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EP. REVIEW: Goblin Slayer [2018-10-14]

It's pretty clear to me that that's just a front. When the people she was talking to left she immediately took a more relaxed, defeated pose.

Mad_Scientist wrote:

@Debus . . . Which is my entire point, rape isn't in Goblin Slayer because it's realistic. (And for that matter, Goblin Slayer is in not a realistic series in many ways anyways.) Rape is in Goblin Slayer because that's what the author choice to write about. . . . .

Thinking that you know exactly what an author was thinking at the time they wrote something is pretty arrogant.

Dudes, relax, in japanese fantasy fiction golbins are rapists and dragons are horny. making them otherwise would break conventions.

Galap wrote:

It's pretty clear to me that that's just a front. When the people she was talking to left she immediately took a more relaxed, defeated pose.

Belatedly, but my point here was that in the anime, her "business front" is a front for nothing at all. Beyond said business front, she has yet to demonstrate any single personality trait beyond maybe "likes Goblin Slayer".

Yes, so she slumps onto the desk in a defeated fashion. Why? What did she dislike about that interaction? Did she dislike the monetary reward? Did she dislike that that the villager is a creep, which is exclusive to the anime version and doesn't exist in the novels or the manga? Does she dislike dealing with goblin quests in general? Is her exhaustion caused by the movement of planetary bodies?

There's nothing. She is a vapid blank cipher with one single mode of behavior that serves as a front for a puff of vapor. The anime disposed of pretty much all indicators that she's an actual functional person.

Well... that's quite simply not how human being work, at all. Look at something like 9/11, almost no one had family that died during those event and the chance of dying from terrorist are absurdly small. Yet look at how concern people were with terrorism, look at how much people talk about it, how much the government try to fight it.

If the show is really trying to say that people don't care if it doesn't affect them, well then the show is incredibly misinformed and any conclusion it'll come too will be deeply flawed and downright stupid.

That's really why I'm harping on this, I'm not even trying to convince anyone that the show shouldn't have included the goblin rape at this point. Just that including it didn't make the show more realistic nor was it something the author HAD to do, it was simply one of many artistic choices made for this series, and thus criticism of it is as potentially valid as criticism of any other choice made. That's all.

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That's really why I'm harping on this, I'm not even trying to convince anyone that the show shouldn't have included the goblin rape at this point. Just that including it didn't make the show more realistic nor was it something the author HAD to do, it was simply one of many artistic choices made for this series, and thus criticism of it is as potentially valid as criticism of any other choice made. That's all.

The further away we get from episode 1, and having just watched episode 3, the more I think that the first episode was a giant misstep. If I was to suggest watching the series, and I do, I’d argue that skipping episode 1 would probably help more people get into the series. I keep trying to think of one thing that episode 1 did that I’d say was necessary for the rest of the series, and I just can’t. The tone is also very different from the rest of the series thus far. From everything I’ve seen of episodes 2 and 3, the series comes off as a fairly typical video game or dungeons and dragons narrative. Episode 1 just seems to be edge for the sake of edge, and while I still enjoyed the episode, other than that there seems to be nothing to it. In fact, the only thing I think episode 1 did was stoke controversy over the rape scene, which while it definitely gives the series a ton of publicity, doesn’t really add anything to the show thus far. Anyway, I think that the series gets better with each new episode and hopefully, that improvement continues throughout the rest of the series.

A real story arc kicks off in this episode, as the Goblin Slayer picks up a proper adventuring party alongside Priestess, who accompany him on his goblin-slaying simply because they've got nothing better to do.

That may be for the best, since the internal consistency of that portrayal is still in as much flux as it was before. The “other adventurers don't respect Goblin Slayer for slaying goblins” bit gets trotted out again for the second time in two episodes, and it still doesn't gel. The crowds around him act like goblins are easy pickings that he shouldn't be considered impressive for wasting his time on, but the whole point of that shocking first episode was to demonstrate that this wasn't the case. Goblins are both a nothing threat no half-decent adventurer needs to bother with and also potentially dangerous enough that the trio introduced in this episode have to seek GS as a specialist to help them take out their targeted nest.

We're constantly told how ugly and lame the Slayer's armor looks, despite it being an objectively striking design that the entire franchise is marketed on.

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A real story arc kicks off in this episode, as the Goblin Slayer picks up a proper adventuring party alongside Priestess, who accompany him on his goblin-slaying simply because they've got nothing better to do.

fudge. OFF.

They literally explain that they needed Goblin Slayer because he's an expert at hunting goblins, and also because they needed a human party member to help them with a small party because of the politics.

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We're constantly told how ugly and lame the Slayer's armor looks, despite it being an objectively striking design that the entire franchise is marketed on.

Of course it's striking when we've gotten nothing but generic shiny-looking armor in every single lame-ass isekai for the past five years. To us the audience it looks striking, but to the adventurers in the world it looks gross and strange.