Third, they built a cast with a lot of conflict between characters.Ĭonflict is GOOD. Did you ever see the old Rock Hudson movie Ice Station Zebra? About mayhem and shenanigans on a nuclear submarine? It would have been like that, and sucked as bad. That would change it into … I don’t know.

I mean, they can’t all be secret traitors or something. Without any even a quick, dense series would be unsatisfying because we would have seen the end coming.Īt the same time, though, you can’t have too many plot twists because you already have a bunch of characters. All they had to do was get to the end of episode six, not keep the thing going for, I don’t know, 160 plus episodes. Second, the plot was appropriately twisty.īearing in mind that there was a large cast – six main characters at least five of who mattered to the story that’s a lot of action that arises naturally from the characters – they picked out what amounted to an action-adventure plot and put only two big twists in it. For the most part the action keeps on a’comin’. There are moments where the action slows down to allow the characters to have a breather (and the audience to relax), but they are there just to let the characters explain motivations. It’s only six episodes long and they built enough conflict into the cast that as long as the writers kept the plot going they could keep the pace going. As a story it’s nothing especially special. I don’t want to give too much away so I will stay away from revealing plot twists and outcomes and such, except in broad terms, and I don’t think they are needed anyway. To give you some idea, I watched it three times through across two days.Īnd they built it out of really simple parts. I was like, yeah, kiddie sci-fi, I’m going to like that (sarcasm), but I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. The Orbital Children is one of those things that snuck up on me. The Overage Otaku on The Power of Two: Kaguya-sama…

How (Not) to End a Story: Love, Chunibiyo, and Other Delusionsħmononoke on The Power of Two: Kaguya-sama….The Power of Two: Kaguya-sama Love is War.

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