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Originally Posted by Hagoshod
Then don't start your side story with a double length pilot episode explaining on how this is a story about a losing struggle against an alien race where so many adult soldiers have already been slaughtered and the situation is so urgent that children have to be rushed to the frontlines (and they're not doing much better themselves.)
It's that simple.
Yeah, you can say "Well the series isn't that bad if you just look past the single most giant idiotic misleading fault in the writing," but at the end of the day it IS still a giant idiotic misleading fault in the writing and it deserves all the criticism it has coming.
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The first two episodes were necessary because the anime adaptation needed to be accessible to newcomers, and the Total Eclipse novels didn't have a very newcomer friendly intro. How do you expect someone with no familiarity with the Muv Luv verse to understand the importance of weapons development projects like XFJ if they haven't seen what humanity is up against? And how do you expect anyone to understand Yui's attitude if they haven't been introduced to Muv-Luv's alternate history version of Japan?
In my opinion the problem with the first two episodes isn't that the writers were idiots, its that they did their jobs a little too well. :P The rest of the series is actually a pretty decent action/drama if you ignore the occasional bit of annoying fan service/harem material.