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86 [Eighty-Six] Ep.20- Together Unto Death · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. I guess I'm here obviously
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Speaker 1: because we have to talk about episode twenty of eighty six.
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Speaker 1: But first I just wanted to say, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: the fourth episode of Takobe's Original Sin was so fucking
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Speaker 1: good and so well animated that I just needed to
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Speaker 1: tell you, Like, if you're not watching it, I think
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Speaker 1: maybe you should be. I think there is only like
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Speaker 1: a couple more episodes left because it's a you know,
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Speaker 1: really short manga. But at the end, I have to decide, like,
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Speaker 1: are we going to cover this on you know, this
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Speaker 1: podcast because it's so fucking cool. But I don't know.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know what I just said, but I
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Speaker 1: needed to tell someone because I only told my mom,
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Speaker 1: and yeah, I gave her a play by play of
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Speaker 1: the entire episode, but like, I don't know, I just
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Speaker 1: need to tell a lot of people, a lot of people,
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Speaker 1: so now you know stuff. Anyway, let's talk about episode
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Speaker 1: twenty of eighty six because it's kind of a big
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Speaker 1: deal episode for me. I have a lot to say
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Speaker 1: about it, I think, and it's maybe the first episode
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Speaker 1: at least of this time through unless I'm forgetting one.
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Speaker 1: I might be that I like cried in a couple
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Speaker 1: of times, like very minor crying, like the way I
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Speaker 1: normally cry, or like I just kind of tear up slightly,
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Speaker 1: not like a real cry, but still more than I've
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Speaker 1: been doing for the show. So yeah, it's probably my
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Speaker 1: favorite episode of the series so far. So I'm excited,
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Speaker 1: sort of vaguely, So let's just get right into it,
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Speaker 1: because I have no idea if this is going to
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Speaker 1: be long or short. It had less notes than usual,
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Speaker 1: but I have a lot more to say, so we'll
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Speaker 1: find out. So Episode twenty is called Together unto Death,
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Speaker 1: and I don't actually know if that's said in the episode.
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Speaker 1: I'm starting to think now that not all the titles
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Speaker 1: are actually things that people have said and I was wrong,
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Speaker 1: but maybe I'll catch it, which doesn't usually happen when
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Speaker 1: I say that, but who knows. Anyway, If you remember,
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Speaker 1: from the end of episode nineteen, we just found out
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Speaker 1: that Frederica was hanging out with them and had been
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Speaker 1: hiding stowed away in one of the robots, and Shint
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Speaker 1: had been like, here have my gun so you can
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Speaker 1: kill yourself when things get bad, and she was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: that's so nice. Yeah, that was that episode, So we
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Speaker 1: don't start exactly there, but we do start close. So
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Speaker 1: the first thing we see is the sky. It's sunset,
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Speaker 1: and there's like a little plane like it looks like
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Speaker 1: one of those like propeller planes, like a old style one,
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Speaker 1: like flying overhead, and then it just explodes and like
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Speaker 1: just kind of like I don't know, like dusts things
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Speaker 1: kind of go out and kind of fall down into
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Speaker 1: the sky. And I was just like, what the fuck
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Speaker 1: did I just see? And it is October ninth, twenty
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Speaker 1: one forty nine, which I don't think is that far
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Speaker 1: after the end of last episode, but I don't remember
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Speaker 1: what date it was because we started going by like
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Speaker 1: time to the mission in time after the mission started.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, we hear a voice say we started our
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Speaker 1: advance again. It's the dark haired guy that has no name,
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Speaker 1: and he's standing on maybe what is a balcony with
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Speaker 1: General Richard, and like there are columns kind of behind them,
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Speaker 1: and the railing in front of them is like real
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Speaker 1: messed up, like broken in the middle, and you know,
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Speaker 1: they're staring out at the sunsets, and the time since
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Speaker 1: the mission began is eleven hours, twenty five minutes and
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Speaker 1: seventeen seconds and counting, and that puts us about an
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Speaker 1: hour from where we were last week. So anyway, dark
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Speaker 1: haired guy continues, according to that boy with the strange powers,
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Speaker 1: the Morvo was stopped on the tracks in southern Legion
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Speaker 1: held territory. The Federacy's main force as well as the
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Speaker 1: Alliance will advance and take the area around the tracks.
