{"id":624,"date":"2006-09-09T11:50:27","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T16:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=624"},"modified":"2006-09-09T15:20:07","modified_gmt":"2006-09-09T20:20:07","slug":"full-metal-panic-disc-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=624","title":{"rendered":"Full Metal Panic, Disc 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

The grand finale! <\/p>\n


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Full Metal Panic<\/td><\/tr><\/table>
\nMore thrills! <\/p>\n

Full Metal Panic<\/td><\/tr><\/table>
\nMore fanservice! <\/p>\n

Full Metal Panic<\/td><\/tr><\/table>
\nMore romantic tension! <\/p>\n

Full Metal Panic<\/td><\/tr><\/table>
\nMore clichés! <\/p>\n

Full Metal Panic<\/td><\/tr><\/table>
\nMore Engrish!<\/p>\n

Full Metal Panic<\/td><\/tr><\/table>
\nMore gigantic robots punching each other!<\/p>\n

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\nPretty much everything that I’ve read about the series is true: The ending is weak because of the limitations of the source material, the important mysteries are never explained, and the bad guy has all the personality and depth of a black-and-white cardboard cutout of Paris Hilton. <\/p>\n

But I got my mecha fix, the good guys won, and the series didn’t commit any horrible crimes. It’s odd observing my reaction to the ending of this series as compared to Last Exile<\/a>. Exile was a failure<\/a> in my book. The production values were incredible and the world was facinating, but in the end the story didn’t work and so it all flew apart. They aimed high and missed the mark. Full Metal Panic aimed way, way, lower, but they did<\/em> manage to hit their target. The result being that I’m coming away with a more positive view of FMP than I did of Last Exile. That doesn’t seem fair, but that’s how it worked out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The grand finale! More thrills! More fanservice! More romantic tension! More clichés! More Engrish! More gigantic robots punching each other! Pretty much everything that I’ve read about the series is true: The ending is weak because of the limitations of the source material, the important mysteries are never explained, and the bad guy has all […]<\/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-624","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\/624","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=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}