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86 [Eighty-Six] Ep.12- Welcome · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. I guess back again, probably
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Speaker 1: I think, And yeah, I don't know what I was
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Speaker 1: gonna say. I don't think anything. I just want to
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Speaker 1: talk about eighty six episode twelve, like we do. I mean,
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Speaker 1: we've never talked about eighty six episode twelve before, but
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Speaker 1: we talked about the other episodes, so it's similar, you know. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: We're just gonna get right into it because I don't
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Speaker 1: have anything interesting to say at all, and last week
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Speaker 1: was kind of a big thing, you know, with the
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Speaker 1: end of the episode being so bad, with like shin
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Speaker 1: on the ground and red scribbles over his head. So
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Speaker 1: we probably should find out what happens next, right, I guess.
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Speaker 1: I mean I already know and you already probably know two,
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Speaker 1: but let's talk about it anyway. So episode twelve is
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Speaker 1: called Welcome. Okay, that's nice. It's nice to welcome people places.
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Speaker 1: And it starts exactly like episodisode one. It's black. We
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Speaker 1: hear some mechanical whirring noises in the background, and then
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Speaker 1: these red lights, like two distinct red lights start to
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Speaker 1: appear and fade out like twice, and then it gets
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Speaker 1: lighter and we see that we are kind of running
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Speaker 1: down train tracks and the light is probably coming from
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Speaker 1: a juggernaut and being cast on to them, and we're
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Speaker 1: clearly moving forward but still facing pretty much down at
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Speaker 1: the tracks, and someone says a woman, probably Cyclops, to
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Speaker 1: Handler one, they've reached the old high speed railroad terminal.
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Speaker 1: At point one twenty two. We lift up from the
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Speaker 1: train tracks. Again. This is almost exactly the same scene
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Speaker 1: as in the first episode. I actually just checked to
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Speaker 1: make sure it wasn't exactly the same. It's a little different.
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Speaker 1: Before there was like a split off in the rail
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Speaker 1: and this one the rail is just going straight forward,
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Speaker 1: so I guess kudos to not using the exact same
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Speaker 1: shit again, but still pretty close anyway. We lift up
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Speaker 1: and we see, you know, like a barren landscape like
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Speaker 1: in the first episode, and it's dusk or maybe it's dawn,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, and there are those like sparkles in
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Speaker 1: the air from I think, like those jammer flying legion
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Speaker 1: things that we see sometimes. So the person, I guess Cyclops,
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Speaker 1: says sorry, they were jamming the radar and it took
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Speaker 1: us a while to find them. This is gonna be
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Speaker 1: a rough first fight for the new kids. Finally, a
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Speaker 1: juggernaut passes the camera and we see it scampering down
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Speaker 1: the train tracks, and then we cut to the control
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Speaker 1: room really briefly, and then back to the battlefields and
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Speaker 1: Cyclops says, what should we do at this point? They're
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Speaker 1: like shooting and getting shot out by a legion, I guess,
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Speaker 1: and we hear Lena say, deploy our main force at
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Speaker 1: zero sixty two, then lure them out with another units.
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Speaker 1: We see cyclops is insignia on their juggernaut and it
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Speaker 1: is a like an eye in like kind of a
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Speaker 1: green circle. It's actually pretty cool. We cut to one
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Speaker 1: of Lena's screens in the control room and it says
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Speaker 1: fixed artillery controls system. Fuck, really, I don't think you
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Speaker 1: have access to that, and Lena says that it put
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Speaker 1: them in range of the remaining howitzers. I learned that
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Speaker 1: a howitzer is like a cross between a cannon and
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Speaker 1: a mortar, which didn't help me at all, But when
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Speaker 1: I saw pictures of it, it's like a big gun
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Speaker 1: with wheels of some sort, maybe so you can move
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Speaker 1: the gun around. I don't really know. I don't understand
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Speaker 1: army stuff anyway, Cyclops says, so we're fighting them right
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Speaker 1: in front of the base. Huh. At this point, we
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Speaker 1: can see lots of Legion in front of them, and
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Speaker 1: they're like firing and stuff, and she continues, if they
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Speaker 1: make it through, there's nothing but minefields and howitzers to
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Speaker 1: keep them out. Right, We cut to the Lena pig
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Speaker 1: drawing pinned to a wall or magneted to a wall,
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Speaker 1: and Lena says, but it's the best location we have
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Speaker 1: if we're gonna survive. Back to the fighting. So now
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Speaker 1: we finally see Cyclops in her juggernauts, and she has
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Speaker 1: like reddish short hair and one purple eye. Her left
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Speaker 1: eyes purple, and her right eye is kind of like grayish,
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Speaker 1: like maybe it's been injured and maybe that's why she's cyclopped.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but anyway, she smiles and she looks
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Speaker 1: super fucking determined and I love her and she says, yes,
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Speaker 1: my queen. What We go back to Lena, and then
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Speaker 1: we go to the show title card, which we last
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Speaker 1: saw in episode one, So it just says eighty six
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Speaker 1: and eighty six under it, because that's how it looks.
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Speaker 1: It's on a black screen, and then some red spider
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Speaker 1: lily flower petals like drift up from the right corner
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Speaker 1: back from the show title card, we have a close
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Speaker 1: up of the heads of like three statues that are
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Speaker 1: standing next to each other, or maybe it's one big
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Speaker 1: statue with three people. I don't really know. They're kind
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Speaker 1: of weathered and cracked, and in the background we hear
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Speaker 1: a voice saying, now for today's update on the war
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Speaker 1: from San Magnolia Military HQ. We cuts to the street
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Speaker 1: and the sky is gray and it looks like maybe
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Speaker 1: it's a little foggy or smoggy, I wasn't really sure.
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Speaker 1: And a pair of high heeled boots walk past us,
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Speaker 1: and we see that is December second, twenty one, forty eight,
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Speaker 1: so it's like a month and a half from the
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Speaker 1: last bit of episode eleven. Anyway, the voice continues, Our
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Speaker 1: nation's autonomous Juggernaut units intercepted the Legion's mechanized infantry drones,
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Speaker 1: dealt critical damage and force them to withdraw. We're kind
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Speaker 1: of across the street now, but we can see Lena
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Speaker 1: walking down the street on the other side, and we
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Speaker 1: cut to a bunch of shots of Alba hanging out
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Speaker 1: watching a magic show, laughing walking down the street, and
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Speaker 1: the voice continues combat via highly advanced, ethically responsible drones
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Speaker 1: has resulted on zero fatalities on our side. This is
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Speaker 1: basically the same as the first episode, guys. Anyway, it
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Speaker 1: continues the day when our righteous nation finally smashes through
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Speaker 1: the evil remnants of the wicked Empire is not far off.
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Speaker 1: Lena walks past the screen where that woman is giving
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Speaker 1: this news report, and we know that it's cold out
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Speaker 1: because she can see her breath and she's also wearing
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Speaker 1: a coat. The woman continues glory to the republic look
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Speaker 1: of Sam Magnolia into the five colored flag. We cut
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Speaker 1: to that statue of Saint Magnolia that's like in the
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Speaker 1: fountain in the Military HQ, with the five colored flag
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Speaker 1: visible behind it, and there is lots of drunken laughter. Yes,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of drunk guys around, just like in
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Speaker 1: the first episode. It's like, literally nothing has changed at
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Speaker 1: all here except that we lost Spearhead, which is kind
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Speaker 1: of upsetting. You know, Life just keeps moving even if
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Speaker 1: people that you care about are viciously murdered by their
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Speaker 1: own nation. Basically so, anyway, the drunk guys are there,
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Speaker 1: and one of them sets a beer down on the
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Speaker 1: table and turns and he's like, hey, it's the doll
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Speaker 1: crushing princess. Fuck Lena is walking past them and not
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Speaker 1: acknowledging them, different than in the first episode, definitely, And
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Speaker 1: the second guy says, I heard you had another victory
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Speaker 1: against the Legion threat today, stained with the blood of pigs.
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Speaker 1: Fuck guys, And the third guy says, that's why they
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Speaker 1: call her Bloody Regina, the bloody Queen. That's not a
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Speaker 1: good title. You don't want to say bloody twice. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't work like that. Anyway. We see that Lena, who
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Speaker 1: is still not acknowledging them, has a really bright red
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Speaker 1: stripe in her hair that like, I guess she's dyed.
