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86 [Eighty-Six] Ep.10- Thank You · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. I guess being all stressed
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Speaker 1: because I have to record this today and edit it
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Speaker 1: all today so that you can listen to it tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: if that's what you want, because I would feel really
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Speaker 1: bad if I didn't put it out when I you know,
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Speaker 1: you expected it to go out. So yeah, stressed out awesome.
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Speaker 1: It's totally my fault. But it'll be fine probably, and
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Speaker 1: you'll probably hear this in the morning tomorrow if you
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Speaker 1: want to. If not, good for you, I'm glad that
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Speaker 1: your life does not require you to listen to this
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Speaker 1: at five am in the morning on Thursday or something.
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Speaker 1: I think that's when it comes out, right, Sure, let's
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Speaker 1: go with that anyway. I don't really have like a
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Speaker 1: lot of stuff to say that's not eighty six related today.
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Speaker 1: I don't think, at least not that's related to like,
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Speaker 1: you know, current anime. I could tell you that I
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Speaker 1: showed my my mom and my brother and sister two
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Speaker 1: episodes of Banana Fish a couple days ago, and that
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Speaker 1: was fine. Though probably never talk to me again, but
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Speaker 1: that's fine. It's all fine. Let's talk about eighty six,
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Speaker 1: episode ten like we're supposed to anyway. Episode ten is
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Speaker 1: called thank you, which that feels safe, right. It's nice
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Speaker 1: that people are getting thanked, and it's really polite to
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Speaker 1: thank people. So I'm happy for the episode. It's probably
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Speaker 1: going to be all right. If you remember from last week,
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Speaker 1: we ended with Lena running and running and running and
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Speaker 1: then just crying because the Spirheud squadron was finally out
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Speaker 1: of range and she was never going to be able
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Speaker 1: to talk to them again, which apparently makes it really sad.
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Speaker 1: So we fade into like a blue sky with fluffy
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Speaker 1: clouds and some telephone polls in the distance, and there
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Speaker 1: was a bird in focus, like perched on I guess
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Speaker 1: like the you know place where the bullets come out
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Speaker 1: whatever that's called. Why don't I know what that's called? Barrel? Yeah? Anyway,
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Speaker 1: the bird is gray and it has a like a
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Speaker 1: black or dark gray beak. So I tried to look
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Speaker 1: up what kind of bird this could be, and I
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Speaker 1: don't know. It might be just generic gray bird, or
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Speaker 1: maybe it's a gray vireo or a bush tit. I
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Speaker 1: kind of wish it was a catbird. They're gray, but
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Speaker 1: catbirds have like a little black on their head, I think,
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Speaker 1: So I don't think it's one of those, but I
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Speaker 1: love catbirds so much so I wish it was. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. I'm not one hundred percent sure
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Speaker 1: that the animators and storyboard artists that were working on
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Speaker 1: eighty six actually really cared what animals they were portraying
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Speaker 1: all the time, so yeah, or it could just be
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Speaker 1: totally off base with that. Anyway, the bird that's not
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Speaker 1: a gray catbird probably flies off and it's soaring, and
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Speaker 1: we follow it through the sky, joins the rest of
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Speaker 1: its gray bird flock, and they're just kind of flying
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Speaker 1: into the distance. It's important before I continue that I
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Speaker 1: tell you that this entire first set of scenes up
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Speaker 1: until the opening theme doesn't have any dialogue or like
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Speaker 1: sound effects or anything. It has kind of more or
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Speaker 1: less calmon kind of rising at some point, orchestra music
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Speaker 1: in the background. It's definitely I think from Kota Yamamoto.
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Speaker 1: I hope I got that name right, Okay. I just
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Speaker 1: paused and looked it up really quick. And yet it's
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Speaker 1: on the side of the soundtrack that's by Kota Yamamoto,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know what it's called because it's totally
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Speaker 1: in Japanese and it's in like mostly kanji, so I
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Speaker 1: can only read like a couple of characters, so they
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Speaker 1: mean literally nothing to me, Like I see G and
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Speaker 1: then another character, and then no, and then two other characters,
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Speaker 1: and then there's a character. It's beginning to no idea
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Speaker 1: how to pronounce that anyway. It's very lovely though, so
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Speaker 1: we just have that playing throughout this set of scenes
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Speaker 1: with nothing else anyway. Back to what's going on. Now,
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Speaker 1: we see those like decaying train tracks and then also
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Speaker 1: some rolling hills with like flowers and they're kind of
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Speaker 1: like shells of decaying buildings. Then we see the crumbled
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Speaker 1: remnants of like a building with some dead mex. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if they are Juggernauts or Legion, it's really
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Speaker 1: hard to tell. Then we focus on the floor of
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Speaker 1: a room with a chair in its and light is
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Speaker 1: streaming in from the window and hitting a bottle like
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Speaker 1: maybe a bottle of alcohol and a bullet casing shadows
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Speaker 1: pass in front of the window and like across like
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Speaker 1: someone is walking, and then we see Spearhead Squadron in
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Speaker 1: their juggernauts and with their like robot friends or whatever
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Speaker 1: they are like walking I guess down on the train
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Speaker 1: tracks I believe this is a side view, so I'm
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Speaker 1: not one hundred percent sure, but it seems like they've
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Speaker 1: been following the train tracks, so I'm assuming that's what's
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Speaker 1: happening here too. And they are going through a field
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Speaker 1: that looks like maybe it's farmland, and there are some
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Speaker 1: houses around, probably like farmhouses, that look like not great,
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Speaker 1: but they also don't look horrible, like they're not bombed out,
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Speaker 1: they just look abandoned. Then we see like a lot
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Speaker 1: of flowers a bright blue sky, and then we cut
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Speaker 1: to a shot of the camera panning up to a
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Speaker 1: field of just these beautiful, light blue flowers and they
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Speaker 1: have like little white centers, so the field is just full,
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Speaker 1: like every inch of the field is full of flowers,
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Speaker 1: almost like it's the sea, you know, because it's just
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Speaker 1: all blue. And there's a tree kind of on a
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Speaker 1: hill with some sort of destroyed mech underneath, and maybe
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Speaker 1: a dead guy leaning against the tree, or maybe it's
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Speaker 1: one of those weird like mech things that look like
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Speaker 1: an android person. I hope that's what it is, but
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Speaker 1: I'm afraid it's a guy. So this is so fucking beautiful. Actually,
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Speaker 1: most of this episode, especially this first bunch of scenes
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Speaker 1: is just fucking gorgeous, like background wise, but this flower
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Speaker 1: field is like amazing. I actually have a picture of
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Speaker 1: it in my kitchen on the wall because I'm insane.
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Speaker 1: But it's based on as far as I can tell,
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Speaker 1: a real place in Japan, which is the Hitachi Seaside Park,
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Speaker 1: and that's in Ibaraki Prefecture specifically, this looks like it
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Speaker 1: is Mihiarashi Hill. And what's so special about he Tachi
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Speaker 1: Seaside Park and the hill I just said is that
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Speaker 1: they are just covered in nemo fila flowers, which are
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Speaker 1: like part of the Forget me Not family of flowers,
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Speaker 1: and they're actually native to North America. So I don't
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Speaker 1: know why there's like this gigantic field park arboretum thing
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Speaker 1: in Japan. It's just full of them, but it's like
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Speaker 1: a big deal when people go oh when they're in
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Speaker 1: bloom to see them and they're gorgeous. The actually might
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Speaker 1: be more gorgeous in this anime than they are in
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Speaker 1: real life, but only by a little bit. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: super fucking pretty, so they're just seeing all this cool stuff. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: from that gorgeous field of nemofila flowers, we cut to
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Speaker 1: the surface of a lake or a pond. It's like
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Speaker 1: really dark, like it's not mirroring the sky blue. It's
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Speaker 1: just kind of a dark, calm surface with red and
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Speaker 1: orange maple leaves on the surface of it, and I
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Speaker 1: think that they're like Japanese maple leaves. Anyway, Onju dunks
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Speaker 1: a canteen into the water of the pond or lake,
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Speaker 1: and Corina walks over and we just have this like
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Speaker 1: incredibly gorgeous shots of the trees and the lake and
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Speaker 1: the sun glinting off the water. And I also have
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Speaker 1: that on my wall in my dining room, which is
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Speaker 1: my usual like multipurpose room that I'm recording in right now,
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Speaker 1: so I can literally look at at it and tell
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Speaker 1: you it kind of looks like almost like sixties or
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Speaker 1: seventies art, you know. Color wise, There's like a lot
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Speaker 1: of yellows and reds, and the trees are kind of
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Speaker 1: in the foreground and they're like super dark except for
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Speaker 1: like the bright reds from the Japanese maples. And it's
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Speaker 1: just really well framed because you're looking through like the
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Speaker 1: trees at Anju and Karina who were standing on the
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Speaker 1: other side of the lake, and also it looks like
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Speaker 1: Fido is there too, But yeah, I could just honestly
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Speaker 1: just gush about how beautiful this episode is and how
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Speaker 1: beautiful a lot of eighty six is, but it seems irrelevant.
