Aldnoah.Zero

[KrayZ33]

Uhm... what the fuck? Why did he shoot Inaho? Clearly he was friends with the princess? This series went from a 9/10 to a 1/10 in a matter of minutes.

What's the problem with that? They were both pointing guns at each other and Inaho even said that he is his *enemy*. "2 much tragedy 4 u?"

The question is, why did he rescue Saazbaum? What did he expect would happen?

[Buffalobiian]

The question is, why did he rescue Saazbaum? What did he expect would happen?

That's my biggest issue here. Slaine was cool when he held up to the torture, but he's a running bag of emotions here. Save the guy who you know plotted to kill the princess, who told you he'll kill the princess, and then fucking does.

Another question is why Slaine was given rights to pilot his mech? If rights can not be transferred by anyone other than royalty, then the remaining possibility is that Slaine is royalty.

As for the princess being alive, that seems to be a lingering possibility. I would have thought that Slaine could have wanted the war to continue though, under the guise that the princess was dead all along. I'm not sure if Saazbaum jammed her broadcast to everybody, or whether he merely stole it from his fellow Martians. While Slaine was batshit about Saazbaum killing the princess, he did seem gravitated towards the count's idea of ending the hatred (at least for the Martians). The encounter with the friendly Martian soldier in this episode may have solidified this for him.

Slaine shooting Inaho was a given. Inaho shot Slaine down and prevented him from "helping" the princess, thereby ultimately leading to her death.

Inahoh x Seylum ftw.

Unless that body morphing was applied to the Loli and her, so,they trade places.

That can't happen. It's a hologram. The bullet would have gone over chibi's head. The chest shot may have clipped her ear.

[fireheart]

Another question is why Slaine was given rights to pilot his mech? If rights can not be transferred by anyone other than royalty, then the remaining possibility is that Slaine is royalty.

His father was allowed to study Aldnoah so maybe he figured some things out and gave his son the rights to activate any drive similar to the royal family. After all it sounds like the only reason the royal family is the royal family is because they were the first to come into contact with the Aldnoah drives.

The much darker assumption is that Slaine simply took her body with him because he is a creepy possessive stalker, and that she's still very much dead.

This was pretty much what I assumed minus the creepy possessive stalker thing.