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86 [Eighty-Six] Ep. 21- All That's Left · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle, probably back like I'm supposed
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Speaker 1: to be to talk about the next episode of eighty six,
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Speaker 1: which is episode twenty one. Yeah, so we're just gonna
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Speaker 1: do that. I could tell you that Tacobi's original sin
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Speaker 1: the fifth episode was like really really fucking good, but
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Speaker 1: you already know that I like it a lot, so
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Speaker 1: that's all I'm gonna say about it. It's really really good, guys. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: let's just get right into it, cause it's kind of
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Speaker 1: warming here and I'd like to put on my air
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Speaker 1: conditioner and I really don't want to do that until
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Speaker 1: I'm done recording. So the consequence, of course, is I'm
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Speaker 1: sure you've noticed in the past that instead of air conditioner,
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Speaker 1: you can hear birds chirping and shit in the background
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Speaker 1: and sometimes the ice cream man. So yeah, I know
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Speaker 1: you can hear it, or maybe you didn't, and now
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Speaker 1: I've told you and you're gonna look for it, and
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Speaker 1: it's gonna just make everything bad. I don't know, but
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Speaker 1: let's do this. So episode twenty one of eighty six
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Speaker 1: is called All That's Left, which sounds like it could
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Speaker 1: not be a good thing. Honestly, The stuff That's Left
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Speaker 1: is obviously not all there was, so it means things
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Speaker 1: went away, and usually that's not a good thing. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: but you know that. Anyway, we start the episode not
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Speaker 1: exactly where we ended the last episode, but sort of
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Speaker 1: because it's that same night with the conversation between Frederica
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Speaker 1: and Shin, the whole big one where Shin was like, no,
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Speaker 1: I really just want to die that one. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: we start on that camp stove. It's night and it's
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Speaker 1: October eleventh, twenty one, forty nine, and then Legion voices
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Speaker 1: kind of swell up in the background, and then the
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Speaker 1: camera cuts to that stuffed bunny, like really up close,
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Speaker 1: and something kind of white like is reflected moving in
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Speaker 1: the bunny's eyes, and we hear Shin say, let's go.
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Speaker 1: It's forty eight hours, seventeen minutes, and twenty six seconds
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Speaker 1: since the mission began. In addition to the Legion voices,
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Speaker 1: we're now hearing like a mechanical whirring noise, and there's
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Speaker 1: a shooting star again that's visible from that hole in
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Speaker 1: the ceiling, but now the room that chin was sitting
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Speaker 1: and is empty. Next we see Rydon and Frederica in
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Speaker 1: Rydon's Reagan leaf and ryde In presses his hand on
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Speaker 1: Frederica's I guess para raid now calm thing like turning
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Speaker 1: it off, turning it red, And Frederica is like, huh,
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Speaker 1: Rydon says Frederica, if I told you to ignore everyone
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Speaker 1: but that idiot and go, could you? I'm not even
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Speaker 1: sure what that means. Their Reagan leafs are, you know,
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Speaker 1: like moving through a dark field near a cliff with
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Speaker 1: like a forest like full of evergreen trees below. And
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Speaker 1: there's kind of silence in the cockpit for a minute,
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Speaker 1: and then Frederica's eyes widen and she's like yes, and
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Speaker 1: she grips her seatbelt tightly, and then we go to
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Speaker 1: the opening theme. Yay, we come back, the opening theme
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Speaker 1: to a night sky. It's like partly cloudy. We pan
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Speaker 1: down to them running along like the side of a cliff,
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Speaker 1: and one of them is like facing the other direction
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Speaker 1: as they run, like running backwards and shooting at the
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Speaker 1: legion behind them. I think it's THEO, but I'm not sure.
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Speaker 1: And THEO says they just don't give up. Crane is like,
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Speaker 1: what about the lows? Shin says, still following us. They're
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Speaker 1: traveling along the river below the cliffs, and we also
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Speaker 1: get a shot of that. On Juw's like, how much
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Speaker 1: longer till we reach the Morpho Shin says fifteen kilometers
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Speaker 1: As the crow flies, that is not helpful. It moved
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Speaker 1: a little and stopped. I don't know why, but we'll
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Speaker 1: take that opportunity to get close. Frederica is like it
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Speaker 1: seems to be after something. THEO says below they're firing,
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Speaker 1: so like those lows below them start firing and like
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Speaker 1: hit the cliff like right before on jews reaganly, so
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Speaker 1: I guess she was at the back, so she has
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Speaker 1: to like stop short and then she like hears some
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Speaker 1: beeping and looks over and a bunch from missiles are
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Speaker 1: just like coming right at her and they hit the
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Speaker 1: cliff and it like splits, so she falls and Theo's
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Speaker 1: like on ju Shin gasps and looks back and Onju
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Speaker 1: is I guess like tumbling down the cliff. But again
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Speaker 1: it's kind of hard because they're trying to save animation budget,
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Speaker 1: so we just see her like being rocked around and
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Speaker 1: I have to just kind of infer that that's because
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Speaker 1: she's falling down the cliff. And Corina's like on juw
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Speaker 1: On ju Onju lands hard at the bottom of the cliff,
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Speaker 1: and it looks like her rigging leaf is pretty fucked up,
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Speaker 1: and we see her inside. She has her hand over
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Speaker 1: her left eye and she's winching in pain, but it
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Speaker 1: doesn't look like there's any blood, so that's good, and
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Speaker 1: she's like, I'm fine, I'm not damaged. Her screen actually
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Speaker 1: reads caution possible concussion, possible blunt trauma, extensive damage. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't think you're okay, she continues, but sorry, I
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Speaker 1: don't think I can climb back up. Carna's like, wait,
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Speaker 1: I'll use my wire too, and at this point, the
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Speaker 1: legion like shoots the cliff over them, so you know,
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Speaker 1: rocks start to come down and on you like, there's
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Speaker 1: no time, I'll handle them. You guys, go Fido. Fido beeps.
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Speaker 1: Andre's like, leave all the spare missile pods you've got.
