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| I loved the premise and wanted to see anything to distract from the pain. by Mischief Maker 10/26/2017, 7:28pm PDT | ||||
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| But jesus! The whole theme that got me hooked was how precarious the situation is for Sidonia. Just two of the monsters were able to do enough damage to force the survivors to genetically alter future generations to reduce food consumption. Evasive course corrections cause massive casualties and even the survivors are bloodied senseless. The precious few spears that can actually kill one of the monsters provided the pilot is skilled enough are dwindling over time. And worse, the aliens actively want to eat the pilots inside the mech suits and gain knowledge and powers when they do...
...and then season two starts up and it's Questionable Content in the land of plenty. Suddenly on a ship whose genetically engineered photosynthetic crew only eats once a week, there's a 24/7 food stand on every corner where the protagonist can have wacky romantic mixups with the chicks in his harem. Remember when avoiding just one alien was reason enough to sacrifice hundreds of lives? Now they're shooting down swarms of 'em with their unlimited supply of alien-killing bullets. Remember in season 1 when his mech loses an arm and the mechanics opine that they don't have a spare of the older model arms to replace it with? Well in this one they completely rebuild him the older model of mech with magical new armor that is literally indestructible. In fact in the middle of what's supposed to be a really nail-biting battle scene where he's out of ammo and using his mech's sword against an army of aliens, we cut to the engineers monitoring his mech. One says, "That slash reduced the sharpness of his sword 30%" and the other engineer just shrugs, "meh, we'll improve it in the next iteration." AND THEY FORGOT TO FIRE CHEKOV's GUN! They have a whole scene where the engineers make a big deal about passing out human-sized swords made of the alien-killing material to the pilots "just in case." Then later on the protagonist literally has an alien crawl into his cockpit and start strangling him, and he never uses his sword! And speaking of making false promises to the audience, if you resigned yourself to the harem fantasy aspect, the show pretty clearly for something like 50 episodes is promising the protagonist is going to get together with the newly-female ex-hermaphrodite... and he ends up with the giant talking penis instead! So one of the other girls in his harem completely out of left field gets a sex change operation and marries the hermaphrodite! UGH! Are there no cartoons actually out of Japan who can mix weird science with sexuality as well as Aeon Flux did back on Mtv? |
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Knights of Sidonia by 10/23/2017, 7:46pm PDT  Every anime have this same plot and characters NT by 10/23/2017, 8:26pm PDT Oh my god does Season 2 turn to shit! by 10/24/2017, 1:53pm PDT Were you high on painkillers for the first season? by 10/24/2017, 8:50pm PDT Buckle up, son. It can always get worse (and it does, OH IT DOES!) NT by 10/24/2017, 11:45pm PDT From the start it seems worse than Titan by 10/25/2017, 12:22am PDT Gawldangit, why do anyone watch those cartoons made by filthy furriners and shit by 10/25/2017, 12:24pm PDT I did derserve it for watching anime in the first place by 10/25/2017, 8:45pm PDT I loved the premise and wanted to see anything to distract from the pain. by 10/26/2017, 7:28pm PDT I never saw the threat by 10/27/2017, 4:23am PDT Speaking of squandered plot lines... by 10/27/2017, 6:18am PDT Who's the talking penis? NT by 11/28/2017, 10:22pm PST New character in season 2. by 11/29/2017, 6:48am PST |
