Shinichi Edogawa wrote:it's just a proof that Gosho want to drag the story forever until he dies or is not in condition to continue it.
TanteiSa wrote:But let's be honest here… we'll wait another year, then another and another and another until Gosho dies without resolving anything for us.
I'm just going to put it out there that if the Bourbon arc hadn't lasted so long, this kind of attitude would not be so prevalent—say what you will about quality of mystery or plot... this is about length. There's declining quality... and then there's declining quality and staggering wait times.
Gosho Aoyama is 52—depending on health issues, he could live from anywhere from 5 to even 40 years. As much as he likes to do it, do you really think he wants to spend 30-40 more years on it? He's already been working on it since he was 30. In ten years, he'll have spent half of his life working on it. He's already said that he has the ending worked out, and he knows who The Boss/Anokata is—the interviewer even got to see by which volume he'd decided upon the Boss' identity.
We have the Tequila/Itakura questions from the Conan arc (File 1–File 175/Episode 1–Episode 128), all the questions about the Miyanos and APTX 4869 from the Sherry arc (File 176–File 237/Episode 129–Episode 175), all the questions about Vermouth from her arc (File 238–File 434/Episode 176–Episode 345), the questions about the boss from the Cell Phone arc (since it focused on the boss' cellphone number... obviously, these questions would include "who is the boss?") (File 435–File 498/Episode 346–Episode 424), the questions about what has Kir been doing since File 609 from her arc (File 499–File 621/Episode 425–Episode 508), the questions about Shuichi's and Rei's/Tooru's common past, the latter's own past, and Scotch, and what happened to MG from the Bourbon arc (File 622–File 897/Episode 509–Episode 783), and questions about Rum's identity and objective from his arc (File 898–/Episode 784–). There's undoubtedly more that I haven't listed, here, but those are—at least some—of the major points.
Honestly, if Gosho really wanted to end DC by 2016/2017, he could do it; take the end of the Vermouth arc, for example (File 413–File 434/Episode 333–Episode 435)—just have a much longer variation of that in which all the questions are answered and the final confrontation begins and ends.
Shinichi Edogawa wrote:At that point of the story, there is no credibility anymore in the behavior of the characters and in the story : the BO seems weak with all those spies and Conan super allies, the characters can't talk normally with each other when it comes to the BO (it was like that before but that was not ridiculous like nowadays when all they can do are suspicious looks and questions like "what if? Is she? Did I saw her before?"
2 spies (living—LIVING) makes the BO, which the FBI, the CIA and the PSB/PSIA haven't been able to deal with, and has lasted for 50 years, weak? Okay...
If the BO finds out about Shinichi/Conan and/or Shiho/Ai, it's pretty much implied that they'll be swift as all heck in dealing with them—from the way I read things, it seems like they'd need these super allies, lest the BO swoop in and fell them instantly.
I agree—the intelligence of many characters has been toned down and many of the current questions have obvious answers (Rum's identity is not one of them, by the way).
I'd like to know why Gosho's dragging it, too, but what's the point of despairing and thinking he'll die before the resolution comes—you do realize, if that happens, people will lament that they wasted their time in waiting for it to end. At this point, to the same people, the journey of the characters no longer matters without an ending—it's taken too long, and the quality's gone down—besides having a blast interacting with fellow DC fans, I often wonder if they're still on here just in the hope that they can see DC finally end. In spite of all the cynicism, those same people are still here, talking with each other about DC, wondering what's coming next—even after all this time.
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