Dr. Stone: Science Future Episode 5 Discussion

Uh. Yeah. Well. people don't naturally speak Japanese in America either, yet you just happened to stumble into one who does. Among the few who are alive, too, because lest we forget, the world, by and large, is petrified. But sure, let's draw the line there... I guess? While you start to rebuild an airplane you've never seen before and start to transform your ship into an aircraft carrier... when the enemy knows your position and can strike at any time, because they have all sorts of superiority. Not like all that takes major time, right?

I dunno, for all the suspension of disbelief this series demands, these basic-ass leaps in logic feel like they make things stumble a lot more than the obvious over-the-top stuff. Exactly because they're at such basic level, I'd guess. Not even sure how they switched the talk to the revival fluid either tbh, that felt like something was missing there too.

An underwhelming episode scarred by illogicalities common throughout the anime and time wasting with repetitive unfunny remarks. I'll talk about both:

Let me start by saying that the most logical thing in this episode is the fact that Dr. Xeno can speak Japanese. I mean, he is clever. He may as well be a polyglot, fine; however, such an intelligent guy falls for Taiju's mediocre at best imitation of a genius scientist? Don't get me wrong, Taiju's not a guy who would fail this task when he put his mind to it, well, he wasn't at least. Compared to the previous seasons, as much of a simpleton as he already is, Taiju seems even more dumbed down, not unlike many other characters like Tsukasa. He was supposed to be Senku's aide-de-camp as far as brawn is concerned and he actually was. Serious and dedicated. Now he acts like a circus clown shown around for comedic purposes who just yells every word coming out of his mouth. Anyway, enough digression about Taiju.

Dr. Xeno got duped by Gen's cheesy tactics, fine. He got played by Taiju, alright. But why isn't he attacking after the failed negotiations? What is it, in spite of the location info, that keeps him from simply raining down bombs, which he surely must have after all that bragging about his gun capabilities, on Perseus? The enemy doesn't have to nosedive to fire at Senku's vehicles, they could pull a B-29 Superfortress on Senku's team. X(eno)-29 Sciencefortress. Everything would fit if he's actually 29 too lol. Anyway, he decides to wait instead. To assassinate the leader. Like, what? His side has the vastly superior firepower; Senku's has the close combat advantage. It doesn't make any sense. Not to mention how Senku orders to modify the ship into an aircraft carrier. When they might get attacked any time, having not longer than a day at most. But of course, that's no problem, because we have the good old Kaseki who has already repaired the plane in a few hours' time. In under a day, they have a functioning fighter plane and an aircraft carrier. I get that this is anime logic but still it takes away from the immersion.

Every important thing is rushed: Oh, Dr. Xeno mentions he has Haber whatever, nice for him, rather let's see how Taiju reacts to that because that's more interesting. Wow, Senku's building a carrier? So exciting! But wait a second, here's a 2 minute (9.67% of the non-OP & non-ED episode) long pointless footage of the cretin Magma and his little sycophant à freakishly annoying voice fooling around, have fun haha. Nearly 10% of the episode was wasted for nothing and each episode has many moments like this. More than 3/4 of the episodes is allotted to unfunny jokes and, even worse, to each character taking their turn to explain and comment about the obvious and that repetitively. Same people having the same reactions as ever. Moreover, these scenes are distributed in such a way that they intermit the serious scenes. All is made into a joke as a consequence. Hell, the final boss is here. Who can get more powerful therefore worrying than another scientist? When are we supposed to take him seriously? I, for myself, can say that I feel next to no tension when he's around because all this funnyism has made him look pretty weak, relative at least to what he should've been. He should be giving the audience a genuine worry and doubt at if Senku can really pull it off this time.

This anime is so increasingly turning into ordinary shounen animes whereas it has such a huge potential that makes it kind of unique owing to its story that sometimes I'm obliged to think whether the writer didn't know about science that much after all.

Leaving all this huge wall of text behind, I wonder if I'm the only one to think that the scene where the Amazonian woman rumbled past Gen was so weird with her moaning in that discordant voice lol.

