Comments on: Thoughts on Legend of the Galactic Heroes 29-56

By: karry

karry — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:00:11 +0000

Well, how else you would show the decadence ?
Pushing homosexuals as perverts in Japan ? Not gonna work, ever. Necrophily ? Ughhh… Other decadent countries like EU and US also believe that faggotry is just as “normal” as being…well…normal. But FATNESS = instant revulsion. For the moment at least. I guess US will soon legislate laws giving people rights to copulate out in the open, and have sex with toddlers, so in a few years US people will have no idea what is so awful about fat table-dancing women.

Speaking of necrophiliacs - there is quite a gory moment in ep.51, where one guy tries unsuccessfully to hold his intestines inside his belly…yeah.

By: primeparadigm

primeparadigm — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:41:09 +0000

Fat naked dancing ladies will always be the lowest point of LoGH for me. I guess they were trying to draw parallels to the supposed decadence of the late Roman Empire, during which, I believe fat was an “in” thing.

The sci-fi elements of the show were never meant to be a focal point of the show. LoGH’s space setting is merely a means to an end to show and draw attention to that even in the supposedly far-flung future, history repeats itself. It is very simple, with a bit of clever revision, to transpose LoGH into any other time period and still work.

By: Skane

Skane — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:02:33 +0000

Well, I have already completed the entire season, and there will be plenty of ups and downs to come.

Cheers.

By: Camario

Camario — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:44:57 +0000

The opposite of “show, don’t tell” applies quite easily to Phezzan (and its leader), I’d agree. Perhaps the point was that those manipulations mostly take place behind the scenes anyways, and as such we only get to see the tip of the iceberg, but sometimes it doesn’t really work that well.

On a related note, the Terraism Cult is a fair bit more important than what one would expect or even prefer, yes, but not enough to take the focus away from everything else. Or at least not for long. Can’t really say more.

I’m ashamed to admit that one of the (two, I think?) documentary episodes almost put me to sleep, but that was probably my own damn fault for trying to watch it at the wrong time. Didn’t have that problem upon re-watch. Yes, you can kick me for that.

“I also know that female space pilots are just plain hawt.”

Heck yes.

Sure makes up for all the yaoi.

By: jpmeyer

jpmeyer — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:43:42 +0000

For a show this awesome, it has pretty massive yaoi undertones.

Also, you think you can appease me with cake? I don’t like your scheming disposition.

By: Demian

Demian — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:09:17 +0000

Darn it IKnight, you’ve discovered my nefarious plan is to beat you at finishing LOGH.

Technologically LOGH is quite soft, but on the other hand the only really fantastical elements are the FTL travel. The other mistakes - space isn’t that small and one planet doesn’t equal one village - are just common to all space opera, and in a way necessary for this kind of entertainment.

By: IKnight

IKnight — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:57:34 +0000

You’re going to catch up with me soon, at this rate - I’m pushing through the late seventies.

The way the show handles its future technology is really understated, probably because they want us to focus on the epic political theatre. In that way, I suppose it’s quite ’soft’ sf.

I must say I find the way the show plays its surreal Reinhard/Kircheis visions so utterly straight hilarious.