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86 [Eighty-Six] Ep. 2- Spearhead · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. I guess I'm back. I
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Speaker 1: know that it's only been one week since the last podcast,
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Speaker 1: and it's actually probably only been a week since I recorded,
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Speaker 1: but I feel like so much happened this week. That's
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Speaker 1: been like a year since I've done this. And I
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Speaker 1: don't mean in the world. I just mean my life
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Speaker 1: was really busy. So yeah, whatever, it doesn't matter. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so today we're gonna do episode two of eighty six,
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Speaker 1: and I really don't have much to add to any
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Speaker 1: of this, so we'll just get started. And yeah, episode
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Speaker 1: two is called Spearhead. As we learned at the end
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Speaker 1: of last episode. And if you remember the end of
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Speaker 1: last episode, Lena or really I should say Lena because
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Speaker 1: I think I'm just pronouncing her name wrong, so I'll
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Speaker 1: try to say Lena from now on. She had just
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Speaker 1: connected like her power raid to the Spearhead processor so
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Speaker 1: she could talk to them, and Shin had just introduced
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Speaker 1: himself as Undertaker. Yeay, So that's exactly where we start from,
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Speaker 1: sort of, except on the other sid side of the conversation,
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Speaker 1: because we were with Spearhead last time and now we
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Speaker 1: are with Lena. So the first thing we see is
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Speaker 1: the glowing like power raids stone or whatever it is
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Speaker 1: on the back of Lena's neck, And just like at
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Speaker 1: the end of last episode, we hear Shin say, nice
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Speaker 1: to meet you Handler one. The date is May twenty second,
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Speaker 1: twenty one forty eight, which is exactly where we were
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Speaker 1: last time. We hear Shin say this is Spearhead Squadron's
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Speaker 1: combat commander personnel name Undertaker. Lena is just listening and
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Speaker 1: she looks real stressed because this is scary because Shin
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Speaker 1: is undertaker, and Undertaker apparently like freaks handlers or something.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, he continues, we received word of a new
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Speaker 1: handler coming. We look forward to working with you. Lena's
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Speaker 1: expression changes like she wasn't expecting such a pleasant greeting
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Speaker 1: from him, and she kind of gasps and says, as
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Speaker 1: do I nice to meet you, Undertaker. A petal falls
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Speaker 1: from one of the white lilies on the windowsill, and
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Speaker 1: then we go to the opening theme. Yay back from
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Speaker 1: the opening. We cut to that like dummy on the
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Speaker 1: bench you know where Spearhead lives, that has like the
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Speaker 1: sign that says pig around his neck, and we see
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Speaker 1: again that it is the twenty second of May twenty one,
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Speaker 1: forty eight. Shin is walking outside in the dark and
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Speaker 1: we hear a voice say hey there. Shin looks over
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Speaker 1: to see that guy with the spiky hair, the girl
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Speaker 1: with the black ponytail, and this dude with red hair
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Speaker 1: that I don't really know, just kind of standing over there.
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Speaker 1: They're like outside by that like garage or hanger or
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Speaker 1: whatever we're gonna call that, and Sin says, hey, spiky
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Speaker 1: guy's like the new one seems pretty dangerous, I think.
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Speaker 1: And I didn't really catch this while I was watching it,
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Speaker 1: but I think Shin kind of says like what over
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Speaker 1: here or like eh, because it only makes sense with
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Speaker 1: the next response, even though I didn't see like a
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Speaker 1: caption or anything. So the girl with a black ponytail
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Speaker 1: says the new handler, did you forget already? We see
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Speaker 1: someone walking over and he says Shin, Shin, ain't you
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Speaker 1: did it again, you bastard. The other kids kind of
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Speaker 1: look concerned, and they kind of start to back away,
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Speaker 1: and the spiky guy says, old man Aldrich is about
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Speaker 1: to go off again. Aldrich might be how his name
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Speaker 1: is pronounced. They don't really know. He has gray hair.
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Speaker 1: I think it's like longer, maybe in a ponytail. If
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Speaker 1: I'm remembering this correctly because I can write it down,
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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Michelle. So he's like older, and he's
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Speaker 1: wearing sunglasses and he looks real pissed off. Anyway, he
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Speaker 1: approaches Shin and Sin's like, do you need something? And
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Speaker 1: Aldrich says, don't give me that. What I need to
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Speaker 1: know is why you keep smashing up your machines on
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Speaker 1: every mission. I keep telling you they have weak legs,
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Speaker 1: so don't push them. We see someone like a crew
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Speaker 1: person I guess working on Shin's juggernaut. That's like all
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Speaker 1: fucking messed up now, and Shinn says sorry. Aldretsch is like,
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Speaker 1: we don't have any spare parts. We won't be able
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Speaker 1: to make repair until the next batch comes in. Shin
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Speaker 1: is kind of walking into the garage now, and he says,
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Speaker 1: Fido should have brought back Kujo's machine. Looks like really frustrated,
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Speaker 1: and he glances over at that sign that Kujo wrote
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Speaker 1: that says one hundred and twenty nine days before I
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Speaker 1: end my service and fucking glory to the Spearhead Squadron,
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Speaker 1: and he says, yeah, I guess we could use ones
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Speaker 1: from theirs, But are you okay using parts from machine
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Speaker 1: that someone died in. He walks over to where Shin
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Speaker 1: is standing near his juggernauts, and Shin kind of like
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Speaker 1: turns to look at him, and he like bangs lightly
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Speaker 1: on the juggernaut next to his undertaker insignia, and Aldritch
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Speaker 1: looks kind of surprised, but then he smiles and he's like,
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Speaker 1: I guess it's a little too late to ask that. Okay,
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Speaker 1: got it? Undertaker? Kujo was lucky to die when you
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Speaker 1: were in his unit. You take all the other processors too.
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Speaker 1: What is happening? Oh my god, leave Shin alone. Oh
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Speaker 1: my god. I I guess it's good that Kujo died
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Speaker 1: where Shin was, but that seems upsetting. We see now
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Speaker 1: that Shin is carrying that piece of Kujo's jugg or
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Speaker 1: not that had the insignia on it, like he's holding it,
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Speaker 1: and Aldrich continues, by the way I heard the news,
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Speaker 1: what's the new handler? Like? Shin doesn't say anything for
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Speaker 1: a second, then he's like fine. Aldrich says, fine, listen you.
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Speaker 1: Shin has like gotten on top of his juggernaut now
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Speaker 1: and he starts to like go into the cockpit and
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Speaker 1: he says they sing to say hello, and that they
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Speaker 1: want to maintain good lines of communication, and I'll be
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Speaker 1: calling every day. Pretty rare for a Republic soldier. He
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Speaker 1: pulls a green toolbox out from under the seat, and
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Speaker 1: Aldrich says, so what you'd call an ordinary person. They
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Speaker 1: must live a hard life, the poor thing. He starts
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Speaker 1: to walk away. We see Shin open the box and
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Speaker 1: inside are just so many pieces of metal, each one
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Speaker 1: with a name carved into them. Shin puts Kujo's piece
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Speaker 1: on top, and he stares at them for a little while.
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Speaker 1: He looks rather a motionless, But we're not that stupid.
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Speaker 1: Right next, we get a low shot of a field
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Speaker 1: of purple flowers and there's a blue sky and power
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Speaker 1: lines in the distance, and there's a nice breeze coming through.
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Speaker 1: We see those train tracks and the purple flowers have
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Speaker 1: just taken over the field, like completely everywhere. And the
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Speaker 1: date now is May twenty ninety eight, so we're seven
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Speaker 1: days later. Inside, I guess, like the barracks, there's a
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Speaker 1: picture of Lena as the pig that that kid was drawing, like,
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Speaker 1: taped the wall and under it it says sixth handler.
