I just saw the Tokyo Big Sight building a month ago, it's a cool building that looks like the 60s or 70s vision of the Future, that whole area looks like anime.
I thought they didn't find out Ed was a girl until towards the end of the series, I was surprised rewatching it recently that it happened so early. The live action version of Ed looked like she would have been hard to handle.
Action movies go to too many different cities that we don't even pay attention to, to have adventures that rarely lead to anything more than a reason to go to another city. They have fights up stairs with a "ticking clock" that we know the protagonist will make it up, even if they get thrown back down and have to fight pointlessly up the stairs that we already knew they would make it up, just to add time, but no suspense. Most current action movies feel like games, but if I'm not controlling anything it all just seems pointless. Nobody is the best action I've seen in a while, no pointless international travel, not too long.
I think Japanese actors tend to sound gruff all the time, and the characters sound more alike than English actors. I watch movies in Japanese, but shows with characters that you deal with over a long time are more interesting dubbed, for me.
Years ago there were several night shows at GDC and E3 that were more existential about the show and state of games, then the last few years the shows were more just about games that the panel had seen. It was nice to have more existential chats again and Grubb did a good job guiding them.
Abby and Lucy brought up the fact that the current show is mostly bringing in journalists and people who already get codes for games, and only certain people were allowed into the show, I thought that was interesting, I wondered what the status of people like Gerstmann or the Nextlander guys is, having gone thru the age where they were just internet guys, not real print media, to working at big established internet sites, to being known personalities that are essentially just doing their own fan stuff on the internet, how are they categorized by these sorts of events?
I just watched Cowboy Bebop again for the first time since it ran on Cartoon Network 20 years ago, it still holds up. I thought the live action one wasn't so bad, either. I think their version of Ed didn't look encouraging, not so sad we don't have to see another season.
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