Gerald pops our Yoshiyuki Tomino cherries by reviewing a series that along with Minky Momo and Cowboy Bebop might just have the most spoiled ending in all of anime. Review: Space Runaway Ideon (48:27 – 1:21:49)ĭon’t forget to use that voicemail number! Following the news segment, it’s only fitting that we play a voicemail about the anime industry and its IMPENDING DEMISE. Hooray for Vertical Inc! The one hour block of Gerald starts here, ladies! In an attempt to make the news segment more timely, we’ve decided to record this long after everything else, once the rest of the show is edited entirely. Nothing turns anime fans away faster than by talking about Gundam, right? Boy, 30 minute “introduction,” huh? How many emails do you suppose we answered in that 30 minutes? Seventy five? Fifty? Try ONE. Listening on a portable MP3 player or something else where you can’t easily fast forward? Just hit Pause or Stop or Delete or whatever once you’re bored. Not interested in what we’re talking about (perhaps as a result of hearing Destroy All Podcasts ST not be able to hate on us because we bored them too much)? Just skip to the part you like. Unpleasant as the Clan are, their situation-trapped on a rollercoaster of military necessities which they helped start-is not unfamiliar.Show notes? As in, something you could use to maybe, NOT listen to nearly 3 hours of our monotone droning voices? Ha! I bet you’d like to see that, wouldn’t you? Well, here you go. That said I can spare a little fellow-feeling for the Buff Clan, despite rather than because of anything Ideon itself does. They aren’t guilty for resisting tyranny, as horrible as their war was. ![]() Maybe the ending of Space Runaway Ideon is just-compare Zeta Gundam, in which the finale’s distribution of deaths and vegetative states feels unjust for, after all, the AEUG are good guys. It’s not even especially sad, once you think about it: yes, we’ve had enough of these too-human humans. That makes the famous kill-’em-all ending sensible. Instead, the verdict seems to be that we’re all bastards who deserve limited sympathy at best, and the only solution is to kill everyone. But I’d like to use it as a starting point, because it made me think: I’m not convinced that the show needs or wants us to sympathise with the Buff Clan. Mike’s post is a very reasonable response to the first eighteen episodes. If anything, Ideon‘s means to a sympathetic villain is “make the good guys seem more like turds.” awesome power, along with a dearth of insight into their real motivations, makes a much less sympathetic villain. I was much happier to go along with this sort of thing in Be Invoked than I was when watching, say, Victory Gundam. But whatever its result for the crew, for me it was a great startlement in a film full of startling things. This works, in one way, and in another way it doesn’t. One of the more unhinged crewmembers tries to manipulate it by (stay with me here) standing on the outside of the ship with a toddler in her arms when it’s about to be hit by a comet. Like, I’m sure there are plenty of stories which technically involve bigger spaces-I suppose Gurren Lagann‘s final fight comes immediately to mind for my generation-but while that was certainly awesome, it didn’t give the same impression that the distances are vast, the superweapons utterly monstrous, the casualty list endless.īy Be Invoked the Solo Ship’s crew have scraped together a half-understanding of how the Ideon functions. I haven’t seen many other films with such a huge, huge, huge scale. ![]() That did not, however, matter, because I also found much of it spectacular and moving. This all culminates in Be Invoked, which I found a bit incoherent. When its ungainly red mass first hit my screen I didn’t expect the Ideon itself to become both an oddly cool sight and a puzzle. And doesn’t the Ideon just, well, stick out? It’s oversized within its own show, so big it has internal corridors and what look like its own point-defence weapons. But I was interested by the gradual revelation of what the Ideon is (scary) and what it can do (a lot). I didn’t rate Ideon that high, in the end. ![]() This show’s plot tires you as you watch it, or at least that was my experience and the experience of several others I know-though I do also know one person who more-or-less marathoned it, so hmm. ![]() I reckon it took me about three-and-a-half years to watch Space Runaway Ideon, from the first episode to Be Invoked.
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