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Speaker 1: You either can see it with your eyes when you're
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Speaker 1: watching it, or you just have to take my word forwards. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: we cut to Shin and ride In, who are standing
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Speaker 1: in the forest I think they all are at this point,
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Speaker 1: and Shin is eating something that looks like it's probably
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Speaker 1: a ration, and Rydin is drinking from a canteen. We
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Speaker 1: see theo now he is kneeling and reaching out towards
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Speaker 1: a tanuki, but it's totally scared and it growls at
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Speaker 1: him and just like runs off, and then we see
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Speaker 1: that it he's climbed up onto Fido and Onju and
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Speaker 1: Karina or like laughing about it. And I should pause
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Speaker 1: there and ask you if you know what a tanuki is.
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Speaker 1: It is a raccoon dog, which is a type of
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Speaker 1: animal that's common to East Asia. I think Japanese raccoon
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Speaker 1: dogs are different than other Asian raccoon dogs, like they're
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Speaker 1: a different taxonomy or species or whatever, but I'm not
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Speaker 1: really sure. And also I learned that they are invasive
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Speaker 1: in parts of Europe now because they were really prized
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Speaker 1: for their furs, so like Europeans like took them from
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Speaker 1: Japan or China or whatever and like brought them so
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Speaker 1: that they could farm them, and then they escaped and
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Speaker 1: now they are just ruining everything. But anyway, they're members
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Speaker 1: of like that canine family. I think they're more closely
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Speaker 1: related to foxes than anything, and they kind of look
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Speaker 1: like a cross between like dogs and cats and raccoons. Basically,
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Speaker 1: they have big fluffy tails, I think, and they have
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Speaker 1: like raccoon style markings, but they don't look exactly like raccoons,
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Speaker 1: And I guess if we're going by that, we might
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Speaker 1: be implying with this is taking place somewhere in Asia,
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Speaker 1: which we really don't know where this takes place, because
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Speaker 1: none of the country is our countries that we're familiar
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Speaker 1: with in our current time. And I'm pretty sure this
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Speaker 1: is Earth. And I'm still not sure if Stellar year
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Speaker 1: twenty one forty eight would be regular twenty one forty
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Speaker 1: eight or if that's like thousands and thousands of years
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Speaker 1: into the future, but whatever. Anyway, we cut to some
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Speaker 1: deer grazing and one of them looks up at them,
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Speaker 1: and then a drop of water falls onto a maple leaf,
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Speaker 1: and then a drop of water slides down Onrew's cheek,
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Speaker 1: and I thought she was crying, but she looks up
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Speaker 1: at the sky through the trees and it's clear that
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Speaker 1: it has just started raining. Corina and Andrew run off
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Speaker 1: past the lake that's like just explode with ripples from
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Speaker 1: the rain hitting it, and then we see all of
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Speaker 1: them weeding out the storm and the remnants of some
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Speaker 1: like stone building. Karina is sitting there twirling a red
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Speaker 1: maple leaf, and Shin sits down next to her with
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Speaker 1: a mug, and we see that they're just kind of
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Speaker 1: all around a fire, and Shin is just kind of
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Speaker 1: watching Karina for a minute, and he seems happy that
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Speaker 1: she's so interested in this leaf, and then he suddenly
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Speaker 1: turns and looks outside. They extinguish the fire. We see
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Speaker 1: that this house or whatever it is is up on
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Speaker 1: a cliff, and they all sit there in the dark
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Speaker 1: as just a giant stream of Legion march like not
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Speaker 1: directly next to them, but kind of down and a
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Speaker 1: ways off on like a different kind of hill or
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Speaker 1: low lying area to the side of them, but definitely
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Speaker 1: too close for them to be acting normal. And there's
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Speaker 1: so many legion that it almost looks like a highway,
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Speaker 1: you know, with just lots of lights in the disk stints,
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Speaker 1: and they all look like maybe they've suddenly remembered how
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Speaker 1: desperate the situation is. Karina continues to twirl the leaf
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Speaker 1: between her fingers and we owe the opening theme yay.
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Speaker 1: And there's no additional characters hanging out with the red
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Speaker 1: spider lilies because we haven't killed anyone off since the
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Speaker 1: last episode. Yay. Back from the opening, we see a
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Speaker 1: massive kind of lake shore with mountains on the other side,
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Speaker 1: and the sky is blue and the sun is low
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Speaker 1: on the horizon. I don't know if it's morning or evening,
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Speaker 1: but it's October thirteenth, twenty one forty eight, so when
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Speaker 1: they left it was September twenty eighth, so they've been
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Speaker 1: out on their own for quite a while. Now. Shin
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Speaker 1: and Ryden are standing on the rocky shoreline like it
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Speaker 1: doesn't'm saying, it's just kind of rocky because it's a
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Speaker 1: lake that's like that, I guess, And they're just kind
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Speaker 1: of looking out at the lake and ride and says hmmm.
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Speaker 1: He turns around and looks at their juggernauts, which are
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Speaker 1: like on a cliff or whatever. We can't possibly make
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Speaker 1: it across, can we. Shin's like, of course not. We
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Speaker 1: hear Anjuw say, what are we talking about the juggernauts.
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Speaker 1: They look over and Onjrew THEO and Carina are approaching
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Speaker 1: and oh god, Karina yots I gotta stop doing that.
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Speaker 1: THEO says, there are all kinds of gaps in the cockpits.
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Speaker 1: Water had come flooding right in, right, and it's like, well,
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Speaker 1: Hottu toe die or Kujo might have just jumped right in.
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Speaker 1: Karna chuckles and she's like right. One of them skips
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Speaker 1: a stone on the surface of the water, and THEO
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Speaker 1: stretches and says, man, it's been a long three days, right,
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Speaker 1: And it's like with all the recon units out, it
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Speaker 1: was bound to be tough Onjuw's like, but we were
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Speaker 1: able to keep the wind and rain off, so that's
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Speaker 1: been a big help. Karina says, we've been out on
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Speaker 1: the special Recon mission for what like two weeks. We've
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Speaker 1: lasted longer than I thought. I assume we die on
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Speaker 1: the first day. Theo's like, right, so where are we
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Speaker 1: Corina shrugs, I don't know. We shut off our location
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Speaker 1: trackers a long time ago, theosis, so this is freedom. Huh.
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Speaker 1: He throws a rock into the water and it skips
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Speaker 1: twice because he is talented and I am not, and
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Speaker 1: I cannot skip rocks right, and says, so, what's the
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Speaker 1: plan If we want to go forward, We're going to
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Speaker 1: need to use a bridge, but those recon units might
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Speaker 1: come back. Sin's like, well, ride and looks at him.
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Speaker 1: Shin continues, do we really need to go forward right now?
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Speaker 1: The others look at each other a little confused, but
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Speaker 1: then they smile. Nonju says, that's true. I'd like to
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Speaker 1: do a wash, right, And it's like and it's not
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Speaker 1: like we're in a big hurry. We cut down to
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Speaker 1: the surface of the lake as their shadows are kind
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Speaker 1: of casting into it, and then the colors of the
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Speaker 1: image shift, so the lake is like a bluish greenish now,
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Speaker 1: so I guess it's either later in the day if
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Speaker 1: that was dawn, or it's the next day if that
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Speaker 1: was dusk. I'm not sure. We see one of their
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Speaker 1: feet walk into the lake, and then we cut to
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Speaker 1: two bunnies watching from a field of dandelions, and then
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Speaker 1: we see a butterfly kind of flying through the sky,
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Speaker 1: and then we see Corina's arms and like the top
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Speaker 1: of her head as she jumps up to trying to
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Speaker 1: catch it, and she's running through the field trying to
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Speaker 1: get it, and she kind of like trips, and it
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Speaker 1: looks like her clothes fly off, and I have no
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Speaker 1: idea what that means. I like stopped it like five
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Speaker 1: times and went back more than five times, so I
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Speaker 1: think maybe she was just wearing a blanket or something.
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Speaker 1: And we're far enough away that like we don't see anything,
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Speaker 1: so it wasn't like fan service or anything. It was
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Speaker 1: weird anyway. We see that they have, you know, set
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Speaker 1: up a clothesline by tying it to the barrels of
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Speaker 1: all the juggernauts like big guns, and clothing is hanging
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Speaker 1: from it and blowing in the breeze, which is probably
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Speaker 1: why Corona was naked. Anju is just kind of looking
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Speaker 1: at I guess her hard work, and thea was sitting
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Speaker 1: on a box next to her, and he's rubbing his
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Speaker 1: shoulder because I guess it was a lot of work
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Speaker 1: washing those clothes and hanging them all up. And also
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Speaker 1: they are wearing blankets because their clothes are wet. We
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Speaker 1: cut to that lake and ride In and Shin are
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Speaker 1: fishing with something it looks like rope. Right In is
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Speaker 1: sitting and Shin is standing next to him, and also
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Speaker 1: they're just wearing blankets too, and right And says it
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Speaker 1: feels like we're the last people alive. Shin kind of
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Speaker 1: like half laughs, and right And says, what Shin's like,
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Speaker 1: if the last thing I see is this, then maybe
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Speaker 1: it's not so bad. Was that it? Right AND's like
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Speaker 1: how long ago was that? Shin says, I never took
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Speaker 1: you for a romantic. Ryan's like, shut up, and he
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Speaker 1: casts his line. Shin kind of chuckles and then he
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Speaker 1: just kind of breaks into like a full on laugh.
