Anime Discussion Thread - Page 6269

On April 07 2018 03:43 Nezgar wrote:
I'm at a bit of a loss when it comes to LOGH. I have watched the first episode of the remake and it reminded me of why exactly I dropped the original after just 2 episodes.

Everything about that first battle and the characters involved and the dialogue just feel absolutely wrong. Nothing makes any sense to me.
Just looking at the strategical element of that battle, it's a giant clusterfuck. Apparently one side can out-scan the other side, block their communication, fire from a greater distance, move significantly faster, win a 20k vs 12k battle within seconds and intercept their communication while the other side... just watches and dies? If this is a representation of the relative strengths of their technology and strategic understanding, why is there a 100+ episode series about their war against each other when it's so blatantly obvious how far ahead one side really is. I could go into much more detail as to how both sides went full retard with the "we will surround them" - "no, we will thwart their plans by attacking first" kind of nonsense.
Apparently spaceships behave like regular ships or cavalry and need to have a wide arc in order to turn around and face attacks from the rear instead of... you know, just turn around on the spot like you'd be able to in a spaceship thanks to thrusters?
The dialogue is as cliche as it can get. At least in the remake they did away with messenger boys running errands with handwritten stuff on a piece of paper as their main form of communication on a star-faring battleship. Still it feels incredibly stiff and I had the same feeling when I tried to watch the original a few years ago.

And this is just scratching the surface here. Almost every single scene was... simply not good. I had a hard time convincing myself that if the writers and directors did such a poor job with the opening of story, it would somehow transform into this perfect and epic space saga that rightfully deserves to be called one of the very best series ever made.

What am I missing here? What changes later down the line and how?