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86 [Eighty-Six] Ep.14- Glad to be Here · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. Again, how are you doing
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Speaker 1: That's really good or bad? If you just said terrible,
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Speaker 1: because I would feel really bad if you said, like,
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Speaker 1: oh man, everything sucks. And I was like good, because
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Speaker 1: I've actually had that happen to me before, when people
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Speaker 1: have asked me how I am and I say like, wow,
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Speaker 1: I'm really not good, and they don't know what to say,
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Speaker 1: so they just say the thing that they were gonna
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Speaker 1: say for, you know, fine or okay or good. So
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Speaker 1: that's always awkward and then they don't catch it either,
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Speaker 1: and we just go on with our lives confused. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: now you know that, I guess for some reason. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: everything still sucks over here. Still don't know what's wrong
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Speaker 1: with me. But I did have something really exciting happened
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Speaker 1: last night that I don't think you're gonna care about.
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Speaker 1: Last night, at like nine o'clock, I started hearing like
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Speaker 1: these crazy, weird noises outside, and I ran over to
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Speaker 1: my window and they were all these little owls perched
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Speaker 1: on my fence, screaming at each other. I've never seen
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Speaker 1: an owl before in real life, so I got super excited,
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Speaker 1: and then I spent like a good half hour trying
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Speaker 1: to figure out what kind of owls they were because
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Speaker 1: they seemed like they were like young ones, and also
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Speaker 1: they were very small, so I think I saw Eastern
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Speaker 1: screech owls. Yay, now you know that, and you definitely
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Speaker 1: didn't want to, so I'm sorry. But aside from that,
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Speaker 1: I don't have anything else to talk about except for
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Speaker 1: what we are supposed to talk about, which is episode
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Speaker 1: fourteen of eighty six. So episode fourteen is called Glad
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Speaker 1: to Be Here, which sounds like a really positive episode, right,
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Speaker 1: so we'll see if it can actually be positive, because
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Speaker 1: I don't think so. If you remember from last week,
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Speaker 1: we ended with them going off to like that's officers
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Speaker 1: school or wherever they were going because they want to
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Speaker 1: go back to war, which is understandable but like really sad,
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Speaker 1: So we don't pick up at the same spot at all. Actually,
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Speaker 1: we start with the opening theme again awesome. Back from
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Speaker 1: the opening into the actual episode, we see a screen
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Speaker 1: with like green lines on it, kind of like maybe
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Speaker 1: they're sight lines for gun or something like you know,
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Speaker 1: kind of measuring lines or whatever, and the sightlines are
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Speaker 1: kind of like pointed, like they have like a legion
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Speaker 1: thing in their crossairs. And legion thing looks like it's
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Speaker 1: in like a bubble or something, which is really confusing.
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Speaker 1: And beyond the legion there's like smoke and shit, so
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Speaker 1: it's like we're in a battle, and I mean obviously
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Speaker 1: because we see a legion. So we see into the
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Speaker 1: cockpit of one of the max Vanaganders or whatever they're called,
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Speaker 1: and Eugene is there and somebody else is there too,
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Speaker 1: but we can't see their face. We just have like
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Speaker 1: the bottom of like their mouth and chin and stuff,
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Speaker 1: so we don't really know who they are. Anyway, I
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Speaker 1: guess the Vanigander thing shoots and it hits the legion
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Speaker 1: in the bubble, which is confusing. Then we see a
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Speaker 1: dude in a tent with binoculars and like two other
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Speaker 1: guys with him, and the guy goes, okay, good, now
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Speaker 1: further back. So I think what happened there is there
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Speaker 1: was like a legion dummy thing, like a blow up
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Speaker 1: legion or something. It was very odd, but I understand
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Speaker 1: how that could work. Anyway. It says that this is
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Speaker 1: the Special Officers' School tactical practice grounds, all right, and
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Speaker 1: the guy with the vernoculars is like push them back
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Speaker 1: the area that they're in is just like a big
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Speaker 1: barren field with like some inclines, like maybe little hills
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Speaker 1: and things, and the Vanangander like mechs start to move
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Speaker 1: and stuff, and they're all like Roger, we see that
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Speaker 1: screen with the crosshairs again like from the vanangander's perspective,
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Speaker 1: and there are like some hills in front of them,
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Speaker 1: so they like don't have a clear view. And Eugene
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Speaker 1: sighs and he's like, do we go around? The other person,
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Speaker 1: who we still can't see, just kind of looks off
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Speaker 1: to the side, and then I think we cut to
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Speaker 1: another Vanigander, not the same one, like coming over a
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Speaker 1: ledge and someone says, just wait, you pieces of scrap.
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Speaker 1: It like crawls forward, and the person says, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: blow a giant hole in your ass. It doesn't have
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Speaker 1: an ass, but that's okay. We see that the person
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Speaker 1: who does not know the anatomy of the legion is
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Speaker 1: this like red haired kid and he is in a
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Speaker 1: cockpit with a blonde haired guy and they are like
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Speaker 1: speeding over hill and they get to, you know, the
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Speaker 1: precipice of the hill and realize it's not a hill,
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Speaker 1: it's a cliff. And they just start plumbing down, and
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Speaker 1: the blonde guy's like, hey, marcell, we're gonna crash. The
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Speaker 1: red haired guy looks terrified because they're free falling now
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Speaker 1: and they're about to smash into a vanigander who's just
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Speaker 1: hanging out at the bottom not doing anything wrong. Unfortunately
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Speaker 1: for Eugene, his vanagander is the one that's at the
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Speaker 1: bottom with the thing about to hit into it. And
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Speaker 1: he looks over at his co pilot, which by this
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Speaker 1: point I am pretty sure is Shin, just based on
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Speaker 1: his space shape, and the dude that's probably Shin sighs,
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Speaker 1: and he takes his vanigander up the fucking cliff, like
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Speaker 1: vertically up the cliff and like backflips over or the
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Speaker 1: falling guys, so they're like jumped over them or some things,
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Speaker 1: you know, so that the falling eyes aren't gonna hit
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Speaker 1: them anymore. And this is like in slow motion, and
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Speaker 1: the guy with the binocular and his other people over
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Speaker 1: there are like shocked, because what the fuck. So they're
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Speaker 1: like doing this in slow motion, and Eugene just looks
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Speaker 1: like totally like what the fuck, and Shin, who we
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Speaker 1: can see now, looks very calm because this is what
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Speaker 1: he does. They land super hard, and Eugene gets kind
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Speaker 1: of like knocked around, but Shin is fine because he
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Speaker 1: was totally braced for impact, so they have avoided crashing
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Speaker 1: into those other people. Buts the Vanigander just kind of
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Speaker 1: collapses because I think they probably broke its legs, because
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Speaker 1: that's what Shin does. He breaks legs of mechs the
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Speaker 1: blonde guy in the cockpit with the red haired guy.
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Speaker 1: I guess they have landed now and not crashed. So
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Speaker 1: the blonde guy says, we're saved. Eugene is kind of
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Speaker 1: like holding his head like it hurts, and he also
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Speaker 1: is helmet. They all have helmets on, which is nice
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Speaker 1: because you know, in the Republic they didn't get helmets,
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Speaker 1: so yay. But anyway, he's hurt himself and he says
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Speaker 1: like oh, and Shin's like sorry, Eugene. Eugene looks over
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Speaker 1: and Sin says you okay. Eugene's like, I think so,
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Speaker 1: and then we hear someone say, what the hell are
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Speaker 1: you doing? Get out of there right now. It was
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Speaker 1: pretty cool, though, you gotta admit that anyway. Next we
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Speaker 1: see Shin, Eugene, Marcel, the red haired guy, and the
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Speaker 1: blond dude who we don't have a name for standing
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Speaker 1: at attention in like a little tent. And it's important
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Speaker 1: to point out that Shin has started wearing his bandana again,
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Speaker 1: which I don't know how you feel about that. I
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Speaker 1: don't feel great about it, you know. I think the
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Speaker 1: bandana represented a lot of like pain and suffering on
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Speaker 1: his end, so seeing him wear it again makes me uncomfortable.
