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Originally Posted by Kaijo
Hayate: "Okay! We're all in the ship, let's go!"
Lucino: "okay, what's our course?"
Hayate: "Course?"
Nanoha: "Where are we going, Hayate?"
Hayate: "Um, out there? Where no man has gone before!"
Fate: "But, that means we'll be going somewhere the Huckbein aren't. What about the investigation? What preparing to fight and capture them when they appear again? Don't we wantto be ready to protect people so more towns aren't slaughtered?"
Hayate: "But that's not exciting, Miss 'logic and reason!' The people wanna see us out there, flying around in our spaceship! And that sounds like fun to me!" *runs around with arms outstretched, making airplane flying noises*
Nanoha: "What happened to her?"
Fate: "She took advice from an internet forum poster."
Nanoha: "Oooooh..."
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I would pay to see that, it soudns awesome xD!
...what? it worked for the Great Gurren Brigade xD!
But, jokes aside the problem was never the fact the expose things and spent time on investigation, it's more the unecessary amount of time dedicate to that sort of stuff when simply a short glimpse would be enough to imply their doing investigation work. When a character is depicted taking a meal we usually take just a little scene of him/her eating their stuff and commenting something ...what we have here is the entire process of the character cleaning their hands, sitting on the table, playing with the beans, asking for salt, talking about it's day, finishing their meal and then order the plates while taking those to the sink. It's that horrible lack of dynamism in the plot that hurts the "toughtful" moments.
All the good mistery movies keep a health dose of action between investigation scenes that aren't unecessarily specific/detailed.
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Originally Posted by Kaijo
Considering the series isn't over, we don't know what will turn out to be important. And I thought we established the AEC weapons were a work in progress? Despite that, they've somewhat useful. Vita and Nanoha blew holes in the ship to get a team on board. Fate went toe-to-toe with Deville, and Subaru's glove worked.
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A bit picky here but, Fate is not using a lame AEC-unit, she's using her very own super awesome device Bardiche who is by far the most successful (aside of Isis's Perfume Grab who is also a device xD) in battling EC Drivers to date. And Subaru's unit is a special case as it was custom made to work with her exclusive abilities (or any other individual who posses a "Oscillating Breaker" Inherent Skill which are ...Ginga and Nove at max? xDU).
Again it's not about the contents but more about the way those are presented. Kaijo and Sansker are going a bit to the extremes. Pure, mindless action is only good within certain kind of shows ...and Nanoha is not one of those. The characters need strong motivations and reasons for doing stuff otherwise they'll find themselves fighting shallow battles which only drag things around instead of adding to the excitement (as it was the case with Tohma VS. Everyone fight and Signum VS. Cypha Round 2 ...the other fights rank from average to cool ...at least in my book xDU). A healthy balance beween exposition, action and the ocasional comedy/slice of life is required to add to the experience (ViVid suffer heavy from that, it's either all fighting or all diabethic sweetness, not to the point of being jarring but it distracts too much from the important stuff).