Qualidea Code #04 — Skeet Shooting

July 30th, 2016

 

Oh no. They're flying randomly around in the air again.

Impressions:

I love the scene at the start where there's an explosion off-screen, they look up and see that half the wall is gone, and then when they cut back, there's wreckage all over the ground. Then they forget and all the wreckage disappears again. At this point, they spend a while talking before simply skipping over the rest of the 'fight.' How lazy are your animators? And after the horrible injury at the end of last week, it's a whole ten minutes before she's back on her feet and back into the 'fight,' not that the thingies were actually fighting back at all. Every now and then, the antenna would glow and shoot a large, slow-moving laser. Everything else was skeet shooting.

I think that this is probably about as good as it gets though, and I may call it quits here because the action is awful, the story is worse, and it seems to be allergic to focusing on any of the characters that aren't terrible. Even when it does, it's usually just to listen to them blather with a close-up of their faces while all the interesting stuff happens off-screen or is skipped over. Its dedication to 'action' seems just to be to occasionally show random blobs getting pew-pewed at, and the slow motion freeze-frame climax? Christ. Whoever thought that would look good should be fired. Out of a cannon. The only saving grace of this episode might be that they might have killed the idiotic blonde girl. Again. Because why not recycle an angsty climax two episodes in a row? I give her about a 5% chance of actually staying dead.

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5 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • UltimaLuminaire says:
    July 30, 2016 at 3:29 pm

    Not to mention everything fading to white in a glorious slideshow.

    Thinking on the blonde girl (I can’t remember anyone’s name in this show), she was literally dumb, but I don’t think she had any more too-dumb-to-live moments than the rest of the cast. Aside from maybe 1 character, the rest are just executing solutions to problems that should basically get them killed. Even the city itself is just asking to get blown up, like by one of their own. The only thing saving any of the characters is how little sense this dubious setting makes. One can only hope more alien laser-guided canon balls the size of a Good Year’s blimp exist. Some of the cast might start actually taking things seriously? Who knows? I’m thinking of sticking with the show for another episode just to find out.

  • Eric says:
    July 30, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    “The only saving grace of this episode might be that they might have killed the idiotic blonde girl. Again. Because why not recycle an angsty climax two episodes in a row? I give her about a 5% chance of actually staying dead.”

    Actually, there is a 100% chance of the “idiotic blonde girl” being dead. In fact, I knew she would die this episode when I saw the title of this episode in last week preview:

    “Canary in the Coal Mine” (miners used carry down caged canaries into the mine tunnels with them. If dangerous gases such as carbon monoxide collected in the mine, the gases would kill the canary before killing the miners, thus providing a warning to exit the tunnels immediately.)

    Having the name “Canaria” in an episode titled “Canary in the Coal Mine” is the ultimate death flag. She is 100% dead, and her death is going to drive the plot forward by serving as a warning of some kind.

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    “I can’t remember anyone’s name in this show”

    Some names with special meaning are worth remembering. Ever since I saw the name “Canaria” I knew she would die, and that this show was going to go into dark territory.

    • UltimaLuminaire says:
      July 31, 2016 at 2:43 am

      Unfortunately, my case had nothing to do with whether the show would be dark or not.

      Her name and death being the ONLY foregone conclusion, if anything, makes the writing more distressing. Death flags have been dealt everywhere in action already. If a character is going to use bombs (planted when?) willy-nilly like a night-light switch to de-rail and re-rail a train, then those characters involved should be dead or put in jail for their stupidity. The threat of the laser beam was never relevant compared to the idiocy of the scenario and the disinterest of the central characters to their immediate crisis. Aroduc has a point that characters will safely jump into the front lines, far from one another, because either nothing is firing at them (both this an last episode), or literary Jesus died for them to live. It wasn’t that Canadia’s power made them invincible, it was supposed to just made them hit harder. However, the show really didn’t care how it explained things so long as it’s able to show off how epic and/or flippant its characters are.

      The list of troubles continue. Maybe the light novel explains it all. Maybe it doesn’t. However, as far as the show is concerned, the stakes are teetering off with every dumb decision that goes relatively unpunished, outside of the girl’s death. That’s why I’m going to stick around for another episode and see if they’ll actually do the massacre that should have happened last episode. Also, because I enjoy train wrecks, but that’s whatever.

  • The Phantom says:
    July 31, 2016 at 2:23 am

    LOL at the “lets finish this battle with stills because we have no budget” it was hilariously bad.

    I do admit that if they killed helium brain dumb blondie they have balls and this show is going into better territory, however if she appears next episode I am so done with this BS.

    • Marisa says:
      August 1, 2016 at 9:25 am

      Agreed. The cliffhanger endings showing the possibility of the blonde girl being dead plus more than enough death flags is frustrating. Don’t dangle a character’s possible death in front of me again and again. That can only work for so long. If they do have the balls to kill off the blonde girl this show getting dark will show some improvement.

      Good lord, the animation showing the end battle was terrible. It was key animation showed as a slide show and they didn’t even show the destruction of that big unknown thing. Ooops, it disappeared and everything is cool now. See? The sky is blue. I’ll stick for the next episode to see if the show does actually kill off one of its MCs. There is the possibility the show will do a cop out and have her vanish, her body missing, no one can find her and then she somehow comes back before the end of the 12 episodes. Or they find her and she’s in the hospital again, but there’s another attack and she gets hurt again in an endless cycle. Or it’s a happy episode and everyone ends up in the hot springs.