Subject: Well, of course it works well in-universe.
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Posted on: 2014-05-04 19:44:00 UTC

Even the Krull Glaive worked well in-universe, and that thing would do more damage to its wielder than to the enemy in literally any other context.

Anyway, the Crescent Rose is still enormously impractical. It shapeshifts and apparently weighs nothing at all, so the functionality gets a bit of a break due to plot boosting, but speaking in terms of usability, sweet Sobchak would that be hard to maintain. The mass conservation systems alone would play havoc on its ability to do anything if they were damaged even slightly. The blade would be damaged every time she fires one of those gun-scythe blasts since there's nowhere else for the recoil to go with her rooting it into the ground like she does and whatever she's shooting is apparently a high enough caliber to gib a wolf in one hit. Good luck pulling off that "just shot another round at such an angle as to decapitate someone" move if you've damaged the blade or its join enough to bring either out of alignment. If you end up hitting the wrong spot when that blade starts going through bone, the gun recoil is going to snap the end off.

In context, the characters not constantly shrouded in darkness are apparently magic or something, but it's never explained how or why everything is so indestructible, not even a handwaved "precursor material" or "PKE-enhanced" or something. I watched most of the first season yesterday since the episodes are apparently only five to ten minutes long each, and there was still nothing, which just strikes me as kind of silly. Even Star Trek would blame new weird space stuff on poliustic shield fluctuations in the beta waves of the engineering deck or something. The closest there was to any explanation was a mention of "the power of dust" in an exposition dump in the first episode, which was never elaborated on except for a later appearance that showed it was highly combustible.

I don't hate the series, before you take this the wrong way. I am just the sort of person who notices things like this. After the first episode's cavalcade of what-is-going-on moments and absolute bullcrap(a fifteen-year-old forged a mass-altering shapeshifting weapon by herself? Out of what, Makuta armor?), everything started to get much better, and most of the first episode's nonsense was either completely forgotten or explained better later, save Silly Cigar Guy With A Grenade-Launching Cane That The Penguin Would Call A Bad Idea, who is apparently going to be a recurring antagonist. Also, Yang was introduced after the first episode, and Yang is the best. I know I say things are "the best" a lot, but I don't say it as a ranking. Sometimes a character just deserves to be called the best.

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