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Originally Posted by Thisguy

Let me say this once again; Holy. Shit.

Spoiler for EP17 A Part:

This episode IS action, and visual alone is enough to understand 90% out of this episode.
Oh, and yes, I've noticed that the magazine preview I provided a while back was slightly off in this ep... well, not much but still.

- Uno takes the honor of prologue in this ep, where she explains that they've put 11 out of all 12 Numbers in this mission.
Their primary objective is to "bloodlessly" conquer GC and RF6, capture "Sei-Oh no Utsuwa", and secondary objective is to capture Type-0.

- EP starts with duel of two Velka Knights in the sky.
Vita and Rein notices that the opponent's unison-attack timing is slightly off, which suggests that Zest and Agito are not so compatible.
Still, they're covering that up with sheer skill and experience, which is making them very tough opponent.
Zest then suggest Agito to stop their unison, then insists to use his drive's Full Drive to finish Vita in one hit.
Agito objects his suggestion that using Full Drive will shorten his life, which is unacceptable for her no matter what.

- Forwards fighting against Uendi and Nove, where Forwards are quite holding on their own.
Nove uses her own Wing Road which is yellow in color, and Uendi uses her... "thing" like a beam-launcher.
Assisted by Caro's boosting magic, Teana makes some hell amount of Fake Sillouettes that are effective even against Sentou Kijin, which suprises both of opponents.
As Erio (Thunder Rage!) and Subaru gives them a good punch to make enough distraction, Forwards decides to retreat to join up with Aces.
After Forwards went out of scene, Cinque calls Uendi and Nove that she is engaging with another Type-0, one that is "First", and need assistance.
On the screen with Cinque is... most expectedly, Ginga.

- Schach catches up with N&F, where she explains that people in the main-room has successfully forced the door open.
According to her, Hayate, Carim and Signum are remaining in main-room and explaining about attackers to security team.
Then, Forwards join up with three, and gives them their anticipated devices back.
However, Subaru notices that communication to Ginga went out and as Fate calls to Long-Arch HQ, she finds out that RF6 base is also under attack and is failing.
Responding to the situation, Nanoha splits the team; Stars are to secure the safety of Ginga and mop-up of enemy, and Lightnings are to fall back to RF6 base.

- The RF6 base in fire, with exausted Shamal and Zafira standing as final line of defence...
Otto praises them for keeping them at bey with only 2, but it's closing to end; s/he uses his/her IS "Ray Storm" to finish off the structure, and Dido smacks Zafira down to ground with her "Twin Blades".
Then Otto proceeds to finish them off... Hayate gets a gut feeling of them... Oh no, can't they be...

- Vice!

- On the sky, Lightnings encounter Tre and Sette; Fate orders her children to leave her behind and head to RF6.
Caro hesitates, but Erio convinces her that they need Fried to stay in sky and thus useless for aereal combat.
Fate activates Zamber Form and confronts two Numbers...

- Back to fighting of Vita and Zest, Zest detects that several over S are starting their action and GC's defence is going back to life.
As Signum is closing in to their position, Zest thinks it's time to retreat but Agito is so desperate to give a one blow to Rein.
Vita catches Agito's action and try to intercept it, but Zest goes Full Drive and intercepts Vita before that.
With Graf Eizen crashed miserably, Vita falls to ground, defeated...
Well... Signum is too much of wage-snatch, aint it

- Subaru rushes toward Ginga's posision, she's even outspeeding Nanoha by far thanks to the enviroment of indoor.

- Subaru reaches where Ginga is... only to find out that 3 Numbers are about to pack blood-stained and unconcious Ginga into container.
Subaru snaps out, her eyes turn yellow... like those of Numbers.

B Part:

Spoiler for EP17 B Part:

- Yelling them to give her sister back, Subaru charges toward Nove, completely drown in rage.
As both crashes into wall from their contact, Nove analyzes that Subaru's Inherent Skill is destruction-on-contact type.
Cinque tells her little sisters to run with Ginga, and she will take her alone until Sei arrives to extract her.
Uendi is already activating her IS "Aerial Rave", but Nove is hesitating to leave Cinque alone... Cinque assures her that she can attack without making contact.

