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Episode 12: Bloodties
Oh, that's an interesting title. Lets see where this leads us!
To a bloody, unfortunate end.
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This opens on, of all people, Cheng! We don't know much about him. He's 12, same age as Lena, and is basically the pirate crew's techie. Today he looks really sad actually. We pan out a bit to see Lena and Mahad playing checkers at a table nearby at the water bar.
And here I thought he was Cortes's trained monkey.
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Lena is not impressed with how long it's taking Mahad to take his turn, and when he turns his back to ask a waitress for some more water (this causes the water jugs to change colour for some reason) Lena uses her powers to rearrange the board to be more in her favor (I do say more, she was winning, now she's just super winning)
Bad Mahad, stop being a bad influence on your impressionable kid sister's moral development.
Encouraging her to cheat when she's already easily winnning...
Yeesh.
Though it is amusing that even the water jugs hate Mahad, I suppose.
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Mahad, to his credit, notices the changes! To his lack of credit he only notices one piece moved and doesn't understand that Lena's comment of just moving his "man" for him only set him up for a cool move later is a lie. This is because Mahad is not very smart. Mahad calls Cheng over to "teach Lena how to play this game" but Cortez shows up before he can do so, apparently he's been looking for Cheng.
Oh, Mahad, trying to get the two of them together just because they're the same age and opposite sexes. What a card.
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Cortez is a little upset, because the Hyperion's radio was broken and Cheng hadn't fixed it. Cheng says he was GONNA fix it, buuut...and then he trails off. Cortez is a little concerned about Cheng being overly distracted lately, and basically tells him to focus. He then says "It's not like I ask too much of you, is it?" to him, which...I don't know. On the one hand he's like 12, but he's also a really good mechanic and techie and stuff and he does clearly enjoy working on that stuff the time we've seen him do it. I wonder what's wrong.
Well, he's about due for puberty, I suppose. That's a tad distracting when it first sets in.
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Suddenly, Wyatt radios into...the water bar's TV, to report that a Sphere patroller is header strait for Port Angel! Oh dear :smalleek:
Oh noooo~
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Cortez orders him to open fire, but Wyatt says he's been trying to, it's flight pattern is too erratic. Interesting, must not be a Brig piloting then. We see some footage of him firing and...someone messed up because we only actually see a single shot fired, and it misses wildly, despite him shooting a whole bunch. Wyatt then notes that it's not counter attacking. Wonder what it could be.
That or the Brig is, like, super drunk. Or sober, depending. Heh. Bender the Brig. Heh.
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It manages to escape Wyatt in the mosquito, and it starts heading towards Vector's lighthouse. Cortez radios into his other men that exist and order them to scramble, and orders Mahad and Lena to get into the Hyperion to engage it in battle as well.
Oh, it appears Cortez didn't mean for his men to get in Mosquito's to go shoot it down, but to away at a place where the shuttle just sort of parks and point guns at it. A...alright. So the shuttle parks near a landing platform near the lighthouse.
Good thing it didn't just try to kamikaze the lighthouse in order to take out the one scientist in all of Skyland, then..
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The shuttle opens it's loading door and...no one is there. Suddenly a very faint hologram appears and says it is "Tibalt Hee" and that he seeks his grandson...Cheng! Oh man this would be more suspenseful if we actually knew anything about Cheng or his family! We don't though. It's still pretty interesting though, regardless.
Tybalt!? :smalleek:
Run Romeo, Run! :smalleek:
No, wait, screw Romeo. :smallyuk:
Run Mercutio, Run! :smallamused:
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For some reason Cheng doesn't seem surprised by this. I think someone just...forgot to play the animation for shock on his face. Also, calling this a trap for like...the seventh time in a row. At this point I think I might give up trying to predict what is and isn't a trap.
