>>90434999>So is a giant drillOkay, I'll admit I'm jumping around and misrepresenting my gripes. I'm moving the goalposts all over the place, and I'll apologize for that immediately.
The Drill was never a problem because it served a logical function and was meant beyond its initial episode to be undeniable proof of the war. It's a long tank-treaded drill that has its own coolant system and some modicum of thought put into it, making stopping it a centerpiece for an episode. It made logical, militaristic sense to use a drill since its only purpose was to breach a wall. Besides, it's just a big dumb drill, I must not be seeing the impracticality of it. It's based on other models of drills we have but on a bigger scale while still remaining passably plausible. The Fire Nation being more technologically advanced fits with the smelting angle of being able to control heat much easier than we can, so them accomplishing things we hadn't is semi-justified.
The giant mecha is utilized to weaponize the spirit cannon. But the cannon itself obliterates anything in front of the danger hole. There's no logical reason why making a giant mech is any more efficient than just making twenty cannons and rolling them in at different angles. Making a 60 story mecha in a series that is meant to have been steampunk era is a huge departure from the tone of the story and the technology standard set before. It completely defies any sense of physics from its sheer size alone. It persists through an EMP somehow despite that in order to restart it would need the circuitry to not be fucked, which after an EMP, it certainly would be. Considering the immediacy with which it was built, they can't have been efficient in its construction.
After the mechatank reveal in Season 1 they still expected us to be surprised by biplanes. Why the fuck would those be surprising compared to fucking mechatanks? "It operates just like one of our forklifts" is one of the more retarded lines in Season 1 as well.
