[Locke]

Episode 10 of Shinkgeki no Kyojin kinda reminded me why I eventually gave up on anime, it was basically one scene told over twenty two minutes, twenty two extremely well constructed and directed minutes, but I guess it's easy to make a show stylish when you're only working on a single sequence.

And sure having lots of different perspectives on the scene is great, but when the plot is in the same place as it was at the start of the episode we have a problem. I have that problem with a lot of anime, which crawls along so cripplingly slowly. I eventually gave up on Bleach, my favourite anime since I was like 13, during the War arc in Fake Karakura town because they were literally stretching out single chapters into episodes. I basically have to wait a month between each episode to let several episodes collect, because you may get one story development every five to six episodes.

But THEN what happens is I make myself wait for so long so I have a few episodes to sink my teeth into, I basically lose all my emotional investment in the series.