It's only a trap if you don't think it's a trap, apparently. Or it's only ever accidentally a trap. Trapccidents? :smallconfused:
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A few minutes later, they're analyzing the hologram. Cheng thinks it might be his grandpa, but Cortez honestly thinks this is a trap. See, Cortez is like me, constantly seeing traps that are totally traps and probably won't turn out to be traps because **** our luck. Vector shows up now, and says that the shuttle has stealth technology. Now, I WANT to get mad at this because to me, stealth tech would be going invisible. However, they do explain that in this case they meant it's ability to evade the Mosquito's lock on and the warning radars that usually tip them off to Sphere activity. Here's hoping this ship is a random prototype and not the new design for CHRON shuttles :smalleek:
Well, is one of Cheng's grandpas named "Tibalt Hee" or not? XD
Stealth tech doesn't mean invisibility in this universe either, Lala. :smalltongue:
Probably been illegally modified by some crazy or other.
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Everyone surmizes, due to the lack of Brig's on board, that it's mission really was to find Cheng. Therefor, not a trap. Cortez, however, insists that no, Cheng, your grandfather is dead. I'm you're family now, we all are. I can tell Cortez is TRYING to be like a father to Cheng here, in contrast to his trying to treat Mahad like an adult. I like the difference, and it shows that Cortez knows how to treat people in the right ways. The problem is that Cheng...Cheng really wants to see his blood family. He says that if Cortez was his real family, he wouldn't be so mean to him.
And here we see evidence that Cortes actually just stole Cheng as a chillen. Err. Smaller chillen. XD Cheng's just forgotten that he was stolen and has stockholm syndrome imprinted upon Cortes, though it seems to be weakening due to the effects of puberty.
Well, yeah, Cheng's 12 and just now going through puberty. Mahad is an annoying whiny 17 year old who can't even figure out how to Protagonist half the time despite allegedly springing from the loins of a born Protagonist.
And keeps trying to get into the panties of a twenty-something. So he'd have to treat Mahad like an adult. That or be completely skeeved out by Mahad. Or be kinda skeevy himself.
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On the one hand this is a childish outburst that's just predicated by Cheng happening to be deep in thought lately, thus straining his relationship with Cortez and the others. On the other hand CHENG IS LITERALLY A CHILD so this makes TOTAL sense. Cheng runs off, and Cortez gets shadowed over a bit, looking...pretty rough.
Ahh, angsty pubescent preteens.
Well, Cortes
is a middle-aged Spanish Scotsman. Not exactly known for not having craggy features.
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Vector asks Cortez why he didn't tell Cheng the truth. Mahad asks what this means and Cortez tells them. Tibalt is his grandfather, and Cheng's parents where part of the resistance...and they died. Mahad can't read between the lines and asks why this is important. Cortez says that he knew Cheng's mother more, and that Cheng's father was a great scientist. Tibalt was also a great scientist, and after the Earth split up...he went to work for the Sphere. Before Cheng's Mom died, Cortez promised to look after Cheng. While this is happening, Cheng is making his way to that Sphere shuttle, and getting ready to fly off to the coordinates the shuttle came from.
Ahh, so here's the real reason he stole Cheng... he secretly knocked up Cheng's mom! XD And then kidnapped him.
So apparently Earth fracturing is within living memory for old people. Interesting.
Good to know that Cheng can do stupid pubescent preteen stuff, too. ...I shudder to think of what Seijun powers would be like with a child first going through puberty... :smalleek:
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This is a really good scene, and it mixes world building quite well with character development and learning the history of a character we don't really know. They haven't stated how Cheng's parents died but seeing as how he works with the Sphere, and worked with them from the very beginning, we can have a pretty easy idea of WHAT happened. The implication is honestly better then just strait up hearing it.
That Cheng's parents and grandfather killed one another in a murder-suicide? Cortes revenge murdered Cheng's grandfather after he killed Cheng's mom?
Sphere purged the world of all non-Vectorian scientists, including their own?
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Thankfully, everyone hears the shuttle take off, and Cortez radios Wyatt to intercept the shuttle at all costs. I'm worried that Cortez didn't specify "don't shoot it Cheng's on board" but...it'd make sense for him not to specify that. Cortez would and in fact could tear his ship to pieces with his bare hands if it meant stopping the Sphere, I don't think a single life, even one close to his own, would make him stay his hand.
It is kinda... Obvious... And it should've been being watched by someone. Granted, it should've been getting run over with a fine-toothed comb for transmitters and the like.
