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movie review - Kakaider: the Animation

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Halifax, 2004.04.10

I believe that this was an animated TV series. It involves a robot created by a wise old inventor. The robot has an incomplete ethical unit (his "Gemini" heart), and this four-part, incomplete story follows his attempt at making his way in the world.

With a plot involving his "evil" (oooo) brethren (other robots made by the same genius but twisted by the strangely malicious Professor Gil) and his creator's whiney daughter, this thing crawls around for two hours and goes nowhere.

I was quite disappointed.

Not recommended.

rand()m quote

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

—Michael Crichton