Heavy Object Episode 3 Discussion

TripleSRank said:
I suspect that all Object's will have redundancies with their Object-integrity sensors after this incident.

Finding the maintenance manual so easily felt a little convenient, and the other soldiers not reacting when Qwenthur attacked the captain felt similar, but otherwise I thought the developments in this episode were both logically sound and fun to watch.


Edit:
Milinda was trying to distract the soldiers so Qwenthur and Havia had enough time to sabotage the Object's maintenance parts. That was a legit development.

ElectricRed said:
Above average episode, a lot of explaining.. Milinea doing stupid sh*t like getting herself captured, and the duo being badasses until they go back to the line of duty

Nidhoeggr said:


At least the Death Star is a better thoughtout super weapon than fucking balls.
And I agree, he is "better" at writing bad battle academy harem stuff than writing war stories.

Ventris said:
Or the fact that a supposedly highly advanced warmachine has no redundancies whatsoever for an obviously important system, no redundancies on its internal sensors and no failsafe to shut down in an emergency. My fucking car is better designed.

Stark700 said:
Pacing of this show feels good.

Devil_Slayer said:


She let herself begin catch so the two idiot can escape because she think they only care about the elite soldiers soldiers that ride the object

Comander-07 said:
This show is so bad why am I still watching it XD

Did nobody ever thought about sabotage? Really?

Frolatyia is the reason to continue watchung this.

MaxXZoe said:
it's like watching a lame action movie but i'll still watch this

is this what they intend to show rather than index 3?

3/5

gophercg said:
Though I had no trouble understanding the ep, nice details OHandS. Sometimes it gets too obvious it's a novel adaptation (extra long wall-of-subtitles explaining stuff), not quite fitting anime format, but they've 24 episodes so hope it smoothes out.
Quite liked them discussing different strategies, weaknesses, recounting their limited weapons assets, & fitting the plan to these specific assets.

Sound: it sounds like lots of work put into the layers of machinery sfx with huge range. But unfortunately the TV source is poorly clipped/compressed. Is there a better original source/raw?
They need to fix that awful fire, wrong scale & way too slow. But that self destruct explosion was really nice & punchy.

matias067 said:
Wow so long...

...what he's saying in short: "Every system has a flaw."

OHandS said:
I finally got around to watching Episodes 2-3. I have to say, while the adaptation is a bit poor in some places, it was still much better than Episode 1. All in all, a great watch. I guess people are finally warming up to it like I expected after the main schtick was revealed and the mission was completed.

Just some notes about things I observed that other people were talking about:

• Fanservice - The only fanservice or perverted moment in these first 3 episodes that came from the novel itself was the belt strap scene that dragged on a bit too much. Everything else was added by the animators. That (short) part in Episode 2 was completely unnecessary.
  
• About the shooting scene in Episode 2 - While the enemy soldiers were being jerks to Milinda, the novel didn't have them threatening to rape her (implied or otherwise). So it was a bit strange have them turned into potential rapists before they were killed by Quenthur and his aimbotting. Not the best change IMO. The original version was Qwenthur getting mentally adjusted to the war mentality without feeling guilty too guilty about it. The anime: "Potential rapists are demons that need to be killed". Just unnecessary.
  
• About Milinda being captured - Both times she acted as the decoy. The reason for the first time was pretty clear but the second time was specifically to buy time for Qwenthur and Havia to finish their sabotage operation.
  
• About the genericity of the opposing force - This time around the opposing force wasn't noteworthy in any way. In the novel, basically no information was given about them. They were just treated as the 'opposing force'. The anime has given some background to them: specifically them belonging to the Faith Organization. At the very least we have been given some idea as to what sort of themes are at play with that force. Ultimately there's no excuse for their genericity other than this being the first mission of the series just establishing the core concept. It'll get better later on.
  

And now to talk about supposed plotholes in the story that may or may not actually be plotholes:




And if you don't buy any of those, then enjoy the series for what it is despite those plotholes.

Aversa said:
They where talking about POW laws while they are violating international laws themselves.
According to international law a 14 year old soldier is a child soldier the use of child soldiers is a war crime.
Armies are not allowed to recruit soldier under the age of 15 on top of that the must do everything they can so that soldiers under the age of 18 take part in hostilities.
I wonder how anime is going to justify a war crime this time.

In any case it doesn't look like they got a better position for the things they did.