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Spoiler for For Allusions, on themes that could be predictive:

Okay, we are ten episodes in, some of us may have wondered, why are they calling it Guilty Crown? Why in the Licensed Sub do they even picture it as a Crown of Thorns? That' a clear allusion to Christ, and not only that, but to a messiah/savior in works of fiction. The difference here though, is Shu isn't God on earth, he never wanted these abilities, and just wanted a normal life, unfortunately what I feel Shu has not yet figured out, and he better figure it out soon, is that there will not be a normal for anyone if he doesn't find a way within himself to fight that everyone might have a normal life again.

However, I keep thinking back to the opening music, and the picture they are almost painting is one where Shu is on his own, and everyone is against him. Well the writers could have set up him against the world in this episode, but I'm still hopeful for a reunion with Inori, Ayase and the rest of Undertaker. I also have a feeling and I hesitate to even say it here, but if you know anything about the messiah archetype you have to suspect that something is coming. I'm not ready to blurt it out yet even in this spoiler, but it raises questions for the next season for sure.

The other thing I've got weird vibes over is the Void Genome. If as Gai says there were only three vials. Where are the other two. The trinity sort of dynamic there has me wondering how that may play out as well. However, I expect that Haruka may show more of real motherly tendencies towards Shu at some point, and that up till now here goofy antics to her son are her own way of dealing with what happened on Lost Christmas. That's a though, which I can't prove yet, but I'm worried that she may become more of an important figure in this show than I initially gave to her character. I can't help wonder where that will leave her.

Now if I can get back to Shu at where he is right now. Wow, I feel for the guy, and it's a shame that the only ones who maybe want to see Shu say something are perhaps the characters he least needs it from. We got to remember that Shu has been without a father figure for a while, and while some of us May unwittingly attach such stigma to Gai. Gai clearly isn't a father figure, and in a way is like Shu, just trying to keep a facade up for the benefit of the organization.

Spoiler for On the character cliff hangers:

At this point I have so much speculation, and really can not help but wonder where they may be going from here. We just don't know yet whether Gai and the others survive who were on the plain. We don't know quite what's going on with Inori when the resonance starts, and while we clearly see that Hare knows more than she's been letting on, she realizes that Shu is living in denial and needs a reality check. It's a shame really but this is a defense reaction. He's going back to where he began basically, as if nothing had changed, but has not yet given himself permission to grieve, nor has he managed to realize that the crown that has come onto him, it marks him, and no matter how much he'd like to run away from it he can't. At some point he must accept that to be able to do what his destiny calls for, which admittedly could be a horror worse than the visions we've seen to date.

Two things that have me really irritated right now. How does Segai know so much stuff ahead of time? How does Undertaker know that these things are going down so much. Is there a double/triple agent here somewhere? It's a shame that this first season will end with fewer answers, because if this next episode isn't a recap of the first season, I don't see anything but more build up of Lost Christmas rehashed. I know the guy they met on the boat is supposedly helping them, but something still feels rather fishy in the way their missions go down. I just can't put my finger on it.

All in all, I rated this episode an 8, but I really think the characterization of these persons in the show is better than most give it credit, and who doesn't see the new song Inori wrote as necessary, not only to heal Shun, but perhaps to turn back what just happened? No way to know though, we just better wait and see.

Spoiler for Gai and Segai:

I've been proceeding with the idea that Segai and Gai both are pretty smart and have sources within the other's organization. But after rewatching Episode 10 there's one thing that's nagging at me. The facial features of Segai and Gai, why do I feel there's something there. Yea the names sound interesting, but now I'm wondering, why is Gai doing this? Why is Segai? Am I the only one who sees an odd similarity between these two? Could that be how they seem to know what the other is doing?