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Speaker 1: We hear a voice say ready go, and another voice
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Speaker 1: say got it, and a third voice ay yes. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of like bouncing sounds and it sounds like
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Speaker 1: they're playing some sort of like game that has a
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Speaker 1: ball in it. We get a shot of that mural
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Speaker 1: of the woman with the sword, and then Shin sitting
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Speaker 1: on a bench. We see him from behind, and he's
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Speaker 1: kind of in shadow because the light is coming from
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Speaker 1: in front of him, I believe, and some kids are
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Speaker 1: playing basketball also in front of him. We can't really
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Speaker 1: see them, We can just kind of see the basketball
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Speaker 1: every couple of seconds or something. And he is reading
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Speaker 1: a book and I tried to like figure out what
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Speaker 1: the title is, but I just can't. It looks like
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Speaker 1: it says leading ch then there's like an R and
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Speaker 1: then construction. I don't know what that means, or if
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Speaker 1: that's a real book or if they were just choosing
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Speaker 1: letters whatever. The cat is sitting next to him, and
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Speaker 1: we get a close up like side view of him
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Speaker 1: and we hear this like really weird staticky noise and
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Speaker 1: he looks up. We cut to that older blonde kid
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Speaker 1: putting a bucket on like a stack of like boxes
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Speaker 1: and supplies. I guess, and he says, there we go.
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Speaker 1: The spiky guy and the red haired girl and this
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Speaker 1: boy with brown hair are also there, and they're like
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Speaker 1: eating stuff like cherries it looks like, and some other
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Speaker 1: things like fruits out of like little bags and stuff.
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Speaker 1: The brown haired guy is also reading like a magazine,
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Speaker 1: which I thought was interesting, and it kind of looks
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Speaker 1: like they're in a town, and the spiky guy says,
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Speaker 1: big hall, huh. The red headed girl says, yeah, we'll
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Speaker 1: have a party tonight. There are also just like tons
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Speaker 1: of cans of like canned food, and that big orange
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Speaker 1: robot that we saw before is there, and it looks
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Speaker 1: like maybe the goods that they have are all on
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Speaker 1: like palettes or something, and the orange robot is like
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Speaker 1: kind of holding them up or something with like a rope.
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Speaker 1: I'm not really sure how to describe this, but it's
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Speaker 1: happening like the robot's gonna carry them back. The spiky
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Speaker 1: guy says, you get to go. Fido. The robot whose
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Speaker 1: name is Fido, I guess not slightly, but he like
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Speaker 1: doesn't have a head, so he's just got like a
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Speaker 1: body and like arms and legs, and again he's orange
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Speaker 1: and he's got like this red light slash like maybe
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Speaker 1: like lens kind of like in his body and it
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Speaker 1: kind of looks like maybe that's his face, but he
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Speaker 1: doesn't really have a face. And the blonde guy is like,
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Speaker 1: this isn't bullying, okay. Fido nods again and the red
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Speaker 1: haired girl says, no telling shin. Fido makes a bunch
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Speaker 1: of beeps and the red haired girl says, is that
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Speaker 1: a yes or no? Before we know any further, because
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Speaker 1: this isn't explained, I want to explain it. They apparently
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Speaker 1: are in a town, obviously, and this town is totally abandoned,
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Speaker 1: and they are just rating it for supplies, which I
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Speaker 1: mean you can tell by what's happening, but yeah, I
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Speaker 1: just wanted to make that really clear. And that is
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Speaker 1: where they're getting their food. They should not have access
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Speaker 1: to this actually, according to the like novel, they are
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Speaker 1: just given, you know, very plain rations I suppose while
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Speaker 1: they're in their military service thing. But this group clearly
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Speaker 1: has time to go out and explore the area and
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Speaker 1: get food, which is pretty cool. And why we see
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Speaker 1: them meeting like really cool stuff, I mean, at least
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Speaker 1: more so than the folks in the inside district or
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Speaker 1: wherever they are, like Lena. Anyway, continue along, all of
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Speaker 1: their power raids buzz like together, and we hear a
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Speaker 1: voice say, you guys who are out on a walk,
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Speaker 1: you hear me the spiky guys like, what's up THEO.
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Speaker 1: THEO says, weather report's changed, rain's coming. Spiky guy like
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Speaker 1: half gasps, and he turns back and looks kind of upsets,
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Speaker 1: and we see that in the sky approaching them is
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Speaker 1: a cloud of black dots. The spiky guy says, n
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Speaker 1: tags flight maybe and tugs flake. I don't know how
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Speaker 1: to pronounce German. And we hear THEOSA jammers too. That
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Speaker 1: means Radar'll be down. The red haired girl says. When
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Speaker 1: all they get here, we see a little bit more
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Speaker 1: of the town now, and it's like super nice, like
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Speaker 1: really old, quaint houses, but you know, like I said before,
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Speaker 1: totally abandoned and also it's like kind of hilly and
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Speaker 1: stuff really pretty. I would live there even if it's
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Speaker 1: abandoned because it's super nice and apparently they have lots
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Speaker 1: of canned food. So yeah. Anyway, we hear THEOSA in
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Speaker 1: about two hours, I'm told spikey guys like got it
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Speaker 1: heading back. THEO continues, There aren't any shepherds as sign,
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Speaker 1: it seems, so they'll just try to overwhelm you spikey guys,
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Speaker 1: like just sheep a duck hunt. Then he is like
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Speaker 1: kind of running, I guess to get back to his unit,
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Speaker 1: and we see that he's meeting cherries. He spits a
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Speaker 1: pit out in the direction of the Black swarm, and
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Speaker 1: the pit and the background kind of cross fade into
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Speaker 1: a bunch of Juggernauts lined up. We hear Shin say, good,
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Speaker 1: everyone's here attention. All of the kids in the group
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Speaker 1: turn to face him solemnly. They look like they're ready
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Speaker 1: for whatever is going to happen next. Shin says, I'll
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Speaker 1: explain the situation. There's one swarm close by and another
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Speaker 1: they're linking up with from the rear, supplying the first.
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Speaker 1: Probably we see everyone like getting ready and getting into
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Speaker 1: their cockpits, and Shin continues, as soon as that's done,
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Speaker 1: they'll attack. We'll ambush them at point three or four
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Speaker 1: on their route, establish a killzone on main Street where
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Speaker 1: we'll eliminate most of the enemy. We see someone we
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Speaker 1: can't really tell who in a cockpit, and the screen
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Speaker 1: like pops up in front of them, and it says
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Speaker 1: like system starting, and then the screen switches to the
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Speaker 1: exterior like it's a window, but it's not a window
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Speaker 1: because juggernauts don't have any windows, so they're relying on
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Speaker 1: I guess, like a camera on the outside to see
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Speaker 1: what's going on, which is kind of interesting. We cut
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Speaker 1: to the sky where these dark, massive cumulo nimbus clouds
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Speaker 1: are like rolling in with those black flying things coming
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Speaker 1: with them, and then we see a crumbling city streets.
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Speaker 1: The sun is kind of like peeking through the clouds,
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Speaker 1: like you know, creating like those streaks, and we hear
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Speaker 1: someone who I'm pretty sure is Theosa. Even in the spring,
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Speaker 1: it gets cold when the sun disappears, it looks exactly
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Speaker 1: like spring. Like I don't know how to describe the scene,
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Speaker 1: but it looks like it's spring. It looks like it's
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Speaker 1: just a little bit chilly, and yeah, if the sun
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Speaker 1: would kind of go behind the clouds, you'd be cold.
