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How many eps is Strain planned for? I don't see it going more then 13 which is a shame since every time I see them in their Strains I'm impressed. Also the sudden death was shocking, I mean Gantz shocking I seriously didn't see it coming.
And I agree with Yukimura. the military or maybe its just the ship isn't run that well.
According to ANN Strain is only 13 eps, it's kindof nice I think since 13 eps is short enough that it'll be easier to remember everything that happened as opposed to a 26 ep where episodes 5-10 are generally pretty hazy by the end.
I like the series... although they have to have dumb ass b****es like they normally do. Im not sure if its just me but is anyone else annoyed/pissed off at dumb anime girls? Sure lets not defend myself from some stupid arrogant b****es that are about to whoop my ass. She should of sayd yeah of course im not gonna save her (leader of the regular mech girls that dies in the first 30 seconds of engagement), she only gave me endless shit serves her right. Atleast you bring some personality and depth to the character. -_-
Its almost as annoying as watching scary movies and the dude/girl dont run away from the stupid zombie and just stand there like a dumbass...
sorry... end rant.
I have no idea what you are talking about. Who doesn't defend herself, against whom? Who didn't save whom? Which leader of mech girls dies in 30 secs? Who gave endless shit to whom?
I think you should have inserted some names into that bulk of text. Well, if you intended to be understood, that is...
Translation: I like this series, although the show's female characters show unfavorable qualities that are normal in many anime. I'm not sure if it's just me but is anyone else discouraged by female anime characters who show these unfavorable qualities? For Example..."I won't defend myself when my former GAMBEE pilot comrades, who are out for revenge because their leader (Isabella) is dead, try to attack me in a remote storage area". Sarah should have said "Yes of course I didn't save your leader, who died very early in the engagement, she treated me poorly and wasn't a nice person so she deserved her fate." At least this would bring personality and depth to Sarah's character.Quote:
Originally Posted by SilverSurfie
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When phrased this way I can agree with some of what he said. It would be cool if Sara had a typically arrogant male personality, as she wouldn't be taking so much shit. However then she wouldn't be who she is and it would be strange. I have often commented on how terribly undisciplined the characters in the show are and that ties in to the behavior of the girls.
Indeed. I have hard time remembering they are supposed to be the military of a nation in war. Well, the setting is what it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yukimura
I have been calling the main character Anti-Social Sara all the time, but I do understand her personality completely, and I don't find anything disturbing about it in that sense. And I agree totally with Yuki on Sara not being who she is if she acted otherwise. In fact, a seemingly weak and highly introverted personality is a good way to make her brother complex more believable (well, that's a trait I won't ever much like in any series, but it's an important plot element here).
Let's see what happens next, redemption or damnation.
Episode 10 - WinD
Edit: Quite an episode. Very fundamental things were revealed, which is of course essential considering we will shortly run out of episodes. Still, I'm not altogether sure what it was. Emilies are aliens of some sort, but why did they look like humans? I wonder if that will be addressed at some point. Or maybe I just missed something, and they are artificial beings.
Nevertheless, it's nice to finally know why Ralph acts like he does. But at this point I can't anymore predict at all how this will end. Now Sara also knows what Ralph does, and it would seem likely she would also try to help Emilies somehow. Yet, she will hardly join Ralph, and the preview didn't suggest anything like that, either. Perhaps she will kill Ralph and succeed in sending Emilies somewhere. And then die. Somehow I can't see this series ending without both Ralph and Sara dead.
That was a fairly grotesque twist I wasn't expecting. So, members of an alien species that operates on a Hive mind and all look the same were being exploited and abused in the hopes that humanity could gain instantaneous communication and potentially teleportation. It's just a coincidence that they look human.
Somehow, according to the chibi-geniuses, Sara doesn't have a human brain, rather an Emilies one or at the least one similar to the Emilies. That's how she can interact with the Emily Mimic.
Ralph will most certainly die, one way or the other. Either Sara will kill him or he'll die from the nasty case of TB he's got. For now, I think Sara will live, but there's no way to know for sure given how they keep killing others off in droves.
I really hope this doesn’t have one of those endings wear there is some blinding light and everyone is suspended in it and they talk about feelings or hold hands or some crap like that.
I don’t think she cant interact because she has a Emily brain I think you have to consider the situation when they linked Sara was desperate, they hint and showed that the mimic was alive hell it even had eyeballs. and since the Emily mimic shares a conscious with the other Emily perhaps it knew that Ralph was outside or something to this effect
Ralph taking over the ship by himself was pretty cool I found it weird that Ralph killed all of those people without remorse till he reached his last victim. I also like the back story they've given all of the characters.
I didn't find that weird. I'm not entirely sure what Ralph's mental state is, but it's obvious he has plenty of totally suppressed memories and emotions. He might be controlled by Emily in some manner, or he just lost it quite completely after realising he had killed a host of those kids when attacking the ship, and especially after learning how torturous past those (alien) kids had.
He's a possessed man capable of anything, yet not quite stable.
Now that we know his past more or less, I think his character is quite good.
This is what we have been waiting for!
Episode 11 h264 - WinD
Episode 11 xvid - WinD
Ralph is just stupid, and weak minded. Humans are cruel, so kill them mercilessly? I dont really get his stand.
Stupid? He's probably the best Strain pilot, from what we can tell a decent tactician, can control a capital ship alone... If he's stupid, then the standards for smart people would be pretty high indeed.
I think what happened with him was a mix of his own surprise, guilt and above all a hefty dose of telepathy by Emily. Anybody can tell he's not really a mentally stable person right now, and wasn't ever after his encounter with Emily. But yes, he probably has quite a weak will.
I think his character is far better than most crazed villains out there.
Stupid also has a variety of meanings. It doesnt necessarily mean that he is incapable. What I meant was that he couldnt even analyze the situation well and resorted to a stupid decision to save the aliens at the expense of everything (even his sister). He is also weak-willed because of that.
I hate weak willed characters. Crazy characters are OK though, but I think Mao is better.
I guess it's a matter of opinion and preferences. I don't most of the time like weak-willed characters, either, in fact I hate them quite often. However, I don't dislike them when they are special cases, like in this series. Despite being weak-willed enough to succumb to Emily's brain-washing, he hasn't been weak-willed at all in his quest for revenge and freedom for the Emily clones. If you really think about all the detestable weak characters out there, most of them are quite different from Ralph, who is more like a man possessed.
i guess we won't know until ralph explains his motives more clearly, because all we can see is him killing everybody.
He is possessed, and the reason for that is because he is weak willed. Being possessed is in fact a refelction of a weak will, because the will itself is something you decide on, or choose yourself, because you rationally believe it is right.
Ralph just acts like a raving lunatic. There is no sign of any conscious decision on his part. He is just acting in reaction to the trauma he received from the incident.
I think he was mentally damaged from that, so I guess the issue of him being weak willed NOW is no longer relevant.
you evil you..Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
Our conceptions of a raving lunatic differ some 180 degrees, I think. From what I have seen, he has been deadly cold and most of the time totally unemotional during the show. I believe he planned himself how to steal Emily from such a central system of Union, he fought so extremely succesfully against other strains, he retrieved Emily from the space station, streered the space ship into a collision course... It doesn't sound like a raving lunatic to me. It sounds like a man ready to do anything for his goal. Despite having some apparently lethal disease (he's being pretty sickly every now and then). I have no doubt he received some trauma from the incident, but he can still think clearly. He's crazy, no doubt, but thinking far more clearly than many of the sane people in this series (or in general). It's just twisted clearness of vision.