the Big O

[7th_Sephiroth]

anyone watch this, and to those who do, do you understand it?

[incontrovertible]

1. yes, and yes

It's the most brilliant anime ever aired on American television.

[lcordero]

2. Kinda

Because we are living it in a way right now.
In the cartoon, the people don't have any memory or can't remember history past roughly 40 years ago. We have been lied to and things have been hidden from us so much that we get an account of history that is distorted, slanted, and sanitized or maybe just plain untruthful.

[7th_Sephiroth]

3. dont forget

the Paradigm corporation, and rosewaters ambition to become a domanuce

[incontrovertible]

4. actually...

I don't want to give spoilers to those who haven't seen all of the episodes, but the bottom line to know is that Reality isn't what the characters think it is, and it certainly isn't anything - ANYTHING - that the viewer could imagine. I don't consider the missing Memory to be a lie, or a distortion. That would presume a premise of Reality that probably would not apply.

I can say that the story "exists" on MANY different levels, from the drawing board, through the plot, the stage, the television, and the viewer's mind.

It's really and truly a masterpiece.

[7th_Sephiroth]

5. i missed most of the second half

but from what i can piece together, its been one big reality show that went south, i'm gonna watch it all this time and then make another conclusion

[incontrovertible]

6. it does have that appearance

My own conclusion is that it's symbolic of the nature of the creative process behind literary fiction, and how (or whether) this takes on the characteristic of Godhood, with regard to the author's "responsibility" towards his or her "creation."

My bottom line assessment is that Big O is a very casual, fleeting, passing, shallow glimpse into an incalculably deep and complicated idea. Taken in its entirity, the base premise of Giant Robot Combat becomes not even a tenth of what it's about.

If anyone ever wondered what would come along and out-do Twin Peaks, this would be it.

[MisterP]

7. well, isn't THAT familiar!

(I'm fond of the show)