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Speaker 1: But I also get it because like he's got that
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Speaker 1: really prominent scar that shouldn't exist, So I understand not
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Speaker 1: wanting to have to constantly explain why he has the scar,
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Speaker 1: even though people should be nice enough not to just
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Speaker 1: constantly ask him. They're not, so I get it, but
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Speaker 1: I'm a little bit worried, is what I'm saying. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: they're standing at attention and they all look freaked out
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Speaker 1: and they're like sweating, except for Chin, who doesn't care
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Speaker 1: at all. And there's this military guy with glasses and
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Speaker 1: hat like standing in front of them with his arms crossed,
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Speaker 1: and we see that it is February eleventh, twenty one
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Speaker 1: forty nine, so just a little bit more than a
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Speaker 1: month since they've left to go to school. And the
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Speaker 1: guy's like Cadet Marcel, what the hell was that? Marcel's like,
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Speaker 1: I wanted to get behind the enemy. The guy says,
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Speaker 1: it's so you went over the hill, exposing your felld
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Speaker 1: ReBs belly to the enemy. Fire. Guys, I don't know
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Speaker 1: what these things are called. Are they felld ReBs? Are
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Speaker 1: they Vaniganders? I'm not sure? How come they have multiple names.
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Speaker 1: I'm doing my best here. Marcel lowers his head in shame,
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Speaker 1: and the guy continues, you're great for this. Exercises at zero,
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Speaker 1: go back to basic. Marcel straightens up and says, yes, sir.
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Speaker 1: The guy continues, next Cadet Nosen jumping in a Vanagander?
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Speaker 1: Are you insane? Are you trying to destroy it? And
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Speaker 1: Shin's like, I judge that it was the only way
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Speaker 1: to avoid collision. The guy's like, hmm. Shin continues, it's
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Speaker 1: better to lose the legs on one than lose both
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Speaker 1: all together. Yeah, that's Shin, definitely, And Eugene's like, Shin,
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Speaker 1: The guy says, true, they just all kind of gasp
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Speaker 1: and the guy continues, I'll give you credit for avoiding
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Speaker 1: a collision, but you still engaged in dangerous piloting. So
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Speaker 1: you get a zero two, got it? Shin says, yes, sir.
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Speaker 1: Marcel looks away kind of annoyed, and then we cut
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Speaker 1: to Shin and Eugene, who are walking out of the tents.
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Speaker 1: I guess Marcel and the blonde guy are still inside.
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Speaker 1: Eugene sighs and rubs his head, and then we hear
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Speaker 1: Marcel say nose it. They both turn back because Marcel
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Speaker 1: and blonde guy are now coming out of the tent,
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Speaker 1: and Marcel, who has green eyes and like spiky red
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Speaker 1: I couldn't tell exactly because he had a helmet on before,
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Speaker 1: says I'm not gonna thank you what and Shin's just like,
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Speaker 1: I don't need you to. Marcel continues for one thing,
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Speaker 1: you didn't need to dodge, I could a Shin cuts
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Speaker 1: him off. I said you don't need to. Marcel at
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Speaker 1: this point is shaking with rage, and he pushes himself
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Speaker 1: between Shin and Eugene and he grabs Eugene by the
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Speaker 1: arm and he's like, let's go, Eugene, come with me. Jeez.
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Speaker 1: Eugene looks totally confused as Marcell leads him off, but
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Speaker 1: like he could have like stopped. He didn't have to
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Speaker 1: go with him. You're both adults anyway, Shin just kind
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Speaker 1: of watches them go, like Shin does. And then we
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Speaker 1: see that blonde woman from like last episode. She has
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Speaker 1: like short blonde hair. She's like standing over by a jeep,
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Speaker 1: like a little bit away from Shin, and she says,
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Speaker 1: it's nice being young, isn't it. Shin looks over and
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Speaker 1: then starts to walk towards her and says, is that
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Speaker 1: how it looks to you? The blonde's like, you're so cold.
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Speaker 1: Shin sighs and like walks past her and says, what
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Speaker 1: is it today? The Blonde's like, I want you to
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Speaker 1: come with me again. I got permission. Shin opens the
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Speaker 1: door to the jeep and gets in, and then we
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Speaker 1: cuts it to a like darkish room with a close
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Speaker 1: up of a bunch of people's torsos, and that's pretty
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Speaker 1: much it. And we hear Marcel say, Eugene, you need
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Speaker 1: to put some distance between you. We knowsin We can
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Speaker 1: see now that they're outside, like standing in the shade
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Speaker 1: of a tree kind of near one of the buildings,
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Speaker 1: and Eugene's like why. The blonde guy says, you know
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Speaker 1: about the new feldrub The eighty six are working on
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Speaker 1: with R and D. Marcel's like, those things are insane.
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Speaker 1: They're based on the Republic's designs, which don't factor in
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Speaker 1: pilot safety at all. We cut to Corna and you
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Speaker 1: and some other I think, all women sitting in a
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Speaker 1: room kind of lits blue, like probably by a screen
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Speaker 1: that they're looking at, and we hear Marcel say, they
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Speaker 1: say a dozen of its test pilots have already died,
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Speaker 1: but none of them got hurt at all. Okay, I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's good that they didn't get it hurts, and it's
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Speaker 1: very bad that possibly twelve people died testing it, and
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Speaker 1: maybe they should think about changing the design or changing
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Speaker 1: their tests instead of just wasting all of these human lives.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that seems like something to be upset about.
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Speaker 1: Not that Spearhead is okay. Anyway. We see right in
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Speaker 1: and THEO like walking outside somewhere with their gear like
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Speaker 1: over their shoulder, like in a backpack or something, and
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Speaker 1: they're wearing coats, and Eugene says that's just a rumor.
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Speaker 1: Marcell's like, yeah. We cut to like one of those
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Speaker 1: like paper targets that use it a target range and
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Speaker 1: has some like holes in it. And stuff, and we
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Speaker 1: see Shin walk into a booth in the shooting range
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Speaker 1: and Marcel continues, but he gives me a bad feeling.
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Speaker 1: Shin goes to reach for the gun. Marcel says, it's
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Speaker 1: almost as if Eugene says, as if what Marcel is
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Speaker 1: now holding his hand to his face, kind of maybe
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Speaker 1: almost biting his thumbnail, looking really worried. Then we go
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Speaker 1: back to Shin as he aims, and Marcel says, as
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Speaker 1: if he's the reaper. Oh, well, I mean, you're right,
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Speaker 1: but I don't think you meant that in a good way.
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Speaker 1: We get a close up on Shin and you know,
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Speaker 1: basically just his gun aiming at the camera and a
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Speaker 1: little bit of his mouth as he shoots. We see
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Speaker 1: the explosion from the gun, which transitions into the ceiling,
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Speaker 1: maybe like a metal ceiling near a vandigander. Yeah, So
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Speaker 1: Shin is in a cockpit and the cockpits open and
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Speaker 1: the rest of Spearhead is standing around him and they're
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Speaker 1: all just kind of staring solemnly. We hear the blonde
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Speaker 1: woman say, are you guys ready for a trip? And
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Speaker 1: they all look over. We cut to the sunsets and
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Speaker 1: like a truck or something, driving out carrying something really
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Speaker 1: big under a sheet and it is April first, twenty one,
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Speaker 1: forty nine, so a couple of months later. And inside
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Speaker 1: like the covered portion of the truck, not under the
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Speaker 1: blanket or whatever, but like a back area of the truck.
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Speaker 1: All of Spearhead is just kind of sitting together as
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Speaker 1: they ride out and ride and says how far are
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Speaker 1: we going? Karina is like, is this a training exercise?