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Speaker 1: Right In just kind of stares at him, and I
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Speaker 1: don't know what Rydon's face means. He's confused or concerned.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't look particularly happy that Shin is just laughing,
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Speaker 1: but also like it's not like, oh my god, why
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Speaker 1: is he laughing? He's terrible. It's just kind of like,
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Speaker 1: oh yeah. We cut back to the field of dandelions
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Speaker 1: and we hear Shin say I don't think they're dead,
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Speaker 1: but when they die, they just disappear. What they're mine
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Speaker 1: their will, They don't stay behind, right, and says, like
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Speaker 1: the ones that went before us. Sin's like yeah right,
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Speaker 1: and says how many are there now? Sin's like five
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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy six? How right, and says, including your brother.
17:28
Speaker 1: Shin's like yeah right, and says, I see. There's kind
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Speaker 1: of a long pause, and he looks up at Shin, Hey,
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Speaker 1: what about his name? Did you leave it? Shin turns
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Speaker 1: towards Ryding because he's been looking at the water and says, yeah, right,
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Speaker 1: and says when Sin's like Fido, nos, He kind of
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Speaker 1: smiles right and says, you two really are close. Now,
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Speaker 1: it's just the question of how far we can take them.
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Speaker 1: Sin's like, without resupply, there's a limit on how long
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Speaker 1: we can keep going, right, and says how many days
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Speaker 1: we can survive? Yeah? Great? We see that Ryden has
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Speaker 1: almost caught like this big large grayfish with red fins,
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Speaker 1: but it doesn't end up taking the bait and it
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Speaker 1: just kind of swims off. And also, I tried to
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Speaker 1: look up what large gray fish had red fins, and
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Speaker 1: there were so many of them. Again, I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: if this was supposed to be something in particular. Sins
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Speaker 1: like right, we get a nice shot of their backs
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Speaker 1: as the water was sparkling in front of them. They're
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Speaker 1: kind of almost silhouetted by the sunlight. Right And says
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Speaker 1: anything you're gonna regret? Sins like what? Writing continues. The
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Speaker 1: major asked you once, right if there was anything you
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Speaker 1: wanted to do, places you wanted to go, things you
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Speaker 1: wanted to see. He turns the Shin you said. Shin's like,
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Speaker 1: what did I say? Right In pauses and he looks worried,
18:53
Speaker 1: and he says that you'd never even thought about it.
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Speaker 1: Shin's like, then my answer is still the same. Right
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Speaker 1: In looks back out at the lake. I see. We
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Speaker 1: go to a fish in a box. It's a gray
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Speaker 1: fish with red fins. They caught it, or one of them. Yay,
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Speaker 1: they get to eat. I think. Anju claps her hands
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Speaker 1: together and she's like, we finally got to do the wash.
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Speaker 1: They're all sitting on the beach eating fish on like sticks,
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Speaker 1: you know, and still wearing the blankets because I guess
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Speaker 1: their clothing isn't dry yet. And Fido's there are too
19:28
Speaker 1: obviously because he's hanging out with them. And Andrew says,
19:32
Speaker 1: all we really need now is a big barrel or
19:34
Speaker 1: something to put water in. Karina is like, what are
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Speaker 1: you talking about? Fido kind of moves and he makes
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Speaker 1: some beeps and they all look over and THEO says,
19:43
Speaker 1: what is it, Fido? Jen's like, if you're talking about
19:46
Speaker 1: your container. We might be able to compensate for the
19:49
Speaker 1: lousy welding by like patching it with cloth, but we
19:52
Speaker 1: can't heat that amount of water. It would take too
19:55
Speaker 1: long to fill that thing. Right In looks at him
19:58
Speaker 1: like what the fuck and continues, we don't have the fuel.
20:02
Speaker 1: Fido beeps. Shin says, I know we all miss baths,
20:05
Speaker 1: but I don't see how it's possible. THEO, who looks
20:08
Speaker 1: totally confused by the way, says, how can you understand
20:12
Speaker 1: him that? Well, yeah, I also want to know that.
20:14
Speaker 1: Fido beeps and he kind of like stands up a bit,
20:17
Speaker 1: and Shin says, there's a town nearby. Well, I'm not
20:21
Speaker 1: going to stop you from looking, and THEO says, seriously,
20:24
Speaker 1: how can you tell my thoughts exactly? Anjie looks kind
20:28
Speaker 1: of worried, and then she says, is it Ocasian taking
20:32
Speaker 1: a bath? Shin says, it's not like we're going anywhere
20:36
Speaker 1: in particular, and we should be an old imperial territory
20:39
Speaker 1: by now. I'd like to see what their towns were like.
20:41
Speaker 1: We cut to a like a shop window display with
20:45
Speaker 1: a pink dress, straw hat, and blue bag kind of
20:48
Speaker 1: displayed in it, and the window is just totally broken away,
20:51
Speaker 1: and a shadow appears on the dress as if someone
20:54
Speaker 1: is standing in front of the window, and we hear
20:57
Speaker 1: Au say Kor in a hurry, is like okay, and
21:02
Speaker 1: she hurries away to join the group. And now they're
21:05
Speaker 1: walking down like this very narrow street or alley with
21:09
Speaker 1: you know, buildings very close to the street on both sides,
21:12
Speaker 1: kind of like Tudor style buildings, like lots of wood detailing.
21:16
Speaker 1: You know. The city looks very European. So maybe this
21:19
Speaker 1: is in Asia. Maybe this is somewhere in Europe and
21:22
Speaker 1: the Tanuki have just you know, expanded there because we
21:25
Speaker 1: know they're an invasive specie. Or maybe this is just
21:28
Speaker 1: what buildings look like now in this area of the world.
21:30
Speaker 1: I don't know anyway. Karina finally catches up with Angu
21:33
Speaker 1: and THEO and she's like, sorry, I'm ready, and she's
21:37
Speaker 1: like it's not a problem. We see that Shin and
21:40
Speaker 1: ryde In are kind of trailing slightly behind the other group,
21:42
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure Ryden says this, but I'm not
21:45
Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure. Anyway, he probably says they look
21:50
Speaker 1: like ordinary kids walking together like that. I mean, I
21:52
Speaker 1: guess the same goes for me too. We're all just
21:54
Speaker 1: ordinary kids from different towns. Without the war, we would
21:57
Speaker 1: have never met the Guiatian Empire. Does this bring back
22:00
Speaker 1: any memories for you? No, my parents were both born
22:03
Speaker 1: in Giadia, but I've never been here before. I don't
22:07
Speaker 1: really remember my parents at all. I wanted to note
22:10
Speaker 1: that this city is in surprisingly good shape compared to
22:13
Speaker 1: what we've seen in the Republic. I mean, you know,
22:16
Speaker 1: we have that window display. Most of the buildings just
22:19
Speaker 1: look abandoned, like they have some broken windows stuff like that.
22:23
Speaker 1: But you know, there's not a sense that things have
22:25
Speaker 1: been hit by like missiles and shit. It looks like
22:28
Speaker 1: it's still a city, just an abandoned one. Anyway, Shin says,
22:33
Speaker 1: it just seems like a strange place to me. What
22:35
Speaker 1: about you? Right In's like, well, I had some really
22:39
Speaker 1: distant ancestors from here. But it's not like it's our
22:41
Speaker 1: homeland either, is it. Right In turns back and he
22:45
Speaker 1: realizes that Shin has stopped walking with him, and he
22:48
Speaker 1: is just staring into this big, dark underpass just has
22:53
Speaker 1: this vacant, empty feeling. Right In stops as well and says,
23:00
Speaker 1: what is it? Without saying anything, Shin just starts to
23:03
Speaker 1: walk into the underpass. Righton grabs his arm and stops him.
23:08
Speaker 1: Shin looks at Rydon's hand kind of sadly, and then
23:12
Speaker 1: up at right In, who is looking pretty freaked out really,
23:16
Speaker 1: and right In says, don't run off on your own.
23:18
Speaker 1: You're not a little kid. He tries to pull Shin forward,
23:22
Speaker 1: but Shin just doesn't move at all, and Shin just
23:25
Speaker 1: is staring into the tunnel, and he says, it's nothing.