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Speaker 1: He's like looking at a tablet that shows the plan
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Speaker 1: on the map. Yay, and he continues, the United Kingdom
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Speaker 1: will be working with another smaller Federacy unit to take
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Speaker 1: the tracks on the north side. General Richard's like, so
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Speaker 1: the United Kingdom volunteered to be a diversion, but if
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Speaker 1: the Federacy's main army advances, the Legion's not going to
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Speaker 1: miss that. What's our plan, Dark haired Guy says. The
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Speaker 1: Alliance is going to be using a prototype anti radar weapon.
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Speaker 1: They look up at the sky as many planes explode.
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Speaker 1: He continues, it disperses clouds of small metal particles into
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Speaker 1: the air, jamming communications among the Legion. Okay, that's what
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Speaker 1: we're seeing. They're exploding drone things, not planes with people
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Speaker 1: in them, Thank god, because their reaction was like none
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Speaker 1: and that would have been terrible anyway, he continues, if
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Speaker 1: they use everything they have, the hope is that they
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Speaker 1: can buy enough time for the Legion to identify the
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Speaker 1: United Kingdom's force is the big one. General Richard says,
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Speaker 1: they're going all in. The Legion learned fast, so this
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Speaker 1: kind of thing only works once. Dark haired Guy's like,
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Speaker 1: if we lose this, it's over. What else could they do?
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Speaker 1: Sees the same right. General Richard's like, everyone's forced to
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Speaker 1: do whatever it takes. Hunh. We see some more drones
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Speaker 1: explode in the air. Yay, and then we go to
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Speaker 1: the opening theme hooray. Back from the opening, we see
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Speaker 1: Shin close up. He's kind of looking down and then
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Speaker 1: he kind of sits up and says they're on the move.
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Speaker 1: He is outside, like sitting near a Reagan leaf and
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Speaker 1: at sunset, and ride In is there too, kind of
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Speaker 1: standing nearby, and ride In says the Legion. Shin's like
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Speaker 1: they fell for the diversion to the north right and
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Speaker 1: says a double diversion. Hunh. Those guys to the north
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Speaker 1: and south are pretty desperate. It is twelve hours, one
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Speaker 1: minute and two seconds since the mission began, so just
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Speaker 1: about an hour later and it looks like they're at
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Speaker 1: like an abandoned train station. Riding continues. That means the
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Speaker 1: main force will finally move to We won't be that
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Speaker 1: far after all. Sin's like the Federacy's main force will
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Speaker 1: be doing an all night march. That should get them close.
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Speaker 1: But this point, they're like walking up the steps kind
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Speaker 1: of to go across this bridge, like elevated walkway across
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Speaker 1: the train tracks, and Righton says true. Rydan is walking
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Speaker 1: a little bit ahead of Shin, and they're on the
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Speaker 1: bridge now over the tracks, and Sin says, I don't
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Speaker 1: care if they can't catch up. But Ryan stops walking
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Speaker 1: and he kind of looks back at Shin with like
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Speaker 1: some contempt on his face and says, Shin, take Frederica
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Speaker 1: and go back. What Shin's like, why me too? Me too?
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Speaker 1: Righton turns back towards him and says, you know why
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Speaker 1: someone needs to get her past all those legion without
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Speaker 1: being found. Only you can do it, Shin says. And
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Speaker 1: our pursuit we cut to a sign that says pont
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Speaker 1: de Bleu. Maybe that way kind of to the right.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of just there and I don't know what
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Speaker 1: it means, but we see it, and Righton says, if
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Speaker 1: he can only move on the train tracks, we can
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Speaker 1: probably find him just by talking through the power aid
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Speaker 1: power raid. Do you guys have power aids again? Fortunately,
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Speaker 1: unlike last time, someone's making a big distraction for us.
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Speaker 1: Shin kind of chuckles and Rydon glares at him. Shin says,
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Speaker 1: you think the Legion will be forced to use all
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Speaker 1: their forces to deal with the diversion in the main unit.
