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This is it, mon cherry*, it's time for the final episode of Skyland, season 1.
Cheri. Also, yay.
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*LaZodiac, despite the name, does not know french
I still wonder at that name even after hearing the expanation for it.
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Episode 13: Life in Puerto Angel
A belowdecks episode about normal people in the Puerto of Angels? ... ... Wait a minute. Is Puerto Angel the result of what remained of Puerto Rico crashing into the remains of Los Angeles? The world may never know.
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...well that sounds like a clip show, now doesn't it.
Oh, right. That would be horribad. And worse than actually fleshing out the setting by showing us people and life not engrossed in dodging the plot.
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We open on...not Puerto Angel. Huh. It looks kind of like a...what do you call it. An inner city area, with street lights and buildings with stoops and stuff. Mahad is playing rock paper scissors with Lena, a game he's actually good at since he has a 1 in 3 chances of winning.
An entirely new part of the setting? But The Tiny Tot and her sidekick Annoying Lad are there. Though with Mahad I'd suspect that there'd exist some way for him to mess up that probability.
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...though from what I can tell he's actually playing it against himself. He's also throwing his boomerang around. Mahad is very bored, it seems. He complains that Cheng is taking so long. Lena says that he should lighten up, he knows Cheng loves exploring old electronic shops. Makes sense, especially since Cheng is the techie.
Yeesh, you know things are bad when a guy is left playing with himself in front of his sister and firing off a deadly weapon haphazardly in an inhabited area.
Also, I'm suddenly reminded of Megaman Legends and I suspect that some of their equipment may very well be magicked up like that from random junk. XD
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Mahad mutters that he's a geek, which is very rude, even for Mahad. Odd.
I'm mostly surprised Mahad would know what a geek was.
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...odder still is the fact that Cheng leaves from..."The El Sombrero Restaurant". And he leaves it with a gramophone. Not the mind splitting high tech device I'd expect to find in 2088.
"I'll use this old gramophone to make some kind of sonic weaponry-focus component so Lena can shoot sonic boom bangers!"
Kind of impressive that such an antique would still be around with all the cataclysming.
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Even Lena thinks that his gramophone is just a waste of time, but Cheng insists it's a collector's item. Which, to be fair, it is. It's a collector's item NOW, I'm going to assume futureland has even less of them. Cheng walks into the street and...suddenly a flying car drives by. Remember to always look both ways when crossing the street, even when the street is visibly destroyed on both ends and thus has no way of any cars to come by unless they happen to be flying for some reason.
Indeed, and he's planning on taking that collector's item and using it to make some kind of sub-weapon. For shame, Cheng. For shame. Destroying what little cultural heritage that humanity has left after they angered the gods or applied too much phlebotinum or whatever it was that borked up their reality.
Gotta have them flying cars, after all.
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Out from the flying jalopy is...a dude who looks a lot like Vector but is incredibly british, wearing a bowler hat and glasses. He apologizes and introduces himself as...Max. Then out from the car comes a girl in generic green clothes who looks a hell of a lot like Celia, which Max introduces as Astrid. She smiles and waves. I'm noticing that we've now officially run out of character models.
If only there were some kind of scarf involved, then we'd know for sure that Mahad was going to end up racing him like Johnny from Chrono Trigger.
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Mahad is awestruck by her beauty. This is not surprising. He does seem so awestruck that he doesn't trip over any horrible attempts to hit on her, though.
Finally, a woman Mahad doesn't stick his foot in his mouth around and she's dating some old British cousin of Vector's.
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We cut to the Hyperion flying off. Cheng is entertaining Not Celia and Not Vector in the...lounge that the Hyperion apparently has, while Lena and Mahad argue in the cockpit. Lena thinks bringing Astrid and Max to Port Angel is unsafe. Mahad says that naw, it's fine. Anyone who's an enemy of Sphere is a friend of theirs.
Interesting. Why are they bringing them in the first place? Where were they? What were the pair doing flying into that alley(?) in the first place? Looking for them? And that wouldn't be suspicious?
