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The Stream - A Whole New World

this is turning out just like every single Aniplex thread. we argue over the same thing week after week and im amazed that any of you still watch it.

Key wrote:

And you get so incredibly overzealous about trying to pick shows apart and make big deals of things that aren't actually a problem (or at least not a big problem) that I'm amazed that you can still enjoy anything anime-related.

Says the guy who made a big deal out of Usagi Drop's final two episodes.

No, I want you to see it as a problem in the first place instead of defending it. I said that Scrapped Princess is still a good show after those two episodes, but you refuse to even acknowledge that it could have been better handled.

I'm saying that you don't consider any evidence that doesn't match your preconceptions, even if it is right there in front of you. Evidence being the show we all are actually watching.

Putting to one side the technical terms which these characters wouldn't be expected to know, none of the siblings even understood the general gist of it, not even when Senes put it very simply in episode thirteen around the 09:50 mark.

Pacifica still thought spoiler[demons and not humans had constructed the Skid at episode thirteen 15:34 mark.]

To have three exposition/infodumping scenes - the bridge (which has two bouts), the power core and the starry sky - in just an episode and a half is annoying as heck. Yes, new information is introduced each time, but old information is also repeated as well. And I still don't think that Pacifica understood what was going on. After all the careful foreshadowing it was painful to see the series do this. Obviously a lot of information to get across, but it was so clunky.

I was very disappointed with Senes and Eirote using those big technical words in the first place when they were explaining. I can understand the Dragoons using them - they aren't human, after all - but Senes and Eirote must have known how difficult it was to understand all of this since they went through the same process.

Key wrote:

No, I'm wondering how he's going to accomplish all of that in one week, too, but I'm not so incredibly jaded that I can't enjoy the process of finding out.

Missing the point, much? The fact that he is of course going to do all of this in a week is a problem in and of itself.

He's a wish-fulfilment character and he's written like one. That means a quality of writing found in the average fan-fic. Don't tell me you only care about the quality of a work when doing a review?

The rest I will let go for now, since it's getting very late on a work night. I will address it in a later post once I've had time to track down the comments that I was referring to.