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Aldnoah.Zero (TV) (both seasons).

Why? Where is the evidence of this? All Inaho could reasonably intuit from what he observed and heard is that there is some infighting amongst the Vers forces.

Yes, and as far as Inaho knows, loyalty to the princess doesn't necessarily mean disloyalty to the Vers as a whole. For all Inaho knows, Slaine attacking the female Knight is just part of some factional strife within the Vers Empire.

The fact that it was stupid is probably the point. Calm isn't the brightest bulb after all. Besides, it's entirely possible (in fact, I'd even say probable) that whole scene was intended as a rather lame joke.

@Bugnin:

The evidence is clear, and it merely takes looking at the thread lengths of various types of series to confirm this.

The threads that are the quietest are those from mediocre anime and good anime, since the former are too boring and generic, and the latter are too happy - the only comments being "another good episode". Barring a couple of notable exceptions, the really big threads are always the ones where there is some controversy or the show has problems that people want to comment on.

Creating controversy is the mark of a good show.

That's sort of the point; to get the viewer to want to watch the next one. Being offensive only does the trick for an episode or two and then people get angry and walk away for good out of spite. Aldnoah is on week 8 and everyone is still here, including you.

As for "good" shows, if your only reaction after an episode is "well, that was good, nothing really to add," then it was not a very good episode. You might find it artsy and respectable, but if it does not evoke discussion, it has ultimately failed.

No sane person watches an entire season of an anime thinking "I can't wait to see how this terrible show will offend me next!"

Taking you at your word that you really do think all of those shows are better than Aldnoah, the point stands that you're most often here and not there. So, the joke's on you.

Even though I don't find this show offensive or even terrible, I'd agree that there are plenty amazing shows this season that are better than it -this season is exceptionally strong in that regard-. Nozaki-kun, Barakamon, Haikyuu, Nobunaga Concerto, Tokyo Ghoul, Kuroshitsuji and Free ES off the top of my head, and that's just from the ones I'm watching. A/Z is still entertaining and exciting, but I too was pretty upset with the latest episode and how the Slain ordeal turned out, it'll honestly be hard for me to ever root for Inaho as a protagonist after what he did. And like dtm42 said controversial =/ good. There are some anime threads (like the one for Haikyuu or Barakamon) that don't spike much conversation because everyone just agrees that there's nothing to criticize. By that standard, SAO would be the best anime ever made, and let's just not go there.

I haven't been following this thread at all, but after watching the 8 episodes so far, I am highly disappointed in this show. And that's coming from someone who considers Urobuchi to be one of the best writers in anime and has F/Z, Psycho-Pass and Madoka in my top 10 anime list.

Right now my main problems with this show are the pacing and the just the lack of intensity in the show in general(also the animation, I guess some people don't mind it, but those CG mechs are gaudy as hell)... It just seems like they continuously fail to make moments intense or give me some reason to be invested in the story. It almost feels like they are on auto-pilot. Just going through the motions of story-telling, but not giving me a reason to care. At first I thought it might be intended and I still want to believe that considering who is involved in making this show, but it really seems like one of those situations where the parts really don't equal the whole.

I'm not saying I necessarily agree with your evaluation of the show, but it should be pointed out that Urobuchi only wrote the first 3 episodes. Now his only involvement is as the "concept creator".

I don't know how far ahead of broadcast this is being made, but Urobuchi has another currently-airing series that just wrapped up filming a week or so ago, and he was finishing scripts for that when he got back from AX (he wrote all but 2 scripts for that, which were the movie tie-in filler episodes).