brensey [2019-02-22 03:46:20 +0000 UTC]
Cute piece!
I liked the movie. But I think the story would have been better served as a TV show. Like you said, many of the secondary characters felt like they were short-changed in narritive (mainly Krim, Laylia, Medmel, and the half-Iorph dude who never even got a name).
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Kyorukki In reply to brensey [2019-02-22 03:55:33 +0000 UTC]
^o ^ omg yes someone else who's watched it!!
yeah wasted potential :'C
it's strange because the individual scenes are almost perfect but when you look at the story as a whole there's so many... holes
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brensey In reply to Kyorukki [2019-02-23 05:17:16 +0000 UTC]
That's actually a good way to sum it up. There are certain scenes of the movie that are so good I can watch them forever. But, as a whole, it leaves you with a ton of questions. Poor Laylia's story could have been a movie by itself (and the movie REALLY should have explained why she was so cruel to her daughter at the end after spending the whole film longing to see her)
I really hope they do reboot it as a series someday. I get that the movie wanted to focus on Maquia herself and the theme of motherhood. But a TV show could touch on things like what happened to the other Iorph people, who else took the Iorph girls, the backstory of the half-Iorph dude, how Maquia&Laylia went about rebuilding Iorph culture, etc
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