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Speaker 1: THEO says, no idea, nonj just like, but something's on
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Speaker 1: those trucks right Shin's eyes narrow. Theo's like, oh, with
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Speaker 1: a tarp over it. We cut to the top of
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Speaker 1: some metal and glass structure. We're just seeing like the
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Speaker 1: peaks of it. So it doesn't, you know, register is
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Speaker 1: anything that makes sense. It's a structure. And there is
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Speaker 1: like two butterflies like flying right above like a pole
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Speaker 1: or rejoiced or something at the top, which is cute.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what they're doing. We see the blonde
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Speaker 1: woman like walking up a grassy hill and Spearhead is
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Speaker 1: behind her and she says, when you came through this
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Speaker 1: place was still under Legion control. Oh, they're gaining territory back.
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Speaker 1: Yay Chin stops walking for a second and gasps, and
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Speaker 1: he starts to walk again, and we see that there's
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Speaker 1: this glass kind of like circular structure, like it's really big,
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Speaker 1: and it has things inside and they kind of look
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Speaker 1: like juggernauts. And the blonde woman says, when we moved
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Speaker 1: up the battlefields and found these stranded republic Veeldrup, there
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Speaker 1: was a plate among them with names on it. Oh so,
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Speaker 1: along with their juggernauts in this glass enclosure is a
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Speaker 1: large stone with like lots of names carved into it,
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Speaker 1: And the blonde woman continues, in the Federacy, when someone
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Speaker 1: dies in battle, their name is engraved on a memorial
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Speaker 1: at the National Cemetery, we decided that the names of
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Speaker 1: your comrades on the plate, all five hundred and seventy
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Speaker 1: five of them, should be recorded here. So we did this. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. We're looking pretty close up at the
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Speaker 1: stone right now, and I can see Haduto's name and
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Speaker 1: Lekka and then just a bunch of other that I
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Speaker 1: don't recognize. And also I'm not clear about what this
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Speaker 1: plate is. I assume there's like a weird mistranslation here.
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Speaker 1: And she means, like the little scrap metal pieces, so
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Speaker 1: lots of little plates. I don't know anyway, she continues,
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Speaker 1: don't worry. After we recorded the names on the plate,
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Speaker 1: we've returned them to their original spots. What do you think.
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Speaker 1: They're all just staring at this like totally solemnly, and
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Speaker 1: finally Shin says, thank you for your concern. The blonde
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Speaker 1: woman looks at them for a second, actually possibly concerned,
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Speaker 1: and then says, but you've graduated the Special Officer School,
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Speaker 1: so you're part of the giod Federacy military. Now, now
15:25
Speaker 1: we can see in this display, I think Fido is there.
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Speaker 1: There's a large robot, Fido style robot, so that's probably
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Speaker 1: really uncomfortable for everybody. And the blonde woman continues, and
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Speaker 1: before long, you'll be sent into battle. We see that
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Speaker 1: Shin's toolbox is also within the display. The blonde continues,
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Speaker 1: You'll be working in the NORDLCH Squadron, which is under
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Speaker 1: my command. I'm Lieutenant Colonel greth Wenzel, commander of the
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Speaker 1: oneenty twenty eighth Test Units. Glad to be working with
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Speaker 1: all of you. Shinn says, thank you, and then we
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Speaker 1: hear Frederica just like squeal, and they all look over,
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Speaker 1: and we hear Frederica say, hey, you didn't need to
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Speaker 1: throw us off. Andre's like, Frederica, Frederica flinches and she
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Speaker 1: kind of makes an eke sound. She's sitting on the
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Speaker 1: ground in front of the thing with the black tarp
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Speaker 1: on it that we're wondering what it is, and we
16:19
Speaker 1: can see that there's a glowing red light kind of
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Speaker 1: coming through the black tarp and Theo's like, what is that.
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Speaker 1: Frederica says, don't look, this is a surprise. Karina says,
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Speaker 1: a surprise. Frederic is like, that's right. The tarped object
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Speaker 1: just jumps over her though, straight towards them, and the
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Speaker 1: tarp just flings off, and it's fucking Fido. What. Shin
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Speaker 1: gasps and right AND's like what is that? THEO says
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Speaker 1: a scavenger, I think, Andrew says that's Republic Tech and
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Speaker 1: Karina says why and Shin's like Fido and they're all
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Speaker 1: like what. Aunt Ju says, what are you saying, Shin?
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Speaker 1: And Rydan's like, do you name all your pets the
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Speaker 1: same thing? Frederica's like, no, this is Fido, the one
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Speaker 1: that was with you, and they're all like what again,
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Speaker 1: Frederica says, we found it and discovered that its core
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Speaker 1: was intact. Greath rebuilt it. Greth kind of chuckles, and
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Speaker 1: Frederica continues, we replaced the mechanical parts, but this is
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Speaker 1: the real Fido. Okay, So, like I guess, in the
17:26
Speaker 1: enclosure is like Fido's old body, and then they gave
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Speaker 1: him a new body. I don't really know anyway. Greath
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Speaker 1: says it looks the same, but it's actually several times
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Speaker 1: stronger theocids. No way. Frederica high fives Greth and her
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Speaker 1: hand is so tiny compared to Greth's, and she says
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Speaker 1: he also thought he was dead and he refused to
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Speaker 1: activate it first. He only turned on when we gave
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Speaker 1: him Shine's name. Shin starts to walk over towards Fido,
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Speaker 1: and we kind of get a flash of Shin kneeling
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Speaker 1: in front of dead Fido like the last time he
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Speaker 1: saw him, and he says, perform your mission until you
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Speaker 1: rust away. Now, Shin reaches Fido and he says, you're
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Speaker 1: still alive. Fido nods. Shin says, I ordered you to
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Speaker 1: do your mission until you rust it away. Fido kind
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Speaker 1: of slumps down like he's ashamed. And Shin kneels down
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Speaker 1: in front of him and looks into his red eye
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Speaker 1: camera thing. It says, but well, Fido beeps. Shin continues,
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Speaker 1: want to go home together once more? Ah, Fido like
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Speaker 1: jumps up and like runs and like tumbles down a
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Speaker 1: hill near them, and everyone's laughing and Theo's like I
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Speaker 1: saw that coming. Frederica says, shouldn't you be a little worried.
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Speaker 1: Karina's like that's right. Andrew says, it'd take more than
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Speaker 1: that to break Fido. Fido like runs back up the
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Speaker 1: hill towards Shin, and Frederica's like, I mean shine, and
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Speaker 1: Ryding's like, oh, he'll be fine. Andrew says, Shin knows
18:53
Speaker 1: how Fido moves. Fido is racing back and forth and
18:57
Speaker 1: like around Shin and everything. I guess what fred meant
19:00
Speaker 1: was that she was worried that Fido would hurt Shin,
19:04
Speaker 1: which is insane because he wouldn't anyway. Frederica is like, really,
19:08
Speaker 1: Shin is just like having the best time watching Fido
19:12
Speaker 1: like run around and he's smiling, and girl says, so
19:16
Speaker 1: he does know how to smile. Huh. Shin kind of
19:18
Speaker 1: chuckles as Fido beeps at him and Frederica, I guess
19:22
Speaker 1: is watching this, and she looks maybe sad. I don't know,
19:26
Speaker 1: it's kind of like this weird bittersweet expression on her face.
19:29
Speaker 1: And then we cut to the train tracks and I
19:32
Speaker 1: guess it's a little bit later because everything's blue, so
19:35
Speaker 1: I guess it's like blue hour, and THEO says, so, Frederica,
19:40
Speaker 1: why are you here? Frederica is like, because I'm your mascot.
19:44
Speaker 1: Oh okay. They're all walking together, like parallel down the
19:48
Speaker 1: train tracks, and Angue says mascot. Frederica is like, you
19:53
Speaker 1: didn't know they have young girls like me joining unit
19:56
Speaker 1: and eat and sleep with them. I don't think phrasing phrasing, Frederica.
