Thread for saying what you think of certain shows.
Such as:
Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail
If it wasn't for the fact that this was based upon a manga arc, one would suspect this of being a caricature of the original tv series, as written by someone who watched it back then and only remembers the extreme bits and decided to include all of them here, then animated by the remaining employees of Madhouse who were desperately jealous of those who worked on Hellsing Ultimate and wanted to prove they could do better. Black Lagoon was at its best when it was fairly light-hearted, absurd violence and characters... stories about a company that work as pirates and getaway men in South East Asia, as seen through the eyes of a fallen salaryman, as in the first season. Somewhere along the line, it has just become less fun to watch as Hiroe Rei has weighed the whole thing down with a mountainload of continuity, that is starting to smother every successive arc. I'm not really all that interested in the mechanisms that keep a city like Roanapur operating without intervention from government agencies.... This show needs more Greenback Jane's, not Roberta's Blood Trails.
That being said, it probably wouldn't have been as disappointing if it had been part of a longer tv series. Most seem to be disappointed in the ending, forgetting all of the story arcs in the tv series tended to peter out. It's just that they were usually followed by another episode in a week. Roberta's Blood Trail took about as long to run its 5 episodes as the two tv series took to give us 24. You can't leave people hanging that long and expect them to be wowed by the usual Black Lagoon story ending.
More grumpy old man whingeing to come.