[Akiyoshi]

^I think it can work the way your wrote it, specially if the movie is upgraded to 2.5 hours like the A's movie was. Developement for characters can be done in one hour without much trouble it's just amtter of stablishing the characters and their motivations. As for the Numbers i totally agree with you, the should be introduced right from the start with the drones just filling their purpouse as mooks to give the expanded cast or TSAB grunts something to do, the Chitauri army in "the Avengers" filled that specific purpouse for example xD. We can have Scaglietty already in possesion of most relic except the one he needs for Vivio and the one Lutecia is searching for.

I already said somewhere esle that with the lots of filler and stretchign the series have it can be crammep up in a 13-episode season without troubles. The same for a 2.5 or 3 hours movie xD