An episode introduces a character, lets us get to know her (it's usually a woman), makes us sympathetic towards her, and then kills her off so the Knight Sabers will have a reason to go no-holds-barred on the bad guy. BGC does this at least three times, and it's such an 80s cliche.
I still like BGC, but the above is one reason I like BGC 2040 better.
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Women having other women for friends isn't a cliche, at least not the one I was talking about.
shareSure this reply is almost a year later but I've got to say. They introduce the characters TO THE VIEWERS and kill them off in a single episode and it does come off as cheap. It bothered me heaps.
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I won't deny that the creation and death of extra-characters is annoying, it was more or a deus ex machina than anything else (the death causes the story/plot connection. In it's defense, it was used as way to fill time while advancing the series plot. The first six episodes had a story that was good - I just got the feeling that the writers didn't expect the series to go further past that.
It's not just an 80's cliche. It's a cliche of almost all Anime' to date that they just can never get out of. Main characters always die, so technically when BGC did it, it wasn't a cliche
shareIt's not just an 80's cliche. It's a cliche of almost all Anime' to date that they just can never get out of. Main characters always die, so technically when BGC did it, it wasn't a cliche
shareWhat bugged me is that it was usually Priss's one shot friends who got whacked, so it was usually her revenge. Priss herself got way too much focus as it was in this series, but having it always being about her revenge vendettas drove me nuts. Wasn't it enough that at least 4-5 episodes revolve around her? The other Knight Sabers could have used that screen time.
It is one of the reasons why I preferred 2040 - much better use of characters (of course, the original BGC did have some behind the scenes problems that may have attributed to this).
Priss was originally written to die at the end of the Red Eyes, with her being replaced on the team by Vision. But, the shows audience where so head over heels on Priss that it was decided to rewrite the whole second half of the show to keep in the spot light. (Not that I can blame them, in the 90's I was a Priss fan as well, but I would also have loved to see what Vision would have done in her role)
shareYeah I heard about that. I can only imagine what might have happened to the series had they stuck to killing Priss & replacing her with Vision.
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