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Speaker 1: It's like right behind her kind of right ear. I
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Speaker 1: think it's pretty cool. I used to have a red
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Speaker 1: stripe in my hair when I was a teenager, so
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Speaker 1: I totally understand where she's coming from. Yeah, Lena individuality,
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's not what it is, but still I
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Speaker 1: get it. It's probably to represent, you know, the bloodshed
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Speaker 1: of the nation. But I still think it looks super
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Speaker 1: fucking edgy. And I know it's not a phase Lena,
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Speaker 1: so don't worry anyway. She's still walking the first guy says,
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Speaker 1: you learn to tell the difference between men and pigs.
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Speaker 1: At this point, Lena is super far past them and
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Speaker 1: they gotta stop talking to her. I guess, And the
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Speaker 1: second guy kind of turns to the group and says,
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Speaker 1: she never changes her expression. Who knows what she's thinking.
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Speaker 1: The first guy shri and the third guy says, getting
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Speaker 1: demoted for the sake of those pigs wearing a black
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Speaker 1: uniform when no one else does. Oh shit, she got demoted.
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Speaker 1: The first guy says, the legion won't even be around
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Speaker 1: in two years. Yes, they will be. They so will be.
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Speaker 1: We cut briefly to a crack in the side of
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Speaker 1: the fountain where water is spilling out. Yeah, things are
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Speaker 1: gonna get worse. The second guy says, her family's rich
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Speaker 1: and famous, right. Lena at this point is walking past
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Speaker 1: San Magnolia statue sword, and he continues, had she just
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Speaker 1: done nothing, she could have been on easy Street. Lena
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Speaker 1: walks through security and she is slowly approaching Annette, who
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Speaker 1: was walking a bit in front of her. She catches
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Speaker 1: up and says, morning, and that's like morning. She looks
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Speaker 1: pretty fucking blank, and then she looks down at some
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Speaker 1: paper she's holding and says there's something I wanted to
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Speaker 1: check up on from what you asked, the additional settings
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Speaker 1: on the power ray device. Lena's like, fine, I'll be
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Speaker 1: there in two hours. Adet smiles, Okay, see you. Then
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Speaker 1: Lena turns and then walks down another hallway away from Annettes.
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Speaker 1: She throws off her coat and we see that she
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Speaker 1: is indeed wearing a black uniform instead of the blue
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Speaker 1: ones that everyone else wears. Again, super fucking edgy and cool, Lena,
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Speaker 1: I love you. Before we go any further, I just
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Speaker 1: wanted to pause here and say that, actually, before I
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Speaker 1: started talking about this, I wasn't sure how I felt
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Speaker 1: about the beginning of the episode mirroring the beginning of
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Speaker 1: episode one, But thinking about it, it's really cool because
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Speaker 1: you see how much has changed and how much hasn't changed.
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Speaker 1: Like the entire society is the same, except that it's
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Speaker 1: colder out now. Everyone is still going about their business,
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Speaker 1: the news is still spouting lies about who dies in
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Speaker 1: the war and when it's going to end. And Lena
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Speaker 1: is still there, still working, but like a completely different person.
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Speaker 1: I mean, not really completely different, but with so much
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Speaker 1: more experience, like life experience and knowledge about her country
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Speaker 1: and about what she has to do. Even Annette, who
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Speaker 1: when we first saw her in the first episode was
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Speaker 1: like exhausted, like she doesn't normally get up early. She
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Speaker 1: was yawning, she wasn't really professional. It's such a big
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Speaker 1: difference to the way Annette is, you know, reacting in
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Speaker 1: the beginning of this episode, where her tone is a
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Speaker 1: lot more professional, and she seems like she's helping Lena
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Speaker 1: and that she cares or that she feels like she
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Speaker 1: has to care. I'm not really sure. So I just
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Speaker 1: think it's cool. I like it. And I also really
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Speaker 1: like edgy Lena a lot. Again, super nice red stripe
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Speaker 1: in her hair. Okay, so yeah, I like that. I
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Speaker 1: like the whole. Like I just said a couple of
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Speaker 1: minutes ago, the whole the world continues, even though the
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Speaker 1: people that you loved are dead and you're the only
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Speaker 1: one that's changed. I think it's really fucking cool. I
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Speaker 1: just like it. I don't know, guys, I got really
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Speaker 1: excited because I just like put this all together right
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Speaker 1: now in my brain as I was saying this, So yay,
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Speaker 1: I guess anyway, we hear a guy say how many
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Speaker 1: times do I have to tell you Captain Malise. We
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Speaker 1: got to Lena standing in an office looking, you know,
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Speaker 1: vaguely unhappy, and there's a dude who I guess is
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Speaker 1: her superior. For a second, I thought it was Carl Stahl,
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Speaker 1: but it's not. He is sitting at a desk filing
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Speaker 1: his nails, which is not very I was gonna say sanitary,
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Speaker 1: but that's not the right word. It's just disrespectful to
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Speaker 1: file your nails in front of your subordinate, like you're
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Speaker 1: supposed to be paying an attention to her and having
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Speaker 1: a conversation, like fucking look her in the eye anyway.
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Speaker 1: He says, unauthorized use of the howitzers. I thought so,
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Speaker 1: unscheduled supply drops, taking direct command from other units not
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Speaker 1: below you. He pounds his fist on a stack of papers,
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Speaker 1: and he's like, do you know how many complaints on
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Speaker 1: getting don't make me do extra work for the sake
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Speaker 1: of those damn eighty six Fuck you dude. Lena's like,
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Speaker 1: if you'd given me permission in advance, you wouldn't have
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Speaker 1: to tell me any of this, Lieutenant Colonel. The Colonel's like, what,
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Speaker 1: Lana continues, you and all of them are free to
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Speaker 1: complain all you like, but it's got nothing to do
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Speaker 1: with me. I think it has a lot to do
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Speaker 1: with you, Lena. The colonel pushes some of the papers
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Speaker 1: from the pile of complaints onto the floor and he's like,
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Speaker 1: your little brat, know your place. You're just a captain. Lena,
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Speaker 1: who by the way, has zero expression on her face
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Speaker 1: or in her voice, says, are you sure you want
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Speaker 1: me to know my place? The colonel gasps. Lana continues,
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Speaker 1: your subordinates results reflect on your own career. The Colonel's
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Speaker 1: like what, Lanta continues, I'm currently the top handler. If
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Speaker 1: my legion Kilraate goes down, you risk not being promoted.
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Speaker 1: She gives him like the cruelest smirk. Right. The colonel
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Speaker 1: guy stares at her, looking super fucking pissed, but then
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Speaker 1: he looks away like ashamed because she's like totally right,
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Speaker 1: and he sits back down and says, watch your mouth, Captain.
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Speaker 1: Lena salutes, excuse me, Lieutenant colonel, and she turns to leave.
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Speaker 1: Once she's gone, the colonel sighs and kind of fixes
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Speaker 1: his hair and takes one of the papers from the
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Speaker 1: piles to look at it. We got to a bunch
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Speaker 1: of guys walking on like a second floor, maybe like
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Speaker 1: open hallway, because you can see the first floor below
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Speaker 1: it's and Lena is walking below it on the first floor,
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Speaker 1: and Carl Stol's there and he looks down and he
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Speaker 1: sees her like walking with the net and talking to her,
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Speaker 1: and he does not look happy. It probably shouldn't look happy.
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Speaker 1: He probably shouldn't have allowed her to keep her jobs,
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Speaker 1: seeing as she keeps going rogue. But then again, she
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Speaker 1: is getting results. But you really don't want someone who's
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Speaker 1: ignoring everything you say, so really they should have fired her,
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Speaker 1: but whatever, again nepotism. We now see Lena walking with
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Speaker 1: a group of other maybe commanders, people in military uniforms,
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Speaker 1: and they're all like super young, and she says, I'll
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Speaker 1: let you handle the supplies. One of the guys is
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Speaker 1: like okay. A second guy says, Captain, I looked into
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Speaker 1: how many of the howitzer's in the rear Southern Combat
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Speaker 1: District eight were still functional, and you were right, it's
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Speaker 1: about twenty percent. Oh fuck. They really need to do
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Speaker 1: a better job of, you know, keeping their equipment in
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Speaker 1: good shape. Lena is like looking down at a paper
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Speaker 1: and she's like I thought, so she looks at the
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Speaker 1: guy and says, our attrition rate on the front lines.
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Speaker 1: But then she and everyone are distracted by these two
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Speaker 1: military girls running past them commenting about how it's snowing outside.