20:02
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that was supposed to be innocence, but
20:04
Speaker 1: it creeps me out anyway. She continues. The unit becomes
20:08
Speaker 1: a found family and becomes willing to risk their lives
20:11
Speaker 1: for their beloved little daughter or sister. Groms it's a
20:15
Speaker 1: gad tradition. Theo's like, that's sickening. I'm with you THEO,
20:19
Speaker 1: and Karina says, do you mean? Frederica is like, yep,
20:23
Speaker 1: I'll be joining the oneenty twenty eighth test unit. Yay.
20:27
Speaker 1: I guess guys, yay, which means I'm your goddess of victory.
20:33
Speaker 1: They all kind of laugh in like a pained customer
20:36
Speaker 1: servicey way, and Frederica's like, why are you laughing? By
20:40
Speaker 1: the way, Shine, I have another surprise for you. She
20:44
Speaker 1: holds out his pistol towards him. Yeah, yeay. Shinn stares
20:49
Speaker 1: down at it, kind of in shock, and Frederica continues,
20:52
Speaker 1: I got it from Ernest. It's important to you, isn't it.
20:55
Speaker 1: So she's just been carrying that around? Does she know
20:59
Speaker 1: proper gun safe? Like no, Ernest should have given it
21:02
Speaker 1: to him directly. This is weird anyway. Shin smiles, but
21:07
Speaker 1: just very briefly, because I don't know how he feels
21:10
Speaker 1: about it. And he takes the gun and says, yeah, right,
21:14
Speaker 1: it's like welcome back, and then one by one the
21:17
Speaker 1: rest of Spearhead welcomes him back. Shin actually does look
21:21
Speaker 1: a little bit happy about this, and then we get
21:24
Speaker 1: the title card Episode fourteen, and we hear Chin say
21:28
Speaker 1: glad to be here. Yay. He did the title drop
21:31
Speaker 1: On the title screen, we cut to a black screen
21:34
Speaker 1: and it says that it is July twenty eighth twenty
21:36
Speaker 1: one forty nine, so a couple months further into their service.
21:40
Speaker 1: We have a shot of like the camera like racing
21:42
Speaker 1: through this barren battlefield, like it's all just dirt and shit,
21:46
Speaker 1: and there are like sparks in the air. I think,
21:49
Speaker 1: like we're in first person perspective, and a voy says
21:54
Speaker 1: enemy squadron incoming forty five seconds to contact. Another voice says,
21:58
Speaker 1: I'm not dying yet. A Vanagander or whatever foot lands
22:02
Speaker 1: on the ground and then we see that screen with
22:05
Speaker 1: like the sights on it and they are looking at
22:07
Speaker 1: a legion and the Legion sees them and turns and
22:11
Speaker 1: shoots at them. We see two Vananganders now walking and
22:14
Speaker 1: one of them gets hit and a voice like damn it.
22:17
Speaker 1: And then we see Eugene and some other guy in
22:19
Speaker 1: the cockpit, not shin, just some guy we don't know,
22:22
Speaker 1: and the guy's like, where's our suppression fire? So yeah,
22:27
Speaker 1: I don't know. But there are a lot of Legion
22:29
Speaker 1: now and they all have their guns like pointed right
22:32
Speaker 1: at them, and they start firing, and we hear someone
22:34
Speaker 1: say damn it. They're also firing on the legion. But
22:38
Speaker 1: then there's a big explosion that may or may not
22:40
Speaker 1: take out a Vanangander, or was not clear because they
22:42
Speaker 1: all look the same. We hear a guy say I'm
22:45
Speaker 1: not letting you take me with you, but then it
22:47
Speaker 1: looks like that vanangander gets blown up, so sorry, And
22:50
Speaker 1: then another one gets hit too, and then we see
22:52
Speaker 1: the Legion obscured by the smoke, with their blue lights
22:57
Speaker 1: just kind of piercing it, and they're closing in and
23:01
Speaker 1: Eugene narrows his eyes and clenches his teeth. The guy
23:04
Speaker 1: with him is like, how many of these damn things
23:07
Speaker 1: are there? There are a lot of them. They are
23:10
Speaker 1: just being barraged with fire, and we hear a voice
23:13
Speaker 1: say stand fast, even if you run, they'll catch you.
23:17
Speaker 1: Another voice says, I'm honored to die for my homeland
23:20
Speaker 1: and my comrades well, and then another Vanigander gets hit,
23:23
Speaker 1: So maybe that guy did die. I don't know. It's
23:25
Speaker 1: kind of hard to tell who's talking. We cut to
23:28
Speaker 1: a Vanigander running for its life and it didn't realize
23:32
Speaker 1: that the direction it was running in had legion, and
23:35
Speaker 1: so all of a sudden there's like legion on their
23:37
Speaker 1: left and Eugene turns in horror and he's like, no,
23:41
Speaker 1: And there's this giant legion thing that I don't know
23:44
Speaker 1: what it's called, aiming right for them, so at least
23:47
Speaker 1: now we know what vanangander we're looking at. But before
23:50
Speaker 1: it can fire on them, it gets hit Eugene size
23:54
Speaker 1: something beeps and he looks over and we see that
23:57
Speaker 1: there's this super fucking fast, light gray colored van Agon
24:00
Speaker 1: with Shin's insignia on it coming and Shin is doing
24:04
Speaker 1: things that Chin does, like he's hopping around and using
24:07
Speaker 1: his high frequency blade to cut off the big legion's
24:10
Speaker 1: head and firing and evading being fired at, and Eugene
24:15
Speaker 1: is just watching all this, probably very impressed because he
24:18
Speaker 1: should be. Shin is just shooting and taking them out,
24:21
Speaker 1: and Eugene says, that's the new Reagan Leaf, which looks
24:25
Speaker 1: exactly like a Juggernaut, by the way, like exactly like
24:28
Speaker 1: a juggernaut, like to the point that maybe I'll just
24:30
Speaker 1: refer to them as Juggernauts so it's not as hard
24:32
Speaker 1: and confusing. Anyway, Shin has done his job, and now
24:36
Speaker 1: there are just lots of dead legion everywhere, just burning,
24:40
Speaker 1: and the guy who's with Eugene says, the eighty six.
24:44
Speaker 1: He doesn't seem happy, and also he's using a slur
24:46
Speaker 1: that's not nice. I don't think they know that eighty
24:49
Speaker 1: six is not a nice term. But it's no excuse.
24:52
Speaker 1: Shin's Reagan Leaf or Juggernaut or whatever is standing amongst
24:56
Speaker 1: the carnage, and the guy says, the month stirs of
25:00
Speaker 1: the Republic. No, that's what. No. We cut to like
25:05
Speaker 1: a field with some red daisy like flowers growing in it,
25:09
Speaker 1: and Shin's feet hitting the round as he exits the
25:11
Speaker 1: cockpits and starts to walk forward. There's some woman there
25:15
Speaker 1: with like long brown hair that we don't know, and
25:18
Speaker 1: she says, lieutenants, you use the high frequency blade again,
25:21
Speaker 1: didn't you. Sin's like yeah. The woman who seems to
25:25
Speaker 1: be holding like a file of some sort says, stop
25:29
Speaker 1: up using that thing. I mean it's there to use, right.
25:33
Speaker 1: She pushes the file like into Shin's chest and he
25:37
Speaker 1: takes it, and she continues, we don't have a spare
25:40
Speaker 1: blade yet. Shin is like filling something out on this
25:44
Speaker 1: whatever paper that she gave him, and she continues and
25:48
Speaker 1: even besides that, the way you use it, Shin's like,
25:51
Speaker 1: it's fine. He hands her back the file and just
25:54
Speaker 1: pushes right past her and continues, the legion are going
25:58
Speaker 1: to withdraw. The woman's like what She looks over in
26:02
Speaker 1: the opposite direction, and the sun is getting very, very low,
26:05
Speaker 1: and the air is full of those little sparkles which
26:08
Speaker 1: maybe mean the battle's over, I don't really know, And
26:11
Speaker 1: there are plumes of smoke in the distance, and she
26:13
Speaker 1: just says, Roger, we see Shin getting into the back
26:17
Speaker 1: of a car of some sorts, and Frederica is in
26:20
Speaker 1: the front seat, leaning over the seat and looking at him,
26:23
Speaker 1: and she says, well done, shineh. Sin's like, you snuck
26:27
Speaker 1: in here again. Frederica says, you can't get rid of
26:30
Speaker 1: me by begging the repair crew to help you. Shin's like,
26:33
Speaker 1: I told you not to follow us onto the battlefield.
