天下制覇

I’ll add the rest of the title if the show manages to ever add those elements.

Impressions:

And the search for something on Saturdays that doesn’t make me want to just go back to sleep continues. At least they actually made it into space this week, and it only took them half the episode to get there. The entirety of the first half could be summarized as "Oh no, kidnappers" and "Shoot guns by pulling the trigger." And yet, it was more eventful than the second half. We do not need to see every single little triviality of the universe. That is not how you create a setting, particularly a science fiction one. It’s space. They’re on a space ship. You can gloss over things. Star Trek didn’t begin with an inch by inch tour of the Enterprise and 10 minutes on how phasers work followed by a detailed tour of how Wesley would perform a scan. Go fly into a space net and get humanity put on trial by a capricious, vaguely effeminate demiurge already. If you need to explain anything, call it a tachyon burst and then give it a folksy metaphor, like "putting too many sharks in a room full of rocking chairs."

It would also help matters if characters had any kind of personality. Sure, they’re not angsty, but thus far, all most of them have done is spew out exposition. Marika being the exception, who has stood there and listened to it with less emotional range than your average silent RPG protagonist. Of course, that does get back to the core problem with this show thus far; Nothing’s happening. It’s all setup but with no purpose and no drive… and therefore, no reason to care about it. It’s doing nothing to invest the audience in the characters or the story. In fact there’s not even a story yet, just unnecessary futzing around. Hopefully Brave 10 will have a decent episode so I can pitch this and not look back.

Preview:

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