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EP. REVIEW: My Hero Academia

Students failing should be a typical occurrence that doesn't diminish the plot. Saying it's 'predictable' is kind of avoiding the actual issue. The sun rising in the morning is predictable, but it's also typical.

I understand what you're saying, but the test is literally designed so that the majority of students do not pass. To have all of Class 1-A pass seems like its cheating the odds in an impractical way (relatively impractical considering no other class probably did that). That's why I mentioned it would have been better to allow 1 or 2 students from class 1-A to be eliminated before all the other students rallied together to help each other pass. They are all still heroes in training and I think their overall performance should reflect that they will not always succeed.

How would it have increased tension? How did you already know everyone would pass? And I'll ask too. How did giving character developpement to Aoyama made him more annoying?

I did not know they would all pass, but I know they will all pass the next round.

MarshalBanana wrote:

I did not know they would all pass, but I know they will all pass the next round.

.. er, based on what?

Well since this class has been formed, they have conquered every challenge without any collateral damage, at least nothing I consider collateral, and this last one was more on the nose with a strong message of we will all pass because we are Class A-1. And based on past experience with shows of a similar nature, i would need to be both blind and not to see otherwise.

In the event of some miracle that the show decides that not everyone needs too pass(or later at a similar event), then I take back everything I said. I get a better show so i don't loose anything by being wrong.

Then what is "collateral damage" to you? None of the characters we truly liked won the sports festival and the one who did win didn't get the win he wanted. Several students failed the previous exam where they had to fight the teachers and the training camp ended with several students critically injured, UA's reputation in shambles and one teacher losing her quirk completely. In fact, this first stage of the pro-licence exam is the first time in a long while where the entire class has succeeded in what they wanted to do.

MarshalBanana wrote:

Well since this class has been formed, they have conquered every challenge without any collateral damage, at least nothing I consider collateral, and this last one was more on the nose with a strong message of we will all pass because we are Class A-1. And based on past experience with shows of a similar nature, i would need to be both blind and not to see otherwise. In the event of some miracle that the show decides that not everyone needs too pass(or later at a similar event), then I take back everything I said. I get a better show so i don't loose anything by being wrong.

Then what is "collateral damage" to you? None of the characters we truly liked won the sports festival and the one who did win didn't get the win he wanted. Several students failed the previous exam where they had to fight the teachers and the training camp ended with several students critically injured, UA's reputation in shambles and one teacher losing her quirk completely. In fact, this first stage of the pro-licence exam is the first time in a long while where the entire class has succeeded in what they wanted to do.

Then what is "collateral damage" to you?

johan.eriksson.9003 wrote:

Then what is "collateral damage" to you?

I guessed that if I said collateral damage, someone would argue that it wasn't, so I just added that aside, but I guess whatever I say someone is going to nitpick it

Only one person could win the sports festival, so that's really a null point. I actually agree on the teacher thing, i had forgotten that not everyone passed. Everyone who got hurt at the training camp got well pretty fast or was rescued. The schools reputation is not directly related to the students.

Not sure how that is a nitpick. I get that you meant they overcome every challenge without losing anything, "leaving anyone behind" or suffering much negative consequences but the point still stands because they have done that and I don't see how you can't see it.

Only one could win, but it still wasn't any of the "likable" characters and Bakugou still didn't get any fulfillment out of it. And Deku all but harmed his standing in the community. Ragdoll would beg to differ about the recovery part, and Deku's mom would beg to differ about the school's reputation not affecting him.

If some members of Class 1-A would have failed the test, it would have given the audience more of a sense that Class 1-A may not make it through the rest of the exam. For example, if 1 or 2 members of class 1-A would have been eliminated before the ending rescue scene, there would have been a lot more tension because audience expectations would include instances of possible failure.

There's also the fact that Aizawa called this part of the exam 'the elimination of Class 1-A', and yet nobody from this Class 1-A was eliminated. Either this Class 1-A is the best Class 1-A in the history of Class 1-A, or Aizawa was stirring up drama for no reason.

I didn't mind Aoyama's sacrifice, but I would still appreciate it if Aoyama developed in a way that matured his powers beyond jokes and support actions. I don't know what that would look like, but I also don't want to see Aoyama cowering behind something in every arc.