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Speaker 1: Fido beeps sadly, and he releases like a metal box
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Speaker 1: down the cliff to her, and she says, more coming,
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Speaker 1: let's go. Karina looks worried, but she's like yeah. She
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Speaker 1: looks down at Aji's Reagan leaf, which is like gotten
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Speaker 1: up and started to move, and she says stay safe
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Speaker 1: and starts to walk off. Anju turns off her calm,
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Speaker 1: which worries me, and she says now. Then she pushes
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Speaker 1: back her hair and says something that we can't hear,
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Speaker 1: but I'm scared what it means, and then out loud,
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Speaker 1: she says, time to get to work. Fuck, we cut
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Speaker 1: this shin. As they start to walk away, and then
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Speaker 1: back at the cliffs, there's like this flash of light
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Speaker 1: followed by this like giant explosion. Yay, fucking Andrew's probably dead.
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Speaker 1: We see now like the feet of a statue with
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Speaker 1: no body connected to it, and the rest of the
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Speaker 1: body is like detached and it's fallen kind of to
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Speaker 1: the ground, and it's like part of like a statue
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Speaker 1: of like lots of children, and we kind of see
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Speaker 1: that too. And they are walking through a town in
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Speaker 1: their raging leafs and ride and says, how we looking.
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Speaker 1: Shen's like, we shook them off, but another group's trying
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Speaker 1: to block our path. Theo's like, they really don't give up.
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Speaker 1: They'll get in our way when we're fighting the Morpho,
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Speaker 1: won't they. He sends two grappling hooks into the side
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Speaker 1: of a building and then shoots at one of the buildings,
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Speaker 1: like columns ride in gasps, and the building starts to
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Speaker 1: crumble and collapse, and Theo's like, once we're past this,
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Speaker 1: it's just open plains, right. The building is just kind
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Speaker 1: of like crashing down in front of him. Now, he continues,
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Speaker 1: I'm only useful in places like this, so I'll be
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Speaker 1: a decoy here. Corona looks back at the rubble, and
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Speaker 1: Theo's like, I'll be as careful as I can. Hang
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Speaker 1: in there. Okay. We go to a screen with like
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Speaker 1: the little icons on it, and we see that there
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Speaker 1: are four enemy icons, but only three are moving, and
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Speaker 1: then there's a bunch of like green hexagons closing in
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Speaker 1: from behind them, and Kiri's like they've split their groop
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Speaker 1: even more. I'm bringing shame to the nose and clan,
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Speaker 1: letting common soldiers like that find me. He smiles crazily. However,
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Speaker 1: he's looking at Theo's icon, the non moving icon on
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Speaker 1: the screen. I'll give you credit for being cold enough
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Speaker 1: to abandon your comrades as you get closer. He looks
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Speaker 1: over at Shin's Reagan leaf, which is marked Ballagher. We
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Speaker 1: see now that the morpho Katy's body is like sitting
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Speaker 1: in this like really blue field that I'm pretty sure
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Speaker 1: is comprised of like those little flying legion thought I
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Speaker 1: don't remember what they're called, but they block the transmissions.
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Speaker 1: They're like real small and they fly and shit. Yeah
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Speaker 1: you know. And he's like pale rider to wide Area
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Speaker 1: Network now executing the designed bombardment schedule. Oh yeah, his
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Speaker 1: body raises like some little machine looking guns and he continues,
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Speaker 1: No further communications will be allowed until the schedule is complete.
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Speaker 1: He smiles, I'm about to meet a comrade. No one
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Speaker 1: will interfere, no one. Frederica gasps, and she's like dodge and.
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Speaker 2: They all do.
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Speaker 1: And they're like getting fired out by like these blue
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Speaker 1: lasers and there's like a lot of them, and Ryding says.
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Speaker 2: He can shoot multiple rounds like that.
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Speaker 1: I guess those are from the little machine guns. Karina
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Speaker 1: like gets her helmet on and she's like shit, she
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Speaker 1: puts her hands on the controls and fires. She's like
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Speaker 1: on top of like a little cliff and she's like,
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Speaker 1: go on quick. That was a scattershot. It won't deal
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Speaker 1: heavy damage. She's still shooting. A counterattack is coming. Shin
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Speaker 1: is just kind of sitting there blankly. I guess, and
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Speaker 1: we hear Ride and say what about you. Karina is like,
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Speaker 1: I can provide more support from here because it's easier
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Speaker 1: to see get close while his attacks are contained. Go.
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Speaker 1: She moved out of the way as a missile kind
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Speaker 1: of hits the cliff and Riding's like understood. Shin after
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Speaker 1: a while says thanks, Karina's eyes widen, leave it to me,
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Speaker 1: and she fires again. Kitty is now being hit by
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Speaker 1: like tiny little bullets because remember he's giant, and he's like,
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Speaker 1: I'm tired of these little flies. He is looking at
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Speaker 1: the landscape through his screen and there is like a
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Speaker 1: triangle shaped area that says target like off in the distance,
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Speaker 1: and he's like, even those who aren't invited are getting close.
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Speaker 1: Anyone who tries to interfere must be eliminated immediately. He
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Speaker 1: raises his railgun yeay, and for a second, like all
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Speaker 1: of spearhead screens like the stort, and Shin looks kind
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Speaker 1: of annoyed for a second, but then he realizes what's
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Speaker 1: gonna happen, and he gasps, and this large blue light
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Speaker 1: passes them like over their head, and there's a flash
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Speaker 1: and an explosion in the distance right in, and Frederica
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Speaker 1: look back and ride In's like Karna. He looks at
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Speaker 1: his screen with the icons in it, and her icon
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Speaker 1: just disappears and he gasps here Shin say, ride in
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Speaker 1: above us. They start getting shot at again, and the
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Speaker 1: side of Ryding's regularly get it's hit in like slow motion,
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Speaker 1: and Frederica looks over in shock, and the spot that
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Speaker 1: it got hit like on the side of it, like
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Speaker 1: I just said, it starts to glow like molten orange
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Speaker 1: and expand and then the screen goes white and there's
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Speaker 1: an explosion. Geez, everyone, this is so fast. Shin's regularly
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Speaker 1: like shakes from the explosion, and we hear Rydan over
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Speaker 1: the calm make like some noise like he's hurt. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so he's not dead, and we hear Frederica say, ride In.
