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« on: February 24, 2005, 08:59:52 AM »
First of all, good, real science-fiction also deals with characters, not monsters. I never thought of Black Lagoon as SF.
I was fascinated with the opening to the Leviathan storyline in 1795, and it seemed to be a radically new and different sort of thing (before what was going on was made clear), dealing with something much bigger and more mysterious than any of the previous events, that had just concerned Collinwood and its inhabitants. It even seemed possible then that these beings were from some sort of future-- it sounded at one point as if they'd traveled back, not forward. Anything seemed possible at that point. Even aliens. It did seem as if DS was ready just then to launch itself into some broader, more amazing sort of story, to top 1897, perhaps.
Of course, it turned out just to be a couple hooded characters worshipping a big antisocial asthmatic snake with a deadly fear of television cameras.
I don't long to have seen DS rip off more old horror novels or movies. I'd want them to have done more original ideas.