23:30
Speaker 1: We're probably fine. What they haven't noticed us and we're
23:33
Speaker 1: not going to run into them. Right AND's like, you
23:37
Speaker 1: mean the Legion? Shin says yeah. Right In looks pretty
23:41
Speaker 1: worried or possibly confused, and says, are you tired? Shin
23:46
Speaker 1: finally turns to look at him and writing continues, if
23:50
Speaker 1: you want to rest, that pillbox is a pretty good
23:52
Speaker 1: hiding spot. I think it's safe to relax a bit.
23:55
Speaker 1: Shin looks surprised, and then he just starts to laugh,
23:58
Speaker 1: and Righting's like, hey, Shin says, sorry, I told you.
24:02
Speaker 1: I'm used to hearing the Leeg's voices. There are more
24:05
Speaker 1: voices now that we're inside their territory. But it's not
24:07
Speaker 1: that bad, right, And it's like you say that, but
24:11
Speaker 1: and then we hear Karina say there you are. They
24:14
Speaker 1: look over, and we hear THEO say don't get lost,
24:17
Speaker 1: or you little kids Aju, just like, oh are we interrupting?
24:22
Speaker 1: Karina says, look, look, Fido found something. Shin to ride
24:26
Speaker 1: and says, since we're not fighting, it's easier now. Actually
24:30
Speaker 1: he starts to walk off. Don't worry, ryde In watches
24:34
Speaker 1: him for a second, and he actually looks kind of worried,
24:37
Speaker 1: despite Shin telling him not to, and then sighs and
24:40
Speaker 1: says Roger and goes off to join them. It's night now,
24:45
Speaker 1: and those two bunnies are still in that field of dandelions.
24:48
Speaker 1: And I don't remember if the dandelions were always white
24:51
Speaker 1: or if they have turned white, but you know they're
24:53
Speaker 1: white and fluffy now with wishes on them and stuff,
24:56
Speaker 1: and we hear some like water slashing in the back,
25:00
Speaker 1: and then Carrina like squealing and the bunnies like stand
25:04
Speaker 1: up and twitch their ears. And then we see Karna
25:07
Speaker 1: kind of lying in a tub, like a big metal
25:10
Speaker 1: tub thing, with water up to her neck and she's like,
25:13
Speaker 1: it's so warm. Andrew, who is also in the metal tub,
25:17
Speaker 1: which I guess is made out of like the robot
25:19
Speaker 1: thing like Sin was talking about, says corna, if you're
25:22
Speaker 1: too loud, the legion will find you. The sky is
25:25
Speaker 1: just bright with stars, like we could see the Milky Way,
25:30
Speaker 1: and Carna says, it feels so good though, and it's
25:34
Speaker 1: probably gonna cool off soon. The boys should have joined
25:37
Speaker 1: in Onw's like, that's why, you know, the reason you're
25:42
Speaker 1: always treated like a little sister. Carna kind of pouts
25:45
Speaker 1: and sticks her mouth under the water and blows some
25:48
Speaker 1: bubbles and then stands. Of course, we can only see
25:50
Speaker 1: their silhouettes, and she says, I'm not a little sister,
25:54
Speaker 1: and she starts like playfighting Onjrew Onjrew laughs. Now we
25:59
Speaker 1: see Rydin, who is looking annoyed or disgusted maybe I
26:02
Speaker 1: guess listening to this, and we hear Karina say, if
26:06
Speaker 1: we all got in together, we could wash each other off.
26:08
Speaker 1: It'd be more efficient and hygienic. Right, Andrew says, are
26:11
Speaker 1: you maybe saying that deliberately? Karina's like deliberately. We see
26:17
Speaker 1: that's all three of the guys are sitting. They all
26:19
Speaker 1: have like towels on their shoulders or THEO has it
26:22
Speaker 1: on his head and just kind of listening to their conversation,
26:25
Speaker 1: and are continues do you not know what that word means?
26:29
Speaker 1: And Karina is like, is it something you can eat?
26:31
Speaker 1: Is it tasty? At this point, Rydon says, Shin, why
26:35
Speaker 1: do you think Coraina never matured? Shin's like, I have
26:39
Speaker 1: no idea. THEO says, I'm glad Fido found that boiler
26:42
Speaker 1: so we were able to take a bath. Fido looks
26:45
Speaker 1: over any beeps and he kind of like raises his
26:48
Speaker 1: arm like he's shrugging. And then we see this like
26:52
Speaker 1: really rusty looking boiler, and we hear Ride and say
26:55
Speaker 1: the Imperials ran off and just left their fuel. Theo's
26:58
Speaker 1: like nine years later and still usable. I guess they
27:01
Speaker 1: really had some good stuff. Yeah, so I'll just kind
27:04
Speaker 1: of hear and say, I looked into it because I
27:06
Speaker 1: wanted to see what fuel would still be good after
27:08
Speaker 1: nine years and if that's a thing, because I know
27:10
Speaker 1: something like gasoline goes bad pretty quickly, and I don't
27:14
Speaker 1: know much more than that. So I figured, if this
27:17
Speaker 1: is a movable like stove thing, it's probably gonna be propane.
27:21
Speaker 1: So I looked into the shelf life of propane, and
27:25
Speaker 1: it's super long, maybe indefinite, at least ten years. I
27:29
Speaker 1: just found all sorts of conflicting things like ten years,
27:31
Speaker 1: twenty five years, indefident. So basically, if this is propane,
27:34
Speaker 1: this totally makes sense. Anyway, Shin says, thanks to that,
27:38
Speaker 1: we were able to enjoy bath. Good job finding it. Fido,
27:41
Speaker 1: Fido beeps happily and he like kind of kicks his legs.
27:44
Speaker 1: Shin chuckles and then kind of full on laughs. His
27:46
Speaker 1: Fido like beeps something to him, and ride In and
27:49
Speaker 1: THEO look at each other like kind of confused and surprised.
27:52
Speaker 1: But then Ryden's face falls as he looks over at Shin,
27:55
Speaker 1: who is still laughing. Now we see a maple leaf
27:59
Speaker 1: on the floor some inside place. I guess maybe it's
28:03
Speaker 1: that same maple leaf that Karina found earlier, and it
28:07
Speaker 1: is lit by what is clearly fire, campfire that is,
28:11
Speaker 1: and we can see someone partially inframe, but we can't
28:14
Speaker 1: really see more than just part of their uniform. And
28:17
Speaker 1: then we cut to Shin, who is sleeping on his
28:20
Speaker 1: side with a blanket over him, and he's like using
28:23
Speaker 1: his arm as a pillow. And here on you say,
28:26
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen him sleep this peacefully.
28:30
Speaker 1: Karina is watching Shin sleep as well. She's holding a
28:33
Speaker 1: mug basically almost to her mouth and smiling, and we
28:37
Speaker 1: see that everybody is awake except for Shin actually, which
28:41
Speaker 1: I would think is odd, but we know that Chin
28:43
Speaker 1: is constantly hearing the Legion's voices, so we know that
28:46
Speaker 1: he gets kind of exhausted sometimes, so it makes sense anyway.
28:50
Speaker 1: Ryden says, he's been laughing a lot recently. Yeah. Theo's
28:55
Speaker 1: like yeah, and his expression is softer now. Anju says
29:00
Speaker 1: he's telling more jokes. Theo's like and playing along with
29:04
Speaker 1: ridings in my dumb comments. Karina is like, I'm sure
29:07
Speaker 1: he's at peace now since he's finally achieved his goal. Right,
29:10
Speaker 1: It's like his brother he spent five years looking for
29:13
Speaker 1: him before finally putting him to rest. It's important that
29:16
Speaker 1: I mention here because I didn't earlier. Shin still has
29:19
Speaker 1: his bandana and he always wears around his neck, but
29:21
Speaker 1: in this episode he's been wearing it on his arm,
29:23
Speaker 1: like tied around his arm instead of on his neck,
29:25
Speaker 1: and riding continues being free. He looks really worried. I mean,
29:31
Speaker 1: that's what he's been looking this whole episode. He just
29:33
Speaker 1: looks like something is wrong. And Andrew says, And in
29:38
Speaker 1: the end, he finally found someone he could entrust himself
29:40
Speaker 1: to ride, and it's like we're going on ahead. Major
29:44
Speaker 1: was that it? Karina's eyes narrow really sadly, and THEO says,
29:49
Speaker 1: our reaper was lonely. Wasn't he having all his comrades
29:52
Speaker 1: die before him and being forced to carry them? Yeah,
29:55
Speaker 1: it's pretty fucked up THEO. Andrew says, so it was
29:58
Speaker 1: good for him being able to leave those words behind.
30:00
Speaker 1: There's a pause. Caraina says, it kind of pisses me off,
30:04
Speaker 1: though They all kind of laugh, except for Karina obviously,
30:08
Speaker 1: and Righting says it's good. But Krain is like, but
30:13
Speaker 1: riding continues, it feels like he has nothing left a
30:19
Speaker 1: little anyway. Fuck, yeah, that's what Ryden is feeling. Yeah, okay.
