"Antonio E. Gonzalez" <AntEGM111@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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| On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:45:51 -0700, bobbie sellers
| <bliss@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
|
| >hcobb wrote:
| >> On Mar 28, 2:42 pm, Antonio E. Gonzalez <AntEGM...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
| >>> 1. Her *inability* to do a proper ending.
| >
| > Takahashi Rumiko does endings just fine but the fans who love
| >the work and the publishers who make money out of ongoing series have
| >convinced her to hold off until way too late in her stories. She
| >has become a wealthy woman by working hard and following the dictates
| >of her publishers. Read the shorter works and even if the characters
| >go on as in the Mermaid stories, each story comes to a satisfactory
| >conclusion.
| >
|
| Ok, I should have phrased that differently; I was thinking of
| Inuyasha specifically, and the infamous "read the manga!" "ending."
| Last I heard, the manga's *still* going! You can only milk a cash cow
| for so long before the milk becomes stale; there's a point where yet
| another Naraku power-up, followed by the accompanying Inuyasha
| counter-power-up becomes tiresome . . .
Hey, there's always the "Dragon Ball Z" route where the fights are
ROUTINELY against foes that can split the world asunder without even
working
up a sweat (yet never do it just to ruin a competator). Vegeta destroyed
a
world in his first appearance and after he was defeat he was reduced to
lots
of lame fist-to-body blows against his challengers.
Eventually, the super beyond super beyond insanely powerful aspect of
it
all becomes far too silly without the required comedy. Beyond that it
becomes tedious and tiresome. For the character of Superman the net
result
of DC COMICS reducing him to minor Godhood and rendering him vulnerable
again in fights.
At one point in "The Spectre" comics, that character could also
effortlessly move through time, space, and grasp our local sun in his palm
and blow it out like a candle. They powered him down drastically because
what can a writer create as a source of mentally comprehensable conflict
to
the audience. Even worse is a staleness in story by lacking emotional
highs
and lows, a void of sub-stories where the other secondary characters
wander
off to experience a world unshadowed by the main character, and some sort
of
temporary extended plotline to drive the contained episode chunks (this
applies mainly to the worlds where the character does not live a contained
life that is nearly unchanging from day to day "Hamtaro" or "The Smurfs"
or
"The Muppet Babies").
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