An underwhelming episode scarred by illogicalities common throughout the anime and time wasting with repetitive unfunny remarks. I'll talk about both:

Let me start by saying that the most logical thing in this episode is the fact that Dr. Xeno can speak Japanese. I mean, he is clever. He may as well be a polyglot, fine; however, such an intelligent guy falls for Taiju's mediocre at best imitation of a genius scientist? Don't get me wrong, Taiju's not a guy who would fail this task when he put his mind to it, well, he wasn't at least. Compared to the previous seasons, as much of a simpleton as he already is, Taiju seems even more dumbed down, not unlike many other characters like Tsukasa. He was supposed to be Senku's aide-de-camp as far as brawn is concerned and he actually was. Serious and dedicated. Now he acts like a circus clown shown around for comedic purposes who just yells every word coming out of his mouth. Anyway, enough digression about Taiju.

Dr. Xeno got duped by Gen's cheesy tactics, fine. He got played by Taiju, alright. But why isn't he attacking after the failed negotiations? What is it, in spite of the location info, that keeps him from simply raining down bombs, which he surely must have after all that bragging about his gun capabilities, on Perseus? The enemy doesn't have to nosedive to fire at Senku's vehicles, they could pull a B-29 Superfortress on Senku's team. X(eno)-29 Sciencefortress. Everything would fit if he's actually 29 too lol. Anyway, he decides to wait instead. To assassinate the leader. Like, what? His side has the vastly superior firepower; Senku's has the close combat advantage. It doesn't make any sense. Not to mention how Senku orders to modify the ship into an aircraft carrier. When they might get attacked any time, having not longer than a day at most. But of course, that's no problem, because we have the good old Kaseki who has already repaired the plane in a few hours' time. In under a day, they have a functioning fighter plane and an aircraft carrier. I get that this is anime logic but still it takes away from the immersion.

Every important thing is rushed: Oh, Dr. Xeno mentions he has Haber whatever, nice for him, rather let's see how Taiju reacts to that because that's more interesting. Wow, Senku's building a carrier? So exciting! But wait a second, here's a 2 minute (9.67% of the non-OP & non-ED episode) long pointless footage of the cretin Magma and his little sycophant à freakishly annoying voice fooling around, have fun haha. Nearly 10% of the episode was wasted for nothing and each episode has many moments like this. More than 3/4 of the episodes is allotted to unfunny jokes and, even worse, to each character taking their turn to explain and comment about the obvious and that repetitively. Same people having the same reactions as ever. Moreover, these scenes are distributed in such a way that they intermit the serious scenes. All is made into a joke as a consequence. Hell, the final boss is here. Who can get more powerful therefore worrying than another scientist? When are we supposed to take him seriously? I, for myself, can say that I feel next to no tension when he's around because all this funnyism has made him look pretty weak, relative at least to what he should've been. He should be giving the audience a genuine worry and doubt at if Senku can really pull it off this time.

This anime is so increasingly turning into ordinary shounen animes whereas it has such a huge potential that makes it kind of unique owing to its story that sometimes I'm obliged to think whether the writer didn't know about science that much after all.

Leaving all this huge wall of text behind, I wonder if I'm the only one to think that the scene where the Amazonian woman rumbled past Gen was so weird with her moaning in that discordant voice lol.

@Arxeas its "anime logic" its "shounen", and you rude to says that the writer didn't know about science, so whats happening after all this time since season 1 until now? if you want to judge its science, why dont you talked about it since ep 1? inaccuracies within 1 episode and you mad and judge like all of the episodes its the same, smh

@Arxeas I'm sorry to say this but i've read the manga and Dr Xeno backstory will be revealed, second paragraph, is what we call not underestimate our opponent, and that's why they are very careful when they're making any move considering senku had number advantage and as enemy they might have to be careful about there may be a possibility of backup. The third paragraph, i know you upset about the little 'filler' there but you have to know that's the way to keep the pace of anime so that it will not outpace the manga, i prefer the little 'filler' one than having a slow-mo action or the worst one a rush story. that's all my comment, all I want to say is if you don't enjoy the story just stop watching it, the story might not be for you, better save your time and watch another story instead.

Was I the only one to expect them to fit floaters to the captured plane (making it a floatplane) instead of converting their ship into an aircraft carrier ?