Kekkon Dekinai Otoko told the tale of a man who is utterly a bachelor-for-life who somehow despite the odds ends up finding a woman whom he can truly love, and the show ends with the two being a couple. When they made a sequel, faced with dealing with the happy ending of season one, the writers simply said, “Eh, it didn’t work out for him, so they broke up and he’s a self confirmed bachelor again!!!”
MAN, I cannot STAND when shows do this. They do not realize that it’s not just the struggles of the bachelor throughout the show that made it good, but the fact that the story had a real, conclusive (and optimistic) ending. To say “the hell with it” and scrap the ending to once again have him be single so he can go through the same stuff all over is MADDENING!
The wonderful drama “Ore Wa Hanashi was Nagai” told the story of a hopeless guy who just can’t get a real job living with his mother who, through the chance interventions of people in his life, finally takes the reins of his life and by the show’s end, makes his way to his first ever job.
It was a perfect end to a highly enjoyable show, and so when they announced a new SPECIAL SEQUEL to the series, I was naturally apprehensive, and, sure enough, just reading the synopsis had me GROANING out loud:
“The story set in a five years later, follows Kishibe Mitsuru, who has resolved to return to work after a long NEET life but gives up after two months, as he once again begins the path to independence.”
WHY? WHY do they always DO this??? Is it THAT hard to come up with a new compelling story to follow the original series without RUINING what made the first series special in the FIRST place??
I mean, as Ore No Hanashi wa Nagai was one of my ALL-TIEM favorite dramas, I suppose I'll HAVE top see it at SOME TIME, but even if it ends up being OK, they will still have tampered with the original ending and made it less than what it was.
Quentin Tarantino perhaps said it best when talking about that completely superfluous and totally unnecessary 4th installment of the otherwise perfect TOY STORY trilogy:
Well Put!!!