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This absolutely screams a trap but given that the car only appeared infront of our heroes because it literally started dying, I'm...NO! I refuse to believe it's NOT a trap. This is DEFINITELY a trap.
Oh, they crashed without crashing. That explains them ending up in that alley, then.
Finally, an honest to goodness trap! Whee!
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As if to support this, Lena asks the obvious question of "how do you KNOW they're enemies of the Sphere?" Mahad counters by saying that even HE, without his super special magic powers, can see that this pastor (!!!) is way to kind and friendly to be a Sphere agent.
Religion in a kid's show being discussed on GITP? Oh dear. This can't end well.
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Back at Port Angel...Pastor Max is playing a card shuffling gambling game. Um...sir? If you're NOT a bad guy, you're doing a pretty poor job of hiding it. I mean, I don't know how common this would be in say, Firefly, but a Pastor doing gambling games is kind of a bad sign.
Either that or it's to show he's a real... :smallcool:
Card. That or it's to reveal that it's just a disguise.
Seems like it was a short trip, though, so I guess the Sphere's narrowing in on Tiny Tot and the Skyland Pirates' general area if they're that trap we're hoping them to be.
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Oh hey I see Patroochi in the crowd. Anyway, Dahlia goes to pick which of the three cards is the Ace of Hearts, after watching him shuffle around for awhile. It's a ten of...clubs, I think. Dahlia is annoyed. Wayan goes next, and he gets the King of Spades. Everyone laughs at him like they did Dahlia. Dahlia especially.
So is it like... Find the Lady or something, only with cards instead of shells?
Oh dear. Did they just make a race joke using playing cards? :smallconfused: Not sure why Dahlia especially would laugh at that, though. Did they used to date or something?
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Cortez comes down and asks what's going on. Max pegs him to be a man with a keen eye, and goes to play the card following game with him. Only he doesn't actually show where the Ace IS to Cortez, so....yeah. Cortez is havin' none of this and demands Max tell him who he is. Max insists he's just a simple traveler, and everyone else tells Cortez to just play along with the game and find the Ace of Hearts.
How strange. Very subtle mind control powers that make people susceptible to suggestion from him?
Good to see that they waited until he was in the same room as their boss before thinking to ask "who are you people anyway?" XD
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Cortez sighs, flips over a random card (which is not the ace) and tells everyone that game time is over, it's time to
pack up. He then asks where Astrid is...and also where Mahad is. Oh dear. Oh dear.
Ahah, the honey trap has been sprung!
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Suddenly the Hyperion rises up from outside and Cheng goes "there he is!" as it flies off. Seems Mahad is taking Astrid out for a joy ride to impress her. We then cut to the Monolith. Diwan and a squadron of Brig's are looking for a man named "Shaun" and Oslo wants him found quickly, even going so far as to have Diwan hand out holograms of his appearance to every bar, inn, and tavern in Skyland. They're even giving out a reward! Though Oslo reveals he's only doing that so "the peasents will think they have a stake in helping us".
Oh, Mahad. Oh, Oslo, promising a reward that you could give and then saying "I never intend to give a reward even if people do help me, muahahahahaha, Crimestoppers, eat your hearts out." Oh, peasants.
Someone really needs to read the Evil Overlord list over here.
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Back with the Hyperion, turns out ASTRID is driving. Mahad she's pretty good for- but then is cut off by Astrid saying "A girl, right?" to which Mahad implies "for your first time!" but then Astrid intentionally causes the Hyperion to take a heavy turn and starts stalling and it's sort of implied she's not actually doing this on purpose but I can't be sure because she started this by saying "oops~" but it sounded so...fake of an oops I'm not sure. Also Astrid's voice actor is fairly good.
I think you... spelling and grammar'd yourself a bit there early on in this paragraph, miss. :smalltongue: Pretty sure he'd have to reply instead of imply there, for starters.
Oh noes, ambiguously intentional attempt to get them killed/shang-haied/crash-landededed alone together for an indeterminate length of time.
