I’m also not implying that the roaches know anything about human history. I just think it’s something to think about. What if the natives just started fighting back right from the get-go? Then even after you repel the colonists, they come back! With bigger weapons! I’m not saying the terraformars’ actions are moral or anything. So what if we just skip that middle step where both sides try to do business with each other? Again, history tells us it usually doesn’t work out for the natives anyway. All of a sudden, these colonists show up, and they want the place to themselves. And sure, the roaches didn’t start out as natives on this planet, but for the past 500 years, they’ve done their job in making the place hospitable. They often just get subjugated and exploited. One of them remarks, “If there was nothing else, it’d be a beautiful planet.” What happens if we try to see this from the terraformars’ point of view? In most colonization stories, it usually doesn’t work out for the natives. Michelle’s team can’t help but gawk at the Martian landscape. Maybe it’s the sage roach, and it’s meditating on how to shoot some colonist assholes. It’s just staring at the camera and nothing more. There’s an oddly long scene in which we see a terraformar sit before a disassembled firearm. Oh yeah, the roaches can fly now with those tiny wings of theirs. The story is just dragging its feet for whatever reason. Even when the entire group has to split up into six separate teams, each led by a different executive officer, the show goes through the painstaking process of announcing the groups one-by-one. We’re here to watch people fight roaches! But after three episodes, the show can’t seem to deliver on this front whatsoever. We’re certainly not watching the show for its themes. We’re not watching it for the intricate plotting. ‘Cause c’mon, we’re not watching Terra Formars for the deep characterization. But even if this is how it is in the manga, so what? In that case, the studio should’ve taken some liberties with the adaptation to make these scenes a hell lot more interesting to watch than they are now. Maybe it’s like this in the manga, maybe it’s not. I want action, not a shounen circlejerk about how fucking powerful these officers are. The story simply cuts to a dead roach and the officer standing there, looking all smug and shit.Ĭ’mon, man, this isn’t action. With some of the officers, we don’t even get to see them do anything. Then when the fight finally breaks out, our fighters move in super slow motion and take the roaches out in one or two hits. All these assholes do is stand completely upright and stare at their respective roaches for some unnecessarily long amount of time. I say kinda, because we still don’t get our long-deprived action. We thus get to see the executive officers show off their stuff… kinda. So there are six terraformars on the ship, one for each executive officer. Hell, is it ever going to end? How long can you really milk a “Let’s battle bipedal cockroaches!” premise? How else would you explain this sudden attack? Oooh, conspiracy! In any case, I wonder what the big twist will be if this story ever comes to an end. Furthermore, as Shokichi is slowly starting to realize, someone must have planted these terraformars on the ship. But obviously, if the situation was really this dire, they wouldn’t rely on such a ragtag group. The excuse is that they don’t enough money to fund another expedition or something. Naturally, Shokichi isn’t allowed to turn this ship around. That was just the first two minutes of the episode, too. After all, why would you waste a perfectly good pants-wetting scene on a dude? Now, sometimes… sometimes it’s okay to show young boys piss their pants in anime. Urine, on the other hand, is A-OK in my book!Īnd of course, it’s a woman pissing her pants. Wow, are you serious? Welp, it appears I’m in for a wild ride.
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