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march 2008 a planet that has no sky a planet that has no sky thought reason panic intuition instinct insanity menu skip to content home about film reviews oil on canvas paintblogs and other essays recorded noise the autobiography project monthly archives march 2008 standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on march 24 2008 posted under anime comments 2 comments a play for masks i bought all the volumes of gilgamesh but it was a long time before i watched them there were a couple of reasons but the main one was the character design those downturned frowns and deer in the headlights eyes made all the faces look like masks given the events of the series all the veiled hints the unexplained origins hidden motivations and shifting agendas the look is entirely appropriate but man it sure doesn t make for an appealing look looking at the dvd covers what we have here is one batch of fugly folks all right however i have to note that once i started to watch the show it only took a handful of episodes before the character designs didn t bother me much in fact i found a certain icy precise beauty in some of them and as noted events made the look seem appropriate at any rate they didn t interfere with my enjoyment of the show and there was a lot to enjoy the music for a start is excellent shimmering strings clattering percussion steely choirs battling brass all of it adding an ice cold finger down the sides of one s nightmares good stuff the characters were also uniformly excellent well rounded and with a depth that was frequently surprising no one here is a stock figure put in place because the show required them to move forward the story proper takes place some fifteen years after a world wide cataclysm a mysterious explosion at an archeological dig thought to be the tomb of the babylonian king who gives the series its name changed the structure of the atmosphere which is now a huge reflecting surface all computers and some other electronic devices ceased to function though most other mechanical and electrical systems appear unaffected this naturally led to rampaging chaos and panic world wide devastation and a diminished crumbling state of life for the survivors in the early episodes buildings collapse into clouds of dust in the background seemingly without cause and it sure looks appropriately normal for these parts the explosion left another side effect in its wake some children born since the cataclysm are gifted with psionic abilities primarily psychokinesis but also including teleportation and a limited degree of telepathy they can talk to each other one of our main characters the countess werdenberg has been gathering these children at a resort she frequents where they are being trained as a fighting force because there s another group of powerful children teenagers by this time called gilgamesh who seem seem is an operative word for this show seem to be working toward ends inimical to the survival of the human race both sides have been aware of each other for some time but they lack a trigger to bring their hostilities into full flower that trigger arrives with our main characters tatsuya and his sister kiyoko both gilgamesh and the countess forces called orga want them to join their respective sides by force if need be both sides are reluctant to reveal any information both are determined both are dead set on victory tatsuya and kiyoko are caught in the middle whose side are you on is the series tagline and it is to the makers credit that it is several episodes in before we know where we ought to stand and as the show progressed i was struck by how excellent it was as noted above by the time i was through the sixth volume i was nearly convinced that i was watching a masterpiece on the level of noir like noir the show was about characters trying to wrest the hand of fate from their lives and make their own way in the world like noir too the show is dark and gloomy the palette seems to be but isn t entirely shades of gray and black with stark white faces poking through the shadows there s an air of depression and desperation over it all but then one can t have everything humor is conspicuous by its absence though there are some wonderfully human moments where the characters do manage to have fun a snowball fight via telekinesis is a highlight and there s a marvelous scene where orga plays a game of psychokinetic catch with a manhole cover it swoops and dives dizzyingly through the city streets as they toss it around the story at its heart is a human one and the makers seem to recognize that our species does have some traits that make us worth preserving and those traits are worth celebrating and defending you ll note though that i said nearly convinced above i ve seen too many anime series shoot themselves in the foot in the final stretch for me to wade naively in all wide eyed also none of the anime blogs that i regularly read seem to have mentioned this show at all note i did not do an exhaustive search there s just no way that i the anime tyro am going to be the first one to find a masterpiece that they somehow missed so that was something of a worry my philosophy however it to put such worries aside and just watch the show for what it has to offer good or bad will come in the watching and not in the sideline opinions so i put in the last disk and started watching episode 24 had what looked like a minor misstep but episode 25 had one of the best scenes in the entire show a dinner party wherein our main cast seemed to shed many of the masks and acknowledged how much they all benefited from and needed each other as i said before but it bears repeating despite the gloomy heavy hand of fate background that the story played out within the makers seemed to know that what makes a story is the humanity of the characters the things we all share so that when watching we can see ourselves and our own possible choices in the actions on screen episode 26 the final episode started out reasonably well and as expected the final confrontation between the two factions and there and then in the second half of the episode the makers kicked the struts out from under the structure they had painstakingly built and the entire thing collapsed into a choking cloud of dust i could not believe what i was watching how could the folks who d brought us so far do this how could they so take what they d made and twist it so horribly i ll give them this the ending they chose was always within the realm of possibility and the final scene before the credits and immediately after seemed to say that the makers hated this ending too not that that really helped mind but otherwise what i saw was an ending of gainaxian proportions and studio gainax had nothing to do with this show other gainax ending endings can be worked around if one chooses not to watch the last disk of mahoromatic one is left with a pleasant romantic comedy punctuated by android fights the ending of neon genesis evangelion can be met with a shrug and a colorful suggestion of what shinji can do with his own anatomy in the end of that show nothing is resolved with any finality the film makers could and did pick the story up again and take it in another direction but gilgamesh isn t episodic like that each episode builds on the one before carrying the story with them so one just can t watch all but the last and have a satisfying experience watching the last episode on the other hand definitely robs one of any kind of a satisfactory experience the ending makes clear that the story is most definitely over too no retooling or rebooting possible never have i felt so frustrated and disenheartened by a show nor so perplexed at the makers intent had it not been for the last ten minutes i would have given this show five stars and an unqualified recommendation now i feel lost cold and alone huddling in the rain beneath that piano like tatsuya and kiyoko boring technical note i ve long been unhappy with wordpress word processor and have looked for an alternative the original superior draft of the above was written in a freeware program called blink which looked great but had one little teeny drawback whatever i saved wasn t i had to recreate my thoughts such as they were with an old copy of frontpage blink and you ll miss it i guess standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on march 2 2008 posted under painting comments 5 comments paint blog ii fourth and down graphics overload it s been close to a year since we last looked at paint blog ii when we did it looked like this now it looks like this what happened did it get painted over for some other fool scheme well not exactly the first image above was made when paint blog ii was a triptych or a three panel work now it s a four panel work technically called thanks cafe terrace a polyptych and you know what i did that s right i forgot to show you any of it however i didn t forget to photograph it so for your consideration below are the steps of panel four s creation from beginning to end possibly this stuff is always hard to say for sure since the second photo above was taken the right most edges of the cloud storm have been softened anyway on with the show because of the sheer number of images i ll be keeping commentary to a minimum also i ve forgotten rather a lot lots of graphics so if you don t wanna stick around i understand but thanks for visiting let s get some paint on there let s shape it into sky let s make a big ole cloud bank and as we re doing that let s add some ground while we re doing those things let s detail them with highlights and what not what should we do with the ground that s a bit farther away the answer may surprise you though probably not if you ve read many of these things anyway the guidelines painted on the 11th painting give it away some vague highlights yes it s a whole horde of writhing tentacles approaching out of a vast sea of them good guess we gradually add shading and highlights to these let s give 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