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Speaker 1: So Lena looks over out at the window and it
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Speaker 1: is snowing, and then she looks down and one of
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Speaker 1: the girls in the group says, winter's really here. Huh. Lena,
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Speaker 1: I thought maybe tapped her brooch on her jacket, but
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Speaker 1: I think she just putting her hand to her heart.
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Speaker 1: I'm not really sure, because all of a sudden there's
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Speaker 1: a beep, so I thought maybe was connected, but I
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Speaker 1: think maybe it was just weird timing. And we hear
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Speaker 1: Cyclops say, Cyclops to handler one, do you read. Lena's
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Speaker 1: eyes widened and she's like, yes, what is it. We
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Speaker 1: cut to Cyclops, who is in her druggernaut like in
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Speaker 1: the woods, looking out at like a mass of legion,
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Speaker 1: and she says, we found an enemy union on patrol.
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Speaker 1: We need your orders. Lena says, understood, and then to
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Speaker 1: the group, she's like keep it up. They all nodded her,
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Speaker 1: and she starts to walk off and she's like, Cyclops,
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Speaker 1: give me a report. We cut to her coming around
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Speaker 1: a different corner, looking super comically freaked out, but then nodding,
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Speaker 1: and we see that she is approaching a net's office
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Speaker 1: or she just walked into a net's office, and she says, sorry,
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Speaker 1: I'm late. Annette partially spins around in her chair and says,
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Speaker 1: you're pretty early. Lena gasps and kind of wincess and
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Speaker 1: folds her hands together like please, and then Net says,
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Speaker 1: get started with chat. I have no idea what that means.
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Speaker 1: Who is she chatting with a NET? But that's a
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Speaker 1: weird way to start a conversation with someone, so I'm
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Speaker 1: not really sure. Anyway, she smiles and she's like okay,
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Speaker 1: and she walks over to, you know, take a seat
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Speaker 1: at this table that has a couple of mugs on
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Speaker 1: it filled with I guess coffee and a power raid
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Speaker 1: device as well. We cut from those mugs to her
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Speaker 1: really nice looking teacup that she has in her room
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Speaker 1: on her desk, and she like lifts it up. And
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Speaker 1: it is evening now and it's still snowing outside, so
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Speaker 1: that's fun. Anyway, she says, understood, thank you for your report.
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Speaker 1: She takes a sup of tea. We hear Cyclops say yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'll be waiting for those Legion Force estimates. Queen Lena's like, yes,
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Speaker 1: I'll do what I can. She sets down her mug.
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Speaker 1: We cut from her mug to a dented metal mug
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Speaker 1: being set down on a wooden table, and we hear
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Speaker 1: Lena say, let's both work together and do our best.
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Speaker 1: We see Cyclops sitting on a couch next to this table,
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Speaker 1: obviously in barracks, but it's different barracks than we're used
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Speaker 1: to because it looks like there's a second floor, like
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Speaker 1: balcony and shit. So it looks much bigger than Spearheads barracks,
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Speaker 1: which makes sense because Spearheads Barracks were the end of
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Speaker 1: the line. Anyway, She's sitting on the couch with her
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Speaker 1: arms crossed, and she just kind of chuckles, and she says,
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Speaker 1: of course you're a handler. We're counting on you. Lena says,
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Speaker 1: you too. I need the info you give us from
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Speaker 1: the battlefield Cyclops. So yeah, this is so, so so
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Speaker 1: different than the way that she was interacting with Spearhead.
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Speaker 1: This seems like almost mutual, honestly, and it's weird that
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Speaker 1: Cyclops keeps calling her queen, but it seems like Cyclops
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Speaker 1: is looking at this as like a partnership, which is
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Speaker 1: cool anyway. We see outside of the base, which looks
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Speaker 1: different obviously, and it's still snowing. We cut two cyclops
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Speaker 1: reflection in her coffee cup and she chuckles and she's like,
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Speaker 1: it's okay if you call me by my name now right,
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Speaker 1: you aren't going to then why did you ask? Uh?
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Speaker 1: We see that Lena has taken notes of everyone's names
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Speaker 1: in her notebook, and Cyclop's name is she den Ida?
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Speaker 1: And Lena says that's because she looks over at the
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Speaker 1: window and we see that that clear box of all
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Speaker 1: the little drawn faces is there, like all the dead faces,
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Speaker 1: and she continues, it's my responsibility as a handler. Cyclop's
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Speaker 1: is like, you're always so formal and serious, you know.
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Speaker 1: We can see kind of in the background that that
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Speaker 1: you know, peg board that she used to keep all
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Speaker 1: of Spearhead's little faces on has lots of new little
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Speaker 1: faces on it. Lena half laughs and says, think what
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Speaker 1: you like. Cyclops smiles and kind of blushes lightly and
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Speaker 1: is like, thanks to you, though we might live a
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Speaker 1: long time, she stands, I appreciate it, but we might
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Speaker 1: be headed to Spearhead in a few months. Oh, I
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Speaker 1: guess that's not great. Lena, who was writing something in
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Speaker 1: her notebook like, stops super suddenly, and Cyclops continues, the
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Speaker 1: strongest guy I know finally got sent on special recon
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Speaker 1: a while back. Oh Shin. Lena slowly makes her hand
19:10
Speaker 1: into a fist. Cyclops continues, he's probably dead now, the
19:15
Speaker 1: headless reaper who always used blades. Okay, yeah, that was Shin.
19:20
Speaker 1: And then we see that on the pegboard with all
19:25
Speaker 1: the other new faces is like one little area where Shin, Onju, Corrina, Ryding,
19:30
Speaker 1: and Theo's faces still are, so she like hasn't given
19:34
Speaker 1: up on them, but she also didn't want to think
19:38
Speaker 1: about them right now, and she's just kind of quiet,
19:41
Speaker 1: and Cyclop says, which do you think will be first
19:45
Speaker 1: us going there or the Legion coming here? Lena's like,
19:49
Speaker 1: I don't know. She looks over at this map she
19:52
Speaker 1: has on the wall and continues, But my job now
19:55
Speaker 1: is to prepare for the large scale Legion offensive that
19:58
Speaker 1: I think is coming, says, I already decided to help you,
20:02
Speaker 1: but no preparations you make are going to change a thing.
20:05
Speaker 1: And you're doing this regardless. We see that someone is
20:08
Speaker 1: shooting Pool in the barracks and you know, like the
20:12
Speaker 1: white ball. I don't know what ball that is. Oh,
20:14
Speaker 1: it's like the cubeball or something. I know nothing about.
20:17
Speaker 1: Pool stops right before it goes into the pockets and
20:21
Speaker 1: Lena says, I'm doing it regardless. Cyclops smiles. Lena continues,
20:26
Speaker 1: but Cyclops, don't forget your reports on patrol. Cyclops is
20:31
Speaker 1: still smiling, but she looks not excited. She says Roger
20:36
Speaker 1: and cuts the connection. We cut back to Lena holding
20:40
Speaker 1: her pig picture and the polaroid that's Phido took Spearhead,
20:45
Speaker 1: and she thinks they told me to survive. Anyway. We
20:49
Speaker 1: see that the cat is on her bed. Yeay, she
20:51
Speaker 1: really did take it, and it is keeping it, and
20:54
Speaker 1: the scene kind of cuts to morning and she's putting
20:56
Speaker 1: on her uniform and she puts the polaroid in like
20:59
Speaker 1: a little pocket in her jacket, and she thinks they
21:02
Speaker 1: believed in me and told me to fight and survive.
21:05
Speaker 1: She salutes at the window like she's done in the past.
21:09
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's to the flowers. I think
21:10
Speaker 1: it's to those little dead faces in the box. And
21:13
Speaker 1: she turns to the cat, who is now sitting on
21:16
Speaker 1: the floor next to an empty food bowl, and it
21:19
Speaker 1: yaws at her and we see the bowl. Says TEPI,
21:21
Speaker 1: So I guess that's the cat's name. I think remark
21:24
Speaker 1: was better, but whatever. Lena smiles at it and thinks
21:28
Speaker 1: to live up to the hopes of those who are
21:30
Speaker 1: no longer with us, She walks forward towards the camera.
21:34
Speaker 1: We get the episode title card, episode twelve. Welcome now
21:38
Speaker 1: to something entirely different. We cut to remember in episode
21:42
Speaker 1: eleven when we just saw Shin's head in his neck
21:44
Speaker 1: and I was like, is that blood next to him?