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Speaker 1: Shin's like, what's wrong. He pulls up the diagnostics on
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Speaker 1: Ryding's mack and he sees that there's damage to the
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Speaker 1: rear right leg and the front left leg. Frederica's like
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Speaker 1: he was trying to protect me. We see ryd In,
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Speaker 1: whose arm is just full of glass, and he's like,
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Speaker 1: don't worry, it won't kill me, but sorry, I think
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Speaker 1: I'm out of the game now too. Shin is silent
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Speaker 1: for a minute, and he says, Frederica, get a bored Fido.
10:54
Speaker 1: Frederica seems super confused, and Shin continues where will lost
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Speaker 1: legs on its right side can't go any further. Frederica's like,
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Speaker 1: ryd In, Rydon says, go the next attack is coming.
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Speaker 1: Fido like rolls up and Frederica's like, thank you. Rydon
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Speaker 1: is sweating, but he's like, don't worry about it. He
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Speaker 1: kind of like wins, smiles, and his head.
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Speaker 2: Just starts to bleed.
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Speaker 1: Yay. Frederica gets in like the container that Fido is
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Speaker 1: attached to, and she's just kind of like out in
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Speaker 1: the open, which seems like a really bad idea since
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Speaker 1: things are getting like shot and stuff. And Rydan like
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Speaker 1: waved them off with his like bloody glass filled arm
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Speaker 1: and he's like, don't die. Sin's like yeah, Shin. Fido
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Speaker 1: and Frederica start to move forward and we hear Shin
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Speaker 1: say Fido. Fido stops, but Shin keeps going and Frederica
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Speaker 1: gasps and she's like, what's wrong. The cover of the
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Speaker 1: container starts to close, thank god, and she was like
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Speaker 1: standing near it, so it like knocks her to the
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Speaker 1: floor when it does, and she lands really hard, and
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Speaker 1: she's like rubbing her head and she's like, what are
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Speaker 1: you doing? We hear Shin say, you're staying here. Frederica
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Speaker 1: gasps and starts to try to get out, like she's
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Speaker 1: pushing on the lid and stuff, and Sin says, Fido
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Speaker 1: will stay and hide. Frederica's like, Shinah. Shin says, if
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Speaker 1: something happens to me, take Frederica back to base, don't
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Speaker 1: worry about recovering the others. Just get her to the federacy. Yeah, okay,
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Speaker 1: let me just point out he said recovering, which means
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Speaker 1: he thinks everyone is dead, which is really fucking scary. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: Fido beeps in agreement. Frederica is still trying to get out,
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Speaker 1: like try and get out of the side now, which
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Speaker 1: makes no sense, and she's like, open up, Fido, I
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Speaker 1: need to tell that idiot directly. Shin cuts her off
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Speaker 1: and just says Frederica. Frederica gasps. Shin, who is now
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Speaker 1: moving again, continues, you're scared to lose him, but you
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Speaker 1: want me to save him anyway, Right, your night Frederica exhales,
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Speaker 1: and Shin's like, survive, so you can do that. We
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Speaker 1: cut to Kiri's screen with Shin like coming up over
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Speaker 1: like a hill on the tracks, so he's like directly
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Speaker 1: ahead of him now, and Kitty laughs and he's like,
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Speaker 1: I knew you'd come. I can't wait to rip you apart.
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Speaker 1: Now come at me. We are like pulling in like
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Speaker 1: really close on his face and he's like, come, come,
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Speaker 1: and then we pull like all the way into his
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Speaker 1: eye as he's continuing to say come, and then threw
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Speaker 1: his eye and out onto the battlefield, which is kind
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Speaker 1: of weird but interesting. We have this like kind of
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Speaker 1: low shot of like those flying legion that are around
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Speaker 1: Katy and they all start to take off as Shin
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Speaker 1: closes in, or at least some of them do. Shin
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Speaker 1: thinks back to when he was having that conversation with
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Speaker 1: right In on the bridge and Rydon said, so don't
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Speaker 1: try to fight on your own.
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Speaker 2: He narrows his eyes.
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Speaker 1: And then closes them and there's a long pause. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think he has to try to fight on his own.
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Speaker 1: I don't think he ever had a choice anyway. We
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Speaker 1: start to hear Katy say I'll kill you over and
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Speaker 1: over again as he does, and the camera zooms under
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Speaker 1: Shin's Reagan leaf and towards Katy, who's still in that
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Speaker 1: field of blue flying legion, and they're kind of having
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Speaker 1: this standoff now where you know, they're just looking at
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Speaker 1: each other and Kitty's just saying.
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Speaker 2: I'll kill you over and over again.
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Speaker 1: And at this point, a red spider lily falls to
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Speaker 1: the ground, which is kind of confusing because I don't
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Speaker 1: see any red spider lilies around, okay, but whatever, And
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Speaker 1: then we zoom in on Shin's eye because we're doing
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Speaker 1: eyes in this episode. And then we see the title
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Speaker 1: card episode twenty one, All That's Left, which is Shin,
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Speaker 1: Shin is all That's left. Great back from the title card,
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Speaker 1: probably break. We see Kitty's mouth as he smiles, and
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Speaker 1: he shoots four like blue things at Shin. Shin dodges
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Speaker 1: and starts running, and Kitty keeps shooting and Shin keeps dodging,
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Speaker 1: and Kitty's like incredible moves. Shin shoots like a missile
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Speaker 1: at him and it gets him in the side, but
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Speaker 1: it doesn't do any damage at all. Kitty smiles, just.
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Speaker 2: What I hoped for.
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Speaker 1: Shin's like, I'm still too far away. He's still like dodging,
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Speaker 1: as Kitty is yelling, I'll kill you over and over again.