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Speaker 1: But otherwise it's like a perfect beautiful day, kind of
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Speaker 1: like it is today here. But whatever someone else says,
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Speaker 1: the cockpit gets awful cold considering how cramped it is.
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Speaker 1: Someone else is like, I mean, in the armour's paper thin,
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Speaker 1: and it has plenty of gaps in it. The redheaded
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Speaker 1: girl says, and it's slow, and someone else says, and
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Speaker 1: it breaks easily. The sunlight is slowly disappearing back behind
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Speaker 1: the clouds, and someone else says, yeah, it's a piece
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Speaker 1: of shit. We see Shin in a cockpit and his
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Speaker 1: power aid suddenly turns green, and we hear Lina say
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Speaker 1: Handler one to all units, the enemy appears to be approaching.
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Speaker 1: Deploy it point two oh eight and intercept them. Shinn says,
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Speaker 1: undertaker to handler one, were already deployed. He kind of
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Speaker 1: half shrugs, will intercept them at point three or four.
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Speaker 1: A little farther ahead, we see kind of the rest
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Speaker 1: of the Spearhead crew now looking kind of embarrassed for Lena,
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Speaker 1: which is really interesting because what we just learned here
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Speaker 1: is that Lena did not give them the order to
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Speaker 1: go out, So who did Shin did? So Lena didn't
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Speaker 1: know that there were people approaching, but Shin knew it before.
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Speaker 1: Like is he scouting? I assume he's got to be
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Speaker 1: like scout ahead or something, But it does make her
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Speaker 1: look pretty stupid, and yeah, like looking at the rest
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Speaker 1: of them, it just looks like they're all like, oh,
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Speaker 1: bless her heart, she's trying so hard kind of deal.
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Speaker 1: Lena says, that's fast. You're as good as they say, Undertaker.
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Speaker 1: The spiky guy suddenly looks up and we see a
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Speaker 1: screen and it says Legion approaching there. Looks like something
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Speaker 1: bright on the horizon now and he says, here they
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Speaker 1: come up ahead of them is a I wrote Pittsburgh
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Speaker 1: or San Francisco styles street. It's very very hilly. It
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Speaker 1: just like goes up and you can't see anymore at
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Speaker 1: the top because I guess it goes down on the
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Speaker 1: other side, and the army of Legion things slowly appears
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Speaker 1: as they're coming over the top of the hill. They
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Speaker 1: basically look like these kind of weird, low spidery looking things.
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Speaker 1: They're white, and they have guns on both sides of
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Speaker 1: like the middle part. And someone sighs and they're like
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Speaker 1: Legion's out in full force again today. On the screen,
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Speaker 1: it tells us that this weird spidery thing is called
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Speaker 1: ama Ease ama ease maybe, And I'm pronouncing it like
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Speaker 1: that because I read the Japanese, not because I understood
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Speaker 1: how to pronounce it in English. Or whatever I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to pronounce it in and it says it's a scout type.
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Speaker 1: Someone says, well, they're mostly amisee. We see the Amisee
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Speaker 1: things strolling down the street and someone says they're easy
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Speaker 1: to destroy, but they're kind of obnoxious. Now we cut
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Speaker 1: to some bigger robody thing with like legs and shit,
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Speaker 1: they all have like legs. Nothing has, you know, wheels,
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Speaker 1: which I don't know if that's a good idea. In fact,
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Speaker 1: in the late novel, I remember them talking about how
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Speaker 1: the Juggernauts in particular had weak legs. They kind of
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Speaker 1: said that earlier. And they're like good in some situations,
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Speaker 1: but in other situations, like if you have kind of
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Speaker 1: unstable ground, something soft or like mud, you're fucked. So
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe these guys have figured that out,
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Speaker 1: or maybe they all just suck in different types of
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Speaker 1: landscape and this is just the right space for them. Anyway.
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Speaker 1: We see that the bigger leggy thing is a dragoon
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Speaker 1: type growl wolf, and someone says, growl wolves, what a pain.
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Speaker 1: Somebody else is like, I guess we have to take
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Speaker 1: this seriously today. Now we cut to some even bigger
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Speaker 1: mech things and they have like a big gun in
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Speaker 1: front of them, and they kind of look like tanks
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Speaker 1: with legs. Again, so many legs. Why do we have
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Speaker 1: so many legs on everything? And the screen tells us
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Speaker 1: that this is a tank type low. Maybe I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to read the Japanese so it will help me,
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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna call it a low. The red haired
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Speaker 1: girl says, I really hate that guy. And someone else
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Speaker 1: is like a Loew's gun is twice as powerful as ours.
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Speaker 1: Someone else says it can kill you fast. This is
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Speaker 1: kind of an interesting way to tell us things about it,
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Speaker 1: which is I'm talking to each other anyway. Now we
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Speaker 1: see was flying things and it says electronic disruption type
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Speaker 1: and Tug's flake. Maybe. We see the spiky guy and
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Speaker 1: he puts his hands behind his head confidently, Okay, time
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Speaker 1: to get to work. He puts his arms down. In
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Speaker 1: the background, the song Answer starts to play and I
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Speaker 1: get like super fucking excited, and the silver haired girl
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Speaker 1: stretches her arms and I believe we see Shin adjust
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Speaker 1: his bluetooth thing that's on the side of his head
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Speaker 1: that I don't know what it does, and the legion
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Speaker 1: are coming towards them, and we see one of the
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Speaker 1: kids steady their hands on the controls. Then we cut
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Speaker 1: to a Juggernaut hiding behind the rubble of a partially
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Speaker 1: collapsed building as the enemy passes, and Shinn says, open fire,
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Speaker 1: and they like ambush them. Yay. Some of the Jyroonauts
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Speaker 1: are like firing from the top of buildings, and the
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Speaker 1: bad guys are like shooting and then like firing. Some
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Speaker 1: like missle things at the Juggernauts, and the Juggernauts like
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Speaker 1: duck back. And then one of the Juggernauts that was
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Speaker 1: like on a building like rappels down the side and
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Speaker 1: Shinn says, third platform withdraw to the southeast. Keep your
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Speaker 1: current targets close to you. So Juggernauts are like running
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Speaker 1: all over and doing stuff. And it's actually really hard
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Speaker 1: for me to narrate this because I don't always know
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Speaker 1: what's going on. And Shinn says, fifth platoon, maintain your
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Speaker 1: current position. When the enemy platoon enters the kill zone,
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Speaker 1: wipe him out with coordinated fire. He's a pretty good leader.
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Speaker 1: We cut to the blonde older kid and he says
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Speaker 1: black Dog Roger Snowitch reload while you can. We see
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Speaker 1: the silver haired girl and she says, Snowitch Roger as always,
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Speaker 1: thanks for the reminder. Uh huh. We cut to the
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Speaker 1: Juggernaut with the Fox on its side, and we see
18:34
Speaker 1: the short blonde kid and he says, laughing Fox, same,
18:37
Speaker 1: don't shoot me black Dog. Okay, So now I understand
18:40
Speaker 1: what's going on. Laughing Fox is acting like a decoy,
18:43
Speaker 1: and he's like leading the robots around and leading them
18:46
Speaker 1: like right to black Dog so that they can fire
18:49
Speaker 1: on them. And it's working so like they're fighting, but
18:52
Speaker 1: it looks like maybe the kids have them on the defensive.
18:55
Speaker 1: And then Shin hears some static and he looks up
18:58
Speaker 1: and he says, all units, cease fire, split it up.
