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  • "The world is destroyed by a cataclysm, giant robots running amok over the Earth, and the power of the creator, wielded by the hand of man." - Gordon Rosewater

  • For the people, these mindless puppets. They walk blindly into the thoughtless oblivion. Renounce your ways oh children of the lamb. Let knowledge govern your ways. Forsake the world and embrace the end.

  • O big O truly too good to last. I enjoyed every episode

  • The more you wish to seek the Truth, the more it evades.

  • Alot about this show was SO over my head when I saw it as a kid. I just liked the giant robots. Now I'm seeing with a whole new level of understanding, and I dig it.

  • Reminds me of the Blitz

  • @MrShaun42088 thank you for that comment about me

  • Paradigm is almost like City Of Ember

    1. Nothing lies outside of. Both cities but wasteland

    2. No one knows anything of before 40 years ago (paradigm) or how it is above the city (city of ember)

    3. People try to search for clues of what happened

  • @General3600 I'm so Glad YOU see the similarities!

  • The song of the City of Ember has three parts.

    The first part is the song of the City. Deep and strong with longs verses of the streets of light and the walls of stone. About citizens of sturdy hearts and about stored abundance never ending.

    The second is the song of the River. Slow and rolling with power, coming in above, a complicated melody that seems to fight the current. Its rolling relentless rythem seems to urge one onward saying 'go down, go away, go now'

  • the last song is the song of Darkness. The one most filled with longing and majesty. the soul of Ember was in this song, Its tremendous chords held all the sorrow and all the strength of the people of the city. The song reached it's climax..

  • "Darkness like an Endless Night.." sang hundreds of voices. so powerfully that air seemed to shiver. And at that moment, the lights went out. The voices faultered, but only for an instant. Then they rose again in the darkness, stronger even than before. The last notes echoed and faded into a terrible silence.

    "Will it end like this? At the finish of the last song?"

  • The City of Ember. a city who has been lost in darkness for hundreds of years, Beyond the city limits is an endless blanket of darkness. Powered by hydroelectricity from the river which enters through Ember and returns into the eternal darkness from which it came. The city is old, and power outages are often nowadays. Food shortages, scarce resources and limited light are the only remains of a city fading like a burnt ember. Will the city lose it's power and plunge into endless night forever?

  • This theme reminds me of the City of Ember. when the Believers gather in chorus to sing the great Song of Ember.

    Love BIG O

  • This music plays as Schwarzwald terrorizes the powers that be into creating an ominous Season Three of The Big O!

  • /watch?v=XH2KdaPpeZg&feature=r­elated <---- choral version

  • Does anyone know where to find this version with that beautiful choir singing?

  • The music kinds sounds like something out of Batman: The Animated Series. I read somewhere that Roger Smith was based off Bruce Wayne.

  • @SuperLuigiBros He was based off Bruce Wayne

  • @SuperLuigiBros Really? strange though, Bruce Wayne is a detective, Roger Smith is a negotiator

  • Is it just me, or does Big Fau in that picture from the first season look quite a bit different than when he shows up in the second season?

  • @TheCrimsonChao big fau was re-built from parts, so that's understandable.

  • @TheCrimsonChao It does, note it was torn to pieces in the first season. Also notice that Alan Gabriel looks a bit different when piloting it. I'm not just talking about the cables protruding from his body. The Big's take influence from their pilots and vice-versa. Upon being paired with Alan, the New rebuilt Big Duo Inferno has a flame pattern and a a huge eye. where the cabal going into Alan's eye socket goes, while Alan gets the flame pattern on his face. the eyes matched Schwarzwald's before

  • Oh and one last thing. As we see on this very image up there, Gordon tells Roger that the events recorded in the book Metropolis he finds that details the events of the second reality are a lie. And in truth they were, a false reality that doesnt exist anymore than fell because of Gordons hubris

  • Now you can piece together the events within the show and it all comes together. Where Roger came from, how he can pilot Big O. Why all the various characters acted how they did and their motivations. The most confusing thing to understand was that there were 3 realities not just the previous and current. They are where Roger was the military officer, Roger the was Big pilot(died) and Roger the Negotiator(tomato). Angel was also present in all 3 and obviously a spy in all of them too!

  • Alex doesnt understand that the real power lies with Big Venus. Eventually Gordon Rosewater snaps out of his senility long enough to show Angel to Big Venus deep below Paradigm city and gives her the chance to "author" in a new reality. Of course there are fourth wall references throughout such as the Big O toy figures and such that these are all false realities within a fictional one. A very deep and mind fucking show. But that's a basic understanding of whats going on.

  • There were 3 realities. The first was the world was we know it. Gordon Rosewater was a research scientist with the Big Venus Project. Roger Smith was the military officer in charge of the project. Big Venus was accidentally activated and reality was erased while Gordon Rosewater was inside Big Venus and he used his memories to recreate reality with it. But he added new technology such as Megadueses and androids. New York became Paradigm City.

