It was very good. It is most certianly a show that makes you question reality. I watched the final episode recently, and I belive I now have a comprehension of this confusing show. If anyone wishes to know any of the plot, feel free to post your question. Or, if you just wish to discuss the show, that\'s fine too.

Megadueses have big, coll looking arms.:D

I do. Yeah it\'s pretty cool. Sometimes it gets boring tho.

Where I live it\'s not on any more. I never really watched it anyway, I didn\'t really like it.

It is quite possibly the most confusing show I believe I\'ve ever watched. While the Megadues battles are fun, there is actually a lot more put into plot later on in the series. This is when I got truly involved in this series.:D

I kinda didn\'t like it because it was so predictable, every episode involves Roger killing a monster/robot. Reminds me of Ultraman...

Predictable?! I presume you were only paying attention to the fighting, then, and nothing to the plot. Ultraman Tiga is not really as depthful as Big O.
Plus, his arms don\'t look as cool!

Well, yeah, I liked the predictable giant robot battles. And yes, often times, they were predictable. But Big O is a series which is very difficult to enjoy unless you look past the robot battles, and more into the depth of the plot. While I started out paying attention only to the battles (and not enjoying the series much), i gradually got more interested as the plot intensified. \"R-D\" is the episode where the plot becomes most intense, and sadly, was where Toonami dropped the series. CartoonNetwork later decided they would show it very late into the night, and run the second series. The second series is when I started to appreciate the show. It begins to look up plotwise. But, if you\'re not into paradoxes and questioning the realities of life, there is probably little point in paying any attention to Series 2\'s plot.

I like watching that show, but that last episode confused me way too much.....
Why did everything dissapear behind the Megaduce(Sp?) at the end?

To me the show is just a robotic verson of Batman....Let me explain what I mean,
The andriod chick:make her a guy and she\'ll look just like robin
The main character:he is rich he lives alone (HE\'S JUST LIKE BATMAN)
The butler:Well....lets just say ALFRED.
The big O:It\'s black and comes out of nowhere.(Just like the Batmobile)
Does anyone understand where I\'m coming from???

As I said, I developed an understanding of the series, so I will explain it to you.

Angel (Rosewater\'s secratary) was unexplained throughout the series. The episodes previous to the final episode depicted Angel as being in a small room decorated as her false past (because she wished it so). However, unable to completely control the power, Gordon Rosewater (old man;Alex Rosewater\'s father) was to play her grandfather, and an agent whom she used to work with played her mother. Gordon Rosewater is still intent on letting things play out until he learns how to change the recurring timeline. To understand what I\'m saying, read my following theory on the entirity of \"The Big O\".

The story of Big O depicts a constantly relooping timeline. One would think such a timeline would never be altered, or could not. As the timeline goes, the world would be recover from it\'s previous annialation, be reminded slightly of it\'s past (but not enough to change everything), and then would once again be destroyed by a decendent of the Rosewater family. We must understand that in the previous 40 year interval, some survivors somehow escaped destruction, through thew transfer of memories into there mind. They are later reffered to as \"defective tomatos\" by Alex Rosewater. The only ones who escaped the fate of the others were the defective tomatos, the former Shwartzvald, and Gordon Rosewater, as well as many pieces of Dorothy software, which is somewhat irrelevant to the series. The Dorothy software was linked to Dorothy many times through software downloaded into her. Throughout the series, the former Shwartzvald tries to uncover the past which he lived in, but has now forgotten. He inevitabley fails, in his destruction along with his red Megadues (Megadueses are used to refer to the semi-gods throughout the series). However, in his destruction, he breaks through the dome and makes the starnge fact clear, that the sky outside the domes was composed of machines as well. Everything was much more artificial than he originally expected. This is evidenced by the bizzare sight of the robotic Big Ear (Man with red glasses whom always gives Roger information) sitting in the cafe before it falls. This leads me to believe that every seemingly human being (excluding Angel) was also a robot, constantly manufactured and produced to keep the cycle of years going on. The factory is supposedly the destroyed factory where Dorothys are made. Roger Smith was also inclined to be an unimportant character, as well as an android, similar to Big Ear. However, because he made an effort to investigate into the areas which no one had ever stepped, he changed the looping destiny which all were doomed too. Thus, Big Foe, the white Megadues, was destined to destroy Big O, as had occured so many times in the past.