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Speaker 1: And he says, when I'm fighting, I can forget everything.
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Speaker 1: He has Kitty in his crosshairs. Yeah, it's nice and peaceful.
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Speaker 1: We cut to Fido and Frederica, who are like hiding
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Speaker 1: behind like this rocky area of like a hill, Like
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Speaker 1: I guess the whole thing's on a hill, and you know,
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Speaker 1: sometimes hills are kind of rocky and they have little
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Speaker 1: areas of rocks, you know how things work. And Frederica's like,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Fido beeps like confused, and Frederica continues, do
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Speaker 1: you want to go help your master? Right? If it
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Speaker 1: weren't for me, let's at least watch their battle till
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Speaker 1: the end. She closes her eyes. Fido beeps. Frederica opens
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Speaker 1: her eyes and they are glowing red, and back to Kitty,
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Speaker 1: who is still shooting and Shin is still dodging, and
15:43
Speaker 1: Shin looks happy if you think that that is what
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Speaker 1: happy looks like. And he shoots and hits Kitty again,
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Speaker 1: and then he's back to dodging, and he like kind
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Speaker 1: of runs behind Kitty, and Kitty looks like pretty pissed off,
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Speaker 1: and he's like, you think I can't shoot you now though,
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Speaker 1: because his machine guns like are turning and shit. But
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Speaker 1: then they like kind of stop working maybe, and Shin
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Speaker 1: is like bounding around. He's looking real stoic. And then
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Speaker 1: one of Kitty's machine guns just explodes, and Kitty's like
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Speaker 1: he was trying to make me overheat from the beginning,
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Speaker 1: a plan worthy of the eldest sons of Nozen. If
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Speaker 1: you'd been on my side, the empire would still stand.
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Speaker 1: I'd love to have your power on our side, he chuckles,
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Speaker 1: But I guess you're too strong to take that risk.
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Speaker 1: Shin closes in on him, and Kitty's like, yes, you
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Speaker 1: have to get close to pierce my armor with those
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Speaker 1: tiny guns, but don't you think you're being a little
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Speaker 1: too reckless. We see Frederica in her mind's eye, I guess,
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Speaker 1: standing on the battlefield watching and she's thinking of like
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Speaker 1: one time when they were having lunch with Eugene and
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Speaker 1: he said, do you know about Chin's legendary point blank
16:51
Speaker 1: shot He sent a van a gander flying in a
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Speaker 1: mock battle at school. He did so to avoid collision,
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Speaker 1: but he failed due to dangerous piloting. Frederica over the
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Speaker 1: table and she's like, oh yeah, tell me more. She
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Speaker 1: nudges shitting playfully, and he's like drinking his coffee and
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Speaker 1: not really paying attention back to the present. Frederic is like,
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Speaker 1: I wasn't surprised then, because I already knew there's another
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Speaker 1: person out there that can do the impossible in a
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Speaker 1: fell drip. We're seeing her in the container again and
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Speaker 1: she's like, no, Shine, don't get close to him. Kitty
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Speaker 1: raises like some of his centipede parts or whatever. I
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Speaker 1: still don't exactly know what he looks like. Like fully,
17:29
Speaker 1: you get a lot of close up shots of him,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know if he's a big long senta Peter.
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Speaker 1: He just has like centipede pieces. I don't know anyway.
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Speaker 1: Frederic is like Kitty was just like you, Close combat
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Speaker 1: was his specialty. Fuck Kitty brings down some of his
17:43
Speaker 1: tendril things and chin gasps, and he like has to
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Speaker 1: stop and he like just barely avoids being crushed. He
17:50
Speaker 1: jumps out of the way completely now and Kitty turns
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Speaker 1: his guns at him shin kind of growls, but then
17:56
Speaker 1: all of a sudden one of his guns gets like
17:58
Speaker 1: hit by something. It just explodes. I mean Kitty's that is.
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Speaker 1: Kitty is just like getting bombarded now, which is okay.
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Speaker 1: And it's right In, thank God, with a bandage on
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Speaker 1: his head, and he's like, Shin, get back. He is
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Speaker 1: running and shooting because right In is a really fucking
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Speaker 1: cool dude and he's not gonna let the fact that
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Speaker 1: his raging leaf is like all fucked up get in
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Speaker 1: the way of him helping anyway. Kitties like, don't interfere,
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Speaker 1: and he turns his railgun towards Righted. Oh fuck, Fido
18:26
Speaker 1: is like trying get out of the way now, and
18:27
Speaker 1: Frederica's like, right in, and Shin's like enough, right In run.
18:32
Speaker 2: Right In doesn't actually run because I don't know why.
18:36
Speaker 1: And Kitty shoots his fucking railgun and there's this gigantic
18:40
Speaker 1: explosion and shock wave. Shin gasps, his calm makes a
18:45
Speaker 1: bunch of like weird beeps, and then there's like a
18:47
Speaker 1: second shock wave and that red spider lily from before
18:51
Speaker 1: kind of flies up into the air and is consumed
18:53
Speaker 1: by smoke. I don't like what this implies. Shin is
19:00
Speaker 1: just silent for a moment, and then something starts beeping
19:03
Speaker 1: and blinking red on his screen, and we see the
19:07
Speaker 1: schematic of his Reagan leaf and there's like a section
19:11
Speaker 1: in the back that is pulsing like red, and says
19:13
Speaker 1: loading error. He chuckles and drops the empty cartridge to
19:17
Speaker 1: the ground and he's like one round. Left, engines at
19:22
Speaker 1: their limits, wing men all down, I'm all that's left.
19:26
Speaker 2: Oh there's the title drop.