19:00
Speaker 1: The Juggernauts all kind of like scurry off, and the
19:03
Speaker 1: area just starts getting bombed. We hear Lena say handler
19:07
Speaker 1: one to all units. That's a long range gunner type
19:10
Speaker 1: scorpion fire. Be careful. Like the whole city is just
19:14
Speaker 1: being blown to shit now basically, but that's okay because
19:16
Speaker 1: no one lives there, even though, like I liked it
19:19
Speaker 1: and I didn't want to see destroyed anyway, Lana continues,
19:22
Speaker 1: I'm sending you the estimated location of their spotters, confirm
19:25
Speaker 1: and take them out. We go to a cockpit and
19:27
Speaker 1: it looks like maybe they're getting the data from Lena
19:30
Speaker 1: now and we see that there are three gunners somewhere.
19:34
Speaker 1: I guess, and Shin says, gunslinger four units. Okay, I
19:37
Speaker 1: can't count at a distance of twelve thousand heading zero
19:41
Speaker 1: three zero on the roof the red girl, who I
19:44
Speaker 1: guess his Gunslanger says Roger on it. Shin continues, Handler
19:49
Speaker 1: one directional laser based data transmissions can reveal our location.
19:53
Speaker 1: Please limit yourself to verbal communication during operations. Yeah, he's
19:58
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Tell her like it is. She's just exposed
20:02
Speaker 1: your position apparently. Anyway, Shin's cockpit is kind of being
20:07
Speaker 1: rocked around, and Lena says, I'm sorry. Shin continues, the
20:11
Speaker 1: next set of observers will be approaching soon. Keep me
20:14
Speaker 1: in forms of their location. Lena's like, okay, there's some explosion,
20:18
Speaker 1: like something is shot off the roof, and then there's
20:21
Speaker 1: like smoke, and when it clears, a juggernaut is like
20:24
Speaker 1: scuttling along, and we hear Spiky guy say there's an
20:27
Speaker 1: awful lot of them today, Undertaker, and Shin's like a
20:30
Speaker 1: duck hunt, right, just enjoy yourself, Spiky Guy chuckles. We
20:35
Speaker 1: see a metal case like dropping on the ground and
20:37
Speaker 1: I didn't get what it is, but I think that
20:39
Speaker 1: like Shin is reloading or something, and we hear him say,
20:43
Speaker 1: there's definitely more loas than expected. The restricted vision makes
20:46
Speaker 1: it more dangerous. We see that like, I guess the
20:49
Speaker 1: case is being loaded with the help of Fido. I
20:52
Speaker 1: guess maybe these are like helpful robot things. I don't
20:55
Speaker 1: know anyway, Shin says we should start wheedling down their numbers.
21:00
Speaker 1: Spikey Guy's like, you make it sound easy. A Juggernaut
21:03
Speaker 1: ducks behind a wall as an army of lows like
21:05
Speaker 1: shoot at it, and Shin says, I'll handle the lows.
21:08
Speaker 1: You deal with the others in take command. Spikey Guy says, Roger,
21:11
Speaker 1: that don't make Aldred scream his head off again. Ah,
21:14
Speaker 1: they're friends anyway. Chintz Juggernaut like bolts around the corner
21:18
Speaker 1: and we hear Lena say, Undertaker, what are you doing.
21:22
Speaker 1: What he's doing is closing in on the tanks things
21:26
Speaker 1: and he shoots at them and he like dodges a
21:28
Speaker 1: missile by like an inch which is pretty cool because
21:31
Speaker 1: these things aren't supposed to be very good at doing anything.
21:34
Speaker 1: The juggernauts, that is, he pushes forward and he's like
21:37
Speaker 1: dodging enemy fire, and he like leaps on one and
21:39
Speaker 1: like shoots it from the top, which is pretty cool.
21:42
Speaker 1: And he's like super good at evading and everything, and
21:44
Speaker 1: he's closing it on the others, and he like takes
21:47
Speaker 1: out this really large blade and he just slices one
21:49
Speaker 1: of the dude's legs in half. Pretty cool. He slides
21:53
Speaker 1: to a stop and spins around and shoots at another one,
21:56
Speaker 1: and another shoots at him, but he like jumps and
21:59
Speaker 1: uses his grap cook to like grab onto an overpass
22:02
Speaker 1: and like pull himself up. Then he jumps down and
22:05
Speaker 1: he lands right on top of one and he shoots
22:07
Speaker 1: it from the top again. The other one that's still
22:10
Speaker 1: there can't see him because of the smoke, so it's
22:12
Speaker 1: like just waiting, and Lena thinks, so this is Undertaker.
22:16
Speaker 1: We pull in towards the smoke and we start to
22:20
Speaker 1: very slowly see Shin's red headlight from his juggernauts appear,
22:25
Speaker 1: and then he lunges forward. We go to black. We
22:29
Speaker 1: fade back in we are looking up at the overpass
22:32
Speaker 1: and the sky is orange and there's like this white
22:36
Speaker 1: stuff like ash, and then like I got real sad
22:39
Speaker 1: for a second because banana fish. Anyway, there's ash, not
22:43
Speaker 1: from banana fish, but the type of thing falling from
22:46
Speaker 1: the sky and the Legion and that kind of cloud
22:50
Speaker 1: of flying things are retreating. Spiky Guy and Laughing Fox
22:55
Speaker 1: have their cockpits oven and Spiky Guy is just kind
22:58
Speaker 1: of watching with his arms crossed while laughing. Fox stretches. Gunslinger,
23:04
Speaker 1: who's also there, just kind of looks over chins insignia
23:07
Speaker 1: and I'm supposed to let you know that as the
23:09
Speaker 1: Legion move they make this weird clicking, popping noise, which
23:12
Speaker 1: is kind of disconcerting. But they're leaving, so it's fine.
23:16
Speaker 1: Shin is outside and he's looking off into the distance
23:19
Speaker 1: and the sun is going down, and after a couple
23:23
Speaker 1: of minutes, everything is just quiet except for the wind
23:27
Speaker 1: and we see the title card Episode two, Spearhead. Yeah,
23:30
Speaker 1: that's not it. We cut to Lena's screen with the
23:34
Speaker 1: enemy positions on it, and Lena says Handler one to
23:37
Speaker 1: all units that's long range gun or type scorpion fire.
23:41
Speaker 1: Be careful. We see again that the day is still
23:43
Speaker 1: May twenty ninth, twenty eight, so we're just seeing the
23:47
Speaker 1: other side of what just happened. We're seeing Lena's point
23:50
Speaker 1: of view. We're in the control room with her, and
23:52
Speaker 1: she says, I'm sending you the estimated location of the
23:55
Speaker 1: spotters three potential locations. Confirm and take them out. We
23:59
Speaker 1: hear Shin say, handler one directional laser based data transmissions
24:03
Speaker 1: can reveal our location. Lena looks down, kind of ashamed,
24:07
Speaker 1: because she should be, and Shin continues, please limit yourself
24:11
Speaker 1: to verbal communication during operations. Lena size, I'm sorry. Shin says,
24:17
Speaker 1: the next set of observers will be appearing soon. Lena gasps.
24:21
Speaker 1: Shin continues, keep me informed of their location. Lena smiles. Okay.
24:25
Speaker 1: We get a close up of Lena's smiling mouth, and
24:29
Speaker 1: then we cut to a new location. An old guy,
24:32
Speaker 1: I assume a teacher, is standing at a blackboard pointing
24:35
Speaker 1: to a map of the Republic of San Magnolia, which
24:39
Speaker 1: kind of looks like a circle sort of. It's a
24:42
Speaker 1: circular looking country. I mean, it's not perfectly circle, but
24:44
Speaker 1: it's not like anything fancy looking anyway. The teacher says,
24:49
Speaker 1: Stellar year twenty one thirty nine, nine years ago. He
24:53
Speaker 1: is reading this from a book, which is weird because
24:55
Speaker 1: he should know shit, He continues, war was declared on
24:59
Speaker 1: the Republic of sand mag Nola by the neighboring Empire
25:01
Speaker 1: of JIOD. They began an invasion with their autonomous combat machines,
25:05
Speaker 1: the Legion. Okay, so now we know what's going on.
