Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 2016
Feb. 23rd, 2023 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerNot every one of the series I’ve sampled over the past fifty-plus days are undeniable enduring classics; some just represent a year nothing else has really grabbed me from. After going all the way from “the only show I could watch subtitled” to “series I wasn’t pointed to years after the fact,” I suppose I’ve had to confront the difference between “never quite escaping criticism” and “perhaps never quite on everyone’s watchlist.” Now, though, I might have run into “a show that was a three-month’s-wonder, and that’s that” in returning to Flip Flappers.
Looking back I realized I’d watched this series for the first time only after it had streamed. I do seem to have been impressed, and went to the point of ordering its boxed set. In opening up the set at last, though, I did keep wondering if I’d seen it brought up at all by anyone else in recent years. The show has a certain amount of “magical girls for different audiences” in it, and it’s nowhere near as dark or indeed nasty as other shows milling around in that category can get even if it has its own dose of slashy innuendo. (So far as other connections go, the blue hair of the diffident Cocona and the red hair of the childishly energetic Papika had me thinking back to Dirty Pair...) Perhaps what gets to me more in retrospect is the sense of “there are no clear answers”; as much as I don’t get the impression people were offended at the last second by what answers there were (more recent examples come to mind there, but I don’t want to toss in a link and pile on) I am left wondering if this was one more example of “the journey was more interesting than the destination.” I can also suppose this is one series where the first episode ended on a cliffhanger (after a relatively simple trip into “Pure Illusion”), but where I don’t have so much of a compulsion to go on to deal with.
Looking back I realized I’d watched this series for the first time only after it had streamed. I do seem to have been impressed, and went to the point of ordering its boxed set. In opening up the set at last, though, I did keep wondering if I’d seen it brought up at all by anyone else in recent years. The show has a certain amount of “magical girls for different audiences” in it, and it’s nowhere near as dark or indeed nasty as other shows milling around in that category can get even if it has its own dose of slashy innuendo. (So far as other connections go, the blue hair of the diffident Cocona and the red hair of the childishly energetic Papika had me thinking back to Dirty Pair...) Perhaps what gets to me more in retrospect is the sense of “there are no clear answers”; as much as I don’t get the impression people were offended at the last second by what answers there were (more recent examples come to mind there, but I don’t want to toss in a link and pile on) I am left wondering if this was one more example of “the journey was more interesting than the destination.” I can also suppose this is one series where the first episode ended on a cliffhanger (after a relatively simple trip into “Pure Illusion”), but where I don’t have so much of a compulsion to go on to deal with.