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Aaah, forget coherency, lets just have a few spot hits:

*Roger deciding that the only way he'll ever know peace is if he has Dorothy learn to GENTLY play the piano.  She eagerly learns, then plays it very, very loudly because it has better results.

*Her piano teacher is a peaceful android who's convinced to pilot mecha and use it to destroy the city, and when he realizes that such things just-aren't-him, he rips his own hands off in a moment of android emo.

*When Dorothy adopts a cat that promptly destroys one of Roger's hourglasses(did I mention he has a huge collection of those?) she decides that his objection is that the cat is grey, not black, and she has the cat wear a black suit.

*She also orders Roger to negotiate so she can keep the cat.

*The cat is actually a little boy turned into a cat(cats and dogs are a rarity in Paradigm City) with alchemy, and he is absorbed into a giant chimaera that kills its creator to save her, and then throws itself into a collapsing, burning building.

*Dorothy appears to be in love with Roger.  I suspect it may be reciprocated.

*When Dorothy's kidnapped from the first few episodes reappears, he reprograms Dorothy to literally hug Roger to death.  She confesses her love during this, but that may be the reprogramming.

*Norman, sadly, does little, but he is amazingly faithful to his duties, including preparing to go on a deep sea rescue mission to save Roger(Dorothy coopts the mission.)

*Everyone in the city of amnesia has amazing wells of repressed emo.
 

Date: 2008-03-17 08:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mscongeniality.livejournal.com
Big O is it's own special brand of crack. I love the atmosphere and how everything comes down to megadeuses randomly appearing out of nowhere. Just wait until you get to the second season, that's when it starts to get completely surreal.

Hell, I loved this brand of crack so much I wrote pre-series fic for it.

Date: 2008-03-17 08:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com
It's like I said in the other point: The crack working so well all comes down to the fact that it's seriously underplayed and played as a straight, stylish noir, with all these teeny nods reassuring us that yes, they DO realize it's just a mass of crack.

I kind of love the randomness of the megadeuses...it's like they're saying "yes, we know mecha is silly and there's no real reason for it, but MECHA SELLS SO WE WILL HAVE MECHA IN EVERY EPISODE!"

Date: 2008-03-17 11:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fmanalyst.livejournal.com
I love Dorothy's English voice. She has just the right amount of deadpan snark.

Date: 2008-03-17 11:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com
Yeah, i've been watching it dubbed because tat's what the discs are defaulting to, and i love her voice.

Date: 2008-03-17 11:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wistfulmemory.livejournal.com
Ah, the random WFTness that works so well that you just don't question it. I also believe that Dorothy was in love with Roger, and her playing the piano to wake him up always made me giggle. One of the few animes that I watched in with English dubbing as I love the voices (especially Roger's).

Date: 2008-03-17 11:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com
I think Dorothy is trying to understand just what love is, ATM.

Date: 2008-03-18 03:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wistfulmemory.livejournal.com
I wish her luck with that.

Date: 2008-03-18 03:13 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] irenak.livejournal.com
Oh, Big O, yes, with its giant robots and Asimov references and sheer surrealness and Norman. Who is totally Alfred's long-lost twin brother.

The first season definitely has its weak points and the second season starts going off the rails at the end, but there's a lot to love. Plus, you can play "Guess the city!" with it.

Date: 2008-03-18 04:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com
Well, it's Gotham City, of course. And Roger is clearly descended from pre-"I am badass" Batman.

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