the sun!

anyone notice that the sun is shineing?

There is only one time we see the 'sun' shining, and that is Act 14. And even then, it's most likely the stage lights.

What I would guess is going on here is light coming from the main dome. On it's own, it's already yellow, so it's bright just like that. And in Act 12, after Big Duo fired its missiles, it got super bright in there. I wouldn't be surprised if this is just escaping light from that main dome's and other domes' artificial sunlight.

Anyone notice the rollar coasters? jk. I'm sure they built them not from memories, but from the Coney Island ruins that Schwarzwald may not have even found yet..

They show the sun occasionally in the first season.
It's rather weird and it is really debateabl whtehr it is actually the glow from Paradigm Main Dome but even then that dome would would have to be one giant spotlight to give off that much light.

So maybe the sun peeks through very rarely. Or the phantom lights are really doing their job well.

A) Maybe, for some reason, the clouds were a bit thin that day and the fake sun from the lights above was able to shine thorugh better.

B) They hadn't decided to have lights in the sky until they made season 2.

I think B is more likely.

there was sunlight in act 10 as well as act 4 its not posible it was lights
because the lights were so obveos in act26

They could have lit the lights in a sun-shape...I guess...
I still stick by my idea that they forgot what they were doing between seasons.

The sun showed periodically, and there were trees growing outside the dome. If the sun didn't shine, there would be no trees. I think the mostly rainy weather has to do with setting the mood as opposed to any conscious plan on the writers' parts, much like the city in Blade Runner.

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Originally posted by Zola The sun showed periodically, and there were trees growing outside the dome. If the sun didn't shine, there would be no trees. I think the mostly rainy weather has to do with setting the mood as opposed to any conscious plan on the writers' parts, much like the city in Blade Runner.

And the 'Dark City' movie.

Doesn’t Swartzwald fly past where the “lights” would be with Big Duo? I don’t think its necessary to equate the lights with the sun and vice versa, I see the lights as more of a symbol of the “production.”

i think its pretty obvious that there are a bunch of lights hanging above paradigm city, whether there is also a sun somewhere above that i do not know, that is not important, like jonnycooj just said they are a symbol to convey the stage/actor aspect of the plot of the show, trees would still be able to grow even if there is no real sun shining on them, this is why its possible to grow plants in your closet, ultraviolet lighting or something, sunlights, the whole show is an enactment of the apocalypse, or the creation, it is a modern Akitu festival, where venus is marduk and fau o and duo are the star gods of jupiter mars and saturn

Yeah, I cant remember where, but someone once said that during the first season, the writers hadn't completely decided what they were gonna do with Big O yet thus the sun appears in season 1 and not season 2. I rather like that theory, so im sticking by it.

Sunlamps!

OK, my theory is that there's a weather control tower somewhere controlled by the director or automated that makes it rain/sun/wind/whatever. But I don't pay too much attention to the show, so they could have disproved that somewhere along the line.

I remember seeing the sun plainly visible as big and round behind the clouds in one episode. I'm not sure, but I think it was Missing Cat. I watched about half the series on DVD last night so I'm not sure which minor detail I noticed was in which episode, save that Dorothy obviously and noticeably blinks when she finds Pero.

I shall have to check.

Edit: I remembering. Yeesh.

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Originally posted by The_Zip I remember seeing the sun plainly visible as big and round behind the clouds in one episode. I'm not sure, but I think it was Missing Cat. I watched about half the series on DVD last night so I'm not sure which minor detail I noticed was in which episode, save that Dorothy obviously and noticeably blinks when she finds Pero. I shall have to check. Edit: I remembering. Yeesh.

who's to say there isn't a sun behind those dark clouds and the "superdome"?

Hey guys, if the sun never shines, then why is that little girl who's skin is sensitive to the sun not allowed to go outside? All the light is artifical anyway.

You have to remember that originally, Big O was made to sell toys, not to be serious anime. It wasn't until it caught on as a serious piece of anime that the writer's realized that they need to fully develop a plot arc. That is what explains the early glitches in the plot.

The sun is in the second season in "Eyewitness" when Roger and Angel are talking on the beach by the Griffon.

I don't get why there can't be a sun, although an obscured one.

The rows of stagelights aren't part of a solid dome, its more of a lattice structure suspended in the sky. There were clouds above the stagelights, so there could be sun....

The sun needs to be present in some way because sunlight is the source of all energy in an ecosystem. Period. No sun, no life. Artificial light, if I recall, doesn't do quite so well.