Ark Angels 2
Posted: January 16, 2007 Filed under: Ark Angels 1 Comment »Nope, this series doesn’t get ANY better in volume two.
Most of the volume is dedicated to one story, which is about the girls trying to rescue a huge land turtle. Instead of the usual short-term goofy rescue they normally pull off, this one involves a ghost and a backstory for the animal that the girls somehow get drawn into. It’s slightly disjointed and jumpy too, but not nearly as bad as it could be. At least it didn’t end as predictably as I thought it would. Admittedly, it was kind of epic, and the basic plot of this episode was really good, but everything that still irritates me about this series is still here. The over-the-top characters with no personalities, the stupid jokes that come much too frequently, the obvious link between their mysterious classmate and the member of the Solar System they met earlier that look EXACTLY THE SAME, stuff like that all still gets on my nerves. Mostly it’s the stupid jokes and bad characters.
Aside from the episodic stories, the series is also trying (and failing) to develop an overarching plot involving the lives of the characters. This takes an extreme backseat to the animal missions though, so the patchy appearance of this plot (and the plot is TERRIBLE) doesn’t help my opinion of the series, either. The fact that development is attempted and fails spectacularly should tell you something about both the plot and the characters.
It also explained the plot of the series about three times before it got going. Granted, perhaps it needed this if we’re only getting one volume a year, but I could’ve done with just one summary, really.
The badness is frustrating though, because I really do want to like this series, it’s got a good premise. The terrible execution, though… I don’t know if future volumes of this series can save it from the deep hole it’s dug itself into.
Perhaps this isn’t as coherent as it should be, but words fail me when trying to adequately describe how terrible this series is and how disappointed I was when I read it.
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