19:28
Speaker 1: We see him in the field of blue flying legion
19:31
Speaker 1: in front of the massive Kiati. As the camera slowly
19:35
Speaker 1: pulls back. He continues, the enemy is unharmed. Enemy main
19:40
Speaker 1: guns and sub weapons are still functional. This may be
19:45
Speaker 1: the end. Yeah. At this point, his like calm or
19:50
Speaker 1: whatever it is, goes from yellow to green, and like this,
19:54
Speaker 1: static starts coming over the line, and in the static,
19:57
Speaker 1: which is probably just in his brain, he hears and
20:00
Speaker 1: you say go everyone, and THEO say I'll leave it
20:04
Speaker 1: to you, and Karina is like, I'm on it and
20:08
Speaker 1: ride and say don't die, and then to Lena, who
20:12
Speaker 1: says I won't forget. We see various screens in his
20:17
Speaker 1: cockpit that all confirm that he's alone. It's just him,
20:21
Speaker 1: and he tightens his hand kind of around his arm.
20:24
Speaker 1: His calm is still green though, and he starts to
20:27
Speaker 1: move forward and then suddenly there's this scream over the
20:31
Speaker 1: calm and then it turns yellow again, and.
20:34
Speaker 2: Kitty is suddenly like rocked by explosions.
20:37
Speaker 1: What Chin looks up super confused, like I am, and
20:41
Speaker 1: missiles just are like falling from the sky and they
20:44
Speaker 1: like open up and start to shoot down on Kitty
20:47
Speaker 1: whatever that means.
20:48
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how those missiles work.
20:50
Speaker 1: Kitty's machine guns get damaged, yay, and he's like kind
20:54
Speaker 1: of falls down and Shin's like, while you still can't huh.
20:59
Speaker 1: Kitty looks like super frustrated, and he's.
21:01
Speaker 2: Like, you're still interfering.
21:03
Speaker 1: He can't see anything now because of all the smoke
21:06
Speaker 1: around him, and Shin starts to race forward, and Kirie's like,
21:09
Speaker 1: don't you dare and his big wings that I thought
21:12
Speaker 1: were just for decoration, like ye're really stringy, and he
21:15
Speaker 1: like frowns and Shin gasps, and the wings like start
21:19
Speaker 1: to come at him, like down at him, and like
21:21
Speaker 1: slow motion, Shin jumps out of the way and he
21:24
Speaker 1: looks up as these like blue tendrils from the wings
21:27
Speaker 1: start to extend towards him. They all start to like
21:30
Speaker 1: shoot outwards and he like struggles to get away and
21:32
Speaker 1: they're like hitting the ground and landing. So at this
21:35
Speaker 1: point they are surrounding Katy like his wings are and
21:39
Speaker 1: he looks like this big glowing weeping willow, which is
21:41
Speaker 1: actually pretty cool, and Shin's like, you won't let me
21:44
Speaker 1: get close to no matter what, huh. His calm turns
21:47
Speaker 1: green again and he gets this really distorted female voice
21:50
Speaker 1: and he looks up and there's a bunch of like
21:52
Speaker 1: kinnat of light flares in the sky and he backs
21:56
Speaker 1: his reaguing leap away and like gets really low to
21:58
Speaker 1: the ground and all of these just start heading for Katy,
22:01
Speaker 1: but he cuts them down with his ten drills. But
22:04
Speaker 1: when he cuts them in like half, they like leak
22:06
Speaker 1: out red liquid which rains down on him, and.
22:09
Speaker 2: Then they hit and he just goes on fire.
22:12
Speaker 1: Yeay. Kitty screams in pain, which is upsetting, and he's like,
22:16
Speaker 1: I'll kill you, and he keeps saying that over and
22:18
Speaker 1: over again, as is the fashion. We go into his
22:21
Speaker 1: eye again and we see a flashback of him as
22:24
Speaker 1: a human getting shot by soldiers and he's like, I
22:27
Speaker 1: can fight. Then we see blood on the ground and
22:30
Speaker 1: footsteps walking away from it, and he says, pierce me
22:34
Speaker 1: with a hail of bullets, rip my body apart.
22:37
Speaker 2: I can still fight.
22:40
Speaker 1: We see Frederica's cloak as it's flying from the barrel
22:43
Speaker 1: of a gun, and Kitty continues, maybe I'll die here,
22:48
Speaker 1: but we see his blood stained.
22:50
Speaker 2: Hands, but I can still kill them all.
22:53
Speaker 1: His memory is consumed by fire, leaving just his blood
22:58
Speaker 1: stained hands reaching out towards Shin through the flames, and
23:02
Speaker 1: Frederica's like, why she and Kitty are now in this
23:06
Speaker 1: just white space. Kitty gasps, realizing that Frederica is in
23:10
Speaker 1: front of him and his mech body is behind him,
23:13
Speaker 1: and he's in human form. Frederica's like, why do you
23:16
Speaker 1: insist on fighting? Why are you trying to kill everyone?
23:20
Speaker 1: You don't know his name, you don't know his face.
23:23
Speaker 1: We see that behind her is Shin's rate leaf. She continues,
23:27
Speaker 1: but he shares your blood.
23:29
Speaker 2: He's the only comrade you have. Kitty looks down.
23:33
Speaker 1: You know why, because this is all I have left.
23:36
Speaker 1: All I have left is the battle. He raises his
23:39
Speaker 1: blood stained hands. The battlefield burns in my veins. He
23:43
Speaker 1: like kind of grasps his chest. It burns my soul
23:46
Speaker 1: to ash, so only the empty, smoldering flames of war remain.
23:51
Speaker 1: Kitty's mech is now burning in the background, and he
23:56
Speaker 1: thinks back again at his past and he's like, yes,
24:00
Speaker 1: on that day, I lost everything, even you. Frederica stares
24:04
Speaker 1: at him blankly and then kind of collapses out of
24:07
Speaker 1: frame like she died, leaving just Kitty and Shin's reaganly.
24:12
Speaker 1: Kitty puts his hands on the ground and he kind
24:15
Speaker 1: of claws at it, leaving like bloody marks, and he's like,
24:19
Speaker 1: if you he's towering over Shin now, if you're going
24:23
Speaker 1: to be the same, He like continues to kind of
24:26
Speaker 1: claw at the ground, but like it's stone now, like
24:29
Speaker 1: this is from his past. If you're going to be
24:32
Speaker 1: like me, that it's better that He makes a fist
24:34
Speaker 1: and he goes to bring it down. When there's a gunshot.
