{"id":61,"date":"2004-06-10T23:24:41","date_gmt":"2004-06-11T07:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=61"},"modified":"2004-06-10T23:24:41","modified_gmt":"2004-06-11T07:24:41","slug":"nadia-the-secret-of-blue-water-episodes-37-to-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water &#8211; Episodes 37 to 39"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately, the phrase &#8220;too little, too late&#8221; does <i>not<\/i> apply here.<br \/>\nThe final battle with Gargoyle! Electra looking increasingly like Ritsuko &#8230; and other incredibly spoiler laden things! The point is that everything was handled exceptionally well and completely satisfactorily. It&#8217;s just sad that they couldn&#8217;t have brought the conclusion around <i>sooner<\/i>.<br \/>\nNothing really can be said about these episodes other than that they were full of high drama and capped off with a nice little prologue segment that wrapped up everything &#8230; and one of the characters&#8217; fates translates from sweet to creepy dependent on cultural setting.<br \/>\nAnd Ayerton; who&#8217;d have thought. He was representative of what was wrong with <i>Nadia<\/i> though: that at one stage it had forgotten itself.<\/p>\n<p><i>Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water<\/i> was a series that had some extremely bright and shining moments but was damaged by its success, with thirteen episodes or thereabouts seemingly inserted just to give a credible amount of time before the stunning finale for the wheels to be set in motion <i>in the background<\/i>.<br \/>\nWith the epilogue provided at the end of the series, one wonders; is the <i>Nadia<\/i> follow up movie really necessary? Given that I find the basic idea of the plot offensive, I&#8217;ll just have to go and find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately, the phrase &#8220;too little, too late&#8221; does not apply here. The final battle with Gargoyle! Electra looking increasingly like Ritsuko &#8230; and other incredibly spoiler laden things! The point is that everything was handled exceptionally well and completely satisfactorily. It&#8217;s just sad that they couldn&#8217;t have brought the conclusion around sooner. Nothing really can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nadia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}