#future nuke fix

I’ve had my “bad Crystal Tokyo” headcanon forever, so its not a NEW idea for me. I don’t now that I ever went so far as to say it was dystopian, but pretty much my entire “how R works” headcanon is centered around the idea of the Senshi going back “fixing” the timeline. You can read it here on the backup, if you haven’t before, so this makes some modicum of sense.

I don’t know how much of an extreme I personally feel Crystal Tokyo is, though. I absolutely don’t believe in a utopia, so I know it’s not that, but I think it’s a society that tries very hard and strives to become the unattainable. But I think a lot of it is perspective, too, and that one person’s utopia is another’s prison.

I’ve had a lot of messages and alerts flying tonight so I’ve caught a glimpse of where my sticking point may have been a translation error. I wanted to get my summary written from the perspective of what I read and thought so I haven’t seen those messages yet. It’d be nice if it wasn’t as bad as it seemed to me.

SHE IS INDEED ALWAYS

An eight month old Ask about Crystal? IT’S ONE AM AND I’M SO TIRED I’M MAKING POOR DECISIONS, SO WHY NOT

I first began to feel a bit rocky about Crystal when we finally, after so long, saw character designs. I was very concerned about the lack of any emotion or depth of actual character in them. But I knew static images didn’t make an animated product (RATHER AN IRONIC THOUGHT IN RETROSPECT), so I remained generally optimistic.

Then there was the leak of the opening and the first four minutes, which I talked about in this post (on the backup). Still the same reservations, but I felt great about Moon Pride (and still do!), so again, I kept my spirits up.

Then the actual show began to air. Really, you’d be best seeing for yourself, as I think my mounting disappointment with the show is pretty well documented. Here are the liveblog links for Episode One, Two, and Three. PLEASE ENJOY HOW VERY HARD I WAS TRYING.

But I think I’d say it was Episode Four where ... well, I can’t say Crystal’s quality declined, because it was pretty consistent with what had gone before. It’s where I started to give up, I suppose. That they kept in Mamoru kissing Usagi when she was unconscious was a major strike against Crystal for me and my confidence that they were going to adjust things in the series in a positive way. I think though my actual moment of encapsulated frustration was the scene with Ami and Rei in the arcade. IT SEEMS IT SHOULDN’T BE DOESN’T IT. I found my summary post on Episode Four though, and you can hear how very done I am.

And how done I already WAS. I was obviously struggling well before Episode Four, which was earlier than I remembered. The episode liveblogs really will be your best bet then, I think, for pinpointing where.

Also of help may be my “#jet wolf versus crystal” tag, which I began using at Mako’s episode. Mako’s episode was a real watershed for me with Crystal, and while I still held out some tiny glimmer of hope for Minako’s episode, and then STILL didn’t completely give up until THAT EPISODE YOU KNOW THE ONE, Mako’s was where I basically knew Crystal wasn’t ever going to meet even my barest minimal needs.