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...OH. Yeah um no one actually knew Cheng was in the shuttle. Lena shouts wait, and says she senses Cheng is inside the shuttle. This causes Cortez to, as quickly as possible, radio Wyatt back and tell him to not fire, at all, what so ever, because Cheng is on board. Wyatt's then ordered to keep following the shuttle, though he says it'll be hard. You know, I like that we're getting a bit more of Wyatt, even if he is still technically the blandest character, by virtue of just not being touched upon at all aside from being "the black dude who pilots stuff."
Despite it being an obvious conclusion, it'd still be jumping to conclusions to just assume that Cheng's the reason it started up.
Thank goodness for SEIJUNOSITY! XD
He does seem to appear rather infrequently and not interact with much of anything. Better than being actively, offensively racist, but being the token black guy AND never really doing anything to get characterization...
Oy.
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Mahad and Lena leave to get the Hyperion to also give chase, while Cortez regrets how harsh he'd been on Cheng, and how he really, really needs to get Cheng back so he doesn't fall into Sphere hands like his Grandfather. Vector agrees and says that they need to tell him the truth.
"I knew I should've taken him to that Jonas Brothers concert! Oh, woe is me."
"If only I had paid attention to the signs and talked to him about the strange feelings he was feeling from puberty!"
Hmm... Maybe Sphere sucked out the brains of their scientists and made some kind of super-computer out of them. And then they'd feed Cheng's brain to it if they got him. Certainly would be pointlessly evil enough, I suppose. Probably a bit too macabre for the saturday morning cartoon villainy demonstrated so far.
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Meanwhile, Wyatt is talking with Cheng over the radio, telling him to go home. Cheng tells him that no, he's not going to, and for the first time in this entire series called Wyatt by his actual name, Wayan. I'm...honestly just going to call him Wyatt because I've never heard it said correctly by anyone other then Cheng in this one instance, and I don't think even the credits call him Wayan. But yeah, Cheng don't wanna go home.
Oh dear. Cheng's having such a tantrum he's actually using the character's proper name. XD
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Oh **** son Mahad called him Wayan this time too. I feel like EVERYONE on staff up to this point just assumed he was called Wyatt because Cortez is the only one who really says the dude's name and his accent is just that thick, so Cheng's voice actor was all "...hey you guys do realize his names Wayan right?"
Best explanation.
[QUOTE=LaZodiac;17949362]At any rate, Cheng's ship shuttles off at super speed the Hyperion going super fast as well. Left in the proverbial dust, Wayan radios in his return.
Hyperdrive engagedededed.
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Cutting to a large Sphere facility, and we see...Tibalt! He's arguing with Diwan about how his new Missile Defense System isn't being finished as quickly as it should. Tibalt says that he's running into some problems, that he can't quite deal with. Diwan says that SHE heard that the system is 100% working right now, and Tibalt BURNS her by saying "well when you rely on spies, you should expect inaccurate information". Also, Tibalt's voice actor is REALLY good.
Well, there goes my hopes of a brain-absorbing super-computer. Durn.
Silly Diwan, your specialty is failing to capture twelve year old girls, not sending spies to spy on your own scientist monkeys.
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Diwan counters by saying that this is a daaangerous game he's playing, and that if he's not careful she'll tell Oslo his loyalty is...waning. Tibalt tells Diwan she can tell him whatever she wants, because he's got work today. SO, it seems this wasn't actually a trap after all. Good god Skyland can you maybe STOP blowing my expectations like this once or twice :smallamused:
Silly Diwan, what kind of silly game are you playing now? Not reporting that your missile defense scientist is plotting to betray you and leave after giving you a flawed missile defense system? :smallconfused:
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Diwan goes to leave, and Tibalt gets one last shot in, saying to keep her spies out of his lab, because they slow him down. He then goes back to work, and it's clear Diwan is NOT in a good mood. And even her good moods have her moody as heck. Just as she leaves, Tibalt's computer activates and says that hey, one of the scout ships he sent out is coming back, and the designated passenger is on board! Tibalt lets out a sigh of relief.
You'd be moody too if your boss forced you to be Bald This Way with him. :smalltongue:
Amber Alert! Amber Alert! He's just sending out all kinds of ships to kidnap chillens.
