I don't care what my average episode rating was (not that I was rating episodes waaaaaaaay back when I started watching this show…three years ago). Captain Earth is just meh.
The pacing is screwy. Almost every episode has at least one head-scratcher. There's wasted potential all over the place. But instead of using its potential, the show screwed around with teen angst and spent a ton of time showing mechs "expanding" in an overly complicated space-based linear assembly line…because what we need in mecha anime is definitely mechs that don't make sense.
Feels like I can't write a review without tripping over plot holes every five words. I said it in a single-episode comment, but I'll say it again in general: the environment in this show is far too accommodating to the protagonists. Everything always works out just so and they succeed at fixing whatever the problem of the week is. There's always a new prototype Impacter that's not done being tested yet but is available for Teppei or whoever to launch at a moment's notice and use to save the day. I guess you might like (parts of) this show if you're a fan of deus ex machina writing, since there are an awful lot of cases where the perfect gadget (or Akari's hacking skills) just so happen to address the problem at hand.
And again, pacing… ugh. This show spends so much time on nonsense, slice-of-life filler that barely even advances the plot. There are tons of long, dialogue-heavy expository scenes that, well… if you know about screenwriting, you know about "show, don't tell". This show tells. A lot.
So yeah. Meh.
On the plus side, MAL says it took me precisely 1111 days to watch this show, so that's cool I guess.
Review by dgwVIP 10BlockedParent2017-05-14T12:04:19Z
5/10
I don't care what my average episode rating was (not that I was rating episodes waaaaaaaay back when I started watching this show…three years ago). Captain Earth is just meh.
The pacing is screwy. Almost every episode has at least one head-scratcher. There's wasted potential all over the place. But instead of using its potential, the show screwed around with teen angst and spent a ton of time showing mechs "expanding" in an overly complicated space-based linear assembly line…because what we need in mecha anime is definitely mechs that don't make sense.
Feels like I can't write a review without tripping over plot holes every five words. I said it in a single-episode comment, but I'll say it again in general: the environment in this show is far too accommodating to the protagonists. Everything always works out just so and they succeed at fixing whatever the problem of the week is. There's always a new prototype Impacter that's not done being tested yet but is available for Teppei or whoever to launch at a moment's notice and use to save the day. I guess you might like (parts of) this show if you're a fan of deus ex machina writing, since there are an awful lot of cases where the perfect gadget (or Akari's hacking skills) just so happen to address the problem at hand.
And again, pacing… ugh. This show spends so much time on nonsense, slice-of-life filler that barely even advances the plot. There are tons of long, dialogue-heavy expository scenes that, well… if you know about screenwriting, you know about "show, don't tell". This show tells. A lot.
So yeah. Meh.
On the plus side, MAL says it took me precisely 1111 days to watch this show, so that's cool I guess.