Trigun
#2: Lost Past
Pioneer
75 minutes
English/Japanese
English Subtitles
5/23/2000
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Trigun
Pioneer
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I know you guys probably hate me, and that's only fair. I haven't updated in Jesus, I don't know, a thousand years? Though to my credit, it's not exactly my fault. Moving into a new apartment never really was fun, you know, between the making of Greg help me for six hours and our total lack of hot water for half a week. Right now, while I type this, we still don't have an internet connection here at Casa de Dave y Bear so you'll just have to bear with me for the few more days before the Cable guy comes "between 2 and 6" whatever the hell that means. To be honest though, I watched this disc of Trigun about a week before we moved out so if anyone's to blame it's myself. But if you asked me who I should blame, I'd say Joel, because I dislike him right now since he lives out in the middle of nowhere. That's not really the issue, in so far as Trigun is concerned. At seventy five minutes it's short enough for me to watch without mail ordering a suicide kit. Not that I'd want to, as Trigun is one of the better series to have come to this side of the ocean. If you haven't seen it already then you probably don't care about the show and as such I could point you to a certain guy who lives out in New Jersey, where you could get all the weird perversions of girls peeing their panties in the subway that you'd ever desire. What the hell is wrong with you? |
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But Trigun is more of a show for the discerning audience. It's the Krystal as opposed to the more lowbrow Asti Spumante. When you buy Trigun you know that the mad bling you're picking up is way too legit, and won't leave a green ring around your fingers when you take it off at night. Sure, it's got it's fair share of weird jokes, as the central character seems to be all about the action, but as I've probably mentioned before, it's handled in a way that's just so damn charming I can't help but like it. The main strength, storywise, of Trigun is that Vash is such a charming character. Too bad it's like they forgot what series they were making when they design the majority of the supporting cast. Some of them look fine, and if someone over in Japan has the burning desire to make a few short haired hookers wearing chokers then who am I to complain? The problems start when the Ninja from the first Time Crisis comes in. And who could forget about crazy guy with no teeth and his ninety foot tall robot son with the rocket punch, both escaped convicts. This point leaves me a bit confused, as, well, considering the situation...what kind of jail in the "Old West" would be hold a giant metal man? Wisely, they choose not to answer this question. |
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And I hate to spoil it for you, but Vash disables them without the need for bloodshed. I know, I know, I probably ruined the show for you but think of it this way, you just saved yourself twenty or thirty dollars, right? Only if you don't watch something as good as this when the opportunity presents itself, you may've saved yourself a piddling amount of cash, but you've gypped your soul out of a rather satisfying experience. You can know that I'm being totally legit to, because when I say that I like something as slapsticky as Trigun it's like saying that I've stopped liking ninjas, I mean, it's so crazy you'd just have to believe it.** Mainly, I think the reason I don't like the off the wall comedy (especially in anime) is because it's like people have forgotten what a sense of timing is. Remember in Perfect Strangers when a really hot woman would be coming onto Larry and Balki would be stalling the girls while he tried to get her to leave by the fire escape? And then he'd wrap her in a blanket and say she was his Middle Eastern cousin? Well, Trigun is kind of like that except it has absolutely none of the 80s kitsch. |
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So really, Trigun has nothing to do with Perfect Strangers in any way, but maybe that's not an entirely bad thing because it's got something else that fills up the gap. I would tell you it was heart, but that's just cliche. So we'll say that Trigun's got something and that something is more than worth the purchase price. At eight DVDs it's an expensive series, but how can you go wrong with a show that was smart enough to use the Black Power Ranger as a voice actor? Trigun is smart, maybe smarter than some people will even notice. Maybe smarter than someone like me could ever understand, but it's all too willing to question its hero at every turn and that's like that refreshing fresh breeze that comes along on a hot day and shows you that the cute chick sitting on the bench across from isn't wearing panties for some reason that could only be concocted by a midrate pornographer who probably only got into the business because he couldn't see naked girls any other way. I think I forgot what I was trying to say, and I whole heartedly apologize for the tangent. Basically, buy Trigun it's like porn but good...and with short haired chicks wearing chokers. |
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