30:27
Speaker 1: The fire has gone out at this point, and we
30:30
Speaker 1: see their mugs on the ground around it, and someone's
30:34
Speaker 1: shadow is looming over the dead fire. And it is
30:38
Speaker 1: October fourteenth, twenty one forty eight, which is the very
30:41
Speaker 1: next morning. I assume it's Shin who was awake, and
30:45
Speaker 1: the sun is coming up and he gets up and
30:47
Speaker 1: he just walks off. Next we see the rest of
30:51
Speaker 1: Spearhead finding his empty sleeping bag, and ride In's like
30:55
Speaker 1: that idiot. He's sweating and the sky is gray, and
30:59
Speaker 1: we see window display again and we hear ride And
31:02
Speaker 1: saying his drugger not still here, so we didn't leave
31:05
Speaker 1: without us. We cut to a shot of the empty
31:08
Speaker 1: town and we hear Karina say, but he took his
31:10
Speaker 1: rifle and his handgun. Fuck Aw's like, what about his
31:15
Speaker 1: power raid? Right and says he turned it off right away.
31:19
Speaker 1: We cut to the statue of like this man and
31:22
Speaker 1: woman standing together that was earlier when they were near
31:25
Speaker 1: the underpass, but I forgot to tell you about it,
31:28
Speaker 1: and we hear THEO say any idea where he might
31:30
Speaker 1: have gone? Fido? Fido beeps and then we see that
31:33
Speaker 1: underpass and we hear ride and gasp. Maybe there, I
31:38
Speaker 1: guess not, because now they are standing outside of the
31:41
Speaker 1: gates of a zoo, and THEO says it's a zoo. Yeah, man,
31:45
Speaker 1: it says it's a zoo. Karina's like, why, yeah, I
31:50
Speaker 1: don't know either, right, and says, don't ask me, but
31:53
Speaker 1: we don't have any better options than a zoo. Why.
31:57
Speaker 1: I think that Fido led them there, but I'm not sure. Anyway,
32:00
Speaker 1: we get a lot of shots of the zoo now,
32:02
Speaker 1: which in any other thing that I've ever watched would
32:06
Speaker 1: not be this disturbing. But this zoo has been abandoned
32:09
Speaker 1: for who knows how long, nine years or something, and
32:13
Speaker 1: there are still animals there, you know, what's left of
32:17
Speaker 1: them in rusted cages, just animal skeletons. So you know,
32:23
Speaker 1: the gaudience left so quickly that they just let all
32:27
Speaker 1: the animals die. Yay. THEO says, this is and I'm
32:35
Speaker 1: just like, they're kind of like us, Oh my god,
32:39
Speaker 1: aun't you Why would you say something like that and
32:42
Speaker 1: hurt me? Uugh. Anyway, Fido is leading them, and he
32:48
Speaker 1: makes some beeps and he turns the corner and we
32:51
Speaker 1: see that ahead of them. Shin is standing there looking
32:54
Speaker 1: at something to the left off screen, and Karina says Shin,
33:00
Speaker 1: and without even looking when Karina called his name, Shin
33:04
Speaker 1: just starts to walk off in the direction he's been staring. Right.
33:07
Speaker 1: In is a little bit ahead of the other Spearhead people,
33:10
Speaker 1: and he's like what And he rounds the corner where
33:13
Speaker 1: Shin is headed and he sees this giant fucking legion
33:17
Speaker 1: laying on the ground. He gasps in horror, grits his
33:21
Speaker 1: teeth runs over and he's like, Shin. He gets between
33:24
Speaker 1: Shin and the legion with his rifle and he's like,
33:27
Speaker 1: what are you doing. Shin's like, it's fine riding, there's
33:31
Speaker 1: no danger. It can't move at all. We see that,
33:35
Speaker 1: in addition to being kind of fallen over, there's a
33:40
Speaker 1: large hole in this legion's body that looks like it's
33:43
Speaker 1: melted open and inside is dark, but there's like blue
33:48
Speaker 1: lights and stuff, so we know that it's still, for
33:50
Speaker 1: lack of a better term, alive. Shin says, I could
33:54
Speaker 1: tell it was approaching us little by little for a
33:56
Speaker 1: while now. It didn't seem to be a scout, and
33:59
Speaker 1: we were going in different directions, so I was just
34:01
Speaker 1: gonna ignore it, but it felt like it was calling
34:04
Speaker 1: me since yesterday, right, and says calling you then it's
34:09
Speaker 1: Shin continues and eighty six Just like us, we can't communicate,
34:16
Speaker 1: but I can hear its voice right, and says, so
34:20
Speaker 1: what's it saying? What are its last words? Shin walks
34:25
Speaker 1: towards it and says, I want to go home. Great.
34:31
Speaker 1: He takes out his gun and racks it. The legion
34:34
Speaker 1: kind of starts to shake and tries to get to
34:36
Speaker 1: its feet, but it just cann't falls back down. The
34:39
Speaker 1: rest of the squadron look on, like what the fuck
34:43
Speaker 1: is happening. Shin sticks his gun and his arm inside
34:48
Speaker 1: of the Legion's blast hole and he's like, it's okay.
34:52
Speaker 1: We get a really cool shot of him from inside
34:55
Speaker 1: the legion and he says, you can go home now,
35:00
Speaker 1: any fires. We cut to the skeleton of an elephant. Yay,
35:04
Speaker 1: so many happy things. The ending theme starts playing and
35:08
Speaker 1: the credits start to roll and Chinn says, ride in
35:12
Speaker 1: if there are any surviving countries besides the Republic. Riding
35:16
Speaker 1: kind of cuts him off. I heard that story a
35:18
Speaker 1: few times beyond the old borders beyond the Legion territory.
35:22
Speaker 1: There are places that Legion don't go. You mean, if
35:25
Speaker 1: there are any survivors there. Shin's like, yeah, I wonder
35:30
Speaker 1: if there are places like that. I kind of feel
35:32
Speaker 1: like if the Legion exists, they exist everywhere, and that
35:35
Speaker 1: that just sounds made up, But I mean it could
35:37
Speaker 1: be anyway. Righton says you want to go there and
35:40
Speaker 1: live in peace. I couldn't even imagine what that would
35:43
Speaker 1: be like. By the way, we have not cut away
35:46
Speaker 1: from that dead elephants. We're just slowly getting further from it,
35:50
Speaker 1: Like seeing it through the bars awesome. Perfect. This doesn't
35:54
Speaker 1: make me sad at all. And Chin says in a
35:58
Speaker 1: fairy tale, journeys like this end with you arriving at paradise.
36:02
Speaker 1: Ride And says paradise or heaven. If I could count
36:07
Speaker 1: on something like that, I would have blown my own
36:08
Speaker 1: head off a long time ago. We cut quickly to
36:11
Speaker 1: ride In, who was staring at the elephants through the bars,
36:14
Speaker 1: and then back to the elephants, then to Karna, who says,
36:18
Speaker 1: are we going to die like this too? Fuck? Then
36:21
Speaker 1: to the elephants, then to THEO, who doesn't say anything
36:24
Speaker 1: back to the elephants, then to Aju, and then back again.
36:29
Speaker 1: Fido lifts his arm like he's waving, and he turned
36:32
Speaker 1: and starts to lead them off, and he stops when
36:35
Speaker 1: he realizes that no one's following him. They're just too
36:38
Speaker 1: busy with this dead elephant. And he looks back at
36:42
Speaker 1: them and Ride and says, stop talking and go forward.
36:45
Speaker 1: Is that it? Fido nods and starts to walk again.
36:48
Speaker 1: They all stare for a second and then kind of
36:50
Speaker 1: like sigh or chuckle, and Karna, Theo and Aju start
36:54
Speaker 1: to follow Fido. Karina says, you're being bossy, Fido. Theo's like,
37:00
Speaker 1: what is Fido really? Ride In starts to walk now too,
37:04
Speaker 1: but Shin doesn't move so right and stops and says,
37:09
Speaker 1: are you going to the other side of the water alone? Fuck?
37:15
Speaker 1: We see a shot now. Shin upside down in a
37:18
Speaker 1: puddle by his feet, and he doesn't say anything. It's
37:22
Speaker 1: silent for a minute, and then right In sighs and
37:24
Speaker 1: turns back and it's like, never mind, let's just go
37:27
Speaker 1: and starts to walk off again. At this point, Shin
37:31
Speaker 1: finally moves forward, stepping directly into the puddle that we've
37:34
Speaker 1: been focused on and then we go to the title
37:37
Speaker 1: card episode ten. Thank you. Okay, I need to pause
37:44
Speaker 1: there for a second because I think we've had a
37:47
Speaker 1: lot of really interesting implications and I want to talk
37:50
Speaker 1: about them, and I'm excited because this is the first time,
37:54
Speaker 1: or maybe the second time since we've started eighty six.