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Speaker 1: You know from the last time we passed through Legion
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Speaker 1: territory that fighting means instant death right, AND's like it'd
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Speaker 1: be better than having you lead us the way you
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Speaker 1: are now what you've always been crazy, but that last
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Speaker 1: fight was too much something at control of you. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if it's this ghost night of Frederica's that
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Speaker 1: you've never met, but what's gotten into you? Shin's like
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Speaker 1: nothing right, AND's like, you really think you can fool
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Speaker 1: me that easily, idiot. We get this kind of unsettling
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Speaker 1: piano music starting up in the background, and Chin says,
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Speaker 1: fool you right, and says, I'm afraid We've known each
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Speaker 1: other for a long time and I can see a
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Speaker 1: few things about you that you even can't. You're such
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Speaker 1: a mess you can barely stand, so you're gonna go
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Speaker 1: back to where you were when we met, never opening
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Speaker 1: up to anyone like that name. Everyone calls you the reaper.
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Speaker 1: Shin's like, then the rest of you can take her
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Speaker 1: and go. I'd rather follow it myself than take someone
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Speaker 1: who'll slow me down. He starts to walk forward again,
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Speaker 1: and Rydan's like, what Shin says, if this is a
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Speaker 1: one way mission, it's better I go myself. He walks
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Speaker 1: past Rydon. If you're intending to go home, there's no
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Speaker 1: need to follow a path of no return. Rydon like
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Speaker 1: fucking takes off after him, and he's like you, and
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Speaker 1: he grabs him by the shoulder and then slams him
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Speaker 1: back into the chain link fence. There's a thud, obviously,
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Speaker 1: and then silence. We have this really super close up
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Speaker 1: on back of Rydon's head and part of Shin's face
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Speaker 1: kind of in front of him, and Shin looks incredibly hurts.
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Speaker 1: He's looking down, and Rydon says, don't think you can
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Speaker 1: keep everyone else alive by doing this. Shin looks up
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Speaker 1: at him. He continues, what do you mean one way mission?
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Speaker 1: Don't talk like you're never coming back. Shin narrows his
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Speaker 1: eyes and kind of looks off to the side and says,
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Speaker 1: I'm not planning to die right. In's like, yeah, I bet,
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Speaker 1: but you're not planning on coming back alive either. That's
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Speaker 1: kind of a pause. Why did you kill your brother?
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Speaker 1: Wasn't it so you could keep going forward? Shin's eyes widen.
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Speaker 1: Writing continues, You didn't survive all that just to kill
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Speaker 1: your brother, did you? He pulls him forward by his bandana.
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Speaker 1: Don't misunderstand that. There's a brief pause before Shinn says then,
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Speaker 1: Writing kind of gasps. Shin is looking away again, and
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Speaker 1: he says then why He furrows his brow. Why did I?
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Speaker 1: Rydon looks shocked, and there is a long pause, and
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Speaker 1: then Rydon says, I don't want to die. That's all.
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Speaker 1: I think that's enough. I'm pretty sure the others feel
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Speaker 1: the same way. The camera refocuses to the tracks behind Ryding,
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Speaker 1: and then we switch to the tracks behind Shin, which,
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Speaker 1: unlike the tracks behind ride in which you're clear, have
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Speaker 1: like a little sign with an X in front of them,
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Speaker 1: like blocking the path. Writing continues, it's your path to walk,
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Speaker 1: you decide, Shin closes his eyes and you know, just
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Speaker 1: looks totally hurt. Writing continues, but we're all traveling the
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Speaker 1: same road together. If you're exhausted, we'll support you. If
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Speaker 1: you're tired, rest, So he finally removes his hand from
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Speaker 1: Shin's bandana. Don't try to fight on your own. Shin
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Speaker 1: is just staring at the ground. He looks kind of
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Speaker 1: like a kicked puppy. Honestly, he's maybe a little ashamed,
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Speaker 1: looking like he knows right and is totally right. Maybe.
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Speaker 1: And then we see that from the actual train station.
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Speaker 1: Everyone is watching and Theo's like kind of feels like
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Speaker 1: I'm being left out, like I'm not being treated like
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Speaker 1: a fellow guy. And She's like they've known each other
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Speaker 1: for a long time. Supposedly a lot happened before we
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Speaker 1: met them. Frederica's like, is that how it is? Karina
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Speaker 1: is squirming around because Au has her hand over her
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Speaker 1: mouth and is holding her back, and Andrew says, stay put.
