Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190126081959/@comment-24032889-20190201030947

ChishioKunrin wrote: SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: 1) It's extremely lacking in worldbuilding and basic general info (like why did the Union even attack the Polity, aside from "it's a cultural war"). But it looks good, the fights are cool, and knows it's audience. 1. They certainly built a lovely futuristic New York, at least, and the design for the nanobot clouds is ridiculously pretty. The setup with the hologram presence thing was good at preparing us. The overarching motivations behind what it means to be Polity and what it means to be Union are largely not present in the show outside of some vague posters that were in Episode 1. They do need to go hard into that the sooner the better in Ep3-beyond, since it wasn't in Ep2.

"Worldbuilding" doesn't literally mean "showing the world", Chish. It's more about the cultures than the locations they inhabit.