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Originally Posted by DevilHighDxD
That's two Martian downed by Inaho and zero for the Earth's army, the emperor seem to be a reasonable authority but easily manipulated. So what you gonna do now Slaine?
There's no need to toned down the amounts of Inaho's brain cells, the Martian is just need to grow some of their own's.
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Yeah basically though at this point I don't see what the difference is between an OP character in grunt mech vs. a character in an OP mech and it's arguably more implausible that there's just some kid who is not only light years ahead of the rest of the Earth Army in fighting against these Martian mechs but is able to do it pretty much alone using only some pseudo-science and basic strategy 101. Characters have not been this shows strength to say the least in terms of plausibility for the setting. The ideas the show has are not bad, but it's just executing on most of them with the blunt force of a sledgehammer and rule of cool factor all the way. It's just kind of.....not exactly what I was expecting 5 episodes in to say the least but has it's moments, though most of them pertain to future potential. If you're just looking for a spectacle I'm sure it's okay, but I kind of had higher expectations for this show for this point in it's run.
My question is what's up with the Emperor? I mean FINALLY and I mean
FINALLY we get a Martian character besides the princess that isn't just a sneering ambition monster whose sole thought process seems to be "KILL ALL HUMANS!" yet early on and with the back story stuff you get the impression this was supposed to be the guy that instilled that idea of superiority in the colonists in the first place. He's also really easily fooled at the end of the episode (more on that in sec) though so I guess it's hard to call him all that reasonable or a factor after all so much as a figurehead. It's amusing though, like so much for the big bad Emperor with the power of Aldnoah that everyone on Mars looks up to and respects enough to reinstate as emperor again.
The emperors reasons for reinstating the conflict really don't make a whole lot of sense to me. It's like he learns the princess is alive so rather than investigating he's just going to reinstate the conflict to get her back? I don't follow the logic of this guy at all? It's also kind of amusing that yet again with an Urobuchi story concept bad things always seem to happen as a result of altruistic tendencies while it's the one dimensional nihilists that don't give a damn about anything that get results. I feel like there's an edict to achieve a certain dichotomy here that is in line with Urobuchi's personal beliefs that without him writing the actual script the current script writer is kind of struggling to carry out effectively and in a sensible way.
Also yet again the weakness to the Martian mech is water, only this time they don't even need to team up and have someone deliver the finishing blow, the mech literally just explodes when it hits the water making this mech possibly even more impractical than the Nikoleras. I mean in 15 years of planning the Martians couldn't reason that maybe they'd need to have units that weren't totally susceptible to being rendered worthless the second they come into contact with a large source of water. The all mighty power of Aldnoah felled by the most common liquid element on the planet.....yeah this show is meant to be about the absurd ironies isn't it.
Not really the strongest showing again this week, but the plot does move forward little by little and it looks like they are sort of almost kind of trying to introduce some nuance to the narrative, but at this rate everything just continues to feel like a foil towards enabling Inaho and it's beginning to make me ask what's the point. He's literally the only character that has been remotely effective in anything he tries to do and who has yet to suffer even the slightest setback beyond some friend dying he doesn't care about. It really relegates the tension I'm probably supposed to be feeling from this narrative to the kind of ho-hum department.
And I must say I never have seen an anime character like Inaho before. Everyone is panicking around him because of war and he is like just keep calm everything will be fine. Almost emotionless. 