- With Sentou Kijin's circle pattern under her, Subaru madly charges against Cinque, who's only berely managing to defend her attack.
She's even crashing her fists and MC on her feet, but that doesn't matter to her... she uses her IS again, which finally penetrates Cinque's defence.
However, Cinque's desperate attack damaged Subaru enough to stop her movement... showing inside her left arm was a sparkling mechanical inside...
As Cinque was about to giving up, Sei finally reaches place and extracts her.
Left alone, Subaru collapses into ground, her eyes turning back to normal... and Mach Calibur stops her function due to damage.
Then, Nanoha and Teana finally reach the place... well, isn't that a bit too slow?

- Back to RF6, Lucino sees off the remaining system of the base is dying...
Vice was still holding his own, but with Lutecia's appearance, he remembers his past; In one of hostage incident, he misfired and hit the hostage in eye... who was a little girl.
With trauma of recollection, he stopped dead, trembling... that was more than enough time for Lutecia to blow him into wall.

- On top of flaming RF6 base, Uno contacts Lutecia and thanks her for retrieving Vivio.
Uno offers her an extraction but Lutecia refuses her offer, insisting to fly on a Type-2 Drone until they reach teleportable distance.

- On Fried, Erio and Caro are about to reach RF6 base... then they find Lutecia's taking Vivio away.
Erio's flashback kicks in;
Mondials had a son, Erio Mondial, who died from sickness.
Being apparently rich family, Mondials somehow had contact to someone with Project F technology... thus, they got their son revived.
However, that didn't go unnoticed and some organization came to take him away...
I don't want to believe they were TSAB, but they effectively shut Mondials up by merely mentining about record of their son's death and Project F, so they definitely got law on their back... or at least I think they're.

- Erio activates Strada's Mode 2, which effectively turns itself into chunk of thrusters to fly.
He literrally rockets toward Lutecia, but eventually knocked down by Dido, and Caro got bound by Otto and drops.

- Fate desperately questions her opponent where the hell Scaglietti is, and suprisingly, Tre and Sette responds with politeness in their tone.
They answer that if Fate is willing to join them, they'll tell her the whereabouts immediately.
Fate retorts them that he's unforgivable criminal, which they responds that please don't say such a sad thing, for it was Scaglietti himself that made the baseline of Project F, he's like a father to both Fate and Erio.
Fate STFU them, so they decides to take a leave for this time... at last moment, Tre tells Fate that as Fate already noticed, she can not win against them next time.

- Back to RF6, Uno is announcing via Type-3 Drone that Drones are going to completely destroying the structure in 5 minutes, with emphasising that they're not intending to target human in any way, and suggest any remaining personnel to leave the place immedietly.
Caro, in fear of losing place where she whole-heartedly called "home", summons Voltair and goes rampage.

- Back to GC's main room, Scaglietti is having a speech against these who presented at Presentation...
He tells them that today's attack was a wrath from these who tried to improve technology in right direction, but considered illigal and shafted by TSAB under the name of law-keeping and LL restriction.
Then he continues that he, as a human, still loves human and their life, so that they tried today's attack to be as blood-less and humane as possible.
Then he tells them that he proved the power and technology he has, and he is prepared to make special offer for these who interested in it and waiting for contact.

- Staring at collapsing tower on fire, Carim feebly says that the prophecy became real...
However, Hayate tells herself that RF6 is not died yet, and swears for revenge.

- So... where in the world our Nanoha was in all these critical times?

Preview:

Spoiler for EP18 Preview:

- Titled "Return of the Wing", Teana and Erio swears their determination to stand up again.
In one short cut I saw someone appears to be Auris pointing finger to Hayate... maybe interrogation in process?

Originally Posted by aroduc

Holy fucking awesome.
http://blog.seiha.org/?p=215

I'm in the process of uploading the Subaru part and ripping out the Erio/Caro part at the end. I'll post those once they're up.

WELL! This episode certainly delivers!
In any case, since most of the points I would have liked to ask were already mentioned. I'll just ask these.

