GundamGuru

@arbitrarywater: The first episode is downright tame compared to season three (after Kuro shows up). My morbid curiosity and hearing the Kalied Liner movie is surprisingly good (and that Illya’a not the protag) has kept me powering through. It’s about 70/30 plot to fan-disservice. For people who’ve played Fate/Hollow Ataraxia, the regular plot is kinda neat. Season 1’s definitely the worst, plot-wise.

Let me know when you get to Kaleid liner, because...hoo boy...

For what it's worth, I enjoyed my time with Graces F (and I cleared almost the entire game before my PS3 died), but the cast is definitely one of the game's weakest points. It's not awful overall, though. I remember liking the combat, worldbuilding, and overall plot well enough. And some of the minor characters were alright, if I recall (it's been quite a while since I played it).

That's too bad about Legend of the Dragoon. It's one of my favorites from the PS1 era, so much so I replay it every few years. I've got a lot of nostalgia for it, though. It's gotten harder to go back to since the combat is so latency-sensitive. It's pretty rough running emulated on a PS3 through my entire home theater setup.

Yes, but it was an excellent combination of mecha show and a rom com. Fumoffu was all rom com, and TSR was pretty much all mecha. All three series are on Crunchyroll if anybody wants to catch up. I've not seen the fourth season yet.

@arbitrarywater: Yeah, DitF didn't go out with a bang or a wtf, but with a whimper. It's almost as if they changed their minds about the whole plot around ep 19. Were they expecting another season that didn't materialize? Was there some staff turnover? Creative disagreements? In the end, we'll never know, but this is probably the biggest whiplash I've gotten from an anime in a while. Since Eva 3.0, at least.

@bladededge: I'm betting at least 3 to 1 we spend the bulk of the last episode in metaphysics land. I think the real stretch at this point would be hoping for an ending that makes any sort of narrative sense. Once the aliens were in all hope for any kind of grounded conclusion was out the window. At this point, I'm just interested to see just how off the rails it can get.

I guess we'll find out either way on Saturday.

That depends entirely on what you're into and what you have been watching from last season.

That said, nothing leaps out at me.

That's not necessarily true, either. You're right in that LED only refers to the backlight, but there are three main technologies of LCD display in use. In increasing order of quality, there's Twisted Nematic (TN), Vertical Alignment (VA), and In-Plane Switching (IPS). The only way to know what a TV is using for sure is to take it apart and look up the panel model, or read a review (like Rtings) that does. You can generally guess what a TV is by looking at it, though. TN have really bad color shifting at high viewing angles.

I dunno about lazy tribute, there are some shot-for-shot recreations of Eva scenes in eps 20 and 21, but cheesy and over-the-top I could definitely agree with. The Franxx guys clearly really adore Eva. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I'm also not sure how straightforward the ending is going to try to be, especially if they want to go for the traditional Gainax mind screw. Still, though, I will have to admit, these last few episodes were so uneven, rushed, and derivative that it has really tarnished my opinion of Darlifra.

Like what, do tell? I played the Wii U version for like 70 hours and I don't remember anything special with draw distance that stuck with me.