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timepiececlockHmmm... things are different from the manga! I didn't finish the manga yet... I got up to the kidnapping, though. Already, things are pretty different. I'm not sure if the anime invented the new stuff or took it out of order, but it's interesting.
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raiselle said, it's more dramatic early on than season 1. But I'm not sure I like it better. It's very consistent, so unlike most shows there's not a clear difference from season to season, merely a logical progression of events that have been building from the start.
I like Hans. I continue to love Hakim. I like Eleanor, but I keep shaking my head for her, because---well, girl needs to get a spine. She can't keep changing herself for what she thinks someone else wants. On the other hand, I have gone through a very potent unrequited crush myself earlier this year, so I have a lot of sympathy for her. It really sucks when the other person just isn't into you that way. And like all aspects of this series, her character and her emotions are handled with delicacy and consideration within the script and plot.
That's what I love about the series. Nothing is rushed. Nothing is hasty. Everything about the storyline is carefully and lovingly crafted. It's the perfect pace for this sort of story. And normally that would bore me to death, but the depth of detail in the environment that the animators and writers have created with late 19th century England is consistently fascinating. And while sometimes there are stretches between dialogue within a conversation, or long looks, the body language and expressions of the characters more than make up for it. Rarely in anime do I see facial expressions used as well as they are in Emma. The last time I remember being so aware of the animation of character's faces is with Full Metal Alchemist or FLCL. In a series like Emma, where what's not said is as important as what is said, this level of detail in the animation is necessary, and well-done.
I love that they have the party and the frantic reunion, but I'm disappointed that, so far, we've been denied the dramatic embrace when William comes to visit Emma at her mistress's estate. THAT is the embrace I want to see... Emma dropping everything and running downstairs into his arms, in full view of everyone.
I don't remember the bit with the stolen fan... was that in the manga? I loved Hans's reaction to it, though. Especially punching the guy and saying that it was for the maid the guy was using to steal stuff. I also don't remember that William's mother was separated from them because of her health. I thought, from as far as I got in the manga (somewhere in the 30s) that she was separated from William's father because the man was an emotionally distant control-freak. It doesn't make sense that William or the others would never see her because she lived in the country due to illness, so much so that it comes to "years" and she barely recognizes him. If William can travel to India, he could easily travel to his mother's country respite house.
Anyway, I'm curious about the ending and looking forward to it. I am averaging 2-3 episodes a day, and I might finish by tonight. I'll have to read the manga again when I get back to Denver, or home. Either way, AmeriCorps will be over before Thanksgiving.
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raiselle said, it's more dramatic early on than season 1. But I'm not sure I like it better. It's very consistent, so unlike most shows there's not a clear difference from season to season, merely a logical progression of events that have been building from the start.I like Hans. I continue to love Hakim. I like Eleanor, but I keep shaking my head for her, because---well, girl needs to get a spine. She can't keep changing herself for what she thinks someone else wants. On the other hand, I have gone through a very potent unrequited crush myself earlier this year, so I have a lot of sympathy for her. It really sucks when the other person just isn't into you that way. And like all aspects of this series, her character and her emotions are handled with delicacy and consideration within the script and plot.
That's what I love about the series. Nothing is rushed. Nothing is hasty. Everything about the storyline is carefully and lovingly crafted. It's the perfect pace for this sort of story. And normally that would bore me to death, but the depth of detail in the environment that the animators and writers have created with late 19th century England is consistently fascinating. And while sometimes there are stretches between dialogue within a conversation, or long looks, the body language and expressions of the characters more than make up for it. Rarely in anime do I see facial expressions used as well as they are in Emma. The last time I remember being so aware of the animation of character's faces is with Full Metal Alchemist or FLCL. In a series like Emma, where what's not said is as important as what is said, this level of detail in the animation is necessary, and well-done.
I love that they have the party and the frantic reunion, but I'm disappointed that, so far, we've been denied the dramatic embrace when William comes to visit Emma at her mistress's estate. THAT is the embrace I want to see... Emma dropping everything and running downstairs into his arms, in full view of everyone.
I don't remember the bit with the stolen fan... was that in the manga? I loved Hans's reaction to it, though. Especially punching the guy and saying that it was for the maid the guy was using to steal stuff. I also don't remember that William's mother was separated from them because of her health. I thought, from as far as I got in the manga (somewhere in the 30s) that she was separated from William's father because the man was an emotionally distant control-freak. It doesn't make sense that William or the others would never see her because she lived in the country due to illness, so much so that it comes to "years" and she barely recognizes him. If William can travel to India, he could easily travel to his mother's country respite house.
Anyway, I'm curious about the ending and looking forward to it. I am averaging 2-3 episodes a day, and I might finish by tonight. I'll have to read the manga again when I get back to Denver, or home. Either way, AmeriCorps will be over before Thanksgiving.
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Date: 2007-09-22 12:33 am (UTC)YES. I had been waiting on the edge of my seat for that, actually, because it pays to see Emma showing so much emotion for once, but I'm sorry to say they never have it. I don't know why. D:
The stolen fan wasn't in the manga, actually; that's the first deviation the season takes, and it doesn't take another rather large one until towards the end. When it just deviates completely. *woooon't elaborate*
The bit about William's mother is really from the manga, though. Her departure was more about her health and her reaction to society than her relationship with Richard. In fact, I think they got along very well, and until she left, he had been very affectionate. Society was more of the control-freak, considering the liberal sort of childhood she enjoyed. (if there's anything we can blame the past Richard for, it's marrying her at such a young, vulnerable age, dammit)
Why her children never visited, I too wondered and never found out, though. Too busy? Image? Plausible, but I don't personally think those hold well as excuses in this case, Victorian era or not.