26:36
Speaker 1: Frederica makes a noise to communicate her annoyedness, and Sin continues,
26:41
Speaker 1: You're just a mascot, remember that. Frederica's like, you don't
26:45
Speaker 1: get to tell me that a commanding officer isn't supposed
26:48
Speaker 1: to go running alone off into enemy territory. It's a
26:51
Speaker 1: bad habit. Bernhold was just complaining. Shin looks up at
26:55
Speaker 1: the dude in the driver's seat. He has gray hair,
26:58
Speaker 1: but we cannot really see what he looks like. He's
27:00
Speaker 1: facing forward and he doesn't turn around, but he does
27:03
Speaker 1: kind of shrug like, either I don't know or it
27:07
Speaker 1: really is a bad habit. I'm not sure anyway. Frederica continues,
27:11
Speaker 1: are you listening, shineh? Shin refixes his stare over at Frederica,
27:16
Speaker 1: and Frederica says, you need to take care of yourself.
27:19
Speaker 1: Shin places his hand on top of Frederica's hat and
27:23
Speaker 1: just pushes it down over her face and she squeals
27:26
Speaker 1: and she's like struggling, which is weird because she could
27:29
Speaker 1: just take her hands and pull the hat back up,
27:32
Speaker 1: but she's not because she forgot you had hands for
27:34
Speaker 1: some reason. And she's just like, I can't get it off.
27:37
Speaker 1: Help me. Bernholtz. Bernholdt is just like, okay, okay, but
27:41
Speaker 1: you should wuiet down. Everyone's tired after days of fighting.
27:45
Speaker 1: Shin takes off the little bluetooth thing that he has,
27:48
Speaker 1: you know, on his ear, and lays back in his
27:51
Speaker 1: seat and closes his eyes. Frederica's like, yeah, I'm sorry.
27:55
Speaker 1: We cut to coffee being poured into a cup and
27:58
Speaker 1: we hear a voice say, hey, what are Norlich doing here?
28:02
Speaker 1: We get a super close up of Eugene's eye as
28:04
Speaker 1: he's kind of looking over to the side, and then
28:07
Speaker 1: we get an outside shot of this entire base, which
28:10
Speaker 1: has a bunch of green roofed buildings and stuff like that,
28:13
Speaker 1: like a military base mite, and we see that it
28:16
Speaker 1: is GEOD Federacy Forward Operations Base fifteen f OB fifteen. Thanks,
28:22
Speaker 1: I guess, and we hear someone say we sent out
28:25
Speaker 1: a request for help yesterday. Right there's this guy with
28:27
Speaker 1: brown hair, and he says, a second lieutenant running a
28:30
Speaker 1: whole battlefield. It's hard to tell where this is, but
28:33
Speaker 1: I'm assuming since there was coffee and I think there
28:36
Speaker 1: are tables, that it is a dining hall. And the
28:40
Speaker 1: brown haired guy glances back at Shin, who is quite
28:44
Speaker 1: a bit of way sitting with Frederica in disgust. Another
28:49
Speaker 1: guy says, supposedly all of his superior officers died right now.
28:53
Speaker 1: It's at a squadron stapping level. The brown haired guy says,
28:57
Speaker 1: who killed them? I wonder, Hey, we see Shin's insignia
29:01
Speaker 1: on his mech and the other guy says, the headless
29:04
Speaker 1: skeleton possessed by a reaper creepy. I guess Eugene is
29:10
Speaker 1: holding his tray of foods standing. I guess he had
29:13
Speaker 1: just gotten coffee. So he's over by the beverages and
29:17
Speaker 1: he looks pretty fucking disgusted with them. He just kind
29:21
Speaker 1: of huffs. He starts to walk away from the beverages,
29:25
Speaker 1: and we see that Marcel is also getting a drink,
29:27
Speaker 1: maybe because he's standing by the beverages too, and he
29:30
Speaker 1: says stop at Eugene. Eugene looks back at Marcel, Sorry,
29:34
Speaker 1: you eat with the others, and he starts to walk away.
29:37
Speaker 1: We see Chin eating and we hear someone approaching, and
29:41
Speaker 1: Eugene says, can I sit here? Shin looks up. Sure, Eugene,
29:47
Speaker 1: you ended up here. Eugene puts down his tray and
29:49
Speaker 1: sits across from Shin. I got here last month. It's
29:52
Speaker 1: good to see you, Shin. Shin's like yeah. We hear
29:55
Speaker 1: Fredrika just moan and Eugene looks over and we see
29:59
Speaker 1: the that Frederica has completely finished her food on the tray,
30:04
Speaker 1: except that she has just like this whole pile of
30:06
Speaker 1: mushrooms and she's staring at them in a mix of
30:09
Speaker 1: like disgust and fear, and Shin says, if you can't
30:12
Speaker 1: eat them, don't force yourself. Frederica's like, but that'd be
30:16
Speaker 1: rude to the kitchen staff. Ah uh. Shin sighs, and
30:20
Speaker 1: he reaches over and grabs her tray and empties the
30:23
Speaker 1: mushrooms onto his tray. Frederica smiles and blushes and kind
30:27
Speaker 1: of squeals in joy, and then he hands her back
30:30
Speaker 1: the tray, which is almost empty except for one mushroom.
30:33
Speaker 1: Frederica makes a disgusted noise, and Schin says, then try harder.
30:38
Speaker 1: Frederica's kind of like, uugh. Eugene chuckles and he's like,
30:41
Speaker 1: you saved us yesterday. Chin says, huh oh, sorry, there
30:46
Speaker 1: were so many reports for help, I didn't even notice.
30:50
Speaker 1: Eugene's like, you're busy, huh. Schen says, busy enough for
30:53
Speaker 1: the squadron to be split up. Frederica finally puts the
30:56
Speaker 1: mushroom in her mouth with tears in her eyes, and you.
31:00
Speaker 1: Gene says, oh, that's why it's just the two of you.
31:03
Speaker 1: Frederica's like, hey, I remember you. Eugene says, you remembered me,
31:09
Speaker 1: which is weird. Frederica's like, of course, I heard you
31:12
Speaker 1: end up in Hine's class at school. Must have been hard.
31:16
Speaker 1: Eugene's like, yeah, he points his fork towards Shin. He's
31:20
Speaker 1: really cold and he never talks. Oh. Frederica nods. Eugene says,
31:26
Speaker 1: you never know what he's thinking. Frederica's like, I know,
31:29
Speaker 1: I know you talk to him, and he doesn't even
31:31
Speaker 1: look up from his book or say a word. If
31:33
Speaker 1: it's not something he's interested in, he won't even listen.
31:36
Speaker 1: Shin's just listening to them, and he takes a sip
31:37
Speaker 1: of coffee. Eugene's like, and he does really crazy stuff
31:41
Speaker 1: at weird times. Frederica says, that's right, that's right. Shin
31:46
Speaker 1: is just kind of eating the mushrooms. Now, Eugene continues,
31:49
Speaker 1: I think we'll get along. He holds out his hand.
31:52
Speaker 1: Let's be friends. Frederica takes his hand and says, it's
31:55
Speaker 1: a pleasure to meet you. Now. She grabs her really
31:59
Speaker 1: horrible bare and unzips it. I had no idea was
32:03
Speaker 1: a backpack, and then says, how that we take a
32:06
Speaker 1: photo to remember this day. She has like the cutest
32:09
Speaker 1: purple camera, by the way, and Eugene's like yeah, and
32:12
Speaker 1: he winks and makes a peace sign, like posing for her,
32:16
Speaker 1: and Shin is really not paying attention, and he goes
32:18
Speaker 1: to eat another mushroom and Frederica's like, shit, eh, he stops.
