Netflix must love customers like me. I’ll rent a bunch of anime DVDs and then keep them out for months because I don’t have time to sit down and watch them. Still, it ends up being cheaper for me than buying and less hassle than a traditional rental outlet which wouldn’t have the stuff I’m watching anyway in most cases.
I finally got around to finishing R.O.D. the TV series. I liked the movie more for its style than plot or characters, so I decided to give the series a shot. After watching the whole thing, all I’m really left with is the feeling that the show was about a bunch of women who did an awful lot of crying. Most of the crying was about how these women were so close like sisters, but really weren’t and how the baddies had even given them fake memories about their good times together in Hong Kong. Huh? Oh yeah, the British Library tries to take over the world by reconstituting a sort of super Methuselah-like man known as Mr. Gentleman who can rewrite all of the world’s history. Or something like that. I guess I can forgive a pretty wacky plot like that, but all of the crying was a bit much. It was like some anime version of Steel Magnolias.
Oddly, I actually liked Steel Magnolias and I don’t mind the occasional “chick flick”. But R.O.D. TV doesn’t really work on that level either. And that’s why I keep renting!