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After she manages to even things out, Mahad starts small talking her. Asking her what she and her father do. Astrid says that they just go around traveling. Seeing new Blocks, meeting new people. It's great! Mahad...actually gets kind of somber here, and asks if she's ever considering staying in one place. "Where's home for you?" he asks, his voice actor...actually doing a pretty good job of making Mahad seem like he genuinely has feelings about this kind of thing. Astrid just smiles and says "Like Dad says, wherever we can put our hat." They both kind of lean in a bit, before Astrid says that maybe they should go back, and they do.
Oh, old man is her father, not her wossname. At least in terms of their cover.
Alas, no smooching for Mahad. I mean, yay, no smooching for Mahad. Boo, no crashing and dying for Mahad. :smalltongue:
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Also just noticed that Astrid kind of has a split between her front teeth. It's kind of weird.
You mean buck teeth? Like a rabbit or the archetypical view of an all-American cornfed child?
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Back with Cortez, who's in Vector's Lighthouse, it appears they've found the signal for a hologram message. It...shows Max's face, and details all his crimes against the people of Skyland. Max is Shaun, and has been charged with burglary, though Cortez figures it's just scamming people out of money with gambling games, not strait up robbing people. Cortez also wonders why the Sphere wants THIS guy, so badly. He then decides to send Dahlia and Mahad to go check the ship. After they return, presumably.
He's just a harmless old grifter and codger, what could they want him for? Unless, he's a SPAH! A SPAH gone rogue. Or something. Or didn't sap enough sentries.
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We then just sorta cut to that inner city area. Mahad is throwing his boomerang around while Dahlia investigates their old junker of a sky car. Mahad continues to be bored in this place, despite having a job to do in investigating their jalopy. Dahlia meanwhile says she's got a feeling Cortez is right. There's something suspicious about them! IS IT A TRAP OR NOT?!
Woo, it hasn't been stripped by jawas yet. Somehow.
Mahad is just lazy and easily bored so he'd rather be bored than actually do something. XD
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While investigating the car, Dahlia...finds one of Astrid's hair clips and throws it to Mahad. Mahad catches it and starts swooning about how shiny her hair is. This is unbelievably awkward but I'm sure Dahlia is glad to have Mahad off of her for once. Though even she has a limit, and bops her head on the inside of the car door, saying he's disgusting her and it'd be pretty great if he could get off his ass and help her search the car.
Oh, Mahad, you and not being able to keep quiet to women about other women. Glad someone calls him out for being lazy.
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Mahad says there's no point to help since they're obviously good people. Dahlia says it's better safe then sorry, which is completely true. Mahad starts getting indignant, saying "everyone's a suspect to you" even though Dahlia's never really thought anyone was a spy up until this moment, that I recall.
Mahad's just a mood swing from remembering that he still has some puberty to finish up.
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Mahad...starts ranting about how the problem with "you people" is that you think everyone is Sphere. HE starts flailing around like an idiot while shouting "Sphere here, Sphere there! Sphere everywhere! Help me help me it's the Sphere!" which is actually kind of funny, if out of place (though not out of character).
He's such a chickenwuss. XD
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Dahlia gets pissed and hits the wheel of the car, causing something to fall from the...little sun blocker thing on the top of the car that would give car seat information. Before she can rightly investigate what this is though...Mahad interrupts his rant to note that the Sphere are ACTUALLY here. Since Diwan said she was heading to Shaun's last known location, this all but confirms that Max is Shaun. And that it's not a trap. Mahad grabs Dahlia by the arm and they run off, unable to get the thing that fell.
Hooray, things found through frustration and wanting to violence a main character!
And then Mahad was the boy who cried wolf. Hope Dahlia grabbed it instead of just leaving it for Baldy, though.
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Diwan roughs up the car a bit, disgusted by how crappy it is, saying "is this a joke?". Unfortunately, after tearing one of the doors off by slamming it into the car, the shiny gold thing Dahlia almost found falls out. Diwan is veeery interested in what it is.
Haha, no, of course not.