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Back with the Hyperion, flying over the Sphere settlement and...I've gotta say, I like the aesthetic here. Large white buildings with gardens on the roof tops, still on the ground but it's clear that they could probably detach and become flying homes if absolutely required. It really fits with the more high tech appearance the Sphere tries to have, steam bot Brig's aside. Contrasted nicely with the steampunk tech the pirates have, which is counterbalanced by Vector's quasi future tech styling. If the series was a little better this would show a lot better too.
Sphere... Village? Not research compound? ...That just raises further questions if they rule most of the setting with only a few forgotten places and secret cells of resistance within their *ahem* Sphere of Influence. :smallconfused:
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Brief aside Vector is wearing a SUPER snazzy lab coat in every promotional material I've found for Skyland but all he's ever worn in series is a dinky ass sweater. This disappoints me.
Understandable.
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Tibalt waits at the landing area for the ship, and after it parks Cheng comes out. Tibalt assures him he's safe, and introduces himself as Tibalt Yee. He assumes, based on Cheng's startling resemblance, that Cheng must be his grandson. This is a really nice scene, especially because Cheng realizes he DOES remember this guy, now that he's actually seeing him in the flesh. He runs over and gives him a hug and it's nice and touching.
Suspicious. Is he Tibalt Yee or Tibalt Hee? Introducing yourself with two different second names is just sketchy, old dude. XD
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...oh wow, Grandpa Tibalt dropping some truth bombs on Cheng. Mostly that Cortez and his mother where...very close. "Before she met your father, of course." So that explains in part why Cortez cares SO much. I've noticed this series has a pretty big obsession with "the one that got away" relationships. Everyone's a Captain Ahab who's love is a white whale, lost to some unending storm.
Called it. Cheng is actually Cortes' bastard son.
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The brig's guarding the place walk by as they leave the landing area and Cheng gets worried, but Tibalt says not to worry since they are harmless. This is the most accurate statement ever said about the Brig's this entire series.
They're only dangerous to you if they're on your side and fighting a Seijunjin.
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It's around this time that Wayan and Cortez have grouped up, and are flying the Saint Naziere around to find the Hyperion. Their radio is still busted so it's impossible to contact them. However! Mahad (though more likely Lena, since she's the one who suggested they find a way to contact Cortez a little while ago) thought to drop a distress signal beacon near the location of the Sphere facility, thus allowing the Saint Naziere to home in on their location! That's actually really clever.
Haha, inability to coordinate leading to hilarity because a distress signal is going to be a huge red flag to the Sphere too.
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Meanwhile, Diwan's send a message to Oslo. He continues to look like the most intimidating cancer ward patient ever, due to him sitting in his solar bath. Apparently Tibalt is behind schedule by MONTHS, and they've gotten reports about unmanned shuttles leaving on unscheduled missions. As many as six in the past two days. Apparently Tibalt isn't too good at covering his tracks.
Evil Chemo Man.
And it's... rather hard to hide that kind of activity. Even altering the flight logs won't be enough if you keep doing it in any real quantity.
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Oslo tells Diwan to tell him that he's gonna come by in 24 hours to test out the missile defense system. He wants to see a demonstration. Diwan says it'll be her pleasure, and Oslo gets this sort of creepy grin and tells her to not enjoy herself TOO much, since Tibalt is vitally important. I'm hesitant to think about what this means, and am starting to think that red splotch on Diwan's head is a gang tattoo of some sort.
Rather than a liver spot?
So she's going to try to beat an old man scientist who she already suspects of planning to betray them until he's ready to do a test with her boss. Either she's stupid or she's hoping he does something stupid that leads to Oslo getting taken out or being weakened enough for her to take him out in the confusion and pin the blame for it on Tibalt so she can have Oslo's job for herself.
That's almost devious.
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Back with Cheng, and he's super excited to be in this lab! He's currently controlling a Brig like a puppet! Cheng asks the rather obvious question of why this super tech savvy guy didn't try to escape, when the only things stopping him from escaping are crap machines that he could easily reprogram. However, Tibalt seems...concerned, and is trying to tell Cheng something. He finally gets it out. He designed the Brig's. He's designed...basically all the Sphere tech, more or less.
Tibalt is E-VIIIIIIIIIIL Vector, eh?