37:57
Speaker 1: I'm not sure where I feel like I'm going to cross,
38:00
Speaker 1: so yay, I guess sadness. Anyway, I wanted to talk
38:06
Speaker 1: a little bit about what just happened at the very
38:09
Speaker 1: end there. Shin is very much acting on his own,
38:13
Speaker 1: and I think Ryden is right to be a little
38:16
Speaker 1: bit concerned about how he's just going off and the
38:21
Speaker 1: way he's talking about things. But what he said at
38:24
Speaker 1: the end, where he asked him if he was gonna
38:27
Speaker 1: like leave them and go to the other side of
38:28
Speaker 1: the water alone and then didn't really want to know
38:31
Speaker 1: the answer was kind of upsetting. I don't know if
38:37
Speaker 1: he means that literally, or if he's assuming that Shinn
38:42
Speaker 1: is the only one that makes it that far, or
38:45
Speaker 1: more possibly that he is assuming that Shin is going
38:49
Speaker 1: to leave, as in die before the rest of them.
38:53
Speaker 1: Because Shin is acting really weird. He is much more
38:58
Speaker 1: you know, jovial and happy he has been, but sometimes
39:02
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that the person is all better, you know.
39:05
Speaker 1: So I feel the same way watching this again as
39:08
Speaker 1: Ryden does, where I'm just like, oh my god, Shin,
39:11
Speaker 1: what's wrong? Aren't you going to be okay? Because I
39:15
Speaker 1: kind of don't think you are. But it's hard to
39:17
Speaker 1: tell because I feel like at this point, we actually
39:21
Speaker 1: don't know Shin very well. We know a bunch of
39:24
Speaker 1: things about him, Like we know how hurt he is
39:27
Speaker 1: by his relationship with his brother. We know that he
39:30
Speaker 1: is a very talented pilot, you know. We know that
39:34
Speaker 1: he hears voices of dead people sort of, but like,
39:39
Speaker 1: we don't really know how he feels about any of
39:41
Speaker 1: this besides that, like we know that he didn't ever
39:44
Speaker 1: let himself hope or dream for anything else, which I
39:48
Speaker 1: don't think is quite like his comrades. I think they
39:53
Speaker 1: still want to be okay, And I don't know if
39:55
Speaker 1: Shin has anything left that he wants because it kind
39:59
Speaker 1: of doesn't sound like he does. And if you really
40:02
Speaker 1: think you're gonna die and then you don't die, but
40:06
Speaker 1: you've been planning that, what's that feel like? Did you
40:10
Speaker 1: feel relief? I want him to be relieved, but I
40:14
Speaker 1: don't think he is. And that's intensely troubling. And I'm
40:19
Speaker 1: not gonna say anything else except that hearing on you say,
40:23
Speaker 1: they're kind of like us talking about the skeletons of
40:26
Speaker 1: the caged animals that starved to death. It's really just
40:31
Speaker 1: totally soul crushing. So and of course Karina is saying,
40:35
Speaker 1: like we can end up like that. You know, it's
40:38
Speaker 1: just bad. It's bad shit, man. So let's get back
40:41
Speaker 1: into it now that I've officially started crying a little bit.
40:45
Speaker 1: Now that the title card is gone, we just have
40:47
Speaker 1: a black screen. Then we were a gunshot. A screen
40:51
Speaker 1: like a smaller screen, like a three by four size
40:55
Speaker 1: screen kind of comes on white in the middle of
40:58
Speaker 1: the actual screen or kind of whitish like it's something,
41:02
Speaker 1: isn't it focused, like maybe the sky, and you know,
41:05
Speaker 1: there are little symbols and stuff in the corners, and
41:08
Speaker 1: there's a red thing like maybe it's recording, and a
41:12
Speaker 1: date at the bottom left corner that reads ten eleven
41:16
Speaker 1: twenty four, so approximately four years ago. The picture in
41:20
Speaker 1: this screen gets clearer and we see that it is
41:24
Speaker 1: the sunsets with wreckage of like two juggernauts in front
41:28
Speaker 1: of it, and it's silent for a second, and then
41:32
Speaker 1: we hear this continuous, repetitive banging. The camera whatever this
41:37
Speaker 1: is turns and is searching through the wasteland for this sound.
41:42
Speaker 1: It kind of pans to left and then back to
41:45
Speaker 1: the rights, and then it sees something near a juggernaut.
41:49
Speaker 1: It zooms in and we see that Shin is stabbing
41:53
Speaker 1: a Juggernaut with a knife. We're kind of looking at
41:56
Speaker 1: this from behind, but it seems that he's pulled off
41:59
Speaker 1: a piece of the metal and he turns and he
42:01
Speaker 1: looks at the camera four years younger, and we kind
42:05
Speaker 1: of cut out of the video now and we see
42:07
Speaker 1: that Fido is standing in front of him, staring at him.
42:11
Speaker 1: Shin gets down from the Juggernaut and he walks over
42:14
Speaker 1: holding a bunch of metal scraps. So it's been a
42:16
Speaker 1: bad day, I guess. Fido beeps and kind of like
42:19
Speaker 1: jolts maybe like he wants to back away, and Shin stops,
42:24
Speaker 1: You're still alive. He starts to approach Fido again, and
42:27
Speaker 1: Fido makes some noises and Shin kneels and says, the
42:33
Speaker 1: squadron your friends, they're all gone, but even so, Fido's
42:38
Speaker 1: eye lends zooms in on Shin. Shin says, will you
42:42
Speaker 1: come back with me? Fido moves and beeps, and then
42:46
Speaker 1: we cut back to his perspective as he follows Shin back.
42:49
Speaker 1: We see him following Shin in the snow towards that
42:53
Speaker 1: church on twelve eighteen twenty one forty four, and then
42:56
Speaker 1: multiple shots Shin walking and getting bigger, and then finally
43:00
Speaker 1: Shin walking towards the Spearhead Barracks on four to one
43:04
Speaker 1: forty eight, and we hear a voice say, this is
43:07
Speaker 1: your new pig sty. We cut out of Fido's perspective
43:12
Speaker 1: and we see someone taking a picture with a camera.
43:15
Speaker 1: Someone kicks a can and hits the mural of Saint Magnolia,
43:17
Speaker 1: and then we see the tatuto. Oh and that guy,
43:21
Speaker 1: he's like a military guy, I guess anyway. He says
43:24
Speaker 1: he had six months left, work hard till the very
43:27
Speaker 1: last minute eighty six. We see it. He's taking mugshots
43:30
Speaker 1: of them like they're standing in front of a wall
43:33
Speaker 1: holding up I guess their number. And we see theo
43:37
Speaker 1: on Ju Correna Ada and Ryding, but not in that order,
43:39
Speaker 1: because I wrote them down wrong. Brydon kind of force
43:43
Speaker 1: fully kicks some dirt actually was supposed to be a
43:45
Speaker 1: rock in the direction of that pig person dummy, and
43:49
Speaker 1: the rock hits the mural and the guy says, come on,
43:53
Speaker 1: you're the last one. Shin approaches and he holds up
43:57
Speaker 1: his sign with his number on it, and his number
43:59
Speaker 1: is E zero two two dash two three Oho ninety three.
44:03
Speaker 1: By the way, Shin just kind of stares at the
44:05
Speaker 1: ground relatively blankly. There's like a little bolts with like
44:09
Speaker 1: a nut on it in the dirt, like right by
44:12
Speaker 1: that military guy's feets, and the guy's like, look this way, pig.
44:17
Speaker 1: He kind of doesn't, so the guy just takes the
44:19
Speaker 1: picture and sighs. Shin walks directly towards this dude now,
44:25
Speaker 1: and the guy like kind of gets freaked out and gasps,
44:28
Speaker 1: and Shin like stomps like right on the bolt, so
44:31
Speaker 1: it flies up in the air. He catches it, and
44:34
Speaker 1: he looks like he's gonna throw it right at this
44:35
Speaker 1: guy's face, and the guy flinches and instead he throws
44:40
Speaker 1: it right at Saint Magnolia and it hits her right
44:43
Speaker 1: between the eyes. The bolt stays on the wall for
44:47
Speaker 1: a second and then it falls to the ground and
44:49
Speaker 1: everyone's like, that's amazing, and Fido is also like really
44:53
Speaker 1: excited because he loves Shin. And we see that that
44:58
Speaker 1: military guy has like fallen to the he like dropped
45:01
Speaker 1: his camera and he's kind of cowering, and he's like,
45:04
Speaker 1: what do you think you're doing. You don't really look
45:07
Speaker 1: like you're in a position of authority anymore. I'm sorry.