  • @returnofyesman

    That is where the picture of a young Gordon Rosewater and Roger Smith is from. Mankind began to fight over the new technology. The USA fought a war with the European Union. Roger Smith dies in the fighting piloting Big O which is where those memories and his piloting skills come from. The Megadueses eventually go berserk in the chaos and lay waste to everything. Gordon resets reality again with Big Venus. This reality is erased but it is recorded in the book Metropolis.

  • @returnofyesman

    The final reality takes place in the one shown in the show. Gordon Rosewater recreates JUST paradigm city but this reality is imperfect. Bits and pieces of the first AND second reality still remain here and there. The android assassin R.D. for example. The underground technology beneath the surface of the city. The Union spies. But Gordon is getting old. He has aged continuously and is reaching the point of senility. He recreates clones of past associates and himself.

  • @returnofyesman

    Those are the "Tomatoes". Roger is one and so is Alex Rosewater. Alex is a clone of Gordon. But he is imperfect and the memory imprint partially failed. Roger is actually the most successful "tomato" being mostly faithful to the original Gordon knew. But Gordon stops trying and just retires, leaving the city in Alex's hands. Alex Rosewater however wants to become a God like his father but doesnt quite know how. He knows it has something to do with Megadueses (Big Venus)

  • @returnofyesman

    So Alex is deeply interested in Megadueses. He eventually comes to believe that domination can be achieved if he simply controls the most powerful Megadeus and views Roger and Big O as rivals. So Alex negotiates and then betrays the Union remnants for pieces to build Big Fau with. Of course Alex is delusional, immature and slightly insane not to mention jealous of his "Fathers" accomplishments. He wants to rebuild Paradigm in his own image like his father did.

  • Now THAT. That is an excellent choice of a picture.

  • the funny thing about this movie the giant robot apocalypse i can see that happen

  • where is the opera version of this song?

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  • i was playing fallout new vegas while listening to this (spoiler Alert) it was the part where i take rose cassidy jean-baptiste to be dealt with it made a nice touch when he executed her and made jean-baptiste looked devilish

  • if only it was allowed to finish....the world would be a MUCH better place

  • CAST IN NAME OF GOD.....

    YE NOT GULITY

  • This song reminds me of a strong warlock on a giant hill controlling natural disasters to others.

  • lighting strikes not the nomad...

    who wanders from town to town..

    his mind endlessly moving forward..

    and although it is the way to life

    forward story you from seeing what is in front of you

    at time the human heart needs a jolt or two

    to understand the truth..you must be as the sloth..

  • Big Fau looks like he is feeling miserable and its looks like Big Duo is crying?

  • Kind of reminds me of Castlevania Symphony of the Night's soundtrack.

  • Such a magnificent series. It's only competitor for me is Ghost In The Shell. Could anybody recommend anything similar?

  • i hatched the whole series in 2 days ans this is a really good song and its a vary interesting series especially at the last episode

  • This is my favorite song of the soundtrack... I've watched this show since it first aired on Adult Swim. I wonder where I can find the "Twisted Memories" version with the choir/opera sound that goes with it... Not to mention find what they are singing translated. Thanks for the song though... Much appreciated!

  • Yeah this does remind me of Schwardswald

  • humanity is lesser for having relatively few people who have seen the show.

    heck, even i missed some of the episodes...

  • Schwarzwald is one of the greatest badasses in anime history. Everytime I hear this song I think of him.

  • @azar209 You could say he's the king of truth in anime. Even more so than Conan Edogawa, who would never be able to find the truth in paradigm like Schwarzwald did. (Who found it AFTER dying.)

  • @Chris2Hikari you seem to have a good idea of the series... you mind answering what the truth really was in the end? who made paradigm, and why? big o feels like a totally unfinished story to me

  • @worrowindXVI Most likely after the great cataclysm, it was Big Venus who made the stage of the world since it seemed to have linked to Angel, i'd say it was world born out of desire or a chaotic state of mind...

    other than that, the story is pretty much unfinished.

  • O woe is me, o great master, your prayers shall be answered with the mighty roar of thunderous claps by god.

  • i'm glad to see so many people love big O like i do. not only is this my favorite anime, but one of my favorite pieces of art. it is spiritually sophisticated and perfect in vision and conception. beautiful music and a truly great story...once i had a dream that i was in another reincarnation of their universe...

  • The music in this series rises above the level of superb. They craft this incredible gothic-noir-jazz-giant robot atmosphere that is totally original, it comes together like an amazing opera; it's more about the scene than the story at first glance, but if you study it you find it has one of the coolest origin stories in some time.

  • @B5starfurry I Thought That was Evangelion

  • Evangelion used it just because it 'looked cool'- the cross-shaped energy bursts? Sorta like the muzzle flashes in 'Equilibrium'.

    I'm not so sure Big O is about Buddhism. It's more a world built around Shakespeare's "all the world's a stage"- in the case of Paradigm, literally so.

  • @PhantomP63 Which in turn is from classic Greek theatre. In this case the Megadeus being a literal Deus ex Machina.