I guess it explains a lot about why Sphere is so crappy, since their AIs were designed by someone whose heart isn't in updating their OSseseses anymore. XD
Maybe you shouldn't beat your only scientist, Diwan. XD
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...we then proceed to get what is a sorely needed, but better late then ever, scene. It's entirely hand drawn and much, much better for it. Tibalt explains the world directly after the Earth shattered. Block fought Block for resources like food, water, people. Some even did it just for the fun of it. The world was thrown into chaos, with mass starvation and dehydration. The picture we see here is a bunch of people in torn clothes ambushing a woman and her two children. The people in worn clothes are clearly bandits who are going to kill her. Holy ****.
Ahh, slave empires and mass death. Standard semi-survivable apocalypse fare, really.
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Tibalt says the Sphere was the only hope for order, and we get this awesome picture of an army of Brig's, standing triumphantly over generic rubble as Sphere shuttles fly in the background. The Brig's actually look kind of intimidating here, bulky and powerful. Tibalt finishes this flashback by saying that Commander Oslo asked Tibalt to work for the Sphere. This...kind of doesn't jell with what we know of these character's past, but maybe Tibalt didn't join Sphere as IMMEDIATELY as Cortez seems to imply. What I'm saying is that the time frame seems weird.
Well, he's got a point that in a place like Skyland you couldn't exactly get away without some level of organization and that someone is needed to stamp out the actual piracy that'd crop up naturally as a result of having endless space to hide in and the necessity of trade for any level of settlement to survive.
Not much of an advantage, or even point, if they just kill everyone and destroy everything in trying to unify people, though.
Hmm. Commander Oslo.
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Cheng says that he was told Oslo killed his parents, but Tibalt says he was told bandits did it! The shuttles he's been sending out have brought him nothing but horrifying news, so he isn't sure what to believe anymore.
Oh, I thought you said that Cortes said that Tibalt killed Cheng's parents. :smallconfused: Wiggy.
...How were those shuttles able to bring back news? Were the holograms carrying on conversations with people? :smallconfused:
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Cheng says to believe HIM. The Sphere would kill him if they found out he was here, as well as anyone who came to find him. Tibalt apologizes, and just then Diwan and some Brig's show up. Diwan gloats about finding out what was REALLY preventing him from working.
Oh, right, you weren't planning on betraying us, you just wanted your only surviving family member back as a pet. Gloat-gloat-gloat, now I have someone to threaten as leverage against you, muahahahahaha. I'm a compulsive villain.
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Meanwhile, Mahad and Lena are on a sneaking mission, trying to get into the floating laboratory that everyone is apparently inside right now. Mahad proves that he is not very good at tactics by saying they need a plan to get past the two Brig's guarding the entrance, and that he's got one! Part 1, Lena goes out and distracts them. Part 2...is the assumption that he'll think of a part 2 by the time she's distracted the two brig's. As always and ever, I'm annoyed whenever any number of Brig's other then like ten or twenty is able to impede the progress of our heroes, giving how weak they are.
Part 1, lure them away. Part 2, bonk them over the head. Part 3, go "boop, beep, boop, beep, I am a robot," while sneaking around disguised as Brigs.
Bam, a better plan than Mahad's that still sounds dumb enough to be something he'd think up.
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Lena snark's at Mahad "don't rush on my account". Someone's been practicing with Dahlia, I see :smallamused:
This is a Sneaking Mission, after all.
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Speaking of which, Dahlia is here as well, flying the Saint Neziere. Since Wayan is in a Mosquito it's Dahlia's job to do Wayan's job. This makes sense because hey, they're the only two crew left.
Ahh the joys of a minuscule crew to draw upon for Bridge Bunny duty.
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Fun fact Dahlia's voice actress also plays Claire Redfield in every appearance said character has made in Resident Evil. This also means that she was Loonette on Big Comfy Couch, and the person solely responsible for the translation of Megaman X5 being so weird. This is stuff I learn when IMDBing actors I'm forced to listen to at 12 in the morning.
I'd make a Claire Redfield joke, but I honestly don't remember her having much in the way of memorable or memorably bad lines. She's no Jill Sandwich, after all.