45:10
Speaker 1: We cut back to Fido's viewpoint of Shin's back, and
45:14
Speaker 1: Shin says, can I ask you a favor? We cut
45:17
Speaker 1: to the next day, so I don't know what the
45:19
Speaker 1: favor was, and it pisses me off. Anyway. It's four
45:22
Speaker 1: two twenty one forty eight now, and we see Aldrich,
45:25
Speaker 1: I guess, standing in front of Fido because this is
45:28
Speaker 1: all back in his viewpoint, and he says, so you're
45:32
Speaker 1: the Reaper's buddy, huh. The camera moves up and down
45:35
Speaker 1: as Fido nods and beeps, and Aldrich continues stay with
45:39
Speaker 1: him till the end. Okay, he walks away. We see
45:42
Speaker 1: now that Kujo is writing one hundred and seventy nine
45:45
Speaker 1: days till I end my service, fucking glory to the
45:48
Speaker 1: Spearhead squadron on the board. He kind of steps back
45:51
Speaker 1: and puts his hands on his hips and he's like, okay,
45:55
Speaker 1: we hear Aldrits say, no, wipe that off, your stupid kid.
45:59
Speaker 1: Kujo turns and points at Fido and says, you know
46:02
Speaker 1: what this means, and he kind of starts to walk away.
46:04
Speaker 1: I bet you don't. At this point, hands up to
46:08
Speaker 1: the Sky starts playing in the background, which is the
46:10
Speaker 1: other special ending theme song that we hear every once
46:12
Speaker 1: in a while, so we're getting two of them at
46:14
Speaker 1: this time. And it is four twenty two now, and
46:18
Speaker 1: we see Karna and she is kind of standing out
46:21
Speaker 1: in the dark in front of Fido and says, when
46:23
Speaker 1: I tripped today, Shin grabbed me. His hand touched my back,
46:27
Speaker 1: did you see. We cut to Fido seeing that happen.
46:31
Speaker 1: Like she trips and Shin just like grabs her so
46:35
Speaker 1: she doesn't fall, but like just like on the back
46:37
Speaker 1: of her like holds her up. It's really funny and
46:40
Speaker 1: it does not look romantic at all. And then we
46:44
Speaker 1: cut back to Karna who has her hands like parsley
46:47
Speaker 1: over her face and she's like shaking her head and squealing,
46:50
Speaker 1: and then we cuts to some cans of food that
46:52
Speaker 1: are open on the ground, and near them are what
46:55
Speaker 1: I guess are rations. They kind of look like bread
46:58
Speaker 1: or protein bars. I think is what I'm tring to say,
47:00
Speaker 1: And Kaye says, Fido, I have a question for you.
47:03
Speaker 1: We now see that Kaye Haduto, and I think, Lekka,
47:07
Speaker 1: who's that other girl? And I'm only fifty percent sure
47:09
Speaker 1: that's her name? Kneeling down right near these food stuffs
47:14
Speaker 1: on the floor and looking at Fido, and Kaye continues,
47:17
Speaker 1: do you know which tastes worse like us? Like a
47:20
Speaker 1: machine wouldn't know? Fido looks down and he swipes the
47:25
Speaker 1: rations away completely with his arm, and Leka says, how
47:30
Speaker 1: to know? Kaye is like, it's so bad that even
47:33
Speaker 1: Fido can tell? Huh how? Tito says, I don't know
47:36
Speaker 1: how we eat that stuff. Now we see Spearhead Squadron
47:40
Speaker 1: kind of off in the distance a little bit and
47:42
Speaker 1: looks like they're playing some sort of ball game, maybe
47:45
Speaker 1: kickball and or soccer, I don't know. And Aldrich walks
47:49
Speaker 1: over and says, Fido, those parts came in yesterday, And
47:52
Speaker 1: before he can say anything else, a ball strikes him
47:55
Speaker 1: in the back of the head and he turns around
47:57
Speaker 1: and he's like, hey. We cuts to ku Joe looking
48:01
Speaker 1: up at the night sky and he says, that's right now,
48:04
Speaker 1: no meaning at all, stars, sky, the wind. They got
48:08
Speaker 1: nothing to do with any of us. They're just there,
48:11
Speaker 1: always have been. He turns to Fido. He understand that.
48:16
Speaker 1: He smiles, So he's a little bit of a nihilist.
48:19
Speaker 1: I like him a lot. I wish he wasn't dead.
48:23
Speaker 1: We see a red orange sunsets through the wreckage of
48:28
Speaker 1: a building and it's five twenty two and we hear
48:32
Speaker 1: the sound of Shin trying to get a piece of
48:34
Speaker 1: metal off at Juggernauts. Fuck. And then we see Aldrich
48:39
Speaker 1: looking at Kujo's one hundred and twenty nine days board,
48:43
Speaker 1: which is when he died. Fuck to the cats outside
48:47
Speaker 1: eating from a ball on the ground. On six' nine
48:51
Speaker 1: cat looks up At. Fido then it is six thirteen
48:54
Speaker 1: And Hattu toe And theo are sitting on the ground
48:57
Speaker 1: looking all beat up because remember how To toe Says,
49:01
Speaker 1: fido you get it, RIGHT i just wanted to take a.
49:04
Speaker 1: Peek dia pops into, frame still holding that, spoon and he's,
49:09
Speaker 1: like that's. Right fido gets. It theo's, like, wait Is
49:13
Speaker 1: fido a? Guy they just kind of stare at, him
49:16
Speaker 1: and Then fido just like nods and, beeps, huh he's a.
49:19
Speaker 1: Guy we get To, kaye who is walking with a
49:22
Speaker 1: water and, can and she, says you like pretty? Flowers
49:26
Speaker 1: are you a? Girl and then she kind of thinks
49:29
Speaker 1: better of, it and she's, like, NO i guess boys
49:31
Speaker 1: can like flowers. Too my favorite flower is and we
49:34
Speaker 1: cut away to her at that party that they, had
49:37
Speaker 1: looking up at the cherry, blossoms and then To fido
49:40
Speaker 1: dropping Her insidneya In chinn's, hand and then back to
49:43
Speaker 1: the board still at one hundred and twenty nine, days
49:46
Speaker 1: to the cat playing with a. Toy next we See
49:49
Speaker 1: karina and she's, Like shin complimented me. Today she gets
49:54
Speaker 1: really close To fido we were, fighting and then and
49:56
Speaker 1: it cuts. Off it's seven fourteen and the there's a
50:00
Speaker 1: sign kind of on the, wall like a poster or.
50:03
Speaker 1: Something it's like really, faded but it says seeing them
50:07
Speaker 1: will change your. Life and THEN i was looking at
50:09
Speaker 1: it AND i was, like is that the northern? Lights not,
50:11
Speaker 1: sure kind of looks like. It we Hear anju say
50:15
Speaker 1: change your. Life you can't change your life that. Easily
50:18
Speaker 1: she's holding a printed version of this poster or something
50:23
Speaker 1: or a, Magazine i'm really not, sure and we see
50:26
Speaker 1: that in the, Background diya is crouched down behind some
50:29
Speaker 1: rubble watching. Her nanju looks At fido and says. Right
50:34
Speaker 1: she turns to walk off and almost Sees dya and
50:37
Speaker 1: he like hides really. Quick next we see da very
50:41
Speaker 1: close to the camera and he, Says fido The, aurora
50:45
Speaker 1: let's set forth to the north. Pole, well can't change
50:49
Speaker 1: your life that, easily, Though he looks down at the
50:51
Speaker 1: ad in his hand, now but something will. Change we
50:55
Speaker 1: see them holding hands at that, party and then back
50:58
Speaker 1: To daya And diya looks up At. Fido do you
51:02
Speaker 1: THINK i can change things for? Her we got to them,
51:06
Speaker 1: dancing then to a. Gunshot next it's night And freda
51:11
Speaker 1: was outside kind of looking off into the. Woods seven
51:14
Speaker 1: twenty seven and there's a loud bang and he turns
51:18
Speaker 1: to see what it is And anju is standing out
51:20
Speaker 1: back holding that. Pot remember WHEN theo asked if she
51:24
Speaker 1: needed help and she just falls to her. Knees it's
51:29
Speaker 1: a twenty five and we see fireworks it's four to
51:32
Speaker 1: one and the sky is blue and two monarch type
51:35
Speaker 1: butterflies are. Flying it's nine twenty six and there are
51:38
Speaker 1: a bunch of you know, wishes you, know seeds from
51:41
Speaker 1: dandelions flying through the. Air it's nine twenty eight and
51:45
Speaker 1: there are birds flying in the sky at. Dusk it's
51:48
Speaker 1: eight twenty five, again and we see the remnants of
51:52
Speaker 1: the fireworks falling back down to. Earth it'sate thirty. One
51:56
Speaker 1: karina is standing against the wall with her head down
51:58
Speaker 1: and she, says what CAN i do for? Him it's nine.
52:03
Speaker 1: Ten we see the dummy with the pig sign around
52:06
Speaker 1: his neck in the. Rain shin is standing in the
52:09
Speaker 1: dark like outside hallway and he, says SO i want
52:13
Speaker 1: you to survive until, then obviously on the phone With.
52:15
Speaker 1: Lena we see how To toe sitting on something looking
52:19
Speaker 1: at the. Sunsets it's nine twenty five and he, says
52:23
Speaker 1: a special mission with the five of them would be
52:25
Speaker 1: a ton of. Fun you're gonna come along right. Fuck
52:31
Speaker 1: how To toe turns Towards fido. Right fido nods and.