  • CAST IN THE NAME OF GOD. YE NOT GUILTY.

  • Fuck you.

  • am with u

  • if all you can see in BIG O is christian symbolize, i feel bad for you. this series is a work of genius, and the symbolic structure goes far beyond mere christian iconography. the real themes are reincarnation, rebirth, and the summary of various Buddhist meditation techniques.

  • @CECVENTURES

    Who are you to say that what he sees is any less than what you see? Don't feel bad for anyone but yourself.

  • I agree for the first part, the second one seems a bit far-fetched, no less than the "let's see it as a christianity work" way...

  • I love this music; I bought three of the Soundtrack CDs only to find that not all the series music is on them ~_~ But it is wonderful and there is not much religious symbolism in the episodes, IMO.  It's much more Noir than religious, unless you count ruminations on the metaphysical nature of the world that don't involve outright divinity ...

  • Oh man, no choir?

  • I'm trying to get the whole series from my library, but I haven't finished it yet, and I was wondering-is there really religious symbolism in the anime or not. I'm fine either way, but I have to know. (no spoilers, please.)

  • Yes, you see many crosses throughout the series.

  • yes. Big O's command phrase "cast in the name of god, ye not guilty" is taken from old executioners swords in like, the 1600's . so it has at least that much...

  • thanks. finding religious iconography in anime or in anything these days is so hard to do.

  • @angelwriter360 thats because most Japanese aren't Christian

  • @kyle15bitch I know. that's why I said "finding religious iconography in anything these days is so hard." funny, since Christianity is still the worlds largest religion.

  • Are you kidding? Anime is FILLED with religious iconography.

    They treat it the same way western media treats ancient Greek, Roman, etc mythologies.

    Hellsing, Big O, Witch Hunter Robin, Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell. That's just a few that immediately spring to mind and are well-known in the US. The list goes on and on.

  • ive always wondered what that meant, do they mean , roger is not guilty? or those he fights against?

  • Ive got to find the entire series on DVD. Ive only been able to catch bits and pieces of the show but from what Ive seen, the Writing, Music, Story, Development of characters and overall settings are top notch

  • There is a version of this song that has chorus, it was only heard in the series, if anyone can get their hands on it somehow you will be godlike

  • The version with the choir hasn't been released. Sadly:(

  • I'd kill to find a version with the choir. Ugh!

  • @eduardoapadron

    Aye, same here, though I must say it's still fantastic without it. :O

    If you ever find it could you let me know where it is?

  • some how the song reminds me of schwardswald

  • @Tokumastu they played when he delivered his final message

  • @Tokumastu

    That's because it played just before he appeared for the first time.

  • @Tokumastu This song is considered Schwarzwalds theme more or less.

  • @Tokumastu

    ...It's Schwarzwald.(Black Forest)

  • @Tokumastu

    ...It's Schwarzwald.(Black Forest) 

  • this was a good series, it had awesome music and a deep philisophical story, which truly made it stand out from the norm

  • @grauster423 until at the end they decided to say oh it was all a tv show which was pretty gay ending if u asked me

  • @kosta1987 Not necessarily and no one can know for sure.

  • @kosta1987 It never was finish. There was going be a third season where Roger actucally does find the lost memories but cartoon network pulled the plug on them. Kinda sucks and hurts to see good anime never finished and never know what the hell happen. I want to know what why the BIG's was made? what was there purpose? What coulda happen that made everyone lose there memory.

  • @unlimitedcards

    nope cartoon network played every episode there isn't a third season for big o

  • @unlimitedcards No, none of this is true in any way rofl. Cartoon Network never even had anything to do with the production. Everything IS explained in the series, it sounds like you just didn't understand it all. The series is over, and it ended as it was intended to end. Why do you kids go around making shit up? lol, just for kicks?

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  • @MalachiteR So do you know where I can go to understand this series?

  • @jonathanokoro35 from what i understand, reality is a hologram where two dualities fight it out. on the one hand you have angel, who is a being that denies her existence in order to learn her history. in doing so, she, all megaduces, and others like her, reset history for the hologram. on the other side is roger smith, who represents personal choice without knowledge of memory. he 'negotiates' with the people who reset the hologram, in order to continue the cycle. roger-self, angel-memory

  • @grauster423 Unfortunate they never made a third season.

  • @grauster423 dont get me wrong, i love everything about big o.

    i just wish i could have understood the ending easier.

  • @Hagisher It's like Myst - humanity survived through the books, because somehow humanity became extinct. & they keep rewriting it.

  • theres a heavy beating in my mind right now as i hear this song

  • i customize my phone to respond to "Big O" it was cool....i wish i had the sound track

  • That is win. Pure and simple win. I wish I could buy you a drink for that.

    The sound track is relatively easy to get...online. If you are willing to go to amazon/ebay to pay for it, you will have to do some real digging. It took me some time to find merchandise from the series, and even then it was all restricted to Japan.

  • This series makes me feel sophisticated. Good song I should really finish watching it.

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