“You got fucked!” aw man, that is definitely a satisfying arc ending. I also like Dutch as the intelligent but also occasionally crazy captain I like that Rock’s plan relies on figuring out the enemy psychology It relies on a love of violence that isn’t even coherent as far as those things go Execution in general feels relatively high-quality, but workmanly in its style – not too much personality to it The faces are fairly expressive without moving into caricature. Aesthetic is a mix of thick lines and alternately bright/subdued colors. Oh right, and that really nice transition EDĪnimation is solid but unremarkable. Basically a light dusting of reality over wacky ultraviolence The show grounds its conflicts in theoretical mercenary global politics, but it’s all exploitation stuff in truth. “Take this, you war junkies!” in the sub is “Take this, cocksuckers!” in the dub, which is pretty representative “Don’t you know you gotta enjoy life or it’ll slip away” Of course, first episodes usually aren’t the hard part Introducing characters and conflicts very gracefully, moves very fast. Yeah, this is a great first episode so far. Nice scene of the director forgetting Rock’s name within two minutes
Gets to the point in a show that needs it There’s really just that one interesting shot with the newspaper I guess I’d just watched many fewer OPs when I saw it the first time. I remember this OP being a lot better than it is. You can check out my megasized review over at ANN, or my many, many notes below! It certainly doesn’t mean I’d recommend the show, but I always appreciate how having to watch something I wouldn’t normally watch for review ends up establishing these interesting, unexpected media relationships.Īnyway. But the storytelling actually improved a fair bit in the show’s final third, which was a nice reward for my time. My initial feelings on the show weren’t substantially shifted by finishing it – the show’s attempts at seriousness were still both overwrought and deeply undercut by its absurd villains, and ultraviolence for its own sake remains Not My Thing. No half measures here, I watched twenty-nine goddamn episodes of gunslinging and explosions. The whole damn thing, too – the first season, the Second Barrage, and even Roberta’s Blood Trail.