Guess everyone's Morgianna addiction was sated this episode. Not even much Aladdin or any Ali Baba to detract from those scrumptious lower extremities.
Guess everyone's Morgianna addiction was sated this episode. Not even much Aladdin or any Ali Baba to detract from those scrumptious lower extremities.
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak
It was more like Berserker's roar than Fus Ro Dah.
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I love how fierce she looks when fighting. She was even smiling while destroying her enemies. It serves as a nice gap between her usual expressionless face. It also shows her roots as a warrior clan descendant.
Peace.
She killed those tigers in under 20 seconds. Not wounded, killed. It shows you just how much she was holding back against Aladdin and Alibaba in the dungeon.
Well she was probably malnourished and had her feet shackled.Originally Posted by Ryllharu
And had very little personal motivation. She only fought this well after shedding the last vestiges of slavery.
Morgianinja!
I guess it makes sense a Magi would meet people that are so extravagantly extraordinary.
After all, this young teen girl, with no training we know of, already is so strong she can defeat a gand of armed thieves and several heavy tigers... barehanded (and footed too...) I wonder what kind of monster you'd get from a properly trained fanalis male in his 20s...
I guess there's good material for a sig or avatar...
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All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
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Looks like that still remains to be seen, as he saw no fighting so far.
An interesting episode. Morgiana is certainly getting more and more human. You wouldn't soon know she was a slave - especially if she gets rid of the habit of prostrating. I reckon Alibaba is in this city dealing with his past. I wouldn't otherwise take him as a person associating with thieves, so he must have pressing reasons to rely on such methods. Although it could very well be he'd call their company freedom fighters or something. There must be some people in power that would recogize his face immediately, though, considering how he was covering himself so thoroughly. I don't recall the details of the early eps so well, but was he prince or something from this city? I seem to remember his technique with the blade was royal.
He's probably some bastard son of the dead King that was exiled by his half brothers yada yada, same shit different day.
I didn't really enjoy this episode, Sindbad is a pretty interesting bloke but the whole thing was so painfully predictable that i was dozing off in between scenes.
We got our share our Morgiana time, all is well again.
Jafar was underwhelmingly weak. I think I expected too much from a character who starred as Disney's first Dark Vador
Aye Kraco, Funny how speaking about a well trained male Fanalis in his 20s, we got Masrur this ep.
Alibaba and thieves, seems about right to me.
Other than that, almost useless ep. Just a bad intro to that small Sindbad arc.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
I concur. For a rather enjoyable show so far, this episode was quite dull.
What are you guys complaining about? There was nothing at all extra special about the preceding episodes either. I don't know what kind of academy award scripts you expect from a standard show like this. This show relies heavily on just a few elements, like an extremely goofy but righteous main character, a cute but strong heroine, an exotic setting, and... well, that was pretty much it, since the plots are perfectly commonplace. Absolutely nothing in the beginning of this show has indicated it's any more exquisite than this. And that's plenty for me.
You are mentally coaching yourself for disappointments.
My issue is that the reveal that the whole episode revolved around was too cliché and predictable, nothing more and nothing else.
I wouldn't call this a predictable series so i doubt it will become a running problem, cool your panties Kraco.
I rather enjoyed this episode, pretty much like all the others. The reveal at the end was so predictable because they essentially told us that Ali Baba was among the thieves. "It must not be our Ali Baba" Bitch, please. So the "reveal" really wasn't so much of a reveal, as much as it was plain old, read the lines as they're written, plot. I enjoyed that. It was also nice to see Morgianna's personality develop a bit, and Sinbad's the fucking man. I could've done without his right butt cheek all in my left eye socket though.
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak
Yeah, I don't think this was meant to be anything but predictable, and revealing there's Alibaba among the thieves beforehand certainly wasn't working to give the opposite idea. It's merely a simple setting for an arc about Alibaba's past, I'd imagine. If there's nothing to hide, it's better not to desperately try to hide that nothingness in order to surprise... nobody.
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Despite everything I said, even I'm now feeling this arc is lacking some of the spirited vigor the previous ones had. Perhaps it's just because not only Alibaba but also Aladdin got so melancholic. I would also rather see Morgiana's growth as a free person outside of an arc as gloomy as this. It's kind of cruel that when she's just discovering herself in the process of healing lifelong scars, she's suddenly pitted against one of the two people who helped her gain her freedom and human dignity.
But on the other hand, I reckon this past and the present state of his country are something Alibaba needs to deal with. They also define him as a person, and no doubt explain why he hated slavery so much. If they had made this arc goofy, it would have left Alibaba quite a superficial person.
On a basic level I've always been intrigued by stories where friends are set against each other by differing circumstances. It's just that Aladdin is the kind of a happy-go-lucky kid that I wouldn't want to see suffer.
My enjoyment of the series is only increasing. The issues they touch upon are no joke. Last week, when Sinbad said:
"The nobles wealth comes from your taxes. If you don't feel that they deserve it, then you should take it back. But do not take lives."
I nearly jumped out of my seat in a weird mix of righteous rage and inspiration. This week they're touching on the abuses of paper currency. They even made Ali Baba's mom a whore, yet spoke of her as dignified under the circumstances. I'm enjoying the subtext in all of this a great deal.
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak
I found it difficult to feel bad about Alibaba's tragic past, given to whom he was telling it to. Alibaba had a family with his mother, he had friends, he had a sworn brother. He was happy, had people to play and talk to, and even at the end, felt the affection and pride from his father.
Morgiana was stolen from her family long ago. Her earliest memories are being a slave, and being mistreated by that asshole. Her first friends are these two. No one else has ever given a damn about her (though Goltas did at the end). Aladdin never had anyone. Ugo was his first friend, and technically, he wished for that.
It made it a bit hard to care. Compared to those two, Alibaba has had it good.
Like Sasuke said famously, only those who once had something can understand the pain of losing it. Don't forget that Alibaba originally thought he would leave these two out of his problems. He told that to Morgiana in no unambiguous words when she paid the surprise visit. A part of the reason could have been that he felt Morgiana didn't deserve to wallow in other people's troubles after having suffered so much herself, and, let's face it, despite being a magi, Aladdin is still a kid (just like they said in the ep itself). But now Alibaba was dragged there against his will to face those two. No matter what kind of a story he's telling, you can't judge it against Aladdin and Morgiana's past anymore. They are forcing it out of him, and I bet his story matters to Alibaba himself helluva lot. Based on his previous actions, he must be trying to correct his own mistakes of the past as much as help the city.
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