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Heavy Object (TV).

First of all, please use spoiler tags when discussing the source material.

Second, to answer your question (which is a very interesting question IMO. I don't really often see that kind of question posed, in the form of "ok so given this first episode, this starting point, what do you want this thing to focus on the most?"

What I would have focused on more to improve ep 1 and its focus on everyday life is: have more conversation about the main characters' home lives, and everyday operations around the base, rather than going to hunt a moose. To me, I'd rather things not be afraid of being boring and have characters have more serious and meaningful conversations with each other rather than trying to be funny.

What HO can do to improve my perception of the series is to continue to conceptually explore the idea of the way Objects changed the world, and the way people's thinking and society's decision making is different in a world that has them, as well as exploring the political structure of this new future, and I guess in general going into what people and things are like here. Go more in depth about how these things work physically and what was the process and history behind their development. Focus on the characters thought processes and motivations, have interesting conversations where nuanced and difficult decisions are getting taken, and have the characters personalities and life philosophies factor into all of this in an interesting way. I like it when characters have motivations and reasons for why they do what they do that are deeper than just 'my emotions say that this is what I should do'.

Or above all, surprise me! Go somewhere unique that blindsides me from left field! (and I mean something with depth here. Just plain wacky and stupid doesn't really surprise me) I always want to be exposed to content and ideas that I didn't anticipate.

In other words, I want this thing to go right for the Real Stuff and not just end up being some over-designed characters twirling pipes and shooting moose. Maybe I'm asking too much of this thing, but I'd like to think it could actually deliver on at least some of that.

Let's be clear about one thing up front: despite what the name of the series and its advertising blurbs might suggest, this is actually not a mecha series – or at least not a conventional one, anyway. If you come into it expecting to see yet another tale about young people operating giant humanoid combat suits, you'll be only partly correct. The “suits” are instead massive, often spherical armored balls of death bristling with weapons; the one depicted in the screen shot is fairly typical.

And for the next episode, what should it do (or notes it should hit) to improve your current perception of the series (with the knowledge that the fanservice takes a back seat for the rest of the mission)?

A bit of a predictable episode imo ...

Everyone survived the Object exploding? I'm not sure why they were so afraid of those main cannons, they're clearly pretty durable folk in the future.