However, we must remember the other events taking place in Angel\'s bizzare control room. Gordon Rosewater has just discovered the truths he had missed in the wing-like scars on Angel\'s back, created by his false mother\'s whip. The wings were a representation of Angel\'s godliness, as Gordon Rosewater now understands. He shows her an empty book, the original Metropilitan book (the red book), and encourages her to create writing onto the pages. The book represents the memories and history of the world. Because it was empty, the people were doomed to the same meaningless fate they experienced so many times. However, this time Angel created new history in the pages, and the false recocurring world dissapeared, becuase she was wiping it clean and starting anew. We have no way to tell if she wiped Roger too, because the series ends as her God-Megadues stands in front of him. She might have, due to her want to create an entirely new exsitance. We will probably never know.

Alright, that was my gigantic theory on the entire series. Yes, it is confusing. And yes, it does seem strangely like Batman.:lol:

You know, you have a good point. The only thing is, I think Big O would be like Batman since it\'s the one that actually does the fighting. Bruce Wayne (Batman\'s secret identity) does some of the information collecting with his resources, but he can\'t really go around fighting everyone and not be harrased, that\'s why he uses Batman. In the same way, it\'s not like Roger can just go up to a big robot and kick it in its shin and expect it to fall apart. He needs Big O to fight.

How many seasons of it are there?

There were two seasons. One aired on Toonami a few years ago (first series). Later, Toonami picked up on the first (uncensored) and then the second, which deals more into the plotline.

In many ways, Roger Smith is like Batman (love of black, likes to fight solo, has a cool car), but the biggest difference is that Roger Smith doesn\'t fist-fight too often. he punches out Beck a few times though.:D

Actually, Toonami didn\'t get season 2, and I don\'t think they got season 1 uncensored. Adult Swim Saturdays got both.
And technically, the Batmobile doesn\'t come out of nowhere, Blademan. It has that round platform in the Batcave, and then shoots out of a driveway onto the highway... somewhere. :conf:

[Edited on 1-1-2004 by Heatman.EXE]

I know this is an oooooooooold topic, but I have something I really must amend.

I like to think I can take my Big O theory seriously, and because of this, I must state that it is incomplete. I do not have full knowledge on 4 characters: Beck, Shwartzvauld, that guy with the black pinstriped suit and the white facepaint, and the lady in the last 3 episodes with the big curls in her hair and the eyebandage. Because of this, my theory is incomplete. It turns out, I missed at least three of the last episodes, some of the most important ones. These involved, in depth, the last 2 mentioned characters. I know little or nothing about these characters as a result. Also my knowledge on Dorothy is... limited. Beck and Shwartzvauld also appeared in the forementioned 3 episodes, and thus, info on them is incomplete as well.

Because of these numerous inconsistencies, I am sorry to say that my theory is no longer credible. I\'ll watch these episodes and update, if it ever comes on again... Or I can get a DVD or some junk.

reallly off topic: Wasnt ultraman the first gay super hero?

on topic: Big O was an ok show, but they really needed a writer for the theme song....big o! big o! big o!

OT:hehe
ON topic: I remember when toonami used to show the Big O I loved it from the first episode.

I loved that show. This may not be true, but I heard that there is a second season in Japan. Is this a rumor ar have other people heard this?

Go Big O!!:D

To me it looked like a spin off from Gundum But watch what you like:lol:

Er... cause the both have robots? Then it\'s the same as Evangelion, Robotech, Voltron, Nadeisco, and so on?
The plots are on completely different levels. As the Gundam Handbook (I\'m a geek like that :P) points out, Gundam was the first anime series to introduce the idea of mass-produced giant robots, avoiding the same \"one super-robot\" idea that many animes of the time had.
I\'m not saying Big O is bad, I loved it. But Gundam and Big O are entirely different things.

I hadn\'t heard about any other Big O than what Toonami had aired, Enix. But that is exciting. :cool:

well that makes things clear...
I still like gundum better:P but Big O wasn\'t bad.:D

Big O and Gundam ROCK :D:D! Yes, i\'m back again!