52:35
Speaker 1: Beeps how To toe smiles and laughs a. Little it's
52:39
Speaker 1: nine twenty. Six we see a pool of blood on the.
52:42
Speaker 1: Ground kinna drop of blood falls into, it and a
52:47
Speaker 1: shadow is hovering over the, blood probably hot to toes or.
52:50
Speaker 1: Shins it's still nine twenty. Six the blackboard is. Empty
52:55
Speaker 1: it's still nine twenty, six and there's a fire on the,
52:59
Speaker 1: ground you, know and it's really weird looking like it
53:03
Speaker 1: looks like there's paper in. It and we see THE
53:06
Speaker 1: theo is looking at his sketch book sitting and he,
53:10
Speaker 1: Says i'm AMAZED i made it this. Far he throws
53:13
Speaker 1: his sketchbook into the fire and, SAYS i wonder If
53:17
Speaker 1: i'll be. Next he kind of pauses and then leans.
53:20
Speaker 1: Forward dose Time i'll die. Right it's nine twenty. Eight
53:25
Speaker 1: aldrich is standing in front Of fido and he, says
53:28
Speaker 1: thank you for, everything keep them. Safe fido, Beeps aldrich.
53:33
Speaker 1: Smiles then we see the cat who meows At fido
53:37
Speaker 1: And fidal beeps, back and Then shin who Says i'm
53:40
Speaker 1: happy for. You then's black then like the top of
53:45
Speaker 1: some metal pole thing THAT i don't really know what it,
53:47
Speaker 1: is but it's by the. Barracks and then we see
53:49
Speaker 1: the same metal pole thing at on four to, one
53:54
Speaker 1: and we hear how to to say, hey, everyone. Smile
53:58
Speaker 1: we pan down and see all Of, spearhead the entire
54:02
Speaker 1: gang from when they first got, there standing together And hotitill,
54:06
Speaker 1: continues this will be the last photo you ever. Take
54:09
Speaker 1: three two, One fido snaps his. Lens then we cut To,
54:14
Speaker 1: shin who is standing there in front Of ray's legion
54:17
Speaker 1: as it burns and the screen goes. White it's ten
54:22
Speaker 1: to one, now and we fade back Into shin carving
54:26
Speaker 1: something off screen with a. Knife fidal, Beeps sin's like.
54:30
Speaker 1: Yeah he turns to Show fido a piece of METAL
54:34
Speaker 1: i think From Raised. Juggernaut fido beeps, Again shin says thank,
54:39
Speaker 1: you smiles title. Drop the picture freezes and things get weirdly,
54:45
Speaker 1: staticky and then fade into just a sequence of pictures Of,
54:51
Speaker 1: shin some THAT i don't Think fido should have access
54:53
Speaker 1: to because it's Like shin as a, kid AND i
54:55
Speaker 1: didn't really get, that but you, know a lot of,
54:57
Speaker 1: them and then we just zoom out finally Of fido's,
55:03
Speaker 1: perspective like through his, eye and we see him just
55:08
Speaker 1: sitting there quietly, burning like he's just on. Fire It's october,
55:15
Speaker 1: thirtieth twenty, one forty, eight so about fifteen days after
55:19
Speaker 1: they were at the zoo And fido was just burning
55:23
Speaker 1: and in the distance there's the sound of an ongoing,
55:26
Speaker 1: battle and then we hear the sound of a missile
55:29
Speaker 1: being shot out of something and it just Hits fido
55:32
Speaker 1: and explodes. Him and then we go to the title.
55:35
Speaker 1: Card next, episode here we, go and that's. It, yay.
55:43
Speaker 1: Okay closing. Thoughts, Yeah, so first you should probably know
55:48
Speaker 1: that WHEN i first watched this, EPISODE i thought it was. Fine,
55:52
Speaker 1: SOMEHOW i don't know what the fuck was wrong with.
55:55
Speaker 1: Me but WHEN i rewatched, it having more context these,
56:00
Speaker 1: characters and after watching most of the second, core WHICH
56:03
Speaker 1: i think is significantly, BETTER i love the Second. Core
56:07
Speaker 1: this episode destroyed. Me LIKE i just. CRIED i mean
56:10
Speaker 1: not a ton, cry, like not LIKE i cried in
56:13
Speaker 1: episode eighteen every zero or all of the Episode's Banana,
56:15
Speaker 1: fish BUT i like, just you, know teared up and
56:19
Speaker 1: was sad because it's incredibly. SAD i don't Want fido
56:25
Speaker 1: to be. DEAD i don't know What fido. Is he's a,
56:28
Speaker 1: Robot why is he? Sentient why Does shin understand? Him
56:32
Speaker 1: maybe she understands him because maybe he's on that frequency
56:35
Speaker 1: like with the legion and. STUFF i don't, know BUT
56:38
Speaker 1: i Like, fido AND i liked that they had like
56:40
Speaker 1: a really sweet, relationship AND i loved seeing everything from
56:44
Speaker 1: his perspective and kind of getting like almost like a
56:48
Speaker 1: recap of what we've, seen but not at all in
56:52
Speaker 1: a very different, way from a very different. Perspective that
56:56
Speaker 1: was just nice because you, know we didn't See andrew
56:59
Speaker 1: break down right After dya, died but she, did and
57:03
Speaker 1: we weren't privy to all Of karna's weird like almost
57:07
Speaker 1: journal notes To fido About, shin but they were, happening you.
57:12
Speaker 1: KNOW i liked. It it felt really, INTIMATE i, think
57:16
Speaker 1: is the deal because we're seeing everything Around fido's, perspective
57:19
Speaker 1: which is a fixed, perspective instead of like where we
57:22
Speaker 1: normally see things, from which is just kind of, omnipotent
57:25
Speaker 1: so it doesn't feel as. Grounded so it was kind
57:29
Speaker 1: of cool to see it like this from just one.
57:31
Speaker 1: Character but, YEAH i, mean this is all just really. Sad,
57:35
Speaker 1: honestly it was a very quiet episode up until the last,
57:39
Speaker 1: scene but just the whole thing is just, Sad like
57:42
Speaker 1: even when it's not, sad it's really. Sad AND i
57:46
Speaker 1: GUESS i had missed in that last part WHERE theo
57:50
Speaker 1: like burned his sketch book makes me like so fucking,
57:54
Speaker 1: miserable like he didn't think that he was gonna ever needed.
57:59
Speaker 1: Again you, KNOW i don't know something about art people
58:03
Speaker 1: burning art. Things that's really upsetting to, Me so, like,
58:09
Speaker 1: yeah this whole episode was a really interesting way to
58:11
Speaker 1: just make me. HURT i. Think So i'm worried about
58:16
Speaker 1: them because eventually they're gonna just run out of. EVERYTHING i.
58:20
Speaker 1: GUESS i just really like the way this, IS i
58:22
Speaker 1: guess kind of, bittersweet like it's not overdone that they
58:26
Speaker 1: are going to their. Depths like this could have been really.
58:29
Speaker 1: Melancholic they could have been like crying all the time
58:33
Speaker 1: OR i don't, know but that wouldn't have been realistic
58:36
Speaker 1: because they're just living their. Lives they're just living really
58:40
Speaker 1: incredibly intensely sad, lives but the way that a normal person,
58:45
Speaker 1: would which is just taking it a day at a,
58:48
Speaker 1: time but with this kind of intense mortality, THING i don't,
58:55
Speaker 1: know hanging over their, heads knowing that this is pretty
58:59
Speaker 1: much it and that they have nothing to go back.
59:01
Speaker 1: TO i don't, know But i'm worried About Shin i'm
59:05
Speaker 1: really worried About, shin SO i Think i'm just gonna
59:10
Speaker 1: stop because there's THINGS i want to talk, about BUT
59:13
Speaker 1: i think we should wait until the next episode's over
59:15
Speaker 1: to talk about. Them SO i hope you liked. THIS
59:20
Speaker 1: i hope you're not LIKE i was WHEN i watched
59:22
Speaker 1: it the first time and you're just, Like, hey not
59:24
Speaker 1: a big, deal, WHATEVER i don't even care about these
59:27
Speaker 1: characters because that would make me. Sad but that's okay,
59:32
Speaker 1: too because you're allowed to have. Opinions and if you
59:35
Speaker 1: do feel that, way and you obviously continue to listen
59:39
Speaker 1: and continue to, watch go back and rewatch this after
59:43
Speaker 1: you're done with the second core and see if you
59:46
Speaker 1: feel the. Same so, YEAH i think that's gonna be
59:49
Speaker 1: it for. ME i gotta start editing this so you
59:52
Speaker 1: can actually listen to it tomorrow if you want. To and,
59:56
Speaker 1: YEAH i hope you have a really good, whatever and
1:00:01
Speaker 1: yeah later. Weeps