32:23
Speaker 1: He stops eating, and Eugene puts his arm around him.
32:26
Speaker 1: Frederica snaps a picture and smiles. Eugene's like, is this
32:30
Speaker 1: part of the job for a goddess of victory? Frederica,
32:33
Speaker 1: who's rezipping her bag now, says it's all I can do.
32:36
Speaker 1: She stands now, I don't want to interrupt a meeting
32:40
Speaker 1: between two old friends, so I'm gonna get going. She
32:43
Speaker 1: starts to walk away. Eugene sighs, she became a mascot. Huh.
32:48
Speaker 1: Sen's like yeah, Eugene says, no one even likes that
32:52
Speaker 1: old custom anymore. Sin's like, even someone like her, if
32:56
Speaker 1: she's there, we have to protect her. We're kind of
32:59
Speaker 1: watching forca walk away still, and some kuy waves to her,
33:02
Speaker 1: and Jin continues, we're all strangers, so they must think
33:05
Speaker 1: that they need a hostage, I think. Eugene says, that's awful,
33:10
Speaker 1: and Gin continues, she chose that path. Eugene's like, but
33:14
Speaker 1: she doesn't have a reason to fight, right family, country, justice,
33:18
Speaker 1: making a living. None of that really matters to a
33:20
Speaker 1: kid her age, So why does she have to fight?
33:23
Speaker 1: Shin spears the last mushroom with his fork and says,
33:26
Speaker 1: you may be right. They both just look really sad
33:29
Speaker 1: for minutes, because this is pretty heavy. Sounds like being
33:33
Speaker 1: a mascot isn't just like a motivating thing. It's also
33:39
Speaker 1: like a threat or basically taking someone hostage and forcing
33:46
Speaker 1: them to fight so that this little girl who can't
33:49
Speaker 1: protect herself doesn't have to doesn't die. I guess that's
33:54
Speaker 1: not great. Yeah, anyway, Shinn says, how's your sister? She
33:59
Speaker 1: doing well? Eugene's like, yeah, I think she's kind of
34:03
Speaker 1: lonely though, because she's staying with my aunt. Chen says aunt.
34:08
Speaker 1: Eugene's like, oh yeah, we don't have parents. I want
34:10
Speaker 1: her to go to a good school, so I need
34:12
Speaker 1: to make money. He shows Shin a lockett, like a
34:16
Speaker 1: gold lockett that has Nina's picture inside of it, and
34:19
Speaker 1: Chin says it's rough being a big brother. Eugene's like,
34:22
Speaker 1: she's great, isn't she. You can't have her? Ah. Shin's
34:27
Speaker 1: like I've already got a little brat. Eugene laughs, I'm
34:31
Speaker 1: taking her somewhere on my next leave, a zoo or
34:33
Speaker 1: an amusement park, maybe shopping. Since she's a girl, I
34:37
Speaker 1: bet she'd love clothes or shoes. Fuck you, Eugene, that's sexist.
34:41
Speaker 1: Shin's like, then you really shouldn't have joined the military, right.
34:47
Speaker 1: The war's not going well, and I don't think that's
34:50
Speaker 1: gonna change. Eugene says, yeah, my unit lost fifteen people
34:57
Speaker 1: just yesterday. Our commander says, this is normal for when
35:00
Speaker 1: things get bad. Fuck, how do you replenish that constantly?
35:05
Speaker 1: As they talk, we're kind of drifting down and around
35:08
Speaker 1: the table to save some animation budget, and Shin says, normal, huh,
35:13
Speaker 1: I don't think that many dead is normal. The number
35:15
Speaker 1: of dead and the number of Legion destroyed don't match
35:18
Speaker 1: at all. Eugene's like, it sure doesn't feel like we're winning.
35:22
Speaker 1: From the general's perspective, it probably just means fewer mouths
35:25
Speaker 1: to feed. Geeze, dude, talk about cynical. He gasps rightfully
35:30
Speaker 1: so as he realized what he was saying, and he's
35:33
Speaker 1: like sorry, Shinn says, hmm, yeah, it's not and Eugene's like,
35:41
Speaker 1: uh no, but uh no, what about you. Why did you?
35:47
Speaker 1: Shin just stands abruptly, cutting him off, and it's silent
35:51
Speaker 1: for a second, and then an air raid siren starts
35:53
Speaker 1: to go off. Everyone like gasps and people start to
35:55
Speaker 1: get up and are running around and such. Shin is
35:58
Speaker 1: still staring out the window when he says again, they
36:01
Speaker 1: never give up. Eugene stands as well, and it is like,
36:04
Speaker 1: I bet girls really don't like them. He smiles, solid
36:09
Speaker 1: joke Eugene. Shin smiles back, and Eugene's like, okay, see
36:13
Speaker 1: you later. He kind of waves, still holding the locket
36:17
Speaker 1: in his hand, and then we cut to a hand
36:22
Speaker 1: outside on the ground holding Eugene's locket with a destroyed
36:29
Speaker 1: vanigander behind it. Okay, fine, great, I guess Eugene's dead.
36:36
Speaker 1: There's a cloud of purplish smoke kind of obscuring some
36:39
Speaker 1: evergreen trees, and we hear Frederica say you're safe, right shine.
36:45
Speaker 1: We hear shinsey yeah. Frederica is like good, but the
36:50
Speaker 1: smoke starts to dissipate and the trees turn kind of golden,
36:56
Speaker 1: like maybe it's sunset and the light is finally hit them.
37:01
Speaker 1: Frederica's like, I'm sorry, I have bad news. No, Shin's
37:06
Speaker 1: eyes narrow. We cut to like a crater in the dirt,
37:14
Speaker 1: like a pretty large one that is just full of
37:18
Speaker 1: blood and maybe little pieces of skin and human bits. Yay,
37:26
Speaker 1: I don't know, no, what did someone explode? Like I
37:33
Speaker 1: guess someone got exploded. It's really pretty grizzly, honestly, and yay.
37:41
Speaker 1: We're still looking at the carnage and we hear someone
37:45
Speaker 1: walking over and it's Shin and he looks at this
37:50
Speaker 1: crater for a second and then he says, Frederica, close
37:55
Speaker 1: your eyes. He turns off as calm. We see really
37:59
Speaker 1: messed up vanigander under a tree, kind of in an
38:02
Speaker 1: area where the golden sunlight isn't hitting it, and then
38:06
Speaker 1: we hear very labored breathing. We get a really quick cut,
38:12
Speaker 1: like less than a second, of Shin lifting up someone
38:16
Speaker 1: and their entire side is covered in blood, and then
38:18
Speaker 1: back to the trees, and then a quick cut of
38:21
Speaker 1: Shin removing Eugene's helmets. It's clearly Eugene. We're only seeing
38:25
Speaker 1: the back of his head, but he's the only one
38:27
Speaker 1: we know right now who's in albas So. Yeah, Shin
38:32
Speaker 1: also has blood on his knees. At this point, we
38:35
Speaker 1: cut back to the trees and we hear Eugene say
38:41
Speaker 1: you no. Shin stares at him, and we finally get
38:45
Speaker 1: to see more than the back or arm of Eugene,
38:50
Speaker 1: and we have like his face basically and some of
38:54
Speaker 1: his torso and his eyes are like mostly closed. There's
38:58
Speaker 1: just blood everywhere, some blood coming from his mouth, and
39:03
Speaker 1: like he looks really really bad, like impressively bad, like congratulations,
39:09
Speaker 1: whoever drew this bad? Because it looks terrible, And he
39:12
Speaker 1: is kind of struggling to open his eyes a little
39:15
Speaker 1: bit more, and he's trying to say something, and he
39:19
Speaker 1: finally says picture Nina's. Shin kind of looks around, and
39:29
Speaker 1: I guess he sees something because he heads in a
39:30
Speaker 1: direction and yeah, we see Eugene's arm not even near
39:35
Speaker 1: Eugene at all. Actually, Shin kind of goes to grab
39:40
Speaker 1: the locket, but he kind of flinches. Yeah, I think
39:45
Speaker 1: I understand, And I guess then he does get it,
39:48
Speaker 1: because next we see him with like blood caked under
39:52
Speaker 1: his fingernails, opening the locket and showing it to Eugene.