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Back with Vector, he's looking at some kind of fancy sigil thing on paper. This is apparently the design of the thing that Dahlia found, that she was able to remember long enough to tell Vector what it is. Apparently, it's an Aragonian Freedom Metal, the highest form of honour a civilian can get in all of Skyland. Interesting...wonder what it could mean. Did Maxshaun steal it, or is it his?
Argonians!? NOOOOOOOOOO!
Oh,
Aragonian. ... ... What's a British Man doing with a medal from a defunct proto-Spanish Iberian Kingdom?
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...Vector says that the last person to obtain this medal is "Shaun of Aragon", a scientist. He was awarded this medal for "almost" finishing his work on Hydrogen Oxygen Subdivision...which means he almost created water out of nothing, essentially. This...this guy was kind of a big deal. Also likely not a civilian given he's a scientist.
Oh my. A scientist who is also a royal. And who can almost just make water out of thin air.
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Mahad asks what HO subdivision is because he skipped science class. Dahlia...explains this...sort of. She says it's a "way to make water out of water" which...isn't ENTIRELY accurate, but okay. Basically the idea is that you take hydrogen and oxygen and then fuse em together to make H2O, water. Now, according to MY science teacher, the energy required to make an H2O molecule artificially like they're doing here would be so much that it would destroy an equal amount of H2O molecule's in the process, effectively giving no gain what so ever.
Oh, ok, so at least they're actually fusing hydrogen and oxygen together rather than just magicking it up with science?
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OF course when I asked "what if they tried to do this when there was no water left at all" his answer was "that's a weird question" and he never tried to elaborate on the possibilities as a proper scientist should so...GRAIN OF SALT and all that. Point is, Shaunmax was almost able to create water.
Alas.
More like Sham and Max. :smallamused:
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The radio then picks up a Diwan radio alert that says they're looking for Max, by the name Max. This seem's kind of silly, that she'd know his new name, but it's likely she found it inside the car. Though...now I'm wondering, why hasn't Astrid been mentioned in any of this? At any rate, they decide to interrogate Shaunmax and see if he really is Shaun of Aragon.
Astrid is secretly....
THE CARGO HE STOLE AS A SPAH SCIENTIST!?!!!!
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Meanwhile with Mahad, he's visiting Astrid in a rather dark room. Every scene that involves Mahad and a non familial female tends to start off kind of creepy doesn't it? Astrid asks if they'll hurt Max, but Mahad ensures her that no, they won't, after all they're not the Sphere. Mahad then adds that he suspects Astrid hasn't been completely honest with him, which she agrees with. Oh dear.
Oh, the things some do in the dark. And Mahad never actually seems to do but keeps going in that way.
Mahad's being asked to betray his friends and he hasn't even gotten some answers from her in exchange for it, eh? Soun
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Cortez grills Max for awhile, until suddenly Mahad and Astrid show up at the door! Mahad has something to tell them. Max is all like "Astrid, you told them?" and she goes "I had to. They want to help us Daddy" which is a little uncomfortable because people who'd be around 17 years old likely wouldn't call their Dad "Daddy" anymore.
Oh, that was about Astrid and Maxamillian Shaunasus being hurt, not Mahad being hurt for betraying his friends. How silly. XD
Depends on how creepy/saccharine/manipulative said 17 year old girl wants to be, in my experience.
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Maxshaun then caves and reveals that yes, he is Shaun of Aragon. He faked his death via explosion to protect his daughter from The Sphere when he was on the cusp of mastering his research, since he knows the Sphere would attack him if he did so. Mahad says that he's in danger NOW, so he might as well finish his work and then release it to the public so that everyone can make their own infinite water device that is apparently also easily arm-able into some kind of bomb. Clearly this is a good idea, and if Shaun does this the Sphere would have no reason to chase him anymore.
...Who awarded him his medal if the Sphere would want him dead for actually giving them the ability to create water from raw materials?
Oh my. Infrastructure that doubles as WMDs. Whee! XD
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Mahad apparently has no concept of revenge. Neither does Vector, who agree's with this plan, saying that if everyone could create water themselves, it'd end the Sphere dictator ship. Not...not exactly, guys. Anyway, this convinces Shaun, and they head off to create infinite water for everyone which certainly won't incite Sphere to just blow that **** up.
