the previous episode spoiled that for me  Never again, anime next episode previews, never again.
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Takes No Damage posted:The preview from the previous episode spoiled that for me The big HQ playlist for it on youtube thankfully had every video force stop right at the point where those start. (pretty big ep. ~80+ spoilers)The god drat narrator kept on heavily alluding to Yang's death too in several episodes before, with the one right before his death straight out saying something like "That was the last time Julian ever got to speak all night with him again~~"
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Takes No Damage posted:The preview from the previous episode spoiled that for me I guess I'm weird but I can't think of the last time I watched an episode preview for...anything. I mean, why would anyone? I even hate TV spots advertising upcoming episodes.
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Occasionally a show will do something cool with the previews like Cowboy Bebop or Haruhi did, but this is such a series-defining bomb that it largely scared me away from next episode previews in all media. gently caress you Breaking Bad I don't WANT to know what happens next.
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Yeah I skipped the next episode previews 99% of the time anyway. I can watch the next episode whenever I want and love the series already, who needs a teaser? Especially if you're watching multiple episodes in succession, it's just padding like the OP and ED to be skipped over (not that some of those aren't nice songs).
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Well, I just finished the main OVA, and holy poo poo this is definitely the best story I've ever seen on the screen. What's recommended now that I've finished the series? Are there any epilogue/future stories or are they all past/prologue stories to expand on the actions that brought the main characters to where they were in My Conquest is the Sea of Stars?
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Nov 24, 2013 07:00
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It's all prologue stuff.
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duck monster posted:You don't have to be an anime fan to enjoy this one. It pretty much transcends its genre. I finished season 2 and  , and I'm a dude that otherwise pays almost zero attention to anime/manga.
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There aren't many real laughs to be had in this series, but I did snicker at this one
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Started watching this show and it's wicked. I'm only on episode 18 but, almost can't believe how little filler there is. Almost every ep has an "oh poo poo" moment and actually advances plot. Can it keep up this level of consistency or does it peter out at a point?
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thunderchief posted:Started watching this show and it's wicked. The train keeps a rolling right to the end.
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The only one I can think of that kind of fits the bill is early on when the Alliance occupies a planet where a food shortage takes place. I don't think the characters involved are mentioned all that much afterwards, if at all.
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Nate RFB posted:The only one I can think of that kind of fits the bill is early on when the Alliance occupies a planet where a food shortage takes place. I don't think the characters involved are mentioned all that much afterwards, if at all. That has a narrative point in accentuating how pointless their course of action was, though, as well as showing how they could be hosed with to make it even more untenable.
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 close enough Merry Christmas, Traditional Games! I myself enjoy a "Trad Game" now and then (mostly wizardcards), so when I discovered Winson was my secret santee, I knew I had to send him something really good for the holiday season. After some thinking, I decided to share with him and you the single greatest gift anime has ever given us: Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Come, let us adore it! ADTRW, the LOGH thread has gone (temporarily!) over to Trad Games. Let us spread holiday cheer with our nerdy friends, and bask in the warm glow of anime and traditional gaming together for the holidays! Also, new people discovering The Best Thing.
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