1) Did anyone get the name of Zest's Armed Device?
2) How did Subaru grow up while being a cyborg? Her systems grew as well?!
3) Did the left Revolver Knuckle get left behind? *hopeful*
4) Is Caro limited as well?
5) Did Voltaire come out from the summoning square or formed from Fried?

Originally Posted by An Hero in Disguise

I knew it! Doc strives for the prosperity of humanity! Fighting against those who hinder its rightful development!

That's one way of putting it.

Originally Posted by An Hero in Disguise

Drones won't kill innocents but reply to the violence accordingly, that's it

Spoiler:

BTW when Shamal and Zafira were shot I almost believed that there's justice in the world after all And Hayate's reaction was ensuring But then they had to ruin my perfect mood Almost made me rate the episode 9 instead of 10.

For good or for bad, THIS IS NANOHA!!!

Originally Posted by Deathkillz

yea i know what you mean...i was all up for a funeral the next day considering hayate's "ZOMG i cant feel their life signals anymore!" :O reaction...*sigh*

Anime cliche. Can't feel their life force ~> OMG! Their dead! ~> No. We we're just knocked out good.

Originally Posted by An Hero in Disguise

Nothing personal against them, it was just a perfect moment for some members of the cast to go for good (it's unlikely to see something decent performed by Shamal or Zafira in future episodes anyway), but they missed the opportunity

Main cast? Probably. But not this early.

IF there was no limiter and Fate was full S+ and with Zamber mode seeing that the Numbers weren't having much trouble defending against her attacks would either mean that they're that good or that she performed bad. Future will show what was really the case.

I'm betting more on that her agenda wasn't to elimante them for the time being. But at least they should have shown some shots!

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Neither seems all that serious, that Fate's clearly more agitated. The Numbers had the no-casualty mission objective going for them, and they clearly preferred if Fate was willing to join them and become Jail's harem member #13, the pseudo-daughter archetype.

Fate on the other hand, wanted to inquiry on Scaglietti's whereabouts, so well... but the last words of the Numbers does give less edge to Fate, since they're still hoping to talk sense into her next time, and that "you know you can't win next time" foreshadowing...

As for Scaglietti... Well, it was both advertising, sponsor showcase alongside personal motives (( Material/Type-0 ))... There's probably a bunch of bull in his words as is every advertisement. At least it can be said that thus far, he doesn't seem to treat his subjects that badly. The Numbers (( even Tre )) seems to have a degree of attachment to him, looking sad when Fate bullshited Jail, and well... Lutecia's a Jail Is Fine Too. And at least he wasn't the evil sucker involved with Agito/Elio.

Let's see if he intends to dissect Vivio or give her candies and sweets before dissecting her. And what he intends to do with Ginga too, though I think mind-control seems to be the most famous line of thought (( though I'd prefer if Ginga was genuinely converted over, but alas... highly doubtful. ))

Yup. Good points there. As well as 'A Jail is Fine too' elements. As to be expected from Nightengale. In any case, Jail certainly went up the awesome villain meter. It makes the show and the conflict all the better.

Originally Posted by Fabien

Remember, this is Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. There is no real Bad Guy/Good Guy opposition, merely people who believe in what they do, and don't agree with each other. (And Nanoha will win, because her name is in the show's title.)

Precia had a very good reason (in her own mind, at least) to seek the Jewel Seeds, and Nanoha and Chrono had their own reason too.
Signum-tachi had a very good reason to complete the book of darkness, while Chrono-tachi had a very good reason to prevent them. And Graham honestly believed what he did what the right thing.

In StrikerS, Jail thinks the Lost Logia should be put to good use, and the TSAB thinks they're too dangerous. And each group fights for their own beliefs.

Besides, Jail is a creator of life, so I don't think he likes killing.

That's a kind way to put it. But as for me, war is just about conflicting ideas. The one who wins will be recorded by history as the one who is right. But in the end, there are only victims.

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Well... no one died. Not even cannon fodders.

That's quite well-coordinated.

Either it's just an ego-filling publicity stunt (( look, I owned you without even killing a single one, you'd be dead long ago if I was remotely serious )) or he really cares about...LIFE.

Either way, it's still good for dramaticism.