Guardian [tv] - final verdict

Finished watching Guardian tonight. It's a show I absolutely enjoyed, up to the point when they began with the time travel, at which point the show took a nose dive into an empty pool, sadly.

The characters introduced after that point (esp. the inventors in the past) were just cringeworthy, same for the "solution" of the final confrontation, which isn't sustainable - not in a social perspective (apartheit remains and is strengthened) and not in a physicist's perspective (that lantern's energy is limited, it ran out before, starting all the unresolved issues to arise - so all that sacrifice for another delay? Kinda like Brexit...Nope).

All that makes me wonder if they fired the writers at that point and replaced them with generic trope trainees (or tested a writing program on it, who knows?).

Final verdict:

likability: very high until timetravel; afterwards close to zero

rewatchability: ditto

writing probability: negligible

overall thought at the end: "Wie kann man eine tolle Serie in den letzten 10 % so verkacken?!" (German on purpose, don't ask).

Guardian-Detox: Legend of the Galactic Heroes 9-12

Spent the last three hours finally watching the end of "Legend of the Galactic Heroes - The New Thesis" - only complaint: cliffhanger ending & the next season is not yet available *dah sigh*. OTOH, they really followed the books in this - with character designs, plotlines, and styles! So the cliffhanger is bearable. :-)

Of course, now I combine mentally Yoshiki Tanaka's LotGH with the Dixing crash, but *shrug* that's an image I can live with. *eg*

If you are curious, the trailer is on Youtube at https://youtu.be/gZwqJbgb2yw