21:46
Speaker 1: What is that? Is that a shadow? When I was
21:47
Speaker 1: freaking out? We see that again, just like I wanted,
21:52
Speaker 1: and we hear Ray say Shin. We cut to that
21:55
Speaker 1: white place and Ray is carrying Shin over his shoulder
22:00
Speaker 1: and he's still wearing that suit of armor and cape,
22:02
Speaker 1: and Shin is little by the way. At this point though,
22:05
Speaker 1: Shin kind of leans back so we can look at him,
22:08
Speaker 1: and Ray smiles, and Shin smiles so widely and genuinely
22:14
Speaker 1: at him. Ray lifts Shin up and kind of swings
22:17
Speaker 1: him around and then puts him down on the floor
22:20
Speaker 1: and kind of pats his head and says, this is
22:23
Speaker 1: as far as I can go. What he stands you
22:27
Speaker 1: can go the rest of the way by yourself, right,
22:30
Speaker 1: oh oh. Shin looks up at him, just totally confused,
22:35
Speaker 1: kind of like I am, and Ray says, you've got
22:38
Speaker 1: your comrades going with you. He smiles but also looks
22:43
Speaker 1: a little hurt, and then we kind of cut back
22:47
Speaker 1: to Shin, who is now at his current age, just
22:50
Speaker 1: looking so hurt and confused, and Ray says, you've really
22:55
Speaker 1: grown up too. Shin is just staring at him, like
22:59
Speaker 1: what what is happening? And Ray says, don't let me
23:03
Speaker 1: keep you a prisoner. Shin kind of leans forward and
23:07
Speaker 1: says something that's totally inaudible, and Ray continues, you can
23:11
Speaker 1: forget about me. He turns and starts to walk away,
23:14
Speaker 1: and he's passing his dead legion in the background, and
23:18
Speaker 1: Shin shakes his head no and starts to follow him,
23:21
Speaker 1: and Ray stops walking but doesn't turn back and says, oh, no,
23:26
Speaker 1: I want you to remember me just once in a while.
23:30
Speaker 1: Shin stops and we see that somehow he's gotten even
23:34
Speaker 1: further from Ray, and Ray says, live free and be happy.
23:38
Speaker 1: Shin starts to run again, but he is not moving
23:41
Speaker 1: at all, and he's clearly calling out, but we can't
23:44
Speaker 1: hear what he's saying. And Ray says and once in
23:49
Speaker 1: a while, you know, just once in a while, he
23:52
Speaker 1: turns back and says, be well, and please be happy.
23:57
Speaker 1: Shin is panicking and just getting further and further away
24:00
Speaker 1: as he runs where he turns back and begins to
24:04
Speaker 1: walk away again, and Shin reaches out for him as
24:07
Speaker 1: he disappears, and he would finally hear him say brother.
24:11
Speaker 1: And then there's this piece of shrapnel or something I
24:13
Speaker 1: don't really know, but like it is coming I guess
24:16
Speaker 1: at him or at us, and he just hits the
24:18
Speaker 1: camera and everything goes black for a second. The black
24:21
Speaker 1: is replaced by first person perspective of someone's eyes opening
24:25
Speaker 1: and looking up at what I think is a ceiling
24:27
Speaker 1: with like one of those long rectangular lights. It's a
24:30
Speaker 1: kind of light I don't remember what it's called, you know,
24:32
Speaker 1: the kind you'd see an office or something. Usually they
24:35
Speaker 1: have the big long tubes inside them that buzz halogen
24:40
Speaker 1: halogen lights. Nope, sorry, it was fluorescent lights. Michelle. Good
24:44
Speaker 1: try though we are now out of first person perspective,
24:47
Speaker 1: and we see Shin's head and neck and that's really
24:52
Speaker 1: all we gets, and there's a lot of beeping in
24:54
Speaker 1: the background, so I hope that this is a hospital
24:57
Speaker 1: that would be the best case scenario. Alive. His eyes
25:01
Speaker 1: are open, remember, so he's definitely alive, but he looks
25:05
Speaker 1: really out of it, probably because he just woke up
25:08
Speaker 1: from having a dream about Ray and it was really
25:10
Speaker 1: sad and he thought he was gonna die and he
25:12
Speaker 1: didn't die, maybe, And then we go back into first
25:15
Speaker 1: person perspective as his gaze shifts downwards, so we're seeing
25:19
Speaker 1: like the walls of the room and there's like a
25:21
Speaker 1: window and like a door and shit, and it's super
25:24
Speaker 1: white everywhere, and he's still laying down, but he raises
25:28
Speaker 1: his hands up and we see that he does actually
25:31
Speaker 1: have hands, which is a big deal because I was afraid,
25:34
Speaker 1: and he struggles to kind of bring them to his
25:36
Speaker 1: face and looks super confused that he has hands, aren't
25:42
Speaker 1: we both? And then there's a buzz and there are
25:47
Speaker 1: four like totally suited up, like with hoods and you know,
25:51
Speaker 1: full hasmat gear, standing on the other side of the window.
25:56
Speaker 1: One of them waves to him and then they're like
26:00
Speaker 1: another buzz and we see the mechanisms of the door unlock,
26:04
Speaker 1: and one of the figures like goes to open it,
26:06
Speaker 1: and the other ones are like miming like no, no, no,
26:09
Speaker 1: please don't do that, but we can't hear them, and
26:12
Speaker 1: the first figure says, I know, I just want to
26:15
Speaker 1: have a little chat. He walks into the room and
26:18
Speaker 1: over to Shin, and we can kind of see the
26:20
Speaker 1: vague outline of a face inside his has Matt's suits,
26:24
Speaker 1: and he says, you're awake, huh hello? He leans down,
26:29
Speaker 1: will you tell me your name? Shin just kind of
26:31
Speaker 1: stares at him like he doesn't have any idea what's
26:34
Speaker 1: even happening at all, and the figure continues, Oh, oh,
26:38
Speaker 1: the generals were really worried, so they made me wear
26:41
Speaker 1: this biohazard suit. He starts taking it off, and the
26:44
Speaker 1: figures at the window outside are like hitting on the
26:46
Speaker 1: window and shaking their heads no, and he continues, but
26:50
Speaker 1: it's rude to be wearing this, isn't it. He takes
26:53
Speaker 1: it off in sighs, and we see that he is
26:54
Speaker 1: this kind of like middle aged or like older middle age,
26:57
Speaker 1: and he's got gray hair with like a white pet
27:00
Speaker 1: in the front and like brown eyes. He's wearing glasses
27:03
Speaker 1: and he has a mustache, and he says, my name
27:06
Speaker 1: is Ernst, and you Shin doesn't say anything for a second,
27:10
Speaker 1: and he says, shine knows Eni. Ernst smiles and spreads
27:15
Speaker 1: his arms really wide and says, welcome to the Federacy
27:18
Speaker 1: of Jiod Oh Giod like Giardia Jiad. Shin lifts his
27:24
Speaker 1: head slightly and says Giod exactly. Ernst is like, oh,
27:30
Speaker 1: I should explain, we defeated the Jiad empire that created
27:34
Speaker 1: the Legion and we changed it into a federal republic. Oh, okay,
27:37
Speaker 1: I guess that makes sense actually, because they were going
27:39
Speaker 1: into Giadi in territory, so if there was any Giod
27:45
Speaker 1: people left, they should have hit them. Ernst kneels down
27:49
Speaker 1: and like he puts his hand on the back of
27:51
Speaker 1: his head and says, well, because of that, we're still
27:53
Speaker 1: fighting the Legion, though we found you captured by the
27:56
Speaker 1: Legion on the western front of the war. Shin's eyes
28:00
Speaker 1: for a second as he remembers the rest of his
28:03
Speaker 1: friends laying dead on the battlefield, and he tries to
28:06
Speaker 1: like sit up, but he's clearly in pain, so he's
28:09
Speaker 1: only like partially sitting up, and also there was like
28:12
Speaker 1: a thing kind of over his chest, so I don't
28:14
Speaker 1: think he can sit up all the way. And he's
28:15
Speaker 1: like looking around and trying it up, and Ernest says, like, sorry, sorry,
28:20
Speaker 1: of course you're worried, and he like gives a thumbs up,
28:23
Speaker 1: and like lights come on in the room's next Stishin,
28:27
Speaker 1: and we see that all of Spearhead is there in
28:29
Speaker 1: like different rooms, standing and like looking at him, and
28:33
Speaker 1: Shin turns and makes a really confused noise that I
28:36
Speaker 1: would also make in this situation, and Ernst says, you
28:40
Speaker 1: were sleeping, so we turned the windows opaque right in
28:42
Speaker 1: smiles and Karna looks like she's gonna fucking cry, and
28:46
Speaker 1: Shin looks back at Ern's like super confused still, and
28:49
Speaker 1: Ernest says, neither you nor we entirely understand what happened.