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Speaker 1: It's your fault for trying to run over and interrupt them.
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Speaker 1: Frederica's like, you're like a little dog. At this point,
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Speaker 1: Rydon starts to walk off and leaves Shin alone on
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Speaker 1: the bridge and Theo's like, even if you did go,
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Speaker 1: you just make things more complicated. Stay put. Shin, at
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Speaker 1: this point also starts to walk off, but in the
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Speaker 1: other direction, away from everyone else, and Karina like kind
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Speaker 1: of gasps and blushes and she's like, that's not true.
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Speaker 1: Andrew smiles and sighs. THEO says, what Rydan said about
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Speaker 1: something having control over him is probably true. Shin's been
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Speaker 1: acting weird for a while. Frederica is sitting on the
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Speaker 1: ground and she looks pretty upsets, and we see a
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Speaker 1: flashback to when Shin cut the cord back in the
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Speaker 1: first chord, when they were all, you know, out together,
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Speaker 1: and he went off to fight the Legion and collapsed
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Speaker 1: the like cliff in front of them and made a
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Speaker 1: landslide so they couldn't follow that part anyway. THEO continues
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Speaker 1: thinking back, he's been weird ever since then. Before he'd
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Speaker 1: never do anything that meant certain death or let anyone
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Speaker 1: else do. So we have this really cool shots where
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Speaker 1: we are looking at them from inside the like the
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Speaker 1: train station, and they're like out on the platform. We're
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Speaker 1: like in a building, and Karna is framed in like
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Speaker 1: the window, and the other three are framed in like
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Speaker 1: the doorway and like there's a really nice red sunset
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Speaker 1: behind them. It's interesting that Karina is alone, showing that
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Speaker 1: her opinion is a little different anyway. Karna says, Shin
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Speaker 1: is fine, he wouldn't leave us. Theo's like, I think
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Speaker 1: you should try to face Shin as he really is
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Speaker 1: and not see him as an ideal in your head.
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Speaker 1: Karina like gasps, and THEO continues, Shin's not going to
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Speaker 1: be a personal reaper forever, right, Karina looks kind of sad.
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Speaker 1: THEO continues, you are always worried about that, right on
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Speaker 1: jew on Ju's eighs, We're similar, after all, I know
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Speaker 1: a little about what a child feels like when their
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Speaker 1: family says they're not needed. Karina makes like a sad noise,
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Speaker 1: and on juw continues, they wonder if it's their fault.
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Speaker 1: They might know in their head that it isn't, but
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Speaker 1: they still blame themselves, especially since Shin wasn't just told
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Speaker 1: by his brother. Karina looks hurt and says, you can't
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Speaker 1: get rid of things like that by yourself. Shin walks
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Speaker 1: by the fence across the tracks from them, like on
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Speaker 1: the other side, and Karina says, does that mean our
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Speaker 1: just being there for him isn't enough? Theo's like, all
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Speaker 1: we've been able to do is ask him to stay
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Speaker 1: with us till we die. Shit. And also, I'm pretty
13:46
Speaker 1: sure that's the title drop just translated a little different.
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Speaker 1: We were just relying on him and intending to leave
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Speaker 1: him someday, That's exactly it, THEO. We get a close
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Speaker 1: up of the three of their faces, you know, minus Frederic,
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Speaker 1: and they all just look like they're about to cry,
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Speaker 1: and THEO continues even though I'm sure that was the
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Speaker 1: first time he said he'd go on ahead of us.
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Speaker 1: We cut to a crumpled sign like on the tracks
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Speaker 1: that shows that Wald is to the left and San
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Speaker 1: Magnolia is to the right. But it's not in English,
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Speaker 1: so I'm just guessing based on the words and the pictures.
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Speaker 1: Angie's like, they said the Republic isn't responding to radio calls.
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Speaker 1: Frederica says, essentially the country must have ceased to exist.
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Speaker 1: Theo's like, probably so they were wiped out after all.
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Speaker 1: We see that the sign is crushing a small white flower.