25:09
Speaker 1: We see someone's hand taking notes, and the teacher continues,
25:12
Speaker 1: but we estimate that, in fact, JIOD had been wiped
25:15
Speaker 1: out by its own out of control legion four years prior.
25:18
Speaker 1: Oh shit. We kind of cut to the students who
25:22
Speaker 1: are paying all various sorts of attention. There are two
25:26
Speaker 1: girls who are talking quietly, and there's this one dude
25:28
Speaker 1: who's like trying to take notes, but his head keeps
25:31
Speaker 1: dropping like he's about to fall asleep. The teacher continues.
25:34
Speaker 1: Given that all legion have an operating time of fifty
25:37
Speaker 1: thousand hours approximately six years, they'll be completely shut down
25:41
Speaker 1: in about two years. How do you guys know this?
25:44
Speaker 1: Why would you know this? Anyway? We cut quickly to
25:47
Speaker 1: someone sitting observing and we see that he is an
25:51
Speaker 1: arm man. That's his MP. So I think he's military police,
25:54
Speaker 1: which is kind of scary. Guys. The teacher pauses to
25:57
Speaker 1: look at him, and he seems like real, real nervous, because, Yeah,
26:02
Speaker 1: I think having the military police observe your history class
26:06
Speaker 1: is probably not a good sign. Probably means that you
26:10
Speaker 1: have to teach something very, very specific or you'll get
26:13
Speaker 1: in trouble. But what do I know? The teacher continues. Thus,
26:18
Speaker 1: you new soldiers will only have two years before the
26:21
Speaker 1: war ends, but during that time, we hope that you'll
26:24
Speaker 1: do your best to fulfill your duties. After all, the
26:27
Speaker 1: Republic's juggernauts he's tapping an image of them are vastly superior,
26:32
Speaker 1: autonomous units compared to the Legion. I didn't get that sense.
26:36
Speaker 1: Lena is biting her lip. Oh, she's there observing this class,
26:40
Speaker 1: I guess, squeezing both of her hands together. The teacher continues,
26:44
Speaker 1: not one fatality has taken place since their introduction. Yeah,
26:48
Speaker 1: that's enough for Lena. She's like, that's not true. People
26:51
Speaker 1: have died. Everyone looks over at Lena, confused. The teacher's
26:55
Speaker 1: mouth is just hanging open and he's struggling to form
26:58
Speaker 1: any sort of words. The military police dud looks up.
27:02
Speaker 1: The teacher finally figures out what to say. Today, we
27:05
Speaker 1: have a real handler who serves as a Juggernaut command
27:08
Speaker 1: and control officer. Lena is I guess standing at this point,
27:12
Speaker 1: and the teacher says, this is lad Alina Malise. She
27:15
Speaker 1: wants to speak with you. Lena salutes and we see
27:18
Speaker 1: that she's at the back of the room and the
27:20
Speaker 1: class stands to face her, and she says, what I'm
27:24
Speaker 1: about to tell you is the real history of the Republic. Lena,
27:28
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Nine years ago, the Republic's regular
27:31
Speaker 1: army was brought to the point of collapse in just
27:33
Speaker 1: two weeks by the Legion's overwhelming firepower. The Republic's government
27:37
Speaker 1: went on to make two decisions. She is walking to
27:40
Speaker 1: the front of the auditorium now. The first was to
27:43
Speaker 1: withdraw all citizens into eighty five administrative districts. The other
27:47
Speaker 1: was to pass a special Wartime Peace Preservation Act. The
27:50
Speaker 1: law strips citizenship and all rights from anyone who didn't
27:53
Speaker 1: have silver hair and eyes like us Alba. Okay, the
27:56
Speaker 1: race has a name. They would no longer be considered
27:58
Speaker 1: human and wouldn't it sad be kept in carefully monitored
28:02
Speaker 1: in tournment camps outside of the eighty five districts, and
28:05
Speaker 1: due to that, as you're all aware, she points to
28:08
Speaker 1: the map. Now, because she's at the front, the now
28:10
Speaker 1: supposedly empty area became known as the eighty sixth district,
28:14
Speaker 1: and the people who live there became known as eighty six. Okay,
28:17
Speaker 1: now we know what's going on. They were forced to
28:20
Speaker 1: build the Fortress Grand mur the wall isolating the eighty
28:23
Speaker 1: sixth district. She pulls down a map of a Juggernaut
28:27
Speaker 1: with its specs on it and says, and to pilot
28:30
Speaker 1: the Juggernauts. She slams her fist against the diagram. There
28:33
Speaker 1: are humans inside the Juggernauts, but because the ones inside
28:37
Speaker 1: the eighty six aren't human, we say they're autonomous. The
28:42
Speaker 1: teacher looks like he wants to die. Lena continues, and
28:46
Speaker 1: even as we speak, they're out there surrounded by the
28:49
Speaker 1: Legion fighting. The military police person is watching silently. Lena continues.
28:55
Speaker 1: The news you see every morning isn't true. People are dying.
28:58
Speaker 1: Dozens can die in a single back. At this point,
29:01
Speaker 1: a student stands, but they're not human right, He holds
29:06
Speaker 1: up a textbook. They're humanoid pigs. That failed to evolve.
29:11
Speaker 1: Lena's like, they are human. I fight with them every day.
29:15
Speaker 1: A second student says, you say you fight with them,
29:18
Speaker 1: but have you ever gone to the battlefield. Lena's eyes
29:22
Speaker 1: widened and she gasps. It's silent for a moment. Then
29:26
Speaker 1: she says, I have just once. The students gasp, and
29:30
Speaker 1: there's kind of a quiet shatter that erupts. She continues,
29:35
Speaker 1: I went, but I didn't fight. The only ones who
29:37
Speaker 1: risk their lives in battle are the eighty six, the
29:39
Speaker 1: people that we stripped all rights from. She makes a fist.
29:43
Speaker 1: The military police person stands. The teacher gasps and kind
29:47
Speaker 1: of rushes over to Lena and says, very quietly, you
29:50
Speaker 1: can't do this. Major. I told you not to say
29:53
Speaker 1: anything that sounds like you've sided with them. Lena's like, teacher,
29:59
Speaker 1: what does our nameation's flag stand for. The teacher's like,
30:03
Speaker 1: what are you? Lena cuts him off. Freedom, equality, brotherhood, justice,
30:07
Speaker 1: and nobility. The teacher says, those only apply to humans.
30:13
Speaker 1: The eighty six look human, but they're not. You mustn't
30:16
Speaker 1: misinform my students. Lena looks pissed, and she hears the
30:20
Speaker 1: door closed and she looks over and the military police
30:22
Speaker 1: person is gone. And I don't know what this means.
30:24
Speaker 1: Is he going to tell someone so that like she
30:27
Speaker 1: or the teacher can be arrested or is he bored?
30:29
Speaker 1: Not sure? Lena siys the eighty six are teenage boys
30:33
Speaker 1: and girls just like us, but they don't get to
30:36
Speaker 1: enjoy entertainment or luxuries the way we do. They can't
30:39
Speaker 1: laugh innocently like we can. We can't just leave them
30:43
Speaker 1: there all alone. We can't see them, but if we
30:46
Speaker 1: listen carefully, we can hear the voices of the nameless soldiers.
