+1.Originally Posted by Pandadice
I like Alphard too, but only in her terrorist outfits. For some reason I never liked her dress look.
Where is Yun Yun? From the previous episode, she was ready to die since there was no one who cared about her anyway. Then came Maria and Canaan, and she kind of just packed up.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
ANBU-Menclave should be ashamed of their video quality. I'm still archiving their stuff though, but I have to re-encode each episode to fix their shit.
Only in her terrorist outfits:
Episode 7 - gg
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Edit: Funny how those terrorists just walked out of the conference center without anyone objecting. Surely they didn't dig and build the tunnel just for this operation. The officials should have known such a route existed and placed a sufficient number of soldiers to guard it. Liang Qi must have simply teleported out of there.
Well, I didn't consider this episode anymore as annoying as the previous one, and my faith in this series was somewhat replenished. Maybe because Maria was so glad to meet Canaan and didn't hesitate to show it (sugoi, sugoi, sugoi).
Last edited by Kraco; Sun, 08-16-2009 at 07:09 AM.
Liang Qi is damn hot. She doesn't deserve the treatment she's receiving from Alphard...
Thanks shinta|hikari for the sig.
I thought that a number of your prior complaints were addressed over the course of this episode. The US planned a counter-attack (goaded into it by Alphard though), Shanghai had the entire area cordoned off for quarantine, and no one really saw Alphard or Liang Qi's faces because of the pile of dead bodies.
The reason Alphard got away was because of the "missle" strike (it was obviously a bomb, and it didn't really look like it had the hardware for guidance). The US told China last minute that they were going to bomb the shit out of the place, so everyone moved as far away as possible. Alphard got away then, and Liang Qi did indeed seem to teleport.
Liang Qi is like a spoiled child, I can't say I'm surprised that smexy Alphard abandoned her. Her reasoning was perfectly sound, an out of control subordinate who cannot exercise proper emotional judgment is a liability.
I definitely loved Minoru's antics, as well as all of Maria's rubbing, wiggling, and sugoi sugoi sugoi.
I wonder if Canaan's handler is performing this atonement because she is the one who poisoned either Shibuya (where Maria got infected) or the village where all the Borners are from.
It was also very enlightening to read the description of the Ua Virus on the US screens. It looks like they used Google Translate to get them into English, but you could get most of hte gory details. Aside from all the regular hemmoraging, the eyes sink into the face, paralyzed, and the face itself separates from the skull and then goes rigid, forming a "Noh Mask" on the victim's face.
My guess is Alphard and Liang Qi's faces are now known, but there just wasn't anybody to stop them, sufficiently, when everybody was fleeing from the bombing. Their security company is now recognized as a terrorist cover operation, after all, so there's no doubt they dug up the faces of the representatives of that company. Considering how openly Alphard walked around in the auditorium, she certainly wasn't trying to keep herself hidden. And no doubt it was also carefully recorded who had the access to the control room, so Liang Qi and whatever-was-his-name-masochist are also being hunted now.
Although somehow I doubt CIA will find them before Canaan...
Strangely, I always thought Canaan worked for the CIA all along.
I thought this episode was pretty good. They showed things on a much bigger scale with the US and military etc, making it seem like a real terrorist setup rather than just Canaan infiltrating a base and beating everyone up on the way.
Liang Qi may be a spoiled child, but she's plenty fun to watch all the same. Every terrorist group needs at least one crazy one to spice things up. Liang Qi seems especially good at that.
That fake-CEO and Liang Qi will probably get their faces into the hit-list, but I've only ever heard of Alphard being referred to as some Middle Eastern royalty. Is she publicly affiliated with the PMC at all?
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Hmm... Well, I suppose there is such a slim way out for her, assuming nobody saw her face after it all began and lived to tell about it. However, even Maria now knows who she is, and - voila! - Maria is a journalist. Quite an exclusive scoop for her if nobody else knows so far. Unless Canaan tells her to keep her mouth shut (for whatever reason, but I doubt that will happen), it would be extremely strange if Alphard is not revealed.
Alphard is publically known as the laregest shareholder of the Daedala Corp., which is now publically known to be a front for the Snakes (ref eps 4, 13:06). While there exists the possibility that she could weasel away as an utterly swindled and ignorant heiress who spent all of her money buying into a terrorist organization, it's more likely people don't view her as that stupid.
When Maria's dad was shown, I always thought of Maria being parentless before this, and that was just a feeling, too. When he "died," I thought they loved to throw away characters like that, but I guess not when he lives and it was all a trick. Nice episode, though.
I am training in the shadows.
Currently playing: All of your games, probably.
It's a pity they probably won't be going back to how exactly Alphard fudged those images. The CIA/FBI signal was hacked, but when the guys looked outside, there was definitely smoke at the site.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Didn't the bird explode?
That's not how I saw it.
The bird was flying in real life. The point where it disappeared was when the video was jammed and fed with a premade version.
According to the slowed playback, it disappeared, but I didn't see it explode. (episode 7, 16:59)
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I'm pretty sure that the bird didn't explode. Otherwise they won't be so surprised when they saw the video.
Thanks shinta|hikari for the sig.
I would actually be more surprised if I saw the bird explode.
Getting caught up in the explosion is possible though.
Peace.
Bird exploding. That was a funny theory. Lucifus has nice ideas!
But yeah, it was pretty nice idea from the terrorists. Not only would it make it look like the Americans considered no other options than bombing and killing them all but they would also have killed the only man who could solve it without all the killing.
The effect of the bomb aside from the mushroom cloud looked a bit measly, though, but I suppose that was just an animation budget issue...
Real Colours:
gg - episode 8
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Yun Yun found a most promising place for her business.
I hope Canaan gets her colours back. She's not extraordinary enough without them.
Other than that, it seems we are slowly starting to find out what exactly happened around the Ua virus and the disappeared village in the past and who were involved.
They say there's always too sides to a coin. It definitely applies to Hakko.
That scowl she wore for the majority of the episode was very convincing of someone who had a grudge against her child's murder.
The singing scene was interesting too. I can't tell whether she just mesmerised in singing, or whether at that point she just wanted to sing to her heart's content and not give a shit about anybody else.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Her child's murder? Where did they mention that? I think she feels guilty over unintentionally killing the little boy, but I don't recall them saying anything about her own family.
I like how Canaan went all Matrix-like in the last episode when she looked into the code. I'm bummed that she lost her colours though. She's still a formidible opponent, but as Kraco said, not extraordinary enough.
I can't stand Liang Qi and I was hoping that she'd have been caught in the missile blast. Maybe her sister will have to kill her personally in order to get her out of the way. Or else she needs to be confined to an assylum for a while. That girl has serious issues.
And YAY for Yun Yun being back! She's so hilarious. I hope she still has a significant role to play in this story. I'd like to see her get some resolution on her past and have the ability to move forward with her life outside of the control of the Snakes. There has to be a way since Hakko isn't grovelling to them for drugs.
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