Posted 20 March 2009
I’ve realized how important endings are to me, thanks to Clannad. Regarding certain thoughts of mine, lelangir said:
…saying Clannad isn’t tragic does neglect those very instances of tragedy. Also – what if I dropped the show at ep. 21? That does not invalidate the show, it just means my personal meaning-construction of Clannad is not a 1:1 ratio to a generalized reception of the show in its entirety. In essence, paradoxically, incompleteness is completeness.
I did say Clannad isn’t tragic, which is the case as per Aristotle or Frye, without intending to invalidate the show’s tragic elements as character development and emotional invocation and whatnot. And while one could drop the show midway and derive from it a different text-image than others, one that probably couldn’t really be said to be incomplete because completeness is a difficult quality to attribute to it, there’s no going back to some midpoint state once the threshold of the ending is crossed, at least for me.
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Posted 11 March 2009
I mentioned possibly doing a longer post on this subject, and I may yet, once Clannad is finished, but I need to collect my thoughts on the matter first.
You may not think of Clannad as exhibiting the design flair of a late eighties/early nineties Disney film, what with its huge-eyed Key style, willingness to hit where it hurts, bare modicum of interpretive ambiguity and such. But then, perhaps you’ve never seen Disney’s short adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Match Girl,” which, strangely, was the first thing that came to mind when I considered the visual flavor of After Story’s twenty-first episode.
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Posted 7 March 2009
This is, as I’ve said, a note-blog — a noteblog, if you will — and its posts-per-day count will vary widely. Some days my mind stops working, other days (like today) it’s a font of un-wisdom. I wonder which sort of day the masses will come to prefer (if any).
Ahem. In this post, Nazarielle touches upon some concerns I’ve been having with the masterfully melodramatic Clannad ~After Story~. I’ll probably write a treatise on the subject soon, including a look at the show’s aesthetics, but I figure making a few notes on Nazarielle’s post here will save me time later.
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