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Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Absurd science fiction
All claims that this is the best Sci-Fi ever made, and the 'modest' ones that this is intelligent Sci-Fi are absurd.
In the first episode a crew member is stranded on a planet 'Caprica' while his ship makes 'FTL' (faster than light!) jumps several systems away. Let's say 500 light years all together? By the end of the season they come back for him and his beard is barely grown, 'a month has passed'. Even to accept this fictional technology at least 50 years subjectively would have passed for that person.
Why does a civilization capable of developing such drives use archaic projectile weapons? Has no functional nano technology? etc. All questions that would never have to come up in 'intelligent' (or best EVAR!) science fiction.
The 'enemy' in this series is absurd too. These sentient machines wipe out 20 billion humans in the first 20 minutes of the first episode! But then spend years hunting the remaining 50,000 aboard a ship on which they have sleeper agents(!) and yet these guys never destroy them. When one of them finally attempts to assassinate one of the leaders, this ruthless calculating killing machine shoots him in the gut and not in the head at point blank. Assassination was a failure to my surprise.
Where everything finally falls apart is learning that Earth is their lost colony. Forget all the finds we ever dug up on earth, cut off a few branches from the tree of life. Battlestar Galactica ladies and gentleman.
Kyaputen Hârokku (2013)
Disappointing story
I enjoy a lot of SF and this type of animation is a very good vehicle/medium for it (like in Vexille, ST Invasion, GITS Innocence...). But this particular story was not very good for me.
Reviewer Andrea Daviddi summed it up well; incoherent back story, clueless characters...
...that are implementing grand plans without any idea why. One of them was a turncoat who changed sides at least 4 times. He was that much confused.
At one point a dark matter powered ship is destroyed in an explosion but transforms into a different ship sporting a human skeleton hood ornament. Dark matter is a mysterious force that also loves design.