With regarded to the above, I feel that the biggest problem with this season isn't necessarily it's formulaic structure, but it's pace. One of Symphogear's better features is it's rapid pace. Some episodes feel like their packed with 3 or more episodes worth of nonsense. Symphogear has always been bad, but there's an art to being fun and bad at the same time.
Symphogear GX, on the other hand, feels far more drawn out. It's still paced in a relatively normal fashion compared to, say, other anime, but that's not really a good thing. You don't want this show to linger on side characters and main characters emotional struggles and exposition as heavily as this season has done because that isn't interesting or entertaining. It's boring. Unlike, say, Wixoss or Black Rock Shooter TV the drama and struggle and characters aren't developed to the point where watching them talk is intriguing.
I don't mind where Symphogear GX is as the end of episode 5, but I feel like we should have gotten here by the end of episode 2 or, at a stretch, episode 3.
Still, perhaps I'm just feeling like this because this is the first season I've watched live.
