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If I have to watch one more flashback episode, I won’t be held responsible for my actions afterward.

Glass Fleet continues to make me regret the nice things I’ve said about it.  I did some double checking, and every disk of the series thus far, including the first one, has contained a flashback episode.  At this point it appears that the series should have started six months earlier and saved us the entire headache.  I’m willing to bet twenty bucks that the last disk in the series has a flashback on it.  Any takers? 

In addition to the continued poor pacing, Glass Fleet has officially failed at making me care about the two protagonist in any meaningful way.  Michel, while supposedly being a renowned swordfighter, has never actually one a fight on screen that wasn’t a flashback to his/her childhood.  Cleo never showed enough emotion about anything to make me give a crap about him, and his sudden need to save the universe from supposed peril strikes me as odd, being that two weeks ago he couldn’t care less about the goings on of the world he lived in.  I suppose learning the story of his parents tragic past may have stoked the fires of love he had for his fellow man, but he goes from zero to sixty on the Care-o-Meter so fast it is very hard to see where it came from. 

The writers did manage to craft an excellent assortment of antagonist however.  Vetti is still, far and away, the best character in the show.  With a tragic past that is actually tragic (unlike that of either main character) and a selfish motivation to do whatever it takes to unite the universe so that he can save himself from his impending death, Vetti and his actions steal the show whenever they decide to actually give him some decent screen time.  In this volume, he finally drove his wife crazy: she sits in a room all day picking petals off of roses and wisingh Vetti would give her the time of day.  But alas, he’s too busy taking over the galaxy with his man-boy servant to spare her even the kindest of words.  Truthfully Vetti is using his bride to get revenge on his highborn foster parents that abused him as a lad.  Not that he really needs to get revenge on them, he already turned them against each other before killing them both in a fire.

What can I say; you don’t screw with The Man.

Glass Fleet still suffers from the same horrid pacing that has plagued it from day one.  This coupled with the poorly animated space battles and the lackluster swordfights make the average episode drag on for a long while.  I’m convinced that in some bizarre alternative universe, the same show has been cut down two a twelve episode miniseries that chronicles the rise and fall of Vetti, Space Emperor.  It is seen is as one of the greatest shows ever, and is nominated for more awards than they have numbers for.  Sadly here on Earth 616 we have to make do with what we’ve got: which isn’t much. 

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