Well, it'd make chasing him out of anything but spite/revenge pointless, bumping him down in terms of priority and letting capturing Lena and making her Oslo's loli-bride become top, plot-driving priority again. So there's that, I suppose.
I suppose it'd weaken part of the Sphere's power base, but, well, once they've got armies and material and control to the point where all rebellion and resistance has to be clandestine-ish...
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....hahaaahahahaha. Metric VS Imperial joke as Shaun and Vector start fighting over temperature math in his lighthouse. This is great also I think it all but confirms Shaun's lying. Shaun claims that this slip up is just due to him being rusty. RUSTY WITH THE BRAINTHINKING, I suppose. Meanwhile Mahad and Astrid are just sorta sitting together in a garden of wheat, talking about how Mahad is being hunted by the Sphere as well. More talking about staying here, making a life here, but being unable to because Shaun doesn't want to, being too afraid of Sphere. It's a good scene.
Temperature math? Oh dear.
Wheat garden. That is a very amusing mental image. "I'm too afraid of the Sphere to stay with the people who have been hunted by the Sphere for ages and have gotten a pretty good system in place of avoiding the Sphere." Oh, Sham and Max. XD
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Astrid actually gets pretty emotional. Mahad's the first person she's trusted in a long time, and she knows that soon...she'll have to leave again, and it hurts her. She gets up and runs off. We cut back to the lighthouse, where Vector is...just plain furious that Shaun is as dumb as a sack of bricks. He doesn't know a THING about Science!
More like the only person near to her age that she's seen in a long time, amirite? :smalltongue: Leading us to the "run away from him" school of flirtation. XD
Must be Shaun's long-lost twin brother, then. Or maybe he experienced brain damage in that explosion and lost his science cortex?
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...HAHAHA! CORTEZ SAYS "IS THIS SOME SORT OF TRAP?!" YES! YES IT IS CORTEZ! TRAP! TRAP! TRAP! TRAP!
Please be a trap it's been so long! Cortez threatens to hand him over to the Sphere if he doesn't hear the truth, now! Shaun admits, finally, that no, he is not Shaun. He's tired of running and hiding, constantly living on the suffering of others. While he admits all of this, Astrid watches from hiding. Max is just a deliveryman, who was bringing materials to Shaun's lab. After he left...it exploded.
You just really need it to be a trap this time.
Well, that just makes things even weirder. Why would the Sphere, who would know what Shaun looked like mistake a deliveryman for Shaun when they used him to deliver their bomb to assassinate Shaun in the first place? :smallconfused:
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The...the reason he lied is because he just wanted his daughter to think he was someone special and important. That's...REALLY twisted, man. Astrid runs off, while Mahad says that it's okay. They'll help them, right Cortez? Before Cortez can answer Mahad's question we cut to Astrid and she's stealing a Mosquito to run away! As she flies off she says to herself "Now it's time to help my father"...oh dear :smalleek:
She... ... ... How long ago did this happen? I mean, that's... My brain hurts.
Astrid's going to do something stupid and suicidal. yaaaay.
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Back in the Lighthouse, Diwan starts radio broadcasting another Skyland wide message. They've captured Max's daughter, and are saying "Hey...Shaun of Aragon. We've got your daughter. Surrender to us and we'll let her go." Astrid, meanwhile, continues to insist that no, Max isn't Shaun of Aragon, please stop thinking he is. So...so much for that plan eh Astrid!
Dumb dumb dumb. Like... Dumb all around. :smallconfused: So dumb.
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They then begin planning a way to save Astrid without giving up Max. Mahad of course suggests a full frontal attack...which is shot down about as easily as they would be if they attacked a Sphere squadron. Mahad says he's not going to sit around and do nothing, no matter what the plan is. However, Max could honestly care less. He wants to give himself in. Cortez says this is a VERY poor idea, since he's not actually Shaun of Aragon. Max helpfully points out that THEY don't know that, and by the time they DO Astrid will be free anyway so who cares. Max is a good father.