30:49
Speaker 1: She pauses, even a part we look at the same stars.
30:55
Speaker 1: We cut to Annette, who is kind of looking out
30:57
Speaker 1: that window again like she did in the last episode,
30:59
Speaker 1: and she says, and you told the new recruits that
31:03
Speaker 1: Lena is in the changing room, and we hear say, yeah,
31:07
Speaker 1: and that's like this time you'll get punished, right. Lena
31:10
Speaker 1: opens the door and she's wearing a robe, and she says,
31:13
Speaker 1: don't worry, Uncle Jerome will tell them how firmly I
31:16
Speaker 1: believe in this. She smiles kind of slyly, and yeah,
31:20
Speaker 1: lots of nepotism going on. Annette says, you're surprisingly cunning
31:24
Speaker 1: about that, uh, ignorant, more like you're being protected. Huh.
31:30
Speaker 1: Lena's face falls. It's not too late to change the
31:33
Speaker 1: Republic's foolish mistake and that's like, okay, yeah whatever. Lena
31:39
Speaker 1: kind of pouts a net continues, So how was your
31:42
Speaker 1: meeting with the famous Undertaker? Lena says, we're communicating regularly.
31:48
Speaker 1: We see her uniform like hanging in a cubby for
31:51
Speaker 1: like kind of a long time while they have a conversation.
31:54
Speaker 1: So we can save some animation budget, and Lena continues,
31:57
Speaker 1: we synchronize with the Power Raid nightly, like nightly. What
32:01
Speaker 1: do you talk about? Lena says, lots of stuff, some
32:05
Speaker 1: of it not related to work or the mission, even
32:07
Speaker 1: a part our hearts are connected, Ah, sweetheart, and also,
32:12
Speaker 1: god damn, you're ignorance. Annette says, I told you not
32:16
Speaker 1: to get too attached. We see Lena again and she
32:20
Speaker 1: is sitting in a chair and she says, a capable
32:24
Speaker 1: leader with solid combat skills, who's a little reckless, but bold.
32:29
Speaker 1: He's a very good soldier. Undertaker isn't the scary man
32:32
Speaker 1: that they say he is? Ah. She smiles really confidently,
32:36
Speaker 1: and Nett's like, that's just what you think right. She
32:40
Speaker 1: looks maybe a little annoyed and says, your heart rates elevated.
32:46
Speaker 1: Lena kind of gasps and she blushes. Oh, she likes Undertaker,
32:50
Speaker 1: even though she does not know him at all and
32:53
Speaker 1: has never seen him. We cut to Lena holding up papers,
32:58
Speaker 1: looking really confused. Apparently these papers are after action reports,
33:03
Speaker 1: and the first one says first UTV Squadron Spearhead after
33:07
Speaker 1: action Report. She is holding it up to the lights
33:10
Speaker 1: with another report behind it, and they are the exact
33:14
Speaker 1: same reports, like exactly. She picks up another one and
33:18
Speaker 1: they all just kind of line up. They even have
33:21
Speaker 1: the same date on them. They all say April second,
33:24
Speaker 1: twenty one, forty eight. Lena exhales frustrated, and she's like, geez, yeah,
33:30
Speaker 1: I can't believe if you're gonna send the same report,
33:32
Speaker 1: you wouldn't at least change the date. The clock I
33:35
Speaker 1: guess in her room chimes and she jumps. She's sitting
33:38
Speaker 1: at her desk in her bedroom. She presses the power
33:40
Speaker 1: raid and says power raid activate Synchronization Target Spearhead Processor.
33:45
Speaker 1: We cut to outside of the window and we're kind
33:47
Speaker 1: of looking in on her, and she smiles. Then she
33:50
Speaker 1: looks confused, then smiles again and starts talking. It's kind
33:54
Speaker 1: of cool because, you know, we know that she's talking
33:56
Speaker 1: to them, but we can't hear what she's saying. We're
33:58
Speaker 1: just kind of going by facial expressions, which seems like
34:01
Speaker 1: maybe she's having a really nice time. Really, all we
34:03
Speaker 1: can hear is the traffic outside. It's kind of a
34:06
Speaker 1: cool scene. Then we go to the ending theme. Yay,
34:11
Speaker 1: I guess so we didn't have it last week, so
34:13
Speaker 1: I'll tell you a little about it. It's called Avid
34:16
Speaker 1: and it's by here A, Yuki, Souana and Mizuki, and
34:21
Speaker 1: the ending themes in this show are really cool. So
34:24
Speaker 1: what we have is just this image from the episode,
34:27
Speaker 1: which in this case it is kind of a shot
34:31
Speaker 1: of the legion when they were like by that underpass
34:34
Speaker 1: and she was jumping around and stuff. But it looks
34:36
Speaker 1: like it's an old photograph and mostly it is blue
34:40
Speaker 1: and gray except for like one weirdly red legion in
34:44
Speaker 1: the middle, And it's almost like it is stop motion
34:49
Speaker 1: multiple photographs of the same thing, because it's just kind
34:52
Speaker 1: of slightly changing, like the scratches on the picture or
34:55
Speaker 1: changing slightly or the angle, you know, like the picture
34:59
Speaker 1: slightly turned a little bit diagonal in one, so it's like,
35:04
Speaker 1: it's kind of nice. I really like it. And then
35:06
Speaker 1: about halfway through it switches to the white lilies in
35:10
Speaker 1: the vase on Lana's windowsill, and it's red background with
35:15
Speaker 1: blue lilies, kind of the same stop motion multiple photograph deal.
35:19
Speaker 1: I've never seen anyone else do this before, and I
35:22
Speaker 1: just think it's really nice. Yeah, and that's it. No,
35:25
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. This show is really fucked up. And
35:27
Speaker 1: it keeps ending and not actually ending. We cut to
35:31
Speaker 1: one of the Spearhead Squadron people, the redhaired guy, pointing
35:35
Speaker 1: a gun at the camera. He shoots. We see that
35:39
Speaker 1: he's shooting at three cans that have like pictures of
35:42
Speaker 1: animals drawn on them, and he knocks one over, but
35:44
Speaker 1: I don't think he hits the other ones. They're outside
35:48
Speaker 1: of like they're barracks. It's night and it's lid by floodlights.
35:52
Speaker 1: We see that it is May twenty ninth, twenty one
35:54
Speaker 1: forty eight, and we hear someone say, okay, one hit
35:57
Speaker 1: on King Bear, two on Bunny Night, how do we
36:00
Speaker 1: toe get seven points? Haruto's like I missed two shots. Huh,
36:05
Speaker 1: I'm just not that good with handguns, Like I should
36:08
Speaker 1: probably stop here and explain something. So we have these
36:11
Speaker 1: people who have been stripped of their citizenship. They have
36:13
Speaker 1: no rights. They shouldn't have guns, right, They really shouldn't
36:17
Speaker 1: have guns because if they have weapons, they can revolt
36:21
Speaker 1: against their captors basically, and actually they are not supposed
36:25
Speaker 1: to have guns. According to the light novel. These guns
36:28
Speaker 1: have just been found in the towns that they are
36:31
Speaker 1: essentially looting. I mean, no one lives there, so they're scavenging.