28:54
Speaker 1: Later when you remember, if you could, and a voice
28:56
Speaker 1: cuts him off, is like, sir, that's enough. Ernst stands
28:59
Speaker 1: and sorry, the scary lady's going to be mad at me,
29:02
Speaker 1: so I'll be going. But remember this. You're the first
29:06
Speaker 1: foreign visitors we've had since the nation's founding. We've been
29:09
Speaker 1: too busy with the legion to put together customs procedures.
29:12
Speaker 1: All the spearhead is kind of looking at Ernest distrustfully,
29:15
Speaker 1: and he continues, but don't worry, We're not going to
29:18
Speaker 1: harm you. I'm Ernest Zimmerman, provisional President of the GIOAD Federacy. Oh,
29:23
Speaker 1: he's the president. I'm gonna just pause here because I
29:26
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about some things from last week that
29:28
Speaker 1: I did that I wanted to apologize for. So I'm
29:31
Speaker 1: sorry that I sold it so hard that everybody died
29:34
Speaker 1: last week, especially Shin. But when I first watched episode eleven,
29:38
Speaker 1: I just assumed that Shinn died because there were two
29:41
Speaker 1: ways you could read that scene. Either the scribbles over
29:44
Speaker 1: his head were because of censorship, which is what I
29:48
Speaker 1: thought it was. I thought they couldn't show Shin's decapitated head,
29:52
Speaker 1: or they were kind of like a is it there
29:55
Speaker 1: or isn't there? Find out in the next episode. And
29:57
Speaker 1: I didn't even consider that when I watched it the
29:59
Speaker 1: first time. I just that's it. That's the end, and
30:02
Speaker 1: now we're gonna start over with like a whole new
30:04
Speaker 1: group of you know, eighty six people. And I was like,
30:07
Speaker 1: not happy about that because I like Lena a lot,
30:11
Speaker 1: but I felt like I didn't want Spearhead to just
30:15
Speaker 1: be martyred, Like I wanted them to really escape and
30:19
Speaker 1: to do the thing where like they got away but
30:22
Speaker 1: then they just died after a bunch of time living
30:26
Speaker 1: out in the wilderness. Just made me like really sad
30:29
Speaker 1: and like, I mean, you could look at it as
30:32
Speaker 1: like kind of poetic or whatever the fuck, but it
30:34
Speaker 1: just seemed mean, really mean spirited, honestly. So I was
30:38
Speaker 1: really happy that they weren't dead. But I was really
30:40
Speaker 1: convinced last episode when I first watched it, that that
30:42
Speaker 1: was it, and I was thinking about it earlier today
30:45
Speaker 1: or last night or something, and I really think artistically,
30:49
Speaker 1: what I would have liked to see or direction wise,
30:52
Speaker 1: is instead of having Shin's head be a big, you know,
30:55
Speaker 1: red scribble, it would have been cool if his head
30:59
Speaker 1: was just totally out of frame. So when we dropped
31:01
Speaker 1: down into black, you just saw his torso and you know, legs,
31:06
Speaker 1: and his head was just cut off out of frame,
31:08
Speaker 1: so you really just didn't know why that was happening,
31:13
Speaker 1: instead of the scribbles, obviously, because really the scribbles just
31:16
Speaker 1: made me think he was dead. And doing it the
31:19
Speaker 1: other way, I would have been confused, which is I
31:22
Speaker 1: think what we were supposed to be confused. But anyway,
31:25
Speaker 1: I'm happy that they're not dead. Sorry for making you
31:27
Speaker 1: think that they were dead in the last episode. It
31:30
Speaker 1: was hard to hold that together. Anyway, they're hanging out
31:33
Speaker 1: with the Giad Februaracy, which seems cool so far, I guess,
31:38
Speaker 1: So let's get back into it. We cut to Ernst
31:42
Speaker 1: and some other people that we don't know walking down
31:44
Speaker 1: a hall with super ominous music playing. By the way
31:47
Speaker 1: great and Ernest says, what is our analysis show? A
31:51
Speaker 1: guy says, it's safe to say that they aren't agents
31:54
Speaker 1: of sand Magnolia or any other country. We see like
31:57
Speaker 1: a big white like giant housey room with like little
32:01
Speaker 1: white rooms inside of it, and like a white hallway thing,
32:04
Speaker 1: which is I think where they're keeping Spearhead in like
32:07
Speaker 1: these individual little white pod things or something with the hallway,
32:10
Speaker 1: I don't know. And also then we see some folks
32:14
Speaker 1: like standing over Shin, you know, taking care of him,
32:16
Speaker 1: I guess. And we hear Ernest say and the odds
32:19
Speaker 1: that they're like a new type of legion or perhaps
32:21
Speaker 1: a carrier of a legion bioweapon. The rest of Spearhead
32:24
Speaker 1: is kind of looking on at Shin and whoever's doing
32:28
Speaker 1: stuff with him, and they do not look happy. And
32:30
Speaker 1: that guy says, our tests and the scans we did
32:33
Speaker 1: after they were brought in don't show anything irregular, ern says.
32:36
Speaker 1: And the things they had with them, we see like
32:40
Speaker 1: a destroyed looking legion in a room and like people
32:42
Speaker 1: are looking at it and stuff, and that guy says
32:45
Speaker 1: it's a slightly older model, but definitely a dinosauria. Ern says, oh,
32:51
Speaker 1: and the things on their ears. We cut back to
32:54
Speaker 1: Shin as someone is taking a bandage off his ear,
32:56
Speaker 1: and we see like this red area where the power
33:00
Speaker 1: it used to be. And I think it was like
33:01
Speaker 1: a little dot, like maybe it had been implanted into
33:04
Speaker 1: his ear, you know, which obviously had been otherwise there
33:07
Speaker 1: wouldn't be a bandage on it. That kind of sucks.
33:09
Speaker 1: And that guy says, a communication device, as they said,
33:13
Speaker 1: it artificially recreates the mental links that a certain family
33:17
Speaker 1: is capable of. Why do you know about Chin's family?
33:21
Speaker 1: Are you talking about Chin's family? What? We see Shin
33:25
Speaker 1: nodding along as someone is telling him something and Ernst
33:28
Speaker 1: says revolutionary. Another guy is like, the safest thing for
33:32
Speaker 1: the Federacy would be to eliminate them. Excuse me Ern's size.
33:36
Speaker 1: That's not the response I wanted, Ernst. We see the
33:40
Speaker 1: mechanisms of the door lock, and Shin is alone in
33:42
Speaker 1: the room, laying down, and we hear right and say Shin.
33:46
Speaker 1: Shin looks over and the gang is still like standing
33:49
Speaker 1: against their windows, looking at him from all their rooms
33:52
Speaker 1: and right, and it's like you were out for three
33:54
Speaker 1: whole days, THEO says, seriously. Karina was bawling her eyes out,
34:00
Speaker 1: blushes and makes like an X with her arms and
34:02
Speaker 1: she's like, I was not Shin like smiles slightly, and
34:06
Speaker 1: Anjie says, Shin, I know now it's not a good time.
34:10
Speaker 1: She's smiling, but she's making a fist and it is shaking,
34:13
Speaker 1: and she says, but be ready when you get better.
34:18
Speaker 1: Chin makes a uncomfortable type noise, and THEO says, sorry,
34:23
Speaker 1: but we all feel the same way. You ever pull
34:25
Speaker 1: shit like that again, and I will kick your ass.
34:28
Speaker 1: Sin's like, I didn't mean to die, and THEO cuts
34:31
Speaker 1: him off. You're gonna make me mad even if you
34:33
Speaker 1: didn't intend to die. You knew you would if you
34:36
Speaker 1: fought alone. Shin looks away. THEO says, we've all thought
34:40
Speaker 1: about it at least once. Sure, but that's why we
34:43
Speaker 1: can't forgive it, because we understand it's cheating. Never do
34:48
Speaker 1: that again. I love THEO. By the way, Karina is
34:52
Speaker 1: starting to cry and she's like, I was so worried.
