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Originally Posted by Marcus H.

On the other hand, taking away details haphazardly would disappoint some of the fans of the franchise. In fact, I'm not surprised if there are already users from 2ch that are pointing out the stuff taken out by Sunrise in the adaptation.

That's always the risk when it comes to making an adaptation. Horizon is one of those works where it seems that deviating farther from the source can only benefit the show.

Originally Posted by Znail

You are making the assumption that plot and character interaction is somehow inferior to combat scenes. There are quite a lot of animes that manages fine without a single combat scene even! I don't think this anime is aimed at people who fall asleep if there isn't any fighting every few minutes.

Originally Posted by Einst

Well do you expect them to charge into enemy ship to save horizon? This is not show where the MC go gung-ho after found out the girl he likes taken away in front of his eyes.

This episode is pretty much explained about the consequences if they attack testament union without thinking and how to solve that. They all want to save horizon but dont have concrete way to do so, hence they hold the discussion because what they want to do will affect the far east.

I think that you're under the misapprehension that the only way to capitalize on built-up tension is to go with more action sequences. However, that isn't true at all.

Look at the end of episode 5. It promised that there was going to be absolute chaos ahead, with war and conflict and so on. A good follow up would have been to show the various nations preparing for war, or some sort of desperation or some validation for what had occurred in that episode. However, the first real scene in the episode 6 proper is an old guy sitting on a patio. This serves to drain any tension that had been achieved for little purpose.

Seriously, would the narrative have been hurt in any way if this episode had been skipped altogether?

Originally Posted by serpiente

Forget about structural issues and enjoy the episode! Its quite moving, on a human level. But if you prefer GC and overpowered teenagers beating mechs with a sword, while being dumb and predictable the rest of the episode, no one can ask you to enjoy a series with REAL plot, colorful characters with actual personality (instead of mere embodiments of "structural" stereotypes) and a political situation a little more complicated than good vs evil.

I'm afraid that the only scene I liked in the whole episode was the one with Muneshige and Ginchiyo. I find the plot, the characters and the political situation to be unengaging, unexplored and uninteresting.

Both Guilty Crown and Horizon have their strengths: Guilty Crown is better at the actual storytelling part so that it's easy to see where the characters stand, the lead up of events, and so forth. Horizon is better at tonal separation (for the most part) so that its serious scenes have some dramatic weight and the silly scenes are appropriately absurd. However, neither is a good show because of their other shortcomings.