36:35
Speaker 1: So same thing as what was happening with the food
36:38
Speaker 1: that they're gathering. They are gathering weapons when they find them,
36:41
Speaker 1: which is why all these people have guns. But they're
36:43
Speaker 1: totally not supposed to have them. But I'm glad that
36:45
Speaker 1: they do. Gotta protect themselves, and I guess shit has
36:48
Speaker 1: to shoot people in the head, yeay. Anyway, we cut
36:53
Speaker 1: to food on a tray in someone's lap. Looks like
36:56
Speaker 1: they're soup, maybe some chicken, and like an orange, like
36:59
Speaker 1: it looks like one of the those Suma oranges. Looks good.
37:02
Speaker 1: The person to their right is holding that cat, and
37:05
Speaker 1: then we see that it's the spiky guy eating and
37:08
Speaker 1: shin that's sitting next to him, and Shin is just reading,
37:12
Speaker 1: not eating at the time. We hear a voice say
37:14
Speaker 1: fidos at the canned sideways kaye. And then they keep
37:17
Speaker 1: talking and Spikey Guy says, what do you think? Shin
37:22
Speaker 1: just kind of looks at him confused, and Spikey Guy
37:24
Speaker 1: swallows and says, point two oh eight. That's what the
37:27
Speaker 1: handler woman said, right. Shin's like, yeah, it would have
37:31
Speaker 1: been the ideal deployment point if we left at that moment.
37:35
Speaker 1: Spikey Guy's like, yeah, it's such a teacher's pet answer
37:38
Speaker 1: that it makes me want to throw up. But she's
37:41
Speaker 1: not just some spoiled rich kid. We hear someone say
37:44
Speaker 1: ride in, you're up. Oh cool. We finally get Spikey
37:47
Speaker 1: Guy's name. His name is Rydin. He says okay, he stands,
37:51
Speaker 1: and he starts to walk off towards the others, and
37:54
Speaker 1: then to Shinn says but how long could you keep
37:56
Speaker 1: it up? We get a low shot of someone walking
37:59
Speaker 1: over to Shin. The cat gets off his lap and
38:02
Speaker 1: kind of meows and scurries past the other person, and
38:05
Speaker 1: we hear someone say, hey, kitty Snowitch. The girl with
38:09
Speaker 1: the silver hair I think, and the Blue Eyes kneels
38:12
Speaker 1: down and puts a piece of bread on Chin's tray,
38:15
Speaker 1: which is sitting on the ground next to him, and
38:17
Speaker 1: she's like, here you go. Shein's like thanks. The cat
38:21
Speaker 1: is now trying to get the bread off of the tray,
38:23
Speaker 1: and we hear someone say onjuw Onju. Who is snow
38:26
Speaker 1: Witch looks over. It's the tall blonde guy who we
38:30
Speaker 1: know as black Dog. I guess, and he says, I'll
38:33
Speaker 1: help you. He's like sweating, and ANDU just holds the
38:36
Speaker 1: entire tray out for him to take, and black Dog's like,
38:40
Speaker 1: and Andrew says thanks. Black Dog is like yeah, sure thing.
38:45
Speaker 1: He takes the tray and walks off, and the cat
38:47
Speaker 1: is following, ANDU smiles because that was totally intentional to
38:51
Speaker 1: just give him her task. And black Dog is like,
38:55
Speaker 1: I'll pass out Onre's cake. Okay, it's cake and not bread.
38:59
Speaker 1: Everyone's like yeah hey, ANDU, who is sitting down, turns
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Speaker 1: to Shin and says, is that a good book? Shin
39:06
Speaker 1: looks down at it and says, when I'm thinking about
39:08
Speaker 1: something else, it stops me from focusing on it. Uh,
39:11
Speaker 1: what the book or what are we talking about Andre
39:15
Speaker 1: just says I see so she gets it. We got
39:19
Speaker 1: a close up shot of Shin kind of focusing on
39:22
Speaker 1: his ear, and Aju says, it's always a lot of
39:25
Speaker 1: stress for you. Huh. We hear someone call Shin. Shin
39:29
Speaker 1: looks up how Tuto is waving to him from over
39:32
Speaker 1: a little bit away and says, your turn. Shin's like hmmm.
39:36
Speaker 1: He starts to take out his gun. He doesn't even stand.
39:38
Speaker 1: He just shoots three times in rapid succession at the
39:41
Speaker 1: targets Andju looks shocked, and Shin has like no expression
39:45
Speaker 1: on his face, but he hits them all down like
39:47
Speaker 1: it's nothing. Fido makes a bunch of beeps and he's
39:50
Speaker 1: like waving his arms, and Howto is like, at least
39:53
Speaker 1: stand up, you're not fun, Andu kind of tries her
39:57
Speaker 1: best customer service smile face, and at this point Lana
40:01
Speaker 1: buzzes in. She says, all units, may I have a word?
40:05
Speaker 1: How Deitoe's like, oh, a new record, a full continuous week.
40:08
Speaker 1: Shin says, it's fine, good work today, handler one. Some
40:12
Speaker 1: of the kids kind of look away like, oh fuck her,
40:15
Speaker 1: and Lena says, yeah, you too. You all seem to
40:18
Speaker 1: be having a lot of fun. They look pissed. Shin says,
40:23
Speaker 1: we're just killing time. Don't worry about it. Lena says,
40:26
Speaker 1: I see, by the way, undertaker, I need to scold
40:30
Speaker 1: you today. Shin is still looking at his book, by
40:33
Speaker 1: the way, and he says, what is it. Lena's like,
40:37
Speaker 1: so I went to read the patrol in combat reports
40:41
Speaker 1: you filed since your arrival in Spearhead, and they were
40:44
Speaker 1: all the same. Oh. Shin slightly shifts his position. Why
40:49
Speaker 1: do you care what happens in the front lines. You
40:52
Speaker 1: like to waste your time? Huh? I like him a lot.
40:57
Speaker 1: Lena's like, part of a handler's job is analyzing leaders
41:01
Speaker 1: tactics and formation tendencies. Shin takes a bite of the cake.
41:05
Speaker 1: Lena continues, I understand that you don't send these because
41:09
Speaker 1: we don't read them, but and that's our fault. So
41:12
Speaker 1: I'm not mad, but from now on, do it properly,
41:16
Speaker 1: because I'm going to read them. Shin flips to the
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Speaker 1: next page. I'm not good at reading and writing on
41:23
Speaker 1: juice size laughing, Fox is like, well, there were no
41:27
Speaker 1: schools in the camps. Everyone is like struggling to hold
41:31
Speaker 1: back laughter because obviously, Shin reads very well, and Lena says,
41:37
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. The girl with black hair and the ponytail,
41:40
Speaker 1: who I don't think we have a name for yet,
41:42
Speaker 1: says it's not so much not good at but more
41:46
Speaker 1: like too lazy to rate. Undertaker, ride In and some
41:50
Speaker 1: of the other guys gasp. Shin freezes in the middle
41:53
Speaker 1: of turning to the next page. The black haired girl
41:56
Speaker 1: gasps apparently she just totally forgot Lena was listening, and
42:01
Speaker 1: there's a long pause, and Lena says, Undertaker and Chin's like,
42:07
Speaker 1: very well, Lena continues, send me one for all of
42:11
Speaker 1: your missions up to this point as well. That's so
42:14
Speaker 1: much work. Shin's like, will footage from the gun camera do?
42:19
Speaker 1: Lena says, no, write them. Oh. Shin slams the book shuts.
42:25
Speaker 1: The girl with the black hair and the ponytail flinches
42:28
Speaker 1: and she raises her hands like she's praying, like please
42:31
Speaker 1: forgive me. Shin kind of like waves her off, like sadly,
42:34
Speaker 1: and Lena continues, if we analyze them, we can counter them.
42:39
Speaker 1: Shin like points behind them, and Lena's like, you're an
42:43
Speaker 1: ease unit, so your records are especially valuable. Shin looks
42:47
Speaker 1: over and Aldretch is waving him over like towards that hangar.