34:56
Speaker 1: Shin stares at them and kind of exhales and says,
34:59
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. They all kind of sigh. Right. It's like,
35:03
Speaker 1: but who knows what'll happen. Now we see like a
35:06
Speaker 1: security camera in the corner of the room and it
35:08
Speaker 1: feeds into a different security camera, and we see Ernst
35:12
Speaker 1: standing behind a window and four others are with him,
35:16
Speaker 1: like in the background, and Ernst is like, so, yeah,
35:19
Speaker 1: from now on, you're citizens of the federacy. Oh I
35:22
Speaker 1: thought they might kill him. So we see that they're
35:25
Speaker 1: actually in this hospital room now together, and Ernst is like,
35:28
Speaker 1: I guess on an observation window like a floor up
35:31
Speaker 1: or so, looks like they're getting ready to eat and stuff.
35:34
Speaker 1: But they don't say anything to this. They're just looking
35:37
Speaker 1: at him like what the fuck. And Ernest is just
35:40
Speaker 1: like huh, right, and says we haven't seen you in
35:44
Speaker 1: a month. And the first thing you say is so yeah.
35:47
Speaker 1: Ernst is like yeah. THEO says you sure you want
35:51
Speaker 1: to make a bunch of strange kids who got kicked
35:53
Speaker 1: out of their old country into citizens. He sets a
35:57
Speaker 1: tray of food down on his little tray area, and
36:01
Speaker 1: it has like soup and like a meat thing that
36:03
Speaker 1: maybe looks like meat loaf. Put some gravy on it,
36:06
Speaker 1: and there's like broccoli and strawberries and mashed potatoes. Honestly,
36:10
Speaker 1: they're food. When they were in spear had looked better.
36:13
Speaker 1: But whatever. Anyway, he continues, wouldn't it be safer just
36:17
Speaker 1: to kill us? Don't know? They know they already decided
36:21
Speaker 1: not to. Don't make them think about it again. Ernst
36:24
Speaker 1: is like, is that what you want? THEO glances back
36:29
Speaker 1: and like kind of scowls, and chin says, what benefits
36:33
Speaker 1: you get for saving us? Ernst's like, a society that
36:37
Speaker 1: refuses to save children because there's no benefit is a
36:40
Speaker 1: society that benefits no one. In the end, we see
36:44
Speaker 1: that there are a bunch of toys and games laid
36:46
Speaker 1: out for them on a table, which is super nice.
36:48
Speaker 1: And he continues and if humanity can't survive except by
36:52
Speaker 1: killing children because they're strange. Then humanity'd be better off dead. Okay,
36:59
Speaker 1: maybe I like him. They're all just kind of staring
37:02
Speaker 1: at him, trying to figure out if he's trustworthy, and
37:04
Speaker 1: Ernest finally claps his hands together and says, anyway, I'll
37:08
Speaker 1: be your guardian for a while, so rest a bit,
37:10
Speaker 1: see the country and think about what you'll do. We
37:13
Speaker 1: cut to Spearhead, you know, getting all set up with
37:16
Speaker 1: like ties and dress shirts, and then leaving the hospital
37:19
Speaker 1: room and the lights going off. Next it looks like
37:23
Speaker 1: we're at an airport or something like there's a big
37:25
Speaker 1: air traffic control tower and like a building and stuff
37:28
Speaker 1: and a runway and it's snowing, and apparently this is
37:32
Speaker 1: sanct gly Keen Base, sank Gliking Base, maybe I don't know.
37:38
Speaker 1: We see a bunch of kind of military looking people
37:41
Speaker 1: sitting inside, and it is December second, twenty one, forty eight,
37:45
Speaker 1: so this is when we last saw Lena, by the way,
37:49
Speaker 1: so I guess it's snowing everywhere. And there's a guy
37:52
Speaker 1: with an eyepatch and he says, those war machines we
37:55
Speaker 1: recovered the Juggernauts. Their capabilities aside, what was done with
37:59
Speaker 1: them is amazing. I'd love to hear more. A woman
38:02
Speaker 1: with short blonde hair and violet eyes like looks over
38:05
Speaker 1: at him and is like, hey, I'm first. We won't
38:08
Speaker 1: let you have them. The eyepatch guy says, what, And
38:13
Speaker 1: the blondes like high mobility combat data and people with
38:16
Speaker 1: actual combat experienced against the data, they're perfect as operators
38:20
Speaker 1: for my prototypes. Oh, we see that this group of
38:24
Speaker 1: people is all standing at attention before Ernest, and like
38:27
Speaker 1: several other people who are like seated on like couches
38:30
Speaker 1: or whatever, we see some like big walking green mix outside,
38:35
Speaker 1: and the blonde continues, they'd be wasted on those slow vanagander.
38:40
Speaker 1: The eyepatch guy says, what did you say, spider woman.
38:44
Speaker 1: The Blond's like, what did you say, beetle. Ernest is like,
38:49
Speaker 1: you're free to talk to them, but I won't let
38:51
Speaker 1: them be operators. We'd be no different from the republic. Yay.
38:55
Speaker 1: The blonde's like, but they're all saying in their counseling
38:57
Speaker 1: sessions that they want to go back to the battlefield, guys.
39:01
Speaker 1: Ernest is like, that's because the battlefield is all they
39:04
Speaker 1: know right now. He stands actions should be met with rewards.
39:08
Speaker 1: If they fought for so long, they should be given peace.
39:11
Speaker 1: Well fuck, okay. We cut to Spearhead, who is getting
39:17
Speaker 1: off a plane, like walking down a staircase by a plane,
39:20
Speaker 1: and Ernest continues, especially if their homeland refuses to do so.
39:25
Speaker 1: The doors open and Spearhead is standing there wearing their
39:28
Speaker 1: little suits with two army people behind them saluting. And
39:32
Speaker 1: I think we're at Ernst's office now because there's a
39:35
Speaker 1: desk and stuff, and he's standing in front of these
39:37
Speaker 1: really large windows and he says, I want the federacy
39:41
Speaker 1: to be just at least because his face falls. This
39:45
Speaker 1: is the ideal of mankind. I don't know why that
39:49
Speaker 1: was so scary. We cut two hands resting in someone's lap,
39:53
Speaker 1: and we see that it is Shin's hands, and he
39:56
Speaker 1: and Spearhead and Ernst are all in some kind of
39:58
Speaker 1: vehicle or car whatever, driving somewhere. Then Karina looks over
40:03
Speaker 1: at something and we see that there are like curtains
40:06
Speaker 1: on the windows, but there's like a little gap between them,
40:09
Speaker 1: and she's looking outside at the scenery and it looks
40:12
Speaker 1: like they're in like a town or something, and there's
40:13
Speaker 1: like shops that they're passing and like people on the street.
40:16
Speaker 1: She pulls the curtains open more and gasps because they
40:20
Speaker 1: are passing like a lively coffee shop and donut shop.
40:24
Speaker 1: And there's like a man with a kid on his
40:26
Speaker 1: shoulders and a woman like watching them happily, and lots
40:31
Speaker 1: of other people too, and almost none of them are Alba.
40:34
Speaker 1: It's just like an integrated society. Wow. Rydan and THEO
40:38
Speaker 1: have joined her at the window, and also I should
40:40
Speaker 1: mention that it is still snowing and it's dusk. They
40:43
Speaker 1: then hear some shouting and look over and we hear
40:46
Speaker 1: a voice say, let's save our pitiful comrades, and a
40:49
Speaker 1: crowd repeats let's save them. So it looks like there's
40:52
Speaker 1: this little like park in a lot, and there's a
40:55
Speaker 1: crowd of people with some people standing on a stage
40:57
Speaker 1: with megaphones, and there's this sign over this kind of
41:02
Speaker 1: rally thing that says save the eighty six, Oh okay,
41:07
Speaker 1: And the guy with the megaphone says the eighty six
41:09
Speaker 1: are victims, and the crowd says victims, and the chanting continues,
41:14
Speaker 1: with those phrases being repeated over and over again. I
41:18
Speaker 1: don't think that they know this, but eighty six is
41:20
Speaker 1: a derogatory term and they shouldn't be using it. But whatever. Anyway,
41:23
Speaker 1: Ernest says, they were all happy that you were saved
41:26
Speaker 1: because we learned that there were surviving countries besides our own.
41:28
Speaker 1: But when they learned how you were treated, they became
41:31
Speaker 1: overcome with the desire to save you and your comrades.
41:34
Speaker 1: Aw one of them, we can't see who closes the curtains.
41:38
Speaker 1: Next we see them all standing out by the street
41:40
Speaker 1: as the car drives away, and Ernst is like, this
41:44
Speaker 1: is my house, but from now on it's your home.
