2012-09-20, 21:06 | Link #2321 |
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Join Date: Sep 2010
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I like how this show has this weird cognitive dissonance where Nakamura is considered a joke villain but Truth isn't.
I'm legit curious if people in Japan have the same reaction as we do to him. It could be a culture thing, where he's really badass over there, but I kinda doubt it. |
2012-09-21, 02:36 | Link #2324 |
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Join Date: May 2011
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Man, with all these airing schedule shenanigans it's like Bones and MBS keep taking turns shooting each other with the quartz gun.
In re: 21, I didn't like it nearly as much as 20, despite how neatly it tied an unexpected bow on one character's arc. Something about how the plot flowed makes it seem like I should be expecting an incredibly anticlimactic ending. I was already expecting a letdown, but just logistically we have a mess here. Still this episode did have some great scenes, in particular Spoiler for great scenes:
Sadly, "I can see the ending", maybe. Spoiler for post-21 speculation:
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2012-09-21, 02:38 | Link #2325 | ||
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I hope this is the case because this still has got to be one of the weirdest things I've seen, it's not like it was a surprise thing, MBS should have known about the Olympics schedule for a while lol. Quote:
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2012-09-21, 04:43 | Link #2330 |
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 32
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Is there anything Truth can't do? If there is anything that Eureka 7 Ao has been telling us since his amazingly jarring introduction it is that this guy's abilities seem limitless. His use as an antagonist throughout this story has simply been to provoke characters and start shit at random to provide episodic conflict.
Oh hey, Eureka is on screen, lets have Truth attack her for no goddamn reason so we can have dramatic scenes! Oh hey Ao has a quartz gun, lets have Truth try to steal it so he UHM do something!!! Oh Truth wants to fuck with the Japanese government, COOL! Oh wait why? The fact that Truth fused with a gun and is just like "SUP I'M GOING TO DO WHATEVER I WANT," is not the least bit surprising at this point. His character is simply a terrible plot device. It is quite clear he never had a true reason for existing in the Eureka 7 universe, and this just means the staff hasn't know what they were doing whatsoever past episode 3 and especially since he got introduced. Goddamn this show, I swear.
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2012-09-21, 07:42 | Link #2335 | ||||
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Italy
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Episode 6, timeframe 05:58. Truth in female form is clearly surprised by the Scub Burst. <<Welcome to this mistaken world>>. Quote:
Episode 10, timeframe 12:46. <<Secrets aren't what you think they are>>. What are the Secrets to the common people? Enemies. Quote:
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Also, no need to be insulting.
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2012-09-21, 12:37 | Link #2338 |
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Speaking of the Nirvash, I'm starting to get confused. Eureka pilots that spec-2 look-alike back in Okinawa, and it gets left behind when she disappears. Later on Ao finds a different "mark 1" that is obviously in the same "family", but resembles the one Renton had been building at one point (right down to the hidden weapons being in it with her password...). But Ao's "mark 1" is still that ur-IFO all the other IFOs were descended from.
Am I misremembering this? If not, how does this even make sense? For Ao's to have the hidden weapons only Eureka knew about meant it's something that would have to have been brought to Ao's world, not built there (probably...). But then when and by whom, if Eureka's own Nirvash back in that battle on Okinawa was that spec-2 look-alike? This really isn't adding up for me. |
2012-09-21, 12:41 | Link #2339 |
Six Shooter
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: USA
Age: 43
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So how exactly is Elena able to pilot an IFO? We know now that she didn't grow up in an environment rich with Trapar and there's never been any mention that she has the same "disease" as Naru, so I don't see how she would be able to. Am I missing something?
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2012-09-21, 12:45 | Link #2340 | |
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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Being at the site of two Scub Bursts is probably a major amount of trapar exposure. There's also no reason why she couldn't have moved to near one of the numerous coral plants, since in 2020 they knew how to stop Scub Bursts.
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