With Erts promoted to the rank of Goddess pilot, the
coveted top spot for head of the class is open once again. Should any Pilot/Repairer team claim this
spot, they’ll be the next in line should a spot on the roster open up. Zero and Hiead are more determined than ever
to outclass one another. But when a
Victim force, the largest ever recorded, begins to overwhelm the Goddesses, the
young men will see battle for the first time.
All of their training, all of their bonding with the Repairers, their
fine tuning as potential Goddess pilots, has led to this battle. Will Zero, Hiead, Kizuna, Ikhny and their
classmates find their dreams at the end of their greatest trial?
Thank God this poor waste of Anime is over and done
with…cause im all out of sympathy, im all out of brain power to dedicate to it
and to make matters worse, there isn’t even an attempt to end on a good
note. I mentioned last week that Pilot
Candidate is the eqivalent of a ship crashing through multiple planets. Well now it hit the inevitable wall…and the
crash is more infuriating than the fall.
What’s kind of funny about this is that the finale is
split into two parts between three episodes.
Episodes 10 and 11 are the last episodes aired of the TV series and
Episode 12 is an OVA meant for…who knows, I don’t even think it itself
knows. Well with all that’s happened so
far, we had to see the boys finally go into battle. There was just one problem and it wasn’t with
Zero (for once). Nor was it the bad CG
failing one last time to live up to any standards or potential. I mean come on: thousands of Victims and the
mechas all move like crap around them? WHO GREENLIT THIS ARTISTIC
APPROACH??!!! Ahem, sorry, right what
problem was worse than that? It was more
on the side of Hiead and Ikhny, but mostly Ikhny. They have never explained how Pilots an
Repairers are paired on GOA but Hiead and Ikhny are the most mismatched of any
of the bunch. Hiead wants to be the best
and kill anyone who gets in his way.
Ikhny is so desperate to earn his approval and praise…she freaking
sabotages Zero’s Pro-Ing without realizing that their training exercise is
about to turn into a live battle. Wow
just…wow. There’s dumb, then there’s
Zero stupid, and now there is Ikhny dumb.
Why didn’t she get a new partner?
Could anyone see she and Hiead weren’t working well together? Could the not so good as his job instructor
take a break from chiding, then smiling at Zero to keep an eye on this kind of
BS happening right under his nose? As
you can tell, this pisses me off but more so, KIZNA FORGIVES HER!!!! Ikhny’s attempt to get her no chance in Hell
boyfriend to look at her and smile almost got Kizna’s partner killed in the
process. You don’t forgive stuff like
that on a mere whim. Maybe it’s because
at that point, the series was done and they didn’t want too many plot threads
dangling when all was said and done…
Except:
Why is Victim so dead set on eliminating Zion? Just what are the Goddesses really? What is Teela’s connection to the head of
GOA? Is there anyone actually alive on
Zion? Why does Kizna cover for Ikhny for
almost killing her partner? What’s up
with everyones pasts getting taken away?
Just who the hell is the girl inside the Goddess who keeps calling to
Zero? Is he still meant to pilot Galoo’s
Goddess and not the White One like he wants?
Was Hiead a serial killer in his past?
Why does Teela not need a Repairer when everyone else has one? Will Zero and Kizna ever make it to where we
always see them in the intro: with Zero in a Goddess Pilot Uniform, piloting
Teela’s Goddess with Kizna backing him up?
You know, just all the questions ive been asking since
the show began that (shocking) never got answered? And then there’s the OVA, which does nothing
to fix that problem. Instead, it offers
us mostly clips from earlier episodes spliced in with a too little too late
flashback to the early days of the current Goddess Pilot roster…except Teela. Focusing mostly on the fallen Ernest, looking
over his brother Erts in the present day, the OVA finale tries to make me care
about a group of pilots we spent way too little time around and I don’t care
about them anymore once the credits started.
Why did the OVA even exist? Was
there a plan to bring back Pilot Candidate for…reasons? Whatever the logic was behind it, clearly
things didn’t pay off. Pilot Candidate
is dead in the water, in the deepest chasm, never to rise again.
Finally I can get into my final thoughts. Pilot Candidate is terrible, worse than I had
been led to believe. The first couple of
episodes work as a very, very rough proof of concept with a dash of nostalgia
for the early days of Adult Swim Anime.
Afterwards, the show becomes a mess of cliché ideas, cliché characters,
cliché mysteries and a crap ton of unanswered questions. The 2D animation isn’t the worst ever in
hindsight but the 3D art never gets better and really drags everything else
down. I mean if anything we should have
some cool mecha battles to look forward to in order to make up for lack of a
good story, right? WRONG!!! And just
when you think things cant get any worse…it just gets boring. I swear I don’t remember half of the story or
any character development, if at all cause I was falling asleep plenty of times
on this one. Though sometimes I was
falling asleep to the soundtrack because it wasn’t bad, certainly better than
this show deserved. And, to some credit,
while they move like garbage, the Goddess designs hold promise, which again is
never really fulfilled.
“For those with wings, fly to your dreams”…or you know do
that but stay as far as you freaking can form this one
I heard this show was bad, but I never expected this
level of bad. Silent Mobius: The Series
can rest a little easy…a show worse than that has come along.
Final score for Pilot Candidate aka The Candidate for
Goddess is 2/10.
Hope that was worth the two week break and build up for
everyone. I’ll see ya next week as I
close in on the 4th Anniversary of the Gundam Anime Corner, starting
with the GAC debut of Kakegurui.
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