24:37
Speaker 1: He freezes and let's go of the stick he was
24:40
Speaker 1: holding in his hand that we didn't see until now.
24:42
Speaker 1: A large metal pipe maybe drops into the field next
24:46
Speaker 1: to Shin in reality, and we hear Frederica say fool.
24:51
Speaker 1: Kitty looks over and Frederica is out in the open,
24:54
Speaker 1: which I don't know how she got out of Fido,
24:57
Speaker 1: but whatever, and she has just shot shit gun in
25:00
Speaker 1: the air. She continues, have you forgotten your master's face?
25:06
Speaker 1: She takes a deep breath, Kitty, I knows in She's
25:08
Speaker 1: still holding the gun over her head, and Kitty's eyes
25:11
Speaker 1: widen and he's like Princess. He zooms in on her
25:14
Speaker 1: on his screen, and Frederica continues.
25:17
Speaker 2: Stop fighting, Kitty, you have no reason to fight.
25:21
Speaker 1: Kitty's like, Princess, what are you saying? Frederica says enough.
25:26
Speaker 1: She lowers the gun. You've done enough, You've done well
25:30
Speaker 1: my night. Kitty smiles like he is just swelling with pride.
25:35
Speaker 2: But then he scowls and he's like you.
25:37
Speaker 1: He starts tossing pipes that I didn't know we had,
25:40
Speaker 1: and I'm not really sure where they came from. At Shin,
25:43
Speaker 1: not only did you destroy my empire and steal its crown?
25:46
Speaker 1: One of the pipes hitch Shin's ragingly but just kind
25:49
Speaker 1: of glances it. But now you're using the young princess
25:52
Speaker 1: as a hostage. There's like a beep and Kirtri looks
25:55
Speaker 1: over like really pissed, and then there's like these five
25:58
Speaker 1: Kanada life flares in the sky above him. He wipes
26:01
Speaker 1: them out, like explodes them with his winged tentacles, and
26:04
Speaker 1: another missile starts to come down and he like grabs
26:07
Speaker 1: it with his tentacle, but it like crashes into another
26:10
Speaker 1: missile like before he can really stop it. And Frederica's like, Kitty,
26:14
Speaker 1: stop it, Kitty, She gasps as she kind of starts
26:18
Speaker 1: to hear thee I'll kill you over and over again,
26:20
Speaker 1: and then with resolve, she climbs like the rock face
26:22
Speaker 1: that was in front of her and runs forward towards Kitty,
26:25
Speaker 1: and she's like, Kitty, she thinks of like all the
26:28
Speaker 1: times where he's like helped her, like when he got
26:30
Speaker 1: her down from that tree, and like when he helped
26:32
Speaker 1: her with a handkerchief and the water, and she starts
26:34
Speaker 1: to cry. She's just like repeating his name over and
26:37
Speaker 1: over again as he continues to yell I'll kill you,
26:40
Speaker 1: and we cut to the past again of like him
26:43
Speaker 1: hugging her and her tugging on his sleeve and his
26:45
Speaker 1: smiling face, and Frederica finally stops. She's tears streaming down
26:50
Speaker 1: her face and she says, look at me, Kitty, she
26:54
Speaker 1: just kind of slumps over sobbing, and she gets an
26:57
Speaker 1: image of him bloody and screaming in her mind. Gasps.
27:01
Speaker 1: She manages to stand up straight now and calmly puts
27:04
Speaker 1: the gun to her head. No, Frederica, she puts her
27:08
Speaker 1: finger on the trigger. What's wrong my night? Come on,
27:13
Speaker 1: save me.
27:14
Speaker 2: Kitty's like princess. What are you doing? Princess? Princess?
27:19
Speaker 1: He's thinking of her. In the flashbacks, we finally meet again,
27:22
Speaker 1: and you we hear Frederica laugh like as a little
27:26
Speaker 1: kid and say, kitty, Kitty's like princess. At this point,
27:30
Speaker 1: he starts to cry Princess. His wing tentacles now like
27:35
Speaker 1: turn into hands and they're like rushing forwards towards her,
27:38
Speaker 1: and Shin is like ready to do something. He looks
27:41
Speaker 1: pretty resolved, and then we hear this really distorted female
27:44
Speaker 1: voice again.
27:44
Speaker 2: Go now, Shin rushes forward.
27:48
Speaker 1: Kitty gasps his like screen face screens aren't like working
27:51
Speaker 1: so good together anymore, and they're all weird, and he
27:54
Speaker 1: like sends his tentacles out. Shin is evading, but he
27:56
Speaker 1: does get hit a few times, and it looks like
27:58
Speaker 1: he's starting to limp a little, but he's like still going.
28:01
Speaker 1: Kitty lifts up his many legs, but they are shot
28:04
Speaker 1: down by missiles. Shin manages to land his grappling hooks
28:08
Speaker 1: onto Kitty and he like jumps on him, and we
28:12
Speaker 1: see a screen and it like shows the target, like
28:14
Speaker 1: where on Katy he should probably hit, and he says Frederica.
28:18
Speaker 1: Fredria gasps. She still has the gun to her head,
28:21
Speaker 1: and Shin continues, where's your night? Frederica looks down, she's
28:26
Speaker 1: trying really hard not to cry, and she says, Kitty is.
