Gen:Lock from Rooster Teeth

[Mazinger]

Looks interesting.  And somehow, familiar:

[Dangard Ace]

We’re cancelling the apocalypse!!

[TangledThorns]

Kinda corny and I hate that style of animation.

[TehPW]

I wonder if Battletech (currently in the Dark Age era) will make those Aerotech VTOLs legal? So it's a basically EVA, Jaegars and the evil dude from Big Hero Six (or at least his bits)? *shrug* more please?

[M'Kyuun]

Seemed like it was going to be more serious than RWBY until the girl and the professor started talking- same vibe, different dressing. I'd kinda like it to be more serious, but I really enjoy RWBY, so I'll give it a chance. Mechanical design is fair- no new ground being broken thus far, but it's still mecha, so I'm interested.

[petervenkman]

Was good until the ............... showed up again at the end of the first episode then it got cheesy, could imagine kids with no knowledge of any mecha shows or power rangers in the last 20 years liking the crap out of it.

 

[RavenHawk]

Finally watched the first episode (you need to be a member to watch the second).

I'll start with this: I absolutely hate this animation style... hate it... but the dogfights looked pretty good (except for g-forces apparently not being a thing and stray gunfire not taking down buildings...).

With that out of the way, I actually thought that the writing was pretty good. The story was decent, and is admittedly the type of storytelling I tend to enjoy. There were flaws, and I have my nitpicks, but overall I enjoyed it. The dialogue was actually a lot better than I was expecting.

As for the mecha designs, I liked them. I thought they looked pretty cool and are nicely designed (especially the fighters, enemy mecha, and enemy soldiers). I agree that the designs are nothing groundbreaking and we've seen plenty of similar before, but I think that's largely because these types of designs have that "realistic believable" scifi look to them.

 

Let's not forget the most important thing:

David Tennant!

 

Yeah, I'm on board.

 

Edited February 1, 2019 by RavenHawk
Grammar is hard... so is proofreading.

[Focslain]

I got thru both eps (thank you VrV), loved Tennant in the second ep. He works well as the semi-crazy scientist. I'm not sure on the OverWatch mech squad they have assembled, but hopefully that will flush out as the series goes on.