Those Bastards!

I just got through watching the anime series .HACK//sign.
All 13 and a half hours of it, (Not consecutively, ofcourse.) and you know what?
I'm pissed.

The cartoon is loosly based on the consept of MMORPGs like EverQuest and this one character somehow slips into a coma in real life and who's conciousness is trapped in the game world and thus unable to log out like the other characters. That's it. Thats all you need to know.
Knowing anything more would be a tease.

The series starts out slow but with the hope of promise. After about 12 hours of boring dialog, flashbacks, and a plot that moves at the speed of Dragon Ball Z, I guess the creators realized that they were running out of money so they sped the storyline up with all the subtlety of a drag race, then two episodes later, brought it all to a crashing halt and slaped a "The End" on it without any since of closure and rolled the credits. So, you sit there staring at the credits saying," WTF? Where's my ending? Thats not an ending! You guys skipped like 3 episodes worth of plot! You BASTARDS!!!"

To put it in context, imagine watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy by skipping the first 30 minutes of the first movie, then watching the second movie twice so you get 3 hours of footage that you have already seen, then watch the 3rd movie up to the point where Frodo is walking into the mouth of MT. Doom (but hasn't gone in yet) then fade to Frodo and all his hobbit buddies clanking mugs back in the shire saying, "That was a great journey", then roll the credits.

That's what the .HACK series is like...
minus the fight scenes...
and heros....
and action...
and plot...
and anything else that could have been considered cool about the Lord of the Rings.

Those Bastards

Its kinda like when you have one of those dreams where your doing work or something stressfull and your stuck in some crappy dream loop where you do the same thing over and over and over until you wake up all stressed out then realize that you now have to actually go to work and do all the stressful crap that you were just dreaming about.

Yeah. Its like that.

I hope the people responsible for .HACK somehow find this post and get their feelings hurt and cry...

than go die...

in a fire.