What's this about a voice actress being responsible for messing up Megaman X5's translation, though? :smallconfused: I don't even remember the one female reploid in that game *getting* voiced lines...
[QUOTE=LaZodiac;17949362]Back with Mahad and Lena, Lena continues to sneak about so she can get into a better vantage point to distract the Brig's. Did...they just forget she can mind crush these fools? Also, Mahad is totally open to behead the two of them with his boomerang, which is what he intends to do when she distracts them ANYWAY. See, this is kind of frustrating actually. We've seen Brig's be destroyed by a scottish punch to the face, I can't take them seriously as a threat anymore!
Well, Seijuns can sense other Seijuns doing stuff like firing their lazors, right?
Hey, Scottish punching isn't anything to be sneezed at, though it doesn't hold a candle to Scottish headbutting. :smalltongue:
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Maybe the Brig's have been upgraded, or maybe they've scaled down the power of the ultra boomerang. Lena distracts them so Mahad throws his boomerang and...instead of beheading them both, it slams into the Brig and simply knocks it down, sparks flying from the wound, and Lena obliterates the other with a Seijun blast.
Woo, variable power boomerang! Woo, saying screw it, let's just attract Skywizard attention.
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...hahaha, okay, that was kind of funny. Lena leads the way into the lab, saying it's time to get Chang and go home. Mahad gives a quick kick to the Brig he destroyed before following after her.
Oh, Mahad, that doesn't mean anything when it's a dead robutt instead of a knocked out person who'll feel the broken/bruised rib the next day.
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Apparently we're supposed to believe all of that happened during the flashback, because Mahad and Lena show up right behind Diwan and her Brig's, right after SHE showed up to confront Tibalt and Cheng. Talk about a stroke of luck. Though it's clear that even though she's technically surrounded by enemies, Diwan has won this little ambush. She...proceeds to taunt the ever loving **** out of our heroes. "IF only I had some cake and ice cream. Then we'd have a real party!" she says.
That's... sorta weird timing, but, OK.
How is Diwan ahead? She wasn't able to quite beat a little girl last time, and this time the little girl is stronger and actually partially trained.
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Diwan lines everyone up against a window, and Tibalt says this is an outrage. He's to be allowed to do his research without any outside interference! After an awkward pause Diwan says that he lost that privilege when he was found harboring a known enemy of the Sphere. Valid point. Tibalt mentions that Cheng is just his grandson, an enemy to no one.
...How does Diwan even know about Cheng, anyway? :smallconfused:
I mean, she knows Mahad and Lena because of her eternal shame at not catching a 12 year old girl, sure.
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Diwan says that she's sure that is relevent to people who are weak and let their sentimentality control them, but she doesn't care and uses her powers to drag Cheng closer to her. She then stops Lena from Seijun'ing everyone to death by basically threatening Cheng, and says to Tibalt that SHE is in charge now, and she'll "hold onto" Cheng until Tibalt's work is done. Looks like a relatively solid victory for Diwan. Good luck not messing it up lady.
...Dumb Lena is dumb. :smallconfused: She didn't try to fight and then only tries *after* the badguy gets a hostage and then stops when the badguy reminds her that she has a hostage...
Diwan's just begging for something insidious to be done to sabotage the missile defense system. I guess she really wants it set up in such a way that some target she wants gone is able to be taken out before they realize it's borked.
But what target could she want blown up....?
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Oooh, sly. As the Brig start escorting everyone away Tibalt quickly snatches the little control pad Cheng had that let him control a Brig like a puppet. Everyone gets outside, but before they can get into Diwan's shuttle (talk about cramped) a Brig says "Enemy ship approaching!". Diwan shouts "WHERE!" and we get...an actually really funny answer. The ship surfaces from underneath the floating lab, RIGHT next to where everyone is standing. This is why I love sky based stuff.
...That's his big plan? Turn a single loserbot on a Seijun? :smallconfused:
Good entrance by the pirates, though.
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The Brig's open fire on the Saint Neziere, which gives Mahad and Lena ample time to each destroy a Brig. The Neziere opens up it's loading bay and CORTEZ COMES LEAPING OUT, SHOOTING A BRIG TO DEATH WITH A LASER PISTOL IN MID AIR! Sadly before he can fire again, this time on Diwan, Tibalt charges Cortez and knocks him to the ground! Diwan then hides behind Cheng's small child body for protection.