39:56
Speaker 1: And we really didn't get the best look at Nina's
39:59
Speaker 1: picture in the locket, but we do. Now she is
40:03
Speaker 1: in a field of flowers and she's holding some daisies
40:06
Speaker 1: and she just looks so happy, and this is very mean.
40:11
Speaker 1: Eugene just kind of stares at her picture and he's
40:15
Speaker 1: still very much fighting to breathe, and his eyes look
40:20
Speaker 1: kind of cloudy, and then he narrows his eyes and
40:23
Speaker 1: says please. We cut to a really wide shot and
40:28
Speaker 1: I think that Shin places the locket in like his
40:32
Speaker 1: hand or something like. He gives it to Eugene and
40:35
Speaker 1: then he stands back up and racks his pistol. Eugene
40:39
Speaker 1: is smiling as much as someone who is clearly in horrible,
40:44
Speaker 1: tremendous pain and dying and smile and he says thank
40:48
Speaker 1: you and closes his eyes. Shin raises the gun. We
40:53
Speaker 1: hear it go off, but we cut away to the ground,
40:55
Speaker 1: which isn't that much better because we see the blood
40:58
Speaker 1: splatter pass us in some lands on a daisy. It
41:02
Speaker 1: kind of looks like there's matter in the stuff on
41:06
Speaker 1: the daisy, like part of Eugene's brain matter or something.
41:09
Speaker 1: You know, this is really bad, guys. Then we cut
41:12
Speaker 1: to the worst thing, which is just a gaping hole
41:15
Speaker 1: like I think in Eugene's head, probably from the gunshot.
41:19
Speaker 1: Maybe this is so messed up and like a piece
41:23
Speaker 1: of his hair just kind of falls over the hole,
41:25
Speaker 1: and I like, what like what like, I honestly don't
41:30
Speaker 1: know whose call this was to put this in here,
41:33
Speaker 1: because it is like so upsetting and honestly kind of
41:38
Speaker 1: for two, it is like, I'm all for it, but
41:40
Speaker 1: also what the fuck? We cut away from Eugene's gigantic
41:46
Speaker 1: wound and back to Shin, who kind of raises his
41:51
Speaker 1: gun and stares at it, and the wind kicks up.
41:55
Speaker 1: He looks back over at Eugene, and then we see
41:58
Speaker 1: him pulling the dog tag off Eugene's neck and breaking
42:01
Speaker 1: the chain doing so. And then someone is running over.
42:05
Speaker 1: We can only see their mouths, so we don't know
42:07
Speaker 1: who it is. Shin stands up and the person who
42:11
Speaker 1: just got there throws down their helmets and we see
42:14
Speaker 1: that it is Marcel. He's just staring at dead Eugene.
42:18
Speaker 1: Shin starts to walk away. I should mention that Chin
42:22
Speaker 1: is just covered in blood, like his pants, everything is bloody. Yay,
42:28
Speaker 1: obviously not his blood, but it's a lot. And Marcel
42:32
Speaker 1: says Eugene Shin stops and turns back, and Marcel's like,
42:39
Speaker 1: did you do that? Nosing? Shin walks back towards him,
42:43
Speaker 1: good timing make a casualty report. He drops Eugene's bloody
42:48
Speaker 1: dog tags into Marcell's hands and Marcel winces and gasps,
42:53
Speaker 1: and then he's like, why didn't you save him? You
42:56
Speaker 1: could have done it? What Shin just got? Continues to
43:00
Speaker 1: walk off as he's yelling, and Marcel says, you were
43:03
Speaker 1: too busy fighting those hunks of steel, weren't you? You
43:06
Speaker 1: mean doing his job? You battle man eighty six? What
43:11
Speaker 1: the fuck? Shin, to his credits, doesn't even flinch. Another
43:17
Speaker 1: guy has gotten to the sea now, and he puts
43:19
Speaker 1: his hand on Marcel's shoulder, kind of like to pull
43:21
Speaker 1: him back, and he says stop at Marcel. Marcel scoffs,
43:26
Speaker 1: and the guy's like, are you no different from the
43:29
Speaker 1: scum in the Republic? And then to Shinn, he's like,
43:31
Speaker 1: I apologize and thank you for what you did for
43:34
Speaker 1: Lieutenant rants. Shin's like no, The guy continues, so let
43:39
Speaker 1: me say this, if you joined up out of a
43:42
Speaker 1: desire to repay us for saving you, there's no need.
43:45
Speaker 1: We will never force poor children like you to fight.
43:48
Speaker 1: It's not too late. Leave the army and live happily.
43:52
Speaker 1: Shin's like, the Legion are coming meet up with your
43:55
Speaker 1: allies while you can. Marcel and the other guy just
44:00
Speaker 1: kind of stare at him, and the guy sighs, Yeah,
44:05
Speaker 1: I don't know how I'm supposed to take that. I
44:09
Speaker 1: feel like I need to take it as they just
44:11
Speaker 1: don't want Shin there, not that they are worried for
44:15
Speaker 1: his safety, because yeah, I don't. I don't see Shin
44:20
Speaker 1: as the one that's in jeopardy here, but I'll talk
44:23
Speaker 1: a little bit more about that later. We see Frederica
44:25
Speaker 1: in the front of a car and her calm like
44:28
Speaker 1: goes on and she gasps and says Shine. We hear
44:32
Speaker 1: Shin say, what's the situation. Frederica's like, it's not good.
44:37
Speaker 1: We see that Shine is sitting in his cockpit again,
44:39
Speaker 1: and Frederica says, Nordlch has new orders gather up at
44:44
Speaker 1: point twenty seven thirty two in preparation for a new attack.
44:47
Speaker 1: Shin closes his cockpit. Fredrika says, then stand by for
44:51
Speaker 1: further orders. Shin's like Roger. There's a little pause, and
44:57
Speaker 1: then Frederica says, shine, whatever juggernaut thing comes on and
45:03
Speaker 1: like lights up and he winces. Frederica continues, You're okay, right.
45:11
Speaker 1: Shin is looking into his screen where he can still
45:14
Speaker 1: see Eugene's head kind of beaking out from behind some bushes,
45:18
Speaker 1: and he's quiet. He closes his eyes and says yeah,
45:25
Speaker 1: and then we have the ending. Yeay. In this version
45:29
Speaker 1: of the ending, the first shot we have is Frederica
45:32
Speaker 1: handing Shin his pistol, and Shin's hand and arm are
45:36
Speaker 1: in like super saturated blue and everything else is kind
45:39
Speaker 1: of in like a purply red. Then we get this
45:41
Speaker 1: super quick shot of Shin firing the gun with his
45:45
Speaker 1: arm blue and the gun red and the background kind
45:48
Speaker 1: of in black and white, and then we go to
45:50
Speaker 1: a close up of Shin's eyes in blue with his
45:52
Speaker 1: face in sapia, and that's the end of the episode. Yay.