41:47
Speaker 1: It's a very large, stately colonial house with like a
41:51
Speaker 1: you know, a really small front porch that only goes
41:55
Speaker 1: up one story. You know the deal. It's maybe red,
41:59
Speaker 1: but because it's dusk, I can't really tell what the
42:02
Speaker 1: color is supposed to be. Like, it looks pink, but
42:04
Speaker 1: I'm thinking red, you know. She looks up at the
42:07
Speaker 1: door and sees a little girl with brown hair peeking
42:10
Speaker 1: out from behind it, and she gasps and shuts it.
42:13
Speaker 1: Ernst walks up the steps and says, welcome, yay. Title drop.
42:18
Speaker 1: As he's saying that, we hear the girl inside say hurry,
42:22
Speaker 1: push that desk. We need to hurry. Ernst starts to sweat,
42:26
Speaker 1: and then we hear this like really huge crash, and
42:28
Speaker 1: the girl screams and everyone's just standing there like what
42:31
Speaker 1: the hell is happening. We cut inside the doors as
42:36
Speaker 1: the gang is staring at the girl, who is too
42:40
Speaker 1: close and facing away from the camera so we can't
42:43
Speaker 1: see what she looks like, and she says, welcome, poor
42:46
Speaker 1: souls who are banished from your country. She smirks and
42:49
Speaker 1: puts her hands on her hips. She looks like she's
42:52
Speaker 1: maybe in her early teens or something like maybe she's
42:55
Speaker 1: twelve or ten. I don't really know how to judge this.
42:59
Speaker 1: She looks kind of beat up from I guess whatever
43:01
Speaker 1: just fell on her. And she has you know, long
43:04
Speaker 1: brown hair and red eyes. And I'm gonna tell you
43:08
Speaker 1: right now, this is the same girl from the last episode,
43:11
Speaker 1: the Princess in like that vision that Chin had. Fuck Anyway,
43:17
Speaker 1: we get more of the scene now, and we see
43:19
Speaker 1: that the girl is standing on a table okay, and
43:24
Speaker 1: she has lights set up so they're shining on spearhead
43:28
Speaker 1: and Earnst this kind of standing between them with his
43:30
Speaker 1: head and his hands, and the girl continues, great chiod
43:35
Speaker 1: welcomes you with pity and compassion. We don't expect any
43:38
Speaker 1: recompense from lowborns like you, she points, So your thanks
43:42
Speaker 1: are enough. They especially Shin turn around like what is
43:47
Speaker 1: she pointing at? And the girl's like, hey, red eyes.
43:50
Speaker 1: She stamps her foot. Why are you looking away? Sin's like,
43:54
Speaker 1: I thought there might be someone else here. She like
43:57
Speaker 1: stomps repeatedly on the table, and she says, you shut
44:00
Speaker 1: the door. Are you making fun of me? Sin's like yeah.
44:06
Speaker 1: The girl squeals and she turns away, and she says
44:10
Speaker 1: this is the problem with lowborn people from the Republic.
44:13
Speaker 1: Right In looks over at Ernst, who is just dying
44:17
Speaker 1: of shame and right and says, is this your daughter?
44:21
Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but you need to discipline
44:24
Speaker 1: her better. Ernest says like, oh no, she's not my daughter.
44:28
Speaker 1: The girl turns back around and she's like, do you
44:30
Speaker 1: really think I'm the daughter of this lowly bureaucrat? I'm
44:34
Speaker 1: and Ernst raises his hand to stop her and says
44:37
Speaker 1: Frederica Rosenfort. Fredrika looks confused, and Ernest says, something's happened.
44:46
Speaker 1: So she's staying here. Frederica looks away, maybe upset, but
44:51
Speaker 1: then we cut to her shoving tons of cookies in
44:54
Speaker 1: her mouth, like I guess they're like little cookies. So
44:57
Speaker 1: she just keeps taking cookies like one after the other
45:01
Speaker 1: and just throwing them into her mouth. And everyone else
45:05
Speaker 1: except for Ernst, is sitting on a couch just like
45:08
Speaker 1: totally confused. And Ernst is sitting with Fredrika like a
45:11
Speaker 1: little table, and Ernest says, it's annoying to explain to everyone,
45:15
Speaker 1: so I just have her down on paper as my daughter.
45:18
Speaker 1: A maid kind of comes in and sets down some
45:20
Speaker 1: beverages and cookies on the coffee table for Spearhead, and
45:24
Speaker 1: Ernest continues, but regardless, you'll be living together for a while,
45:28
Speaker 1: so i'd appreciate you think of her as a slightly
45:30
Speaker 1: naive little sister. Ah. Frederica drinks an entire glass of lemonade,
45:35
Speaker 1: and she's like ah, ride and chuckles and says little sister. Huh.
45:41
Speaker 1: Ernst is like, oh, and on paper, I've adopted you,
45:43
Speaker 1: so you can call me dad if you want. He
45:45
Speaker 1: smiles widely, but this is only met with disdain from
45:48
Speaker 1: all of Spearhead, especially Korena and Ryden, who look like
45:51
Speaker 1: they want to kill him, and they're just staring at
45:55
Speaker 1: him as Frederica continues to devour cookies, except she's finished hers,
45:59
Speaker 1: so she's moved moved to the coffee table now, and
46:01
Speaker 1: Earn's just like, I'm joking. Yeah, I don't think so, dude.
46:06
Speaker 1: Shin stares at Frederica as she eats, and Fredrika notices
46:10
Speaker 1: this and looks up at him and says, what's that
46:13
Speaker 1: on your neck? Fuck you? Fredrika. Shin gives her the
46:18
Speaker 1: dirtiest look I've ever seen. She didn't give anyone because
46:21
Speaker 1: he doesn't tend to do that. And Ernst stands and
46:24
Speaker 1: is like, Frederica, no, I told you their situation. You
46:28
Speaker 1: have wounds. You don't want touch it either. Oh. Fredrika
46:31
Speaker 1: looks pissed, and she kind of goes hmmm and looks away,
46:35
Speaker 1: and she stands and says, I'm the cute little sister
46:38
Speaker 1: you've been given to heal your wounds. She's kind of
46:40
Speaker 1: walking over towards Shin the family and home and happiness
46:44
Speaker 1: you've lost the noble and compassionate Vetteracy is willing to
46:47
Speaker 1: give you. Be very nice to me. Big brothers and sisters. Yeah,
46:52
Speaker 1: in case you're not getting this, she does not talk
46:55
Speaker 1: like a child. She sounds like a child, like she's
46:58
Speaker 1: got a little tiny voice, but she is talking like
47:01
Speaker 1: she is royalty. Anyway, Shin grabs her and starts like
47:07
Speaker 1: furiously rubbing her head and she squeals, and then we
47:11
Speaker 1: cut to her like burying her face in the maid's
47:13
Speaker 1: stomach and like crying and saying, Teresa, they're so mean.
47:18
Speaker 1: And Teresa's like, yeah, I get it, Frederica. Everything that
47:22
Speaker 1: just happened was your own fault. Good. Frederica, who is
47:27
Speaker 1: totally muffled by Teresa's dress, says, that's not What's what?
47:32
Speaker 1: And Teresa says, I'm Teresa. I'll be taking care of you.
47:36
Speaker 1: She bows to them. She is blonde hair and blue eyes,
47:38
Speaker 1: and she's kind of middle aged. By the way. Spearhead
47:40
Speaker 1: looks so fucking confused though, and Teresa says, welcome home everyone.
47:46
Speaker 1: We now see the dining room and we kind of
47:49
Speaker 1: have this above shot and Fredrika is at the table
47:52
Speaker 1: and Teresa it looks like she's cleaning up from dinner,
47:55
Speaker 1: and Frederica says, I'm bored. They want to sleep so early.
48:00
Speaker 1: We cut to Shin laying in bed in a darkened room,
48:02
Speaker 1: clearly not sleeping, and in the foreground of the shot
48:06
Speaker 1: is his like torn up bandana which he still has,
48:09
Speaker 1: which is now he might want to wear again because
48:12
Speaker 1: apparently people are gonna come in on a scar And
48:16
Speaker 1: at this point the credits start rolling and we hear
48:18
Speaker 1: someone knocking his door. He looks over and then he
48:21
Speaker 1: goes to open it and it is Ernest, and Ernest says, sorry,
48:25
Speaker 1: I know you're tired. I was holding onto this. It
48:28
Speaker 1: was in your war machine. We don't see what he
48:31
Speaker 1: has in his hand, but Shin does, and his eyes
48:34
Speaker 1: widen and he gasps, and Ernt says, is it yours.
