Quote Originally Posted by Ryllharu View Post
I'm disappointed they gave away the entire backstory in summarized exposition. Seems like the stuff her dad was discovering in the prologue wasn't that big of a mystery after all...

I guess there's still some tension from the remainder of humanity finding out the truth, but ruining the history surprise for the audience really deflates things. I just think about how LAST EXILE or Scrapped Princess were handled differently and were stronger for it.

This is only a 12 eps series, so I don't really think this will go too far beyond the main two and Hugin.

Gotta disagree. By having the exposition episode 2, the story can now focus on the interesting part: How to save mankind from these virtual slavers?

It would have been boring to have the backstory be a mystery, because then it would have taken the entire season to find that out, and we'd have to pray for a 2nd season to actually answer things.