28:30
Speaker 1: She winces and takes a breath behind the main gun
28:33
Speaker 1: between the first pair of wings. Shin nods and runs
28:37
Speaker 1: and jumps like up Katy still getting hit by the
28:40
Speaker 1: like wing tentacles. He jumps up and grappling hooks to
28:44
Speaker 1: like where is probably the right spot And that area
28:48
Speaker 1: weirdly has like holes in it, like mechanically made holes
28:51
Speaker 1: like circular for maybe ventilation. I don't know how these
28:55
Speaker 1: things operate, like what kind of fuel they operate on,
28:57
Speaker 1: because if they're electric, they wouldn't need to have random
29:00
Speaker 1: holes in them, and it seems like it would be
29:01
Speaker 1: a bad idea. But let's just say they're gas and
29:04
Speaker 1: they need ventilation or something. Shin sticks his gun into
29:07
Speaker 1: one of the holes and Kitty looks up. We cut
29:10
Speaker 1: to Fredrika looking kind of confused, standing in just like
29:15
Speaker 1: a room, wearing her robe in front of her. Kitty
29:20
Speaker 1: and Shin. They appear like to maybe be fighting. They're
29:23
Speaker 1: both wearing uniforms, but we can't hear what they're saying
29:27
Speaker 1: or anything, and Shin isn't really paying attention as Kitty
29:31
Speaker 1: is yelling at him. He just kind of slowly turns
29:34
Speaker 1: and watches a butterfly pass. Kitty gets annoyed and he's
29:38
Speaker 1: like gesturing to get Shin's attention, and he points to
29:41
Speaker 1: his head, like, are you fucking stupid? And Shin just
29:44
Speaker 1: kind of shakes his head no.
29:45
Speaker 2: This like really.
29:46
Speaker 1: Pisses Kitty off, and he like turns away in a huff.
29:49
Speaker 1: Ray just kind of randomly walks over and kind of
29:52
Speaker 1: goes between them, trying to smooth things over, and Frederica smiles.
29:57
Speaker 1: Ray and Kitty at this point just start to walk
29:59
Speaker 1: away in the opposite direction, but Kitty turns back to
30:03
Speaker 1: apparently tell Shin off some war, and at this point
30:06
Speaker 1: Frederica gets what's happening and starts to run towards them,
30:10
Speaker 1: and Kitty is just walking off now into like a
30:12
Speaker 1: blinding white nothing. Frederica reaches out her hand but stops running,
30:17
Speaker 1: and Kitty looks back at her. Ray is like further away,
30:20
Speaker 1: along with a bunch of shadowy other people, and Shin
30:24
Speaker 1: is standing next to Frederica. Now, Kitty turns around again
30:28
Speaker 1: and starts to walk and Frederica's hand drops to her side.
30:32
Speaker 1: In reality, her hand really does drop to her side.
30:35
Speaker 1: It was the one with the gun, so it just
30:36
Speaker 1: falls and she says, farewell. I don't know what she
30:41
Speaker 1: said here. It kind of sounded like Cyanata, but kind
30:44
Speaker 1: of not, so I'm not gonna say that's what it was.
30:47
Speaker 1: And Shin fires his gun and there's an explosion. We
30:50
Speaker 1: see Kitty's blue face with like a white, weird pixelated
30:55
Speaker 1: spot in his forehead and it starts to grow, and
30:58
Speaker 1: solid Blue is in the middle now fading him out.
31:01
Speaker 1: He looks at Frederica through his screen and the image
31:04
Speaker 1: starts to like pixelate and then it goes black and
31:07
Speaker 1: white text comes up on the black background. Main system down.
31:11
Speaker 1: That blips out, and then we see in Red activates
31:14
Speaker 1: self destruct sequence. It's counting down in seconds ten nine
31:20
Speaker 1: eight seven. Everything is silent, by the way, no sound
31:23
Speaker 1: effects or music, and we have a slow motion shot
31:26
Speaker 1: of shins still on Kitty with the smoke around them,
31:29
Speaker 1: and Kitty's wings are starting to fall five four three.
31:35
Speaker 1: The camera rushes towards Frederica as she gasps and Kiri explodes.
31:40
Speaker 1: We see the explosion from way back on the tracks,
31:43
Speaker 1: the shockwave from it causing a flower on the grass
31:45
Speaker 1: to sway, and the picture fades a black, and then
31:50
Speaker 1: we get the ending, which is that red spider lily
31:54
Speaker 1: in red obviously on a blue ground, and then a
31:56
Speaker 1: black and white image of the flying legion taking off
31:59
Speaker 1: over Keith, a few of them just being in red,
32:02
Speaker 1: and then a very quick shot of the blue ground
32:05
Speaker 1: with like a little red pinpoint of light on it,
32:09
Speaker 1: and then the next episode title card shin and that's it.
32:16
Speaker 2: Yay, So yeah.
32:18
Speaker 1: Closing thoughts. The first thing, and maybe the most important
32:22
Speaker 1: thing that I need to point out is I think,
32:24
Speaker 1: like two weeks ago, I was talking about how the
32:25
Speaker 1: production was like crashing and burning a little bit. So
32:29
Speaker 1: the last two episodes twenty two and twenty three did
32:33
Speaker 1: not fit into the winter season. There were just like
32:37
Speaker 1: so many special episodes in recap episodes to buy production
32:41
Speaker 1: time that they ran out of their time slot basically,
32:46
Speaker 1: so this episode was just it for the winter season.
32:50
Speaker 1: So they could not air the last two episodes right
32:54
Speaker 1: after they get to wait, which was kind of a
32:57
Speaker 1: big deal obviously, because you just saw what happened, and
33:00
Speaker 1: that's a pretty big cliffhanger. We don't know if Shin
33:03
Speaker 1: jumped down in time. We don't know if anybody's okay
33:06
Speaker 1: with how big that explosion was. So like, episode twenty
33:10
Speaker 1: two didn't air until March twelfth, twenty twenty two, And
33:13
Speaker 1: I don't know if I just said it, but that
33:15
Speaker 1: episode that we just watched aired on December twenty twenty one.
33:19
Speaker 1: So yeah, kind of a like two and a half
33:22
Speaker 1: month wait, and it sucked. But I'm glad that they
33:27
Speaker 1: did get a spot to air the last two episodes
33:30
Speaker 1: because if they hadn't, it would have been terrible, obviously,
33:33
Speaker 1: because the last two episodes were great and that would
33:36
Speaker 1: be a shitty way to end that. And hopefully those
33:40
Speaker 1: two and a half months gave them extra time to
33:42
Speaker 1: work on the last two episodes instead of just kind
33:44
Speaker 1: of panicked ridiculous schedule that they were having, which I
33:48
Speaker 1: think I've told you before, but a lot of times
33:51
Speaker 1: anime episodes are not totally finished until right before they air,
33:55
Speaker 1: and by right before, I mean like the day of.
