With their success at the Mars’ Brightest competition,
Carole and Tuesday have crossed a major hurdle in their dream to become
recognized singers. Now comes the
toughest part: being famous. Between
legions of reporters looking for an interview and a foul mouthed record
producer who cant be impressed, the duo face constant struggles in light of
their recent brush with fame. But there
are those who have become inspired by Carole and Tuesday’s music and they want
to show their appreciation. Meanwhile,
Angela’s newfound stardom comes with a severe drawback: an obsessive
stalker. No one said being famous was
easy.
Mars’ Brightest was a solid way to wrap up the first half
of Carole and Tuesday and left me kind of wondering if the show could have just
ended there. Well after a little bit of
a rough beginning, this weeks episodes showed that these two stars have more
stories to tell and aren’t done tugging at the heartstrings, even when new plot
elements don’t feel like theyre gelling well with the overall show.
Part of me wants to start with the negatives this week
because the success are far more monumental…so I’ll do that. There’s a new interest in exploring the
political race with Tuesday’s mother that…kind of like the Angela storyline
(more on that in a sec) feels like it belongs in a whole other Anime. I mean yeah, Tuesday’s Mom is a heartless
monster and this show is always interested in showing how free spirited
believers in love and music like Carole and Tuesday will always be
superior. But is this going to go
anywhere? Why make such a big deal about
Tuesday’s Moms intentions to make Mars an isolationist planet? Then there’s Angela. Ive mentioned in prior reviews how her scenes
with Tao feel like something out of a twisted, futuristic Saw film. But now she’s being taken in a new, arguably
darker direction with a new psycho stalker.
On the one hand, this could be the shot in the arm her storyline needs
considering all of Angela’s story so far has been arrogant attitude and trying
to impress Tao. On the other, does
Carole and Tuesday really need to do a Perfect Blue esque storyline (as much as
I love that movie)? Seriously, it’s like
Watanabe is trying to fit three Anime into one when one will do.
It speaks volumes to Carole and Tuesday themselves that
they manage to make their plotlines tower over everything else, so much it
makes all the negativity I talked about above feel minimal. I mean look at what happened to them this
week: Carole got to meet her long lost
dad, who felt he wasn’t deserving of forgiveness from his daughter but Carole
gave it anyway; they got the blessings of a music legend and got to hear his
final song before he passed away; and they reignited the spark of music and
imagination in the woman who inspired them both to sing in the first
place. Honestly, why does this show need
to be about anything else other than these two (and Gus and Roddy I
guess)? It kind of goes without saying
that the music was more on fire than ever before and I think the choices of
tunes are only getting better and better.
Carole and Tuesdays encounters with two mega music icons
were the biggest highlights of the week.
Desmond’s episode in particular was beautifully animated and filled with
haunting and inspiring dialogue and a vocal performance so grand it transcended
pretty much everything. Desmond’s words
of wisdom and encouragement to Carole and Tuesday, about finding the right
person to make music for and aim to reach at least one person with their songs,
was beautiful. I know ive already said
this about Mars’ Brightest, but a prequel with Desmond’s life story wouldn’t be
a bad project to explore. Floras was a
heartbreaking tale that is a definite take on many who enter the music
industry: starting as a wide eyed and gifted vocalist, climbing to the top,
spiraling out of control and landing at rock bottom while losing everything
that mattered in the process. I wonder
if we’re going to see more of Flora as Carole and Tuesday reignited her soul
with their rendition of her signature song…which it’s going to be hard to judge
who sang it better cause Flashback Flora and Carole and Tuesday both killed
it. Also it was nice to tie Flora’s tale
into Gus. The guys got a long history in
the bizz and losing someone like Flora to the powers of greed shows us why he’s
so overprotective of Carole and Tuesday.
He saw power and fame take away a woman he cared about and doesn’t want
history to repeat itself. Here’s hoping
he and Flora can start fresh as the show goes on.
When Carole and Tuesday focuses on its titular duo, this
show can do no wrong. You want them to
succeed and brighten the world with their overwhelming and infectious optimism
and love. I wish the show could find the
same way to inject the same kind of enjoyment into Angela’s and the Mars
politics storylines cause whenever we cut back to them, it kind of kills the
momentum. Still, we have two weeks and
eight more episodes to go. There’s
plenty of time to tie everything together and stick the landing as a
whole. Though if C&T’s central story
stuck the landing on it’s own…I might be ok with that too. See ya back here on Friday for a special extra review of Carole and Tuesday
right here at the Gundam Anime Corner.
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