Second Season of Panty & Stocking Is Up To the Director

tempo_plus said:


I think you generalize too much, when you say that you "enjoy change". Change can be something positive or negative. And in my opinion a change is most likely positive when it partially builds up on your previous achievements and experiences. In this way you climb up a ladder, get better at whatever you're doing since everything that you do, builds up on something else, until you reach perfection (ok, I don't think you can really be"perfect" at anything in real life and especially not in anime, but you get the point, I guess).

Now, is Panty&Stocking the result of such an development? No, it's not. Gainax dropped here old habits (well, actually, they started with that dropping these old habits already with FLCL). And for the record now: This has NOT to be a bad thing. Maybe Gainax was trying something completley new and different and excatly as you said, they changed a lot of things. My problem is that I have to compare this new way of Gainax-Animation and as a conclusion I have to say that all the new things they have introduced or changed fall short compared to the their old shows.

Story-telling: When there actually was some story-telling, then it was always totally silly-dumb.

Characters: All characters were one-dimensional and bland. Oh, no, wait, they were spoofing Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan with the characters of Panty and Stocking. Freaking ingenious. And Garterbelt is a S&M fan. Brilliant humour, right? Because I could have sworn that Gainax expected that the audience was supposed to laugh about that. But, unfortunately it was not funny!
Jeez... I never thought I would say something like this, but compared to these characters, I prefer whiny Shinji Ikari anyday.

Style/ Design of the universe: Stolen from the Powerpuff Girls but sadly Gainax forgot to steal all the charm that was in Powerpuff Girls as well.

Gimmick of the show: Panty can turn her panties into a weapon, Stocking can turn her stockings into swords. Ingenious.

Say, remember Evangelion? Remember the liquid LCL? Remember that once the lungs of the pilots were filled with LCL, the blood of the pilots were oxygenated directly, so the pilots could perform in their battles? Remember that the pilots could scream 30 or 40 seconds without taking a breath, due to the direct-oxygenation of the pilots and that the voice actors also had to deliver an incredible performance in order to scream for 30 seconds straight in a manner that everybody who listened actually believed that the life of the pilot was in danger????

Just as a reminder: What do we have in P&S? FUCKING PANTIES THAT TURN INTO WEAPONS??!!!!! I'm serious, every time when I think about this, I get angry.

Humour: I guess the best example to show how dumb the humour in this series is, is by watching the first episode again. Remember the Shit-Monster? I have to say, that a shit-monster can actually be damn funny. If you have ever played the N-64 Game Conker's Bad Fur Day, then you know what I mean. The shit-monster from that game was freaking hilarious and it had its own, catchy theme-song! But in P&S the writers can't apparently think any further than : “Hey, look at this! It's a monster made of shit! That's soooooooooooooooooooo funny, isn't it??? Our jokes are brilliant! A shit-Monster! A monster made out of shit! I guess, that's probably the best joke that was ever made!”. Most jokes in this show could actually be funny, if somebody put some thought into them. Just like in Conker's Bad Fur Day.

How can I approve or as you said “enjoy” these changes, if they are all totally dumb? A change is not something positive, if the new stuff is worse than the stuff we had before. In that case, it's called deterioration. And from my point of view, this show is nothing more than that. It's deterioration. Granted, there are some things in this show, which are maybe good on their own, but compared to the previous works, this is just pathetic. Is this a sign that entertainment is getting stupider? Pixshi said, that the world doesn't resolve around my likes and dislikes. But when such shows are the result of “change” and the “likes” of the majority of the audience, I must ask myself, what is wrong with these people? They are willing to replace intelligent sci-fi combined with round characters in well-thought-out universes with stupid rip-offs of american cartoons including shit jokes and flat characters who disgust the audience in a bland environment?

I know what everybody wants to say at this point: “Well, retard, then just stop watching Gainax, if you do nothing else but bashing their new shows and spoiling the fun for the others”, right? It's just, every time I hear that they're producing a new show, I hope it's something as demanding as NGE, or as enthralling as The Wings of Honneamise or as engaging as Aim for the Top! Gunbuster.
But I every time I just get disappointed. *sigh *

I guess this discussion leads to nowhere, since you like this series and I don't, so, I guess all this text I just wrote was pointless, since we're probably not going to come to an agreement anyway.