This show is just about the most basic story ever told. The character archetypes and narrative cliches are played so straight that you can predict just about every single thing that will happen throughout the entire duration before it happens. Not just plot points, but character moments, jokes, fights, basically everything. It is so absolutely surface level that it's almost impressive how little the show manages to say about anything at all. There's effectively no meaningful character development or narrative themes.
It's directed in a pretty bland way too. Every single piece of world building, none of which is very believably constructed or novel, is rattled off in exposition dumps from a handful of VIP characters. Nothing in the plot is told organically through creative cinematography, it's entirely hand fed through character dialogue. There is zero subtext or subtlety to any given moment.
If the show didn't look and animate like a Trigger show, then it would practically have nothing else going for it. Despite how little value there is to be found in the story, it does still manage to go down easy and entertain well enough by virtue of how nicely polished it is. I just wish all that quality work hadn't gone towards material that was so damn forgettable.
