I've only watching this first episode.
I liked:
Details. It is kinda obvious the details are inspired by other great animations. The show starts off with a cooking scene that's very Studio-Ghibli-like. The details in the city and the mechanical elements were pretty in-depth.
Camera shots on-point. Panning, camera shakes, well-thought camera shots take advantage of the show being created in 3D. Very responsive panning where fighter breaks into vertical hovering. Shot of some citizen sitting inside their apartment from outside the window, through the glass. Pretty good perspective shots.
Sound effects. There's good detail in the sounds. The faint electronic pulses of the equipment. Jet firing bullets sounding crisp with clear metallic sound of the casings being discharged. Explosions are solid.
I didn't like:
Dumb nonsense that's on part with cheap horror film character logic. Here are some examples, beware of spoilers.
Soldiers disregards alert to joke and make out. Main character (?) disobeys direct order and does whatever he wants on a whim. Calls his mum on a phone as he flies into battle. Breaking formation and flies off to whatever direction he wants without communication. Going awol and firing EMP missile (they call it something else but we know what it is) after being directly ordered to retreat. And this guy is somehow at the end rewarded/given special treatment instead of immediately discharged? Female character's life was saved by mechs that suddenly appear, better angrily and disrespectfully demand the Colonel for the identity of the mech pilots for no good reason; in front of the whole conference. Woman holding baby watched an extraction helo get shot down by a cannon, immediately hands her baby to the next helo she sees, while the cannon is barely 30 yards away. Mechs taking shells straight to the face uses thin sheets of glass to protect the pilot in the cockpit. A dogfight?! In-between skyscrapers in a densely populated city? Shooting 90% of your bullets straight into office/apartment buildings? Green for go! Spider mechs from Destiny 2 are shooting rounds that drop to the ground at the same speed and distance as a tennis ball. That doesn't even cover half of it. I can't stop myself from asking out loud at my screen, "Why? That makes no sense! Why?"
Cliches, man. Must fulfil the quota on each skin color for the group of main characters so that no one will feel left out and get upset. Statue of Liberty getting destroyed. New York! Hacking by simply pointing deus-ex-hacking-tool at the thing you want to hack. Also literal deus ex machina.
Pointless suspense/surprise. Main character's jet slowly glides through the smokes and makes an explosion at the end. Yea, we know he's not dead, don't need to hide him for the rest of the episode and then show him at the end like nobody expected to see him. Surprise! She was a hologram! Surprise! Him too! Random character work in haste to seal the hole on his glass but dies anyway, yes that surprised me, but I don't care about this random character I'd never seen and don't even know his name.
It's definitely a cool show for kids but for a logical and thinking adult this show didn't do too well in the pilot episode, at least not for me. You should see for yourself in any case because only you can make your own judgements.
I liked:
Details. It is kinda obvious the details are inspired by other great animations. The show starts off with a cooking scene that's very Studio-Ghibli-like. The details in the city and the mechanical elements were pretty in-depth.
Camera shots on-point. Panning, camera shakes, well-thought camera shots take advantage of the show being created in 3D. Very responsive panning where fighter breaks into vertical hovering. Shot of some citizen sitting inside their apartment from outside the window, through the glass. Pretty good perspective shots.
Sound effects. There's good detail in the sounds. The faint electronic pulses of the equipment. Jet firing bullets sounding crisp with clear metallic sound of the casings being discharged. Explosions are solid.
I didn't like:
Dumb nonsense that's on part with cheap horror film character logic. Here are some examples, beware of spoilers.
Soldiers disregards alert to joke and make out. Main character (?) disobeys direct order and does whatever he wants on a whim. Calls his mum on a phone as he flies into battle. Breaking formation and flies off to whatever direction he wants without communication. Going awol and firing EMP missile (they call it something else but we know what it is) after being directly ordered to retreat. And this guy is somehow at the end rewarded/given special treatment instead of immediately discharged? Female character's life was saved by mechs that suddenly appear, better angrily and disrespectfully demand the Colonel for the identity of the mech pilots for no good reason; in front of the whole conference. Woman holding baby watched an extraction helo get shot down by a cannon, immediately hands her baby to the next helo she sees, while the cannon is barely 30 yards away. Mechs taking shells straight to the face uses thin sheets of glass to protect the pilot in the cockpit. A dogfight?! In-between skyscrapers in a densely populated city? Shooting 90% of your bullets straight into office/apartment buildings? Green for go! Spider mechs from Destiny 2 are shooting rounds that drop to the ground at the same speed and distance as a tennis ball. That doesn't even cover half of it. I can't stop myself from asking out loud at my screen, "Why? That makes no sense! Why?"
Cliches, man. Must fulfil the quota on each skin color for the group of main characters so that no one will feel left out and get upset. Statue of Liberty getting destroyed. New York! Hacking by simply pointing deus-ex-hacking-tool at the thing you want to hack. Also literal deus ex machina.
Pointless suspense/surprise. Main character's jet slowly glides through the smokes and makes an explosion at the end. Yea, we know he's not dead, don't need to hide him for the rest of the episode and then show him at the end like nobody expected to see him. Surprise! She was a hologram! Surprise! Him too! Random character work in haste to seal the hole on his glass but dies anyway, yes that surprised me, but I don't care about this random character I'd never seen and don't even know his name.
It's definitely a cool show for kids but for a logical and thinking adult this show didn't do too well in the pilot episode, at least not for me. You should see for yourself in any case because only you can make your own judgements.
