(Apr. 26, 2021 5:29 AM)Zeutron Wrote: (Apr. 26, 2021 3:41 AM)Admiral W Wrote: I don't think I'm confusing anything. I'm talking about episodes 6 (this is actually the episode Silas joins) & 7. Those episodes were directly prior to the start of thTeam members leaving, Blade european league. To you it may be boring lame drama, (episodes I enjoyed) which is fine, to each their own, but it was actually important to see the state of the team. Any arc needs a foundation for said arc to be successful. BC Sol's Journey to becoming a cohesive unit and becoming the best in the world needs to start with us seeing their disunity and failure in the beginning. We saw the disunity in those episodes, we see the failure in more consequential episodes later. I'm specifically about the atmosphere and interactions of the team.
When you take a look at those episodes and see the interactions between the team members, you can see how of much of mess the team is. Like a character arc we need to see where they begin. Set up and pay off. That's how arcs are usually executed. If I want to execute an arc of the team becoming a well functioning unit by the end, I need to display disunity in the beginning.
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members like Valt being degraded as not deserving to be on the top team and blamed for bladers leaving, Silas calling out bladers for just riding Free's coatails. Stan stating that bladers don't even belong on the team. All of that disunity was displayed in those two episodes as set up for the unified team they become in the end. The atmosphere of BC Sol is so different later on. We only notice that change because of how those episodes showed the state of the team in the beginning. It may not be your cup of tea, but it was still important set up.
Episode 7 was the beginning of the match between Cuza's team and Bc Sol so it does not count as a filler episode and even if it did, it was very uneventful. Also, episode 6 was in no way essential. It was generic and has nothing particularly special to its setting beyond those teeny moments you an expect from any episode. As you said yourself, we see the consequences of their reliance on Free in later episodes and
those are the events that matter. The episode was not very explicit and the supposed disunity is not apparent or all that entertaining, if that. The consequences don't come as a rude awakening based on these episodes and the viewer is instead hit with a surprising reality check by the consequential episodes.
The filler moments hardly even showcased anything correlating with the reliance on Free, the focus was shifted onto irrelevant members of the team experiencing their own nonsensical problems, or voicing their unmotivated dislike of Rantaro and Valt, that's all it was and that is why I told you that you were confusing things, ep 7 isn't a filler episode and episode 6 is one of many filler episodes and one of the very few that focused on the actual dysfunctionion and problem as a team as opposed to empty/idle episodes or the episodes where characters left due to personal problems that didn't concern the team. You mentioned the filler episodes showcasing the dysfunction but that was already clear to the viewer when you watched just about any other episode. Having characters mope around while this happens is just another use of transitional episodes.
"members like Valt being degraded as not deserving to be on the top team and blamed for bladers leaving." Yes, and this is exactly one of the things I address as lame drama. Frankly, it makes no sense that Valt and Rantaro are being hated for no reason nor does it correlate with the true problems of Bc Sol. The bladers leaving (for reasons that don't concern the issues of the team itself) are just another excuse to add an unnecessary and unconvincing emotional appeal to the viewers simply because it isn't time for tt to showcase their new product. This type of drama has nothing to do with the team and the drama that does do anything for the plot is not filler. Free leaving the team does not occur during a filler episode.
I will admit that certain small little moments in those filler episodes such as the expression and little moments with Silas are good, but the 10+ minutes of nothing are still there and still as pointless as ever. In Db we can enjoy every moment we have with the trio (or at least I can) and they don't need a boring setting or rediculous emotional appeal in order to establish the same structure and realism god did.
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I've enjoyed those episodes so I didn't find them boring, and showing the acutal interactions between the members set the atmosphere for the team and was important to show, so we can really appreciate what the team became at the end. There is a way you arc this out. I could go into detail on some of the things mentioned but k don't think it will matter. I don't think anything either of us say will cause us to come to a meeting of the minds on this so let's agree to disagree.
PS: the quote thing is acting weird for some reason.