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Originally Posted by MCAL
Well that was... different.
Another improvement from the VN I thought. I was impressed by how they added a reason to why Amadeus was created in the first place.
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Wouldn't Amadeus be created regardless. We knew in S;G that Kiritsu was working on brain recording and such tech. By anime standards, using brain recordings of people to take a shortcut in AI development doesn't sound much of a stretch. So Amadeus existing time travel or no doesn't feel like a plot hole to me.
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Originally Posted by Kakurin
Good grief, I hope we got the combat scenes out of the way now. Direction was a complete mess.
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Originally Posted by Kanon
The actions scenes were hilarious. Kagari decapitating soldiers with her bare hands and tanking a dozen bullets. Future enhancements are truly amazing.
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OMG yes. What's with decapitating people with bare hands?!? Does she have force blades in her palms or something?!? And where did they get these guys?!? On a crowded rooftop containing a madwoman running towards them and Suzuha and Mayuri BEHIND the madwoman. Using automatic weapons they managed to hit EVERYTHING except any of their potential targets. And then the leader or something goes. "AIM FOR THE TORSO!" As opposed to WHAT?!? Her NAILS?
And then Kagari for some reason slips, and they STOP firing?!? She should have become Swiss cheese then.
So yeah. Less combat scenes like this pls.
Speaking of the fight scene: So there are THREE sides (apart from the protagonists) here? Stratfor, which apparently has been suborned by some scientist to do shit for him apparently, DARPA which presumably actually works for the US government and Russians which don't make the appearance here. So the guys who show up in the Blackhawk are Stratfor while the Apache is Americans proper (DARPA) right? Given that America apparently knows about his operations, I wonder how he isn't under much tighter scrutiny in the future. Letting a mad scientist loose in your all important time travel shenanigans doesn't sound like a smart idea.
Also I wonder what Japan thinks of someone strafing a rooftop with 30mm cannon fire in the middle of crowded Akiba. And I'll abstain from bashing the fiction usual ridiculous usage of attack helicopters. It's an unfortunate staple of fiction and as stupid as having automatic ranged weapon armed solders CHARGING into melee.
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Originally Posted by Kanon
Mayuri dies again, apparently. Poor girl can't catch a break. And neither can Okabe. Hopefully, they'll be able to complete the time leap machine before it's too late for a retry.
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Are we really sure the time machine blew up? Wouldn't there be a bit more wreckage from a missile strike than that? We didn't actually see the missile hit the machine. Maybe it just knocked off a couple pieces while the rest phased out of that point in time. It didn't appear like a ton of wreckage fell off the roof and the blast area is fairly clear as well. But I suppose we should presume them dead for the time being.
If nothing else this should hopefully be the kick in the rear that Okabe needs. It feels like we've had a few of those moments already, but this has to be it. Mayuri is either back in the past or dead. His big decision to take this route so Mayuri at least survives has gone up in smoke.
Now to see if they can get the time leap machine working fast enough.
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Yeah. If they meant to be clear that the time machine is a goner there would have been a lot more wreckage. Helfire missiles don't delete matter.
So I'm thinking they made a jump, but in a damaged time machine so where they'll end up and if they ever end up anywhere is a question. So I'd think the goal now might be to try to fix the roof fight so they do make it?
But I also wonder what did they manage to do there that caused a slight change of the future?
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If they had successfully jumped to the past, Okabe's reading steiner would have activated though. I guess it's possible the missile hitting the machine made it malfunction and they arrived in the future instead.
There are only five episodes left, yet it feels like the story is really starting now.
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Well the change could have been slight enough that Okabe's situation hasn't changed much for him to notice. On the other hand given that they were planning a MAJOR change I don't think, as others have pointed out, that they have made it to the past.
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b) They have yet to make the change, wherever they landed.
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Would any time need to pass back in the original time? I'd think the change would be instant as soon as the time machine leaves. Because at that point anything they do would have been in the past of the moment they left from. Therefore if they have done any major changes to the past* the consequences would be instantly noticed by anyone with strong enough Reading;Steiner. By major changes I mean any changes that cause changes to the situation on that rooftop, because if they made changes that don't cause a change to the situation on the rooftop I don't think Okabe would be able to notice a change. He only seems able to notice changes because suddenly what he remembers doesn't line up with what he sees. Unless he gets additional feeling that timeline changed?
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There are only five episodes left, yet it feels like the story is really starting now.
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Yeah. I feel like everything since Okabe broke off with Amadeus has basically been filer, or side story info. I guess Kagari bits were needed to explain her actions here, but then again she isn't really needed for the end result. A firefight breaks out, Suzuha and Mayushi make a break for the time machine and are seemingly hit as they are leaving.