42:52
Speaker 1: Lina says, we can lower attrition across the whole battlefield.
42:56
Speaker 1: Shin size and stands. Lena continues, including your unit, so
43:00
Speaker 1: help me please ride. In's like so young, Lena says, No,
43:06
Speaker 1: I'm about the same age as all of you. There's
43:09
Speaker 1: this collective sigh, and Lena continues, how long has it
43:13
Speaker 1: been since you joined the military. The girl with the
43:16
Speaker 1: ponytail's like, we're all in our fourth year. I guess
43:20
Speaker 1: Righton says, Undertaker's been here the longest. He's in his
43:23
Speaker 1: fifth year. The girl with the ponytail looks over. Shin's
43:26
Speaker 1: walking off. The cat is following him. Lena says, so
43:31
Speaker 1: Undertaker is almost done with his term. Huh huh. Maybe
43:34
Speaker 1: you have to do a full five years and then
43:36
Speaker 1: you can leave. Is there something you want to do
43:38
Speaker 1: when you leave the army and become a republic citizen again?
43:41
Speaker 1: Somewhere you want to go or see? Shin says, I've
43:46
Speaker 1: never thought about it. Lina's like, I see, everyone looks
43:53
Speaker 1: pretty damn solemn. Lena continues, But you might want to
43:58
Speaker 1: start thinking about it now. You might come up with something.
44:01
Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll be fun. Shin smiles, you might be right.
44:06
Speaker 1: Then we see the next episode title card I don't
44:09
Speaker 1: want to die, and that's it. Yeah, So closing thoughts, Yeah,
44:16
Speaker 1: that was definitely an interesting episode. So I guess starting
44:19
Speaker 1: with just the end, it seems like there is a
44:22
Speaker 1: term of service, and we did see from last episode
44:26
Speaker 1: Kujo did say like one hundred and whatever days to
44:29
Speaker 1: l I end my service. There is like a time line,
44:33
Speaker 1: and maybe that's why these kids are all so young.
44:35
Speaker 1: Maybe once they get out they go back to society.
44:39
Speaker 1: But the way they responded and the way Shin responded
44:45
Speaker 1: to Lena asking him that question about like what do
44:48
Speaker 1: you want to do when you get out makes me
44:50
Speaker 1: think that either very few people make it to five years,
44:55
Speaker 1: which seems likely we've seen a lot of them die
44:58
Speaker 1: and we know that the Republic doesn't care what happens
45:01
Speaker 1: to them, or maybe like we don't have the whole story,
45:05
Speaker 1: so it'll be interesting to see how that progresses. Of course,
45:09
Speaker 1: Shin is the oldest, which makes sense. I mean, he's
45:11
Speaker 1: the one who has to help them go, which is
45:14
Speaker 1: what I don't understand. Like, I mean, I guess he's
45:18
Speaker 1: mercy killing them, which is fine, but you know they
45:23
Speaker 1: would be dead eventually anyway. I don't know. I don't
45:26
Speaker 1: know why Shin has to shoot everyone in the head
45:28
Speaker 1: or whatever he's doing whatever they consider making them go
45:31
Speaker 1: like we saw with Kujo, So that'll be interesting. I'm
45:35
Speaker 1: still trying to figure out why Shin knew before Lena
45:40
Speaker 1: that there was an incoming legion rate. There's probably something
45:44
Speaker 1: there that we'll learn about. Also, when he was talking
45:48
Speaker 1: to Anju and he said that thing about like thinking
45:51
Speaker 1: about something else stops him from focusing on it, what
45:54
Speaker 1: is he trying to avoid by reading that book? Maybe
45:57
Speaker 1: we'll find out. The other thing that I thought was
46:00
Speaker 1: really interesting was Lena's interaction with that classroom of like
46:03
Speaker 1: young you know, to be soldiers or whatever they are
46:08
Speaker 1: the elbas I guess is what their race is called,
46:12
Speaker 1: because for a second it seemed like she was telling
46:16
Speaker 1: them something incredibly secrets and they were gonna be like,
46:20
Speaker 1: oh really, but no, they all fucking know. These eighty six,
46:26
Speaker 1: the people who are not Alba, who were forced to
46:29
Speaker 1: live outside this wall that's supposed to be protecting them,
46:33
Speaker 1: they are so dehumanized that it is okay that they
46:38
Speaker 1: are fighting and forced to fight and forced to be
46:42
Speaker 1: in internment camps because they're not people, right, So it's fine.
46:48
Speaker 1: It's in their fucking textbooks that they're not people. And
46:52
Speaker 1: I guess we're at a point. The war has been
46:54
Speaker 1: going on for nine years if I'm remembering that correctly.
46:58
Speaker 1: This group of young soldiers, they grew up with this,
47:03
Speaker 1: Like let's say they're like, you know, they're eighteen now,
47:06
Speaker 1: so this has been happening since they were nine. Yeah,
47:10
Speaker 1: this dehumanization of these other races has been you know,
47:14
Speaker 1: drilled into them since they were children, so they really
47:19
Speaker 1: believe it. And it is much easier to hurt people
47:22
Speaker 1: when you do not believe that they are really human,
47:26
Speaker 1: much easier when you do not believe that someone is
47:29
Speaker 1: like you. So I thought it was a cool reveal
47:33
Speaker 1: that like they knew, they already knew. There's not some secrets.
47:38
Speaker 1: Everybody knows what's going on, but they don't matter, so
47:43
Speaker 1: it's okay. So no one is really dying because they
47:47
Speaker 1: aren't people, and that's really fucked up. And I'm a
47:52
Speaker 1: little bit sad now. So one of the good things
47:56
Speaker 1: about doing like a an anime like eighty six is.
48:00
Speaker 1: I mean, as people, we really need to be careful
48:03
Speaker 1: how we treat people who aren't like us. The other
48:06
Speaker 1: thing that scene in the classroom really told us is
48:11
Speaker 1: how optimistic and naively optimistic, specifically Lena is. She has
48:18
Speaker 1: come from a place of privilege, not just because she
48:20
Speaker 1: is an Alba she is this silver haired, silver eyed person,
48:25
Speaker 1: but because our family is military and apparently high up
48:31
Speaker 1: enough in the military that she can just spout these
48:33
Speaker 1: things that go against their society and not realize that
48:39
Speaker 1: she's endangering herself or the people around her, like the teacher.
48:43
Speaker 1: So yeah, she's fucking ignorant, and it'll be interesting to
48:48
Speaker 1: see if she evolves, if she realizes that even though
48:53
Speaker 1: she thinks she wants to change this and she wants
48:56
Speaker 1: to save the eighty six, she's in the military and
49:00
Speaker 1: she's fucking a little bit complicit, right, So yeah, I'd
49:03
Speaker 1: like to see we will see how that is handled
49:06
Speaker 1: going forward. So yeah, I think I'm probably done now.
49:11
Speaker 1: So thank you for sticking around through this. I don't
49:15
Speaker 1: have to say, like, I know it was terrible anymore
49:18
Speaker 1: because we're not doing banana fish, but you know, I
49:20
Speaker 1: hope that you're enjoying it. So far, we're only two
49:23
Speaker 1: episodes in, so yeah, that's all I got. Of course,
49:27
Speaker 1: next week we'll do I Don't Want to Die, which
49:31
Speaker 1: sounds like it's going to be just the most fun,
49:34
Speaker 1: uplifting episode yay. So yeah, I hope you have like
49:38
Speaker 1: a really good whatever, and I will more or less
49:42
Speaker 1: see you soon later weeps.