33:58
Speaker 1: So this hopefully gave enough time to just you know,
34:02
Speaker 1: relax and fix things. As for what happened with the
34:07
Speaker 1: production that's causing all of this, it's hard to really know.
34:11
Speaker 1: Anime is incredibly tightly scheduled. This is a new director,
34:15
Speaker 1: so maybe he wasn't managing things perfectly, even though I
34:18
Speaker 1: think he's great. But also this was in twenty twenty one,
34:22
Speaker 1: so we were still dealing with like COVID and stuff,
34:24
Speaker 1: and that really messed up things, especially in like twenty
34:28
Speaker 1: twenty one, Like we were having trouble if I'm remembering
34:31
Speaker 1: correctly with China, because a lot of animation is outsourced
34:37
Speaker 1: to China and they had really strict protocols still, so
34:40
Speaker 1: it was really hard to get all the work done.
34:43
Speaker 1: So that might have been it, or it might have
34:44
Speaker 1: just been shitty management. I don't think we really know.
34:47
Speaker 2: A lot of.
34:48
Speaker 1: Delays were happening in twenty twenty one, and I know
34:50
Speaker 1: many of them were blamed on COVID, but we really
34:52
Speaker 1: have no way to know if that was the reason
34:55
Speaker 1: or what was really going on. So yeay, I will
34:59
Speaker 1: let you watch the next episode next week instead of
35:02
Speaker 1: waiting three months. And there is another recap episode in
35:05
Speaker 1: between these, but yeah, we're not gonna watch that. You
35:07
Speaker 1: can watch that on your own time.
35:10
Speaker 2: So yeah.
35:12
Speaker 1: But about this episode in particular, it's pretty actiony. I
35:17
Speaker 1: wrote a lot less notes than usual because it's just
35:19
Speaker 1: like shin jumping around and shit. I like it on
35:21
Speaker 1: some fronts, but on some fronts I don't. Like I'm
35:25
Speaker 1: not a huge fan of just what happens to the
35:28
Speaker 1: rest of Spearhead. I can't really say any more than
35:31
Speaker 1: that until the next episode, and I'll talk about it then,
35:34
Speaker 1: so hopefully I will, at least if I remember. So
35:36
Speaker 1: I have to just not say that shit, which kind
35:39
Speaker 1: of sucks. But the other thing, the thing that I
35:41
Speaker 1: thought was like really the most interesting that I really
35:44
Speaker 1: didn't think about until I watched this episode again, was
35:48
Speaker 1: Kitty is like talking to them and they just don't
35:51
Speaker 1: hear him at all, like at all, which I thought
35:55
Speaker 1: was just like incredibly interesting to do it that way,
35:57
Speaker 1: because I don't know, like exactly why there's that disconnect.
36:02
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just a totally different language that he's using,
36:05
Speaker 1: and for some reason it just sounds like I'll kill
36:07
Speaker 1: you over and over again, or like little weird garbaleed noises.
36:12
Speaker 1: So it's just it's interesting because everything looks really one sided.
36:16
Speaker 1: Kitty is like directly interacting with them and telling them things,
36:19
Speaker 1: and they don't even know that he's that sentient, Like
36:23
Speaker 1: they know that he's sentient, but they don't know that
36:25
Speaker 1: he is that sentient, which is pretty cool. I think
36:29
Speaker 1: it's really really interesting. So, I mean, that's the big thing,
36:33
Speaker 1: and ye're not going to talk about what happened with
36:34
Speaker 1: the other Spearhead people. But the other thing that I
36:38
Speaker 1: think is really interested and worth talking about is what
36:40
Speaker 1: the fuck is going on with these missiles? Where are
36:43
Speaker 1: they coming from? Who is buzzing in on the comm or?
36:46
Speaker 1: I guess it's a poareraide actually, so who is it?
36:49
Speaker 2: Who do you think it is?
36:50
Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you because I know who
36:52
Speaker 1: it is, but obviously it's not someone from Spearhead that's
36:56
Speaker 1: shooting these So, I mean, the most logical voice would
37:00
Speaker 1: be just the Federacy's kind of caught up. But we
37:02
Speaker 1: know that they don't have the missiles and capability to
37:05
Speaker 1: do this, so yeah, someone is helping. Shin is kind
37:10
Speaker 1: of alone. I mean, he's the last Spearhead member standing
37:14
Speaker 1: and fighting Katy, but he's obviously being helped, so not
37:20
Speaker 1: quite you know, which is good, thank god, because I
37:23
Speaker 1: don't think he would have made it otherwise if we
37:25
Speaker 1: didn't have all of these missiles raining down on him.
37:28
Speaker 1: So yeah, look forward to finding out what happens with that,
37:32
Speaker 1: because you should, I guess, unless you don't want to,
37:36
Speaker 1: which is also fine. I don't know, man, but yeah,
37:40
Speaker 1: I mean that's pretty much it for this episode. Like
37:43
Speaker 1: it was just a lot of fighting, so there's just
37:45
Speaker 1: less to talk about. I did like the revelation that
37:48
Speaker 1: Chin likes battle because he doesn't have to think about anything,
37:51
Speaker 1: Like he's able to go into flow state, which is
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Speaker 1: pretty cool. I mean, it's sad. I'd rather him go
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Speaker 1: into like flow state when he's like reading a book
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Speaker 1: or something. But obviously this is the thing for him
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Speaker 1: that makes him the least worried about his own problems,
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Speaker 1: which yay, but that's I mean, that's really it. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go put my air on because I'm
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Speaker 1: very warm and I hope you have a really good whatever,
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Speaker 1: and pending the destruction of the universe or either of
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Speaker 1: our deaths, i'll talk to you next week. I guess
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Speaker 1: later weeps.