Pfft. Like they'd give up his daughter in exchange for him turning himself in.
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...pffth. Okay, okay, that's good. They set up Max's communicator in his hat, and after Vector tests it with him Max says "this gives talking through my hat a new meaning" and I'll admit I LAUGHED DAMNIT! I feel awful for laughing at it but I did. Cortez says not to get attached...and kind of forgets to do his scottish accent in this scene. Ooops! Anyway, they have a plan, apparently to get the both of them back.
Yay voice acting goofs.
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Anyway, Max begins the trade of himself for his daughter. Diwan notes that this is almost too easy, cursing herself to the failure we sort of expected was going to happen anyway because Diwan is a failure. To support this, Diwan says that Astrid's attempts at tricking them (which where clearly on Shaun's orders) are no match for her! Max flatters her intelligence for seeing through the ruse, which she appreciates and compliments him on his eloquence. Today is a good day for Diwan.
Everything's coming up Diwan.
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...the plan involves Vector feeding Max lines. Problem, he's kind of half deaf because he says watering cans instead of "water can" at one point, and other such goofs. Vector is absolutely bothered by this incompetence, but it seems to be working. Emphasis on seems to. The lie is that "Shaun" totally found out a way to create water and energy out of itself.
Woo, poor signal and bad hearing.
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Oh **** son, Diwan is actually kind of smart, and says that hey, does that mean you're going to try the *technobabble equation name that might be a real equation I don't know* and Max's answer is "..." because Vector's connection to the hat radio dropped. This is why you splurge for the better carrier, guys.
Ahh, lost signal. And weird that Diwan knows anything. I guess being a Seijun doesn't make you automatically completely stupid at book-learning, just other forms of smartness?
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So...yeah, it's up to Max to start bull****ting like his life depended on it. Because it does, now more then ever.
Ayep.
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...**** is he bad at this. He literally says "I...I'm I'm sorry, but I'm just waiting for the little voice in my head" and I mean he explains that away, but JEEZ he is not subtle or good at this at all wow. No wonder they had to move so often.
Ayeeep.
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Diwan obviously see's through this, takes his hat, and puts it on her head just as Vector gets back the connection to say it's a trap because the equation is in fact a fake one! Diwan says "YOU'RE JUST A FOOL" which actually sounds pretty funny from the girl who now looks like a gender flippped, inverted colour scheme Clockwork Orange character.
A fake test? What fiendish Diwanish insight and cunning.
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Diwan shouts "TRANSMISSION TERMINATED!" and throws the hat away, and surrounds the two with her Brigs. We get a cheesy message about how Max was ALWAYS special to Astrid because "you're my father" and so on. They hug, Diwan says this is sickening (I kind of agree, if only because it's a bit...generic, I suppose) and...oh jeez, Diwan orders her Brigs to prepare to fire. She's gonna straight up execute the guy!
What, they didn't even shoots the hat? XD Oh, Diwan, missed opportunities.
That is pretty cheesy and silly, though I'm still left wondering what's wrong with the Sphere's bureaucracy that led to this situation.
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However before she can all five Brig's get their heads cut clean off by Mahad's boomerang. Yay consistency. Mahad compliments Diwan, saying "did you do something with your hair?". This is funny only in the fact that Diwan is bald, so it's kind of a good line. Mahad is on top of a building by the way.
Buzzsaw Boomeranging. And he plays with it like a toy. XD
I don't think that was a compliment, I'm pretty sure that was just a straight up dig. :smalltongue:
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...jeez, Diwan just slugs Mahad with a Seijun blast, knocking him down. But he's alright...though minus his boomerang. Diwan taunts him about that, saying "dropped your toy?" in a really weird way because Diwan's voice actor seems kinda...strange after Mahad showed up. Not sure what's up, just feels wrong.
Heh. Just straight up knocked on his ass and disarmed after showing up and getting rid of her minions. Oh, people.
Interferencey strange? The mic started going out but this was their only take strange?
