{"id":519,"date":"2006-07-25T11:07:51","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T16:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=519"},"modified":"2006-07-25T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T16:11:08","slug":"last-word-on-last-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"Last word on Last Exile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex has finished <a href=\"?p=510\">Last Exile<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.batrock.net\/anime\/?p=585\">takes the time to enumerate the show&#8217;s various flaws, shortcomings, and missed opportunities<\/a>.  I was glad to see I wasn&#8217;t the only one who thought the show left the viewer in the dark on too many occasions. Some of the omitted details were so fundamental that I was starting to wonder if I just wasn&#8217;t paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the post are a few comments (from visitors, not Alex) that are supportive of the show.  I found these arguments to be unpersuasive, but it&#8217;s nice to see some people were able to enjoy the show despite its flaws.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex has finished Last Exile and takes the time to enumerate the show&#8217;s various flaws, shortcomings, and missed opportunities. I was glad to see I wasn&#8217;t the only one who thought the show left the viewer in the dark on too many occasions. Some of the omitted details were so fundamental that I was starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}