Jacut said: Silver Wing is just heartless, brainless, ugly moe-shit without true spirit. People die, nations are at war, the world is dying but it's so badly directed and developped, plus the characters are so utterly uninteresting that we, spectators, don't care. As a follow-up to a great series it's bad, and as a standalone, well... it's still bad. Honestly, it's more of a SoRaNoWoTo sequel than a Last Exile one.
I disagree with this opinion and especially about not caring about any of the characters, and this is far more like Last Exile and it's uniqueness than being anything like that show or any other moe cute show you might be trying to compare it to.
And I think so just from watching the show and how it's been building and escalating and how episode 3 gave almost an entire episode post-conflict to touchingly mourning the dead and the same respect and "true spirit" of flight that the first series displayed in Claus and Lavie's past is displayed throughout by Fam and the Sky Pirate's culture and portrayed as a key element to Fam and Giselle just like Claus and Lavie. The "moe/fanservice-shit" has basically been contained in like three scenes that basically make up all of 3 minutes of 7 24-minute episodes (essentially the intro scene and the maid outfit and the one second shot in the OP) and you're being fooled by Fam's surface reactions to things, every time she's alone you can see she's putting up a front to help Millia (especially after her traumatic intro arc) and Giselle not fall due to things escalating around all of them.
I believe you're somewhat wrong there GreatRumbler, as evidenced in episode 3 when Fam has a moment alone you can see the fuller picture beyond her positive side and while she is the overly-positive type, sometimes it's also clearly a front she puts on (and in all of her more solemn lines throughout this episode usually when others can't see her face, and in the moment just before she tries to talk to Millia on the deck of the Silvius in a later episode she has a strong look before Millia sees her and she changes her expression to a lighter one and tries to raise Millia's morale) where she takes in the harshness of everything that's going on when it won't effect the morale of those around her, like Vash attentive viewers should realize this, I think like Vash she'll have to face harsher situations as the show continues just like Millia and Giselle's current arc where she's starting to feel the stress (and Millia was willing to kill Luscinia to get her sister, so they aren't preaching love and peace, let alone Tatiana who certainly won't and hasn't been preaching that kind of thing either and Fam has shown she'll likely do what she has to keep her comrades safe when the time comes).
Anyway, if someone wants to drop it that's fine but the moe excuse is so over dramatic since despite the fears that there would be so much more of it the pandering has been relegated to extremely minor screentime unless we're now going to consider any show that doesn't have a male lead character to carry a show with the female action lead character for supposed "balance" a moe show just because it centers on three girls, two of whom who even spend the vast majority of their time flying in an airship in combat (and Giselle's engineering and navi skills like the awesome scene where she dissects the intelligence photo of the Silvius) and certainly not doing moe/cute slice-of-life things like in say K-On or SoranoWoto etc. and far less fanservice (and immature jokes/boob-grabbing etc.) than most action shows these days not to mention once again an incredibly detailed unique world and mix of politics, mysteries, and multiple world powers each with several interesting characters already and airship combat and intelligent fleet battles and gorgeous A/V production values and aerial action. Fam's been just as much an action heroine character as most male leads (and most male action leads get away with far more happy-go-lucky plucky attitudes than her, let alone being far dumber, brainless, and naive than she is). Plus there have been plenty of serious events and serious reactions that show that like both the first series and a lot of action series this show will likely continue to grow darker as it goes and things escalate. It wouldn't be the first large scale action adventure to span all of the moods (just like it did in the awesome episode 1-3 arc that covered everything from light to dark and heavy and has been building towards yet again in the current arc outside of the one truly mostly light ep in ep 5), and the first Last Exile had it's share of fun eps and moments especially in the first half which didn't make it any less awesome or serious especially once we crossed the mid-point and ofcourse 26 versus 7 isn't fair and in the first series we were still just scratching the surface as of now so it's still too early to say if it can match the heights of the first series' second half but to me all the elements are definitely becoming present as long as Fam herself gets the rounded development she's clearly capable of and that we've seen glimpses of since so far Millia's changed a ton and now Giselle is getting some good attention. |