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Mahad hurries down a fire escape to try and retrieve his boomerang while Diwan slow walks towards it. If she put in any effort she'd totally beat him to it and then be able to kill him at her leisure. But Diwan's never been the brightest of baddies. Also, it's so close to her she's able to get to it anyway. She quips to herself about how boys who leave their toys around should lose them...only for Lena to appear, tell her to get her hands off of her brother's stuff, and Seijun Blast Diwan...right off the edge of the platform again :smalleek:
Well, it's just so much more evil when you leisurely stroll towards things. And only appropriate if you have the time to do so. And of course, her most crucial mistake was forgetting that when Annoying Lad shows up, the Tiny Tot Avenger is never far off.
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This time instead of holding onto the edge, she strait up falls like 20 feet and slams into a small person sized block. She's hurting and, worse, kind of can't do jack **** at the moment. I think we get a reused shot from episode 3 of Diwan getting angry at being beaten by children, but I'm not sure.
Oh my. That actually sounds relatively serious as far as battle damage and consequences go for this series.
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So yeah, Max and Astrid are saved, Max gets his hat back and established communication with Vector. HE starts saying that hey, he's been thinking about the water creation thing and he has some ideas! Cortez stats making static sounds so Vector can say they're losing connection and hangs up. Okay, that's...pretty great. They've had enough of his fake science.
Yay for Diwan not shooting it or crushing it or vaporizing it with her Seijun Fightan Magic.
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Max is baffled by this and spends the rest of the episode (just like a minute or so) looking into and talking into his hat, trying to find out what's wrong. Mahad...actually smoothly and politely offers his hand to Astrid to show her around Port Angel, which she accepts, and the episode ends.
Mission accomplished: Mahad actually has a date.
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And that's the episode! My thoughts? I...take it or leave it. This episode was kind of alright I guess. Not bad, but certainly not...GOOD, either. It had some really good scenes with Mahad, and it appears that at least with girls, he's gaining some character development. I like this! We're NEVER going to see Astrid or Max again though, are we? Isn't that right, Celia and Symbiont? Yeah...yeah. We're never seeing these guys again. Also this was in NO way a season finale holy crap guys.
Good scenes? With Mahad? Inconceivable. XD Yay for one-off characters that aren't really dealt with or written off and are instead just dropped despite having several threads dangling. And as an alternative to ending the season properly, too. XD
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So, that was the final episode of the season. Over all? This was a...pretty good season. It had more good then bad. It started off great, kind of dipped in quality substantially, then quickly rose back up to becoming a FAIRLY decent show. It's requirement to stay locked firmly within the Status Quo box hurt it a lot, and I hope in the future they're able to get away from that. As it stands the only real negative I can give is...there's really no plot beyond getting Mom back, and we've got one or two things that could help with that in a 13 episode season. We're not heroes, we're not rebels, we're just people living with pirates, trying to get our Mom back maybe if we are able to. It's kind of weird. We've got a prophecy and opening narration that makes Mahad and Lena a big deal, they're the ONLY way to stop the Sphere...and really all they've done is sit around doing random stuff.
Yep. Pretty weak arc so far, all in all. I mean, it'd be one thing if Oslo had kept up with his whole "I WILL CHASE THEM DOWN AND MAKE THE LOLI MY WAIFU" shtick from the get-go, but that got dropped onto the back-burner fast and hard, probably with good reason, but actively having to run from and evade a big bad would at least have provided some unity to it and have explained the low rate of actually doing things or acquiring medium-and-long-term goals.
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Oh, one last personal thought. The Seijun powers could afford to be more unique and interesting. I was thinking it might be like say, One Piece or Needless, where the sun powered powers was just justification for whatever crazy powers they'd come up with. Instead it's a pretty down to earth psionic power set, that could afford to be elaborated on a little more since it's one of the more interesting aspects of the series. Here's hoping for better Seijun stuff next season.
Yep.
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So, here's MY question to you guys. What are YOUR thoughts on the series?
Needs more fleshing out of basically everything and a real raison d'etre for a bunch and to actually build the show rather than having several one-off characters who, while briefly entertaining, don't really build the world or the main cast. So basically a lot of what you've said.