Dumb Tibalt is dumb. Not sure why Cortes jumped out instead of, y'know, lowering the ramp and shooting from inside the bay, though. Unless he's just gone into
Papa Wolf mode since his babby was taken from him.
[QUOTE=LaZodiac;17949362]Before I can react to Tibalt's betrayal (because I thought Diwan used her powers to throw Tibalt at Cortez) Tibalt reveals the control thing he took from the desk (not the control pad, my bad) to Cortez and whispers "hide this and follow my lead" and then the two start rolling around, fighting! Cortez gains the upperhand and captures Tibalt, Tibalt saying "Help! Diwan, help me!"
Oh. Not as dumb as I thought.
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...oh. Oh dear. Cortez demands they let Cheng go, or they, quote "lose their genius". Cheng says no, but Tibalt starts laying it on thick, about how these horrible people tricked him into believing Cheng was his grandson. Cheng is...absolutely traumatize by this series of events. Diwan, since she's NOT smart, believes this is legit and says Cortez has a deal. Cortez whispers to Tibalt "you can still come with us" but Tibalt says that no, he must stay and try to repair some of the damage he's done.
Dumb Cheng is dumb. Granted, dumb Cheng is a 12 year old in the throes of puberty and on the high of being conflicted about meeting his only known surviving family member since his daddy won't reveal himself to him.
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Just as everyone starts to leave, Diwan shouts "TO BAD DEALS MEAN NOTHING TO ME!" and she fires off a massive Seijun blast that Lena easily catches and reflects back. They play tennis for a brief while before...Diwan gets strait up knocked off the edge of the flying lab :smalleek:
Oh, Diwan. Trying so hard to score evil cred over the course of one episode instead of having it established over several. XD
And here's more egg on her face about not being able to beat a 12 year old girl. Gonna end up with a complex at this rate.
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She lives, managing to hold onto the edge, and our heroes escape. Tibalt takes his glasses off in a rather solemn, sad scene, while Diwan rages at her anger at almost being killed because she never learned not to shout "SNEAK ATTACK" when sneak attacking.
And also being weaker than a half-trained 12 year old. XD
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Cheng is super sad, but Cortez takes out the hidden thing, saying that "your grandfather left me something for you". I wonder what it could be. Probably a nice, touching message.
And technically it is! It's...the new missile defense blueprints! Cheng is confused, and Cortez explains the middle of the battle, Tibalt gave this to him. He's on our side now. When this is all over, we can get him back.
Apparently it's not the remote. Oh well. Woo, backdoors in defense systems!
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...Cheng then lies a bit by saying that Tibalt told him that the design for the missile blue prints are rather complicated, but Cheng would easily be able to figure it out. I...SUPPOSE Tibalt could of said that while Diwan was thinking about the deal, but I'm not sure. Seems kind of sketchy...
Is nae lying, is... making up stuff to fill in the gaps between the truth. :smallwink:
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Cheng asked if he really said that. Cortez asks him if he knows what a *technobabble* is, and Cheng says "of course! I may be a kid but I'm not stupid you know" which is...far more affective a joke then it has any right to be. The two apologize to each other for the beginning of the episode, and everyone makes up. Happy end, roll credits.
Effective. Good to know that Cheng knows what technobabble is, though.
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What this episode excels at though is the world building. We only really see three pictures, but seeing how the world was directly after the Earth split was great. Hearing about how chaotic it was, hearing about how Sphere was started, it was just great. They honestly need more of this, but I'll take what I can get.
IIRC that's the most worldbuilding done in any single episode so far as far as you've said.
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So, guys. Monday is the last episode of season 1. Where do you think this is going to go, now that we've got some more plot items to work with after the last two episodes? Maybe somewhere good, hopefully? I'll admit, this seems like it's leading up to a somewhat...lack luster in scale season finale, but who knows maybe it'll be good! I've been wrong about a lot of my first impressions on Skyland after a few episodes.
Obviously it's going to be a combination season finale with something exciting as well as establishing something about Dahlia and Cortes and maybe even Wayan/Wyatt, since Cheng just had a spotlight episode.