The Heroic Age ThreadFollow

I haven't started watching yet. Just finished Chrome Shelled Regios. Will watch all of this week's episodes tomorrow. Also, discussion officially starts Monday, so let's spoiler til then?

I usually assume that any time Lube is posting on Zam, he's drunk and has no idea what is going on. At least one of those is almost always true.

godammit nappa. I'm still working on getting the first 4 episodes

Lighten up Francis, it was a joke. I don't think the revelation that everyone is white was really spoiling everything.

Lighten up, yourself. I wasn't talking about what you had already written, it was just something I was gonna put in the OP when I started the discussion thread, but you beat me to doing so.

Since discussion officially starts Monday, I'm not gonna discuss anything plot related here, but there is one thing I want to bring up. The music. The score that plays fairly often, quite possibly even the theme of the Iron Tribe, is reminiscent of a documentary. It wouldn't be out of place on Planet Earth. And, in my opinion, it works. Really effing well.

This video probably contains visual spoilers, but the music itself is the point, so don't watch, listen.

Well, it's Monday. That means two things.
1)Discussion of episodes 1-4 now no longer requires spoilers.
2)I can finally watch episodes 5-8.

I watched 3 episodes. I mean, I'll finish it, but I'm not really invested in the characters as of yet. I'm sure there'll be something with Age and the Princess, and obviously that one dude is going to have an issue with it.

The twins (I don't know character names, really) are mildly amusing. I really wish that there were subs on Netflix, because some of the dialog just seems so contrived. Sometimes it's easier to swallow when reading it instead of actually hearing a character say it.

Right now, I'm more interested in if Oron is going to end up being fixed, and if his squid pet/friend is going to be there.

Anyway, I'll watch episode 4 tonight maybe. Cheating ahead by reading the Wiki, there is some stuff in future episodes that interests me, but after three episodes, my initial feeling that I would not continue watching is still accurate.

Should have watched Queen's Blade. At least that has some acid-squirting tits in it.

It wasn't really a serious suggestion.

I enjoyed Witchblade. The ending wasn't great, but leading up to that was pretty good.

Also, I think it's considered canon. Which is kinda weird, considering the ending.

Haha, same here with Queen's Blade. There are very few series which I have not finished, but not even the nudity and sexual situations could keep me entertained for more than about 4 episodes (I might have made it 6).

Can we get through week 1 without a derail?

Besides, you said you already watched the whole thing, and you haven't posted anything regarding Week 1's episodes. Complaining about a derail when you failed to bother participating is just kind of dumb.

What are your thoughts on the first 4 episodes? What are you most interested in seeing how it plays out?

Saw the first four episodes, and I'm kinda into it. I was expecting a far more shounen series, but I'm enjoying the freshness of the protagonist not being out to save his friends or humanity (intentionally). I'm a little displeased that aside from the bronze tribe and heroic tribe the rest seem to be entirely human. I'd prefer to see a little more characterization for them though.

Vataro mentioned hoping battles not being the focus of this series. I can't see that they will be. The nodos completely outclass any other force in the series and none of the characters seem to have any delusions otherwise about this. They also don't seem to have any special abilities, so the fights simply can't be interesting, and the writers don't seem to have any delusions about this either.

There are some things that irk me. Mail and Tail, twins that act the same, have similar names, and are mischievous are fairly cliche. For some reason I don't quite find myself doubting that they're qualified for their position, though I know I should. Iolaous being their brother and all of them being the children of the captain seems like a fairly and unnecessary contrived linkage.

I'm getting a view vibes from Towards the Terra. It has similar themes about racial conflicts in space and godly powerful characters, as well as somewhat similar character designs.

My thought was that the other 'humans' that weren't silver were actually iron, but that the iron tribe wasn't as collective as the other tribes. They technically aren't refugees from earth, because they populated another planet long ago, but are still properly of the iron tribe.

It is now past midnight my time, so we are now on week 3. Spoilers for episodes 5-8 are now unnecessary.

See, it gets good. Next time we do this, I'll show some self restraint and play by the rules. I'm afraid to comment on anything, because I don't like spoiling.

Episodes 5-8 hit some of my pet peeves.

1. Space injuries. If you're flying a small craft (mechs) in space, you'd don't get injured. You're either ok or you're dead.

2. Arbitrary willingness to fly. Age can fly whenever he wants to in human form, yet his battle with Karkinos initially begins with silly things like ground fighting and a car chase.

3. Unnecessary cleavage. That commander was packign some serious guns and she wasn't afraid to show them off. I guess a standard issue military uniform couldn't contain her.

4. Space combat is hard to do, and so it can mostly be forgiven for making the same mistakes many other media do. For example, meleeing enemies in space is about the dumbest thing ever.

I'm still enjoying it, but these kinds of things tend to pop out at me.

We are now on week 4. Spoilers for episodes 9-12 are unnecessary.

The next couple episodes <minor spoiler>Spoilerwill still be fighting heavy(just finished this week's episodes). But what just happened on episode 16 was quite moving.

<Much larger spoiler.>SpoilerMehitok(sp?) pledges to fight alongside humanity after Dhianella offers the protection of humanity for his tribe in exchange for his agreement to stop fighting.


Edited, Apr 30th 2012 10:09am by Poldaran

Have yet to watch more of the show, maybe I'll see teh 4 episodes tonight.

I hadn't given much thought to the OP and ED, tbh. I really like the opening song, though.
Edit:
I can agree with ya there. The seconding ending theme from GTO(I think it was the second, no youtube at work to verify) worked rather well for me.

Edited, May 1st 2012 12:23am by Poldaran

I've never had trouble finding opening or ending themes. Them disappearing from my playlist happens fairly frequently, but they can always be found again. Then again, I'm not usually worried about the video part, just the music, so AMVs aren't a problem.

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