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on Tiger & Bunny
Oct. 6th, 2011 03:03 amSilly, silly show, all the way through - I enjoyed it, but 50% of that was because it was superheroes, and the other 50% was akin to the ahahahahah what are they doing now?! that I get from SPN. It was such blatant fujoshi bait all the way through - the eyelashes line in the penultimate ep, omgwtflol! (the bro loved it for that - he find gay chicken exceedingly amusing, whether it's guys playing it or TV shows.)
After finishing T&B, I've developed a crack theory that the show was originally meant to be something much darker than it was, and then they got sponsored by real companies and couldn't go there. I have no proof, it's just...okay, the series is supposedly set in the 1970s - we get a date at one point, I can't remember exactly what it is, but it's the '70s, and the fashion and haircuts fall in line with that. But they have futuristic technology and superheroes with mutant powers and Japanese-style costumes, and they're living in the city of Stern Bild, which has its own currency so is clearly not American, but is English-speaking (though the characters come from a variety of ethnic backgrounds appropriate to New York) and looks exactly like Manhattan, only minus Lady Liberty and plus a bunch of weird victory statues, and an extra ring level a la FFVII's Midgar.
We spent most of the show joking that Stern Bild was New York as bought out by the Japanese, but given the Germanese name, and the rest - I seriously wonder if it was originally intended to be an Axis-won-WWII AU. And then when it became a goofy semi-parody show that was deemed too dark a theme, but they kept the trappings? It makes about as much sense as anything else about the show...
After finishing T&B, I've developed a crack theory that the show was originally meant to be something much darker than it was, and then they got sponsored by real companies and couldn't go there. I have no proof, it's just...okay, the series is supposedly set in the 1970s - we get a date at one point, I can't remember exactly what it is, but it's the '70s, and the fashion and haircuts fall in line with that. But they have futuristic technology and superheroes with mutant powers and Japanese-style costumes, and they're living in the city of Stern Bild, which has its own currency so is clearly not American, but is English-speaking (though the characters come from a variety of ethnic backgrounds appropriate to New York) and looks exactly like Manhattan, only minus Lady Liberty and plus a bunch of weird victory statues, and an extra ring level a la FFVII's Midgar.
We spent most of the show joking that Stern Bild was New York as bought out by the Japanese, but given the Germanese name, and the rest - I seriously wonder if it was originally intended to be an Axis-won-WWII AU. And then when it became a goofy semi-parody show that was deemed too dark a theme, but they kept the trappings? It makes about as much sense as anything else about the show...