45:59
Speaker 1: So closing thoughts starting at the end. I just wanted
46:03
Speaker 1: to tell you that I absolutely I know I've said
46:06
Speaker 1: this before, but I love the ending theme here. Something
46:10
Speaker 1: about just the music and having these kind of almost
46:14
Speaker 1: stop motion picture things go on really really works. And
46:19
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if this is like my favorites ending of
46:23
Speaker 1: all anime. Maybe not, but it's definitely up there. Like,
46:28
Speaker 1: I just love the way this works because it's not
46:31
Speaker 1: even like it's super hard. This was probably a really
46:34
Speaker 1: quick process to do. But for some reason, just the
46:37
Speaker 1: combination of kind of the bittersweet song with these images,
46:42
Speaker 1: I just love it. And that quick shot of Shin
46:45
Speaker 1: firing the gun is time so perfectly with the song.
46:49
Speaker 1: It's just it's just amazing. Like, I don't know why
46:52
Speaker 1: I like this so much, but totally gave me the
46:54
Speaker 1: chills this time, which I was not expecting. Oh and
46:57
Speaker 1: I didn't tell you the episode title card next time
47:00
Speaker 1: episode welcome back anyway, now, I guess we should say
47:05
Speaker 1: closing thoughts. So yeah, that was definitely a little bit
47:10
Speaker 1: more back in the spirit of eighty six than the
47:12
Speaker 1: last episode, which is good but totally sad and terrible.
47:19
Speaker 1: So yeah, so they're fighting for the Federacy now, I
47:22
Speaker 1: guess that's fine, except the Federacy is doing terrible and
47:26
Speaker 1: at least in this case, the entire country is and
47:29
Speaker 1: being lied to, Like everyone knows it's going bad, So
47:34
Speaker 1: that's good. They know that they're terrible at their jobs.
47:38
Speaker 1: I don't know but yeah, I don't know that I
47:42
Speaker 1: expected Eugene to just die like that. I mean, there
47:45
Speaker 1: were tons of death flags, like the whole thing where
47:47
Speaker 1: his sister's depending on him and he's doing this all
47:49
Speaker 1: for her and he wants to be there for her.
47:52
Speaker 1: I should have known that they were gonna kill him,
47:54
Speaker 1: because why not, right, he doesn't seem like he's that
47:57
Speaker 1: good of a pilot's I mean, he's not like a
47:59
Speaker 1: bad pilot, he's just not Spearhead squadron level pilots. And
48:04
Speaker 1: you know, we know how quickly people get killed on
48:07
Speaker 1: the battlefield, or at least how quickly they were being
48:10
Speaker 1: killed on the Republic side, and it doesn't seem like
48:14
Speaker 1: the Federacy is doing much better. Actually, I'm afraid that
48:16
Speaker 1: they're doing worse. That's probably not true, though, it's probably
48:19
Speaker 1: just that we've been following Spearhead so long that we're
48:22
Speaker 1: used to people like not dying all the time. But
48:25
Speaker 1: it seems like you have to have a really specific
48:27
Speaker 1: aptitude for these machines in order to not be killed
48:31
Speaker 1: by the Legion, which is a problem. I'm also just
48:35
Speaker 1: not convinced that like these kind of spider like crawling
48:39
Speaker 1: vehicles like makes sense for fighting, kind of in the
48:44
Speaker 1: same way that like making a human shaped mech doesn't
48:46
Speaker 1: really work. I don't know that ones with lots of
48:49
Speaker 1: legs or good either, Like I think a tank might
48:52
Speaker 1: be better, something with wheels, cause I don't see these
48:56
Speaker 1: as easy to drive, and it doesn't seem like they're
48:59
Speaker 1: very successful, so I hope somebody figures that out. So, yeah,
49:05
Speaker 1: having Shin have to end Eugene's life, this is just
49:09
Speaker 1: really sad, and I think it's interesting the way that
49:12
Speaker 1: Spearhead is being kind of demonized here. So it's just
49:16
Speaker 1: one type of discrimination to another. You know, when everything
49:21
Speaker 1: first happened and they found them, people were just sorry
49:24
Speaker 1: for them. But they see this like incredibly dangerous force
49:30
Speaker 1: now and they think of them as these like monsters,
49:34
Speaker 1: which is really interesting because I mean, what really happened
49:37
Speaker 1: is this is just the best of the best, the
49:40
Speaker 1: people who were able to survive. So they're like the
49:43
Speaker 1: best of what the Republic and really what the Federacy
49:46
Speaker 1: have to offer. They're an elite force. But I think
49:50
Speaker 1: that people in the Federacy believe that they're just like
49:53
Speaker 1: these inhuman monsters, So both sides don't think of them
49:59
Speaker 1: as human. Great, it's perfect, just what we wanted, and
50:03
Speaker 1: Marcel needs to calm the fuck down. I did think
50:05
Speaker 1: it was really interesting that that other dude thanked Shin
50:09
Speaker 1: for killing Eugene basically because like, shouldn't we try to
50:14
Speaker 1: like get him help or something first. I mean, I
50:16
Speaker 1: know he lost his arm, but there's more of him
50:19
Speaker 1: than an arm. Maybe we shouldn't just mercy kill him
50:22
Speaker 1: because there's hospitals and it's not like in the Republic
50:25
Speaker 1: where there's no like medical attention and you're just gonna
50:28
Speaker 1: die anyway and be left there. But we also didn't
50:31
Speaker 1: see any more than like the top of Eugene, so
50:33
Speaker 1: it's possible, like he didn't have legs or most of
50:36
Speaker 1: his tour so anymore. We just really don't know, So
50:39
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna have to assume that Shin did the
50:41
Speaker 1: most logical thing there. I understand Shin's thinking regardless, I
50:47
Speaker 1: just don't know if I understand someone thanking him for it.
50:50
Speaker 1: But it's kind of sad to see him have to
50:52
Speaker 1: go back to being the Undertaker basically, or the reaper
50:56
Speaker 1: or whatever, because that's a lot of pressure to put
50:59
Speaker 1: on someone like, Oh, he just has to be the
51:01
Speaker 1: one that kills people. That sucks. I also really like
51:04
Speaker 1: how cool Shin is reacting to everything. I like that
51:09
Speaker 1: when people tell him not to do something, he just
51:12
Speaker 1: doesn't even acknowledge them at all. With that brown haired
51:16
Speaker 1: girl that was like, don't use that frequency blade, He's
51:18
Speaker 1: just like, no, I'm just gonna keep using it. He
51:20
Speaker 1: doesn't like fight with them, really, he just is gonna
51:23
Speaker 1: do it anyway, and he should because he is the
51:26
Speaker 1: most compident person here. So he knows what the best
51:30
Speaker 1: things to do are. And I'm glad that he is
51:32
Speaker 1: not letting anyone push him around. But this is really bad.
51:35
Speaker 1: It is, And that scene with Eugene was like one
51:39
Speaker 1: of the goriest scenes that I've seen in anime. That's
51:43
Speaker 1: not probably not true, but I think out of everything
51:45
Speaker 1: that I have showed you that we've watched together, it's
51:48
Speaker 1: probably the goriout scene. It's really bad, guys, But I
51:52
Speaker 1: think that's about it. Yeah, So that's that, guys. No
51:56
Speaker 1: more Eugene. I was gonna say that Nina is an orphan,
52:00
Speaker 1: but she already is. Actually, but this isn't any better. Actually,
52:05
Speaker 1: Nina is a lot like Shin in the sense that
52:10
Speaker 1: Shin lost his parents and then lost his brother, so
52:14
Speaker 1: Sin actually probably knows exactly what Nina's going through, except
52:17
Speaker 1: that her brother didn't strangle her at all, so maybe
52:20
Speaker 1: not exactly the same. But yeah, I don't know, guys,
52:25
Speaker 1: it's a lot. I hope that you thought that this
52:27
Speaker 1: was okay, and I think that's really all I have,
52:32
Speaker 1: so be prepared for worse things coming, because there are
52:35
Speaker 1: worse things, yay, and I think that's gonna be it. Yeah,
52:40
Speaker 1: So I hope you have a really good whatever, like,
52:42
Speaker 1: I hope it's like great, like impressively great. And I
52:46
Speaker 1: guess we'll do this again next week, barring the end
52:51
Speaker 1: of the world or something later weeps.