天下制覇

Yeah. That fits right in.

Impressions:

Maybe the addition of a lesbian pirate surfer queen on a lobster robot will quell any misguided notions that this is something that had any serious thought put into it and will explore anything but the most superficial themes in extra talky form because look at these tits and lesbians, man, but I have my doubts. I also feel like someone needs to explain basic physics to them, because that part where the little slave speedboats were trying to pull via cables on their prows and came to a dead halt and kept tugging in place churning water showed a reckless disregard for what Bill Nye fought Professor Nemesis to teach us all.

But anyway on to the exceedingly, exceedingly dull other 15 minutes of the episode that didn’t involve mostly stationary CG boats with explosions literally just plopped right on top of them and some of the worst military planning since the last time I watched any Japanese show involving military ‘planning.’ Predictibly, we got not only a shout of "Red, you stupidhead!" but a sitdown to explain that pirates are people too before we then turn around and start shelling them. I feel like this moral lesson needs some work. Not that I would have liked it had they continued the temper tantrum approach to it like they started it out as either, mind you, but even with the two week gap, the lack of any actual conflict between characters in these episodes is making them very, very dull affairs of characters just talking at each other while the rest nod. Which is kind of ironic considering the invincible giant robot at the center of it, but that’s so far mostly been a conversation piece when it’s not committing genocide against space snails, pirates, or mounting lesbian pirate surfer queens. 

If you want to focus on Waterworld pirates vs robot, fine. Drop all the wafer-thin preaching (and the obnoxious cutesy girl), make the robot a little less invincible, and give the protagonist a personality so it’s actually interesting. If you want to just preach dimestore nonsense about peace, love, and understanding, I’m probably going to just wonder where the lesbian pirate surfer queen fits into that.