48:40
Speaker 1: Shin doesn't say anything, and it's just like after a
48:44
Speaker 1: long time, Shin just says yes. We go back to
48:48
Speaker 1: Teresa pouring coffee in the dining room and Frederica is
48:52
Speaker 1: still there. Ernst walks in and says, thank you, Teresa.
48:56
Speaker 1: Teresa's like not at all, sir. Kids that age eat
48:59
Speaker 1: a lot. It's fun to cook for them. Ernest sits
49:02
Speaker 1: down at the head of the table next to Frederica,
49:05
Speaker 1: who is drawing, and says, I'm sorry. This will likely
49:09
Speaker 1: be difficult, Teresa says, not at all. Again, serving you
49:13
Speaker 1: as my job. She puts a cup of coffee down
49:16
Speaker 1: in front of him. Ernest looks down at the coffee,
49:19
Speaker 1: concerned and says, do you think it's a stupid way
49:22
Speaker 1: of trying to compensate for things that I'm using them
49:26
Speaker 1: as a replacement? Oh? Fuck yeah. I assume the people
49:30
Speaker 1: he loved in his life are dead. Great Teresa, whose
49:33
Speaker 1: reflection we're seeing in the cup of coffee, says no,
49:36
Speaker 1: they could never be. That. Every person is their own,
49:39
Speaker 1: irreplaceable individual. Frederica is like, but still, people try to
49:44
Speaker 1: bury the past in whatever way they can. Ernest picks
49:47
Speaker 1: up his coffee. Whom are you talking to? Empress Frederica's
49:53
Speaker 1: eyes narrow. We see that she has been drawing herself
49:59
Speaker 1: standing with you're head looking happy. She is real messed up.
50:06
Speaker 1: We cut back to Shin, who is sitting at the
50:08
Speaker 1: edge of his bed, still in the dark, staring down
50:12
Speaker 1: at the object in his hands in just abject horror,
50:16
Speaker 1: and we hear Fredrika say, Katy, it's the piece of
50:20
Speaker 1: races Juggernaut, and then we go to the opening theme,
50:23
Speaker 1: which is at the end this time. Yay, So the
50:27
Speaker 1: opening theme is kil Kaisen by Amazarashi, and I like
50:33
Speaker 1: this song, and I think this opening is fucking great,
50:36
Speaker 1: better than the first one, one of my favorite openings
50:38
Speaker 1: just in general. It's really good. We get some really
50:43
Speaker 1: cool shots that are like the duality of this world,
50:47
Speaker 1: where you have both like a beautiful city at the
50:50
Speaker 1: top of the frame and like a destroyed one at
50:52
Speaker 1: the bottom, and then like on the left side of
50:54
Speaker 1: the frame you have someone's like dead hand lying on
50:58
Speaker 1: the ground, and then on the right side hands pointing
51:02
Speaker 1: up at fireworks, and then on the left side an explosion.
51:06
Speaker 1: On the right side someone looking out a window at sunset,
51:09
Speaker 1: drinking wine. And then we have this really fucking awesome
51:13
Speaker 1: shot of all these people holding their heads with flowers
51:17
Speaker 1: growing out of their necks. I love it. And then
51:20
Speaker 1: they just explode, I mean, like there's an explosion behind
51:22
Speaker 1: them and like the legion rush through. It's just really cool.
51:26
Speaker 1: It didn't need to be this cool, because I kind
51:28
Speaker 1: of feel like the first opening was fine. It could
51:30
Speaker 1: have just been fine level opening. But I think this
51:33
Speaker 1: is great. If you haven't seen it, go look at it.
51:36
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know. You probably saw it because
51:38
Speaker 1: you watch in this episode, right, also noticeable in the opening,
51:41
Speaker 1: and there's some new characters. We focus a lot on Shin,
51:44
Speaker 1: we see Lena's back a lot. There's some train tracks
51:47
Speaker 1: which we really love showing. And then there's like someone
51:51
Speaker 1: touching a like a stone memorial with Kaye's name on it,
51:55
Speaker 1: which is pretty fucking cool because they don't have memorials
51:59
Speaker 1: are great, So I don't know what that means. That's over,
52:03
Speaker 1: and then we get the next episode title card, which
52:05
Speaker 1: is it's too late, which doesn't sound promising honestly, and
52:10
Speaker 1: that's the end of the episode. Yeay. Closing thoughts, there's
52:14
Speaker 1: not a lot I want to say here because I
52:15
Speaker 1: kind of said it throughout the episode, but really interesting
52:18
Speaker 1: start to the second half of the first season, with
52:22
Speaker 1: you know, like the front half being the repeat of
52:27
Speaker 1: the first episode with a very significant difference in Lena's
52:31
Speaker 1: demeanor and who she's working with, and really making me
52:34
Speaker 1: think that we were never gonna see the old Spearhead
52:37
Speaker 1: again and that we were just going to do this
52:40
Speaker 1: new group with Cyclops, which would have sucked. Honestly, I
52:43
Speaker 1: don't know what I would have done. I mean, it
52:45
Speaker 1: would have been fine, but I like don't want a
52:47
Speaker 1: show that like we just constantly go through characters and
52:50
Speaker 1: kill them off, Like I don't want to your eternity. No, no,
52:54
Speaker 1: I don't want Lena to be the only person who
52:55
Speaker 1: lives and everyone around her constantly dies and we get
52:58
Speaker 1: to like them and all that shit. No, Oh, not
53:00
Speaker 1: my show, not what I want. So super happy to
53:03
Speaker 1: see them alive. Yeah, I don't even know if there's
53:06
Speaker 1: anything else. I hope everyone's gonna be okay. Are you
53:09
Speaker 1: worried about Ernest? Are you worried that? He seems way
53:12
Speaker 1: too nice sometimes? And sometimes I'm afraid of him because
53:17
Speaker 1: maybe he's just doing all of this because it feels
53:19
Speaker 1: like that's what he's supposed to do, like when he
53:21
Speaker 1: was talking about like how the country was supposed to be,
53:23
Speaker 1: but it didn't feel natural. Maybe he's dangerous, but he
53:27
Speaker 1: is letting them live with them, and he's letting this
53:29
Speaker 1: empress person the princess live with him too, even though
53:34
Speaker 1: they ousted those people. So maybe he's a good guy,
53:37
Speaker 1: or maybe he's just trying to compensate for the fact
53:40
Speaker 1: that he probably all his family died, is what it
53:42
Speaker 1: seems like. I don't know. I don't know what kind
53:44
Speaker 1: of person he is. We're seeing very many sides of
53:46
Speaker 1: him very quickly, and it's one of those things where like,
53:49
Speaker 1: is this all real? Is some of it real? Is
53:52
Speaker 1: he lying? Sometimes? So? I guess we'll see where that goes.
53:55
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously I know, but you don't know, or
53:58
Speaker 1: you do, and you think it's weird that I'm saying
54:01
Speaker 1: I don't know, or you're saying I know. I don't
54:03
Speaker 1: really know what you're doing because I can't see you
54:05
Speaker 1: or hear you. I'm not even really sure you're there.
54:09
Speaker 1: I could just be talking to no one, which would
54:11
Speaker 1: be fine, I mean sad, but I deserve that probably,
54:15
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's really all I got. I hope that
54:20
Speaker 1: you're enjoying this. Okay. We got several episodes left, so
54:23
Speaker 1: hopefully you're not like, oh my god, I fucking hate
54:26
Speaker 1: all these characters and I don't care what happens to
54:29
Speaker 1: them because that would make me very sad. But your
54:33
Speaker 1: point is probably valid, and I respect you for it,
54:35
Speaker 1: even if that's the way that you feel. So anyway,
54:38
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go make some dinner, I guess, because it's
54:41
Speaker 1: time for me to eat dinner. I guess, yay, And
54:46
Speaker 1: go find my cat and make her dinner because it's
54:48
Speaker 1: time for hurdle. Also eat dinner. And I hope you
54:51
Speaker 1: have a really good whatever. Please please have a good whatever.
54:56
Speaker 1: I'm begging you. I don't see you again the next week.
55:01
Speaker 1: As long as we're still alive, both of us would
55:05
Speaker 1: have to be alive for us to do this again,
55:08
Speaker 1: so you need to stay alive too, and I will
55:11
Speaker 1: also try to stay alive. But that was weird. Later
55:14
Speaker 1: weeps