== What *Space Dandy* has just taught me about my tastes in anime

Despite what I said in [[my early impressions of this
season Summer2014Brief]], I've [[effectively suspended
https://twitter.com/cks_anime/status/496112167754928128]] *Space Dandy*
because I just felt no particular motivation to watch the fourth episode.
[[As before LearningFromSchoolRumble]], this has brought me around to
a realization about my tastes.

Put simply, interesting animation turns out to not be enough by
itself to get me to watch a show. *Space Dandy* is clearly a showcase
(of both animation and storytelling) and this season it has been
doing quite a good job of that, but [[as I mulled over it on Twitter
https://twitter.com/cks_anime/status/496434839567233024]] the problem
for me is that there is nothing more there than that. I clearly want my
shows to be doing something and going somewhere, or at a minimum to be
really funny (cf [[*Seitokai Yakuindomo* SYDReactions]], and even that
has ongoing developments that build on themselves).

(This may also be one of the reasons that the 'cute girls doing cute
things' genre doesn't resonate with me. There's a part of me that
watches and goes 'yes, and?'. There's also [[season 2 of *Dog Days'*
DogDaysS2Problem]], where I articulated basically the same issue.
Apparently things take a while to get through my skull.)

The short way of putting this is that *Space Dandy* is the anime
equivalent of empty calories, even if they're pretty tasty empty
calories. I've evidently had my fill of those and as a result *Space
Dandy* is not for me.

(There's an irrational bit of me that regrets this and really wants to
be able to fully enjoy the skilled artistry on display in *Space Dandy*,
and an even more irrational bit that thinks it's necessary to that to be
an anime fan with good taste. And it's not like I haven't enjoyed the
episodes when I watch them. It's just that every time I think about
watching episode four of S2 I decide that I have other things I'd
rather do.)