{"id":3958,"date":"2014-02-26T21:56:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T20:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2020-10-11T21:05:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:05:04","slug":"mikan-watch-87-space-dandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=3958","title":{"rendered":"Mikan Watch #87: Space Dandy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIn the bottom-left corner of this scene in episode seven of Space Dandy, AKA the episode which is not a little like the movie Redline. It doesn’t actually say<\/i> Mikan on it, but hey, there’s clearly an orange on it, so I’ll claim it.<\/p>\n

I have astonishingly little to say about Space Dandy. I, on aggregate, enjoy it. It’s a little difficult to know what you are going to be getting into every week, not just on and episode by episode basis, but on a half-by-half one – that’s particularly the case with the eighth episode, where the show presents a particularly hard tonal shift between the A and B parts. The unpredictability of the tone and content of the show is one of the things I like about it, but I do sometimes wonder if throwing up a different title card at the midway point, forcing an effective tonal-reset by suggesting the start of a different story, would have relieved some of the complaints leveled at the show on occasion.<\/p>\n

Also, Bea has the best shaped head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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