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It was actually pretty good. The whole reason I watched it was for the scenes and the music. It didn't fail on that part. The art was gorgeous. There are artistic cues all over the place, and the story could have been told by them alone.
Actually, the whole series without any dialogue whatsoever would have still been great, if not better. It would have helped it to stand as an art piece mini-series rather than crushing down a story that would have worked better as something with 2 separate seasons. I feel like Season 1 should have been Sphinx vs. Shibazaki, and they should have left the Rising Peace Organization and foreign intervention for another season.
I also would have cut the bullied girl character completely. She did nothing whatsoever for the story, imo. She was just a crutch for the screenwriter. I can't even remember her name-- that's how insignificant her impact was.
The only thing is that the ending was a huge disappointment, plot-wise:
The fact that Shibazaki and the girl both survive is an enormous plot hole. If the President or SecDef order the sniper to eliminate the targets to protect national interests, why is it only Twelve that gets shot? We don't know whether Nine is also shot and killed or whether he dies from his condition, but American intel should have by that point known that Shibazaki and the girl were also privy to the sensitive details the sniper was ordered to eliminate. Either none of them should have survived, or there should have been a huge international incident that followed.
It would have been better if Shibazaki and Sphinx were all murdered. Then, the girl would have had a purpose as a character as being the one to carry on Sphinx's legacy. Shibazaki's investigation would have been finished and presented by the team that worked with him, and maybe the girl would go on to become a journalist and find herself in sharing her experience and carrying Nine's dying wish to remember the Athena children. Suddenly, an ostracized, lonely soul would have the whole country as an eager audience.
It also didn't make sense that Five let Twelve survive in the Ferris wheel. Nobody would have known about her not keeping her end of the deal. She had nothing to gain by letting them survive, and she was perfectly fine with killing them and hundreds of others in the airplane at Haneda. There was no development from ruthless to merciful. It seemed like just a crapshoot, and was another example of poor storytelling or "convenient" screenwriting.
It would have been better if Shibazaki and Sphinx were all murdered. Then, the girl would have had a purpose as a character as being the one to carry on Sphinx's legacy. Shibazaki's investigation would have been finished and presented by the team that worked with him, and maybe the girl would go on to become a journalist and find herself in sharing her experience and carrying Nine's dying wish to remember the Athena children. Suddenly, an ostracized, lonely soul would have the whole country as an eager audience.
It also didn't make sense that Five let Twelve survive in the Ferris wheel. Nobody would have known about her not keeping her end of the deal. She had nothing to gain by letting them survive, and she was perfectly fine with killing them and hundreds of others in the airplane at Haneda. There was no development from ruthless to merciful. It seemed like just a crapshoot, and was another example of poor storytelling or "convenient" screenwriting.
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