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Well, at least it's a formula instead of white noise.

Impressions:

This makes a somewhat stronger case for itself than Macross did, mostly on the back of one minute of an excellently-done fight and being formulaic as hell, but a fomula that is actually (theoretically) finally setting us up for the grand adventure. It's a problem that we're only getting the Refusal of the Call etc three bloody episodes in, but maybe now that they've finally set forth from the village, this thing can get started. But it'd be pretty naive to believe that when there are still so many talking heads to head.

And of course, just because I know and understand the point of this formula, that doesn't make it any less of a chore to go through as it hits all the standard beats of evil visiting the village, rebelling against the authority figure, etc, especially coming after the first half of the episode which was almost all continued blathering. We really could've been to this point after a single episode if you cut out all the idiotic rambling.