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Speaker 1: Karina says, the major wasn't able to catch up with us. Huh,
14:43
Speaker 1: there's just kind of silence, and then THEO says, just
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Speaker 1: so you know, Karina, this is your big chance. They say,
14:51
Speaker 1: when someone's feeling depressed, it's easier to take advantage of them.
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Speaker 1: Karina's like, huh, are says just so you know THEA Oh,
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Speaker 1: it's only bad girls that do that. That wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: right for Karina. Theo's like, I suppose that's true, and
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Speaker 1: Karina says huh. They both just kind of turn and
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Speaker 1: stare at her, like what do you mean huh, and
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Speaker 1: Corna blushes and she's like, no, I don't do you
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Speaker 1: think she knows? Au and THEO just look at each other.
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Speaker 1: Frederica says, I would say he's long since realized, but
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Speaker 1: thinks of it more as a childish admiration and possessiveness.
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Speaker 1: THEO and Andrew gasp. Karina's head at this point is
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Speaker 1: like literally steaming, and she's like vibrating and embarrassment, and
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Speaker 1: Frederica continues, he seems to think of you as a
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Speaker 1: little sister who's particularly difficult to deal with. Speak for yourself.
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Speaker 1: I don't think he sees you as a woman at all,
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Speaker 1: to be honest. Fuck, Carna like slumps over and then
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Speaker 1: just like falls down and like hits the ground and
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Speaker 1: looks like she passes out. Onjuw puts her hands on
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Speaker 1: Frederica's shoulders and smile her best customer service smile and
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Speaker 1: kind of chuckles, and she's like, Frederica, there are some
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Speaker 1: things you shouldn't say. Frederica looks terrified and she's just
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Speaker 1: nodding wildly a onjo and THEO says, well, you're someone
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Speaker 1: you can count on. That's enough, right. Karna stands up
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Speaker 1: and she's kind of like got her hand on her
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Speaker 1: head because she hit it when she like fainted or whatever,
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Speaker 1: and she's like, yeah, I'm a good sniper. I'm useful. Oh.
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Speaker 1: Theo's like nodding and smiling, like really concerned. And then
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Speaker 1: it's night. Shin is standing by it reganlyaf outside and
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Speaker 1: he hears someone approach and he looks over and it's Fido.
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Speaker 1: Fido beeps at him and he's like, don't worry, I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna run off on my own. Fido beeps again
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Speaker 1: and nods. Sin looks down at his hand he's holding
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Speaker 1: that piece of raised Juggernaut and he continues, I would
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Speaker 1: feel better if I did, though, fuck, he tightens his vest.
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Speaker 1: Then we get the episode title card, Episode twenty together,
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Speaker 1: Run to Death. So yeah, I really do think that
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Speaker 1: that was just the title drop, but that the translators
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Speaker 1: aren't doing a good enough job making sure it matches
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Speaker 1: up with the actual title of the episode. I want
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Speaker 1: to talk about Ridin and Shin, but I think I
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Speaker 1: want to wait till the end of the episode, So yep,
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Speaker 1: let's continue. We come back to a dead butterfly on
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Speaker 1: the train tracks. It's blue and it is like black
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Speaker 1: around the outside of its wings, and I was like,
17:34
Speaker 1: what kind of butterfly is this? And most of the
17:36
Speaker 1: time when I look up animals and things on the show,
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Speaker 1: I can't figure out what the fuck it is. This
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Speaker 1: time I could. Guys, it's a blue morpho. It's so
17:44
Speaker 1: fucking cool. So the blue morpho is dead on the tracks.
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Speaker 1: Yay symbolism sort of. We cut too tents and someone
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Speaker 1: like laying in a cop but he's facing away from us,
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Speaker 1: so I'm not one hundred percent sure who it is,
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Speaker 1: and dark haired approaches and says General it's time to
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Speaker 1: wake up. General Richard turns over and he's like, hmm,
18:06
Speaker 1: dark haired guy smiles. General Richard says, what are the
18:10
Speaker 1: eighty six doing? Dark haired Guy says, we were finally
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Speaker 1: able to sync with them. General Richard is like walking
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Speaker 1: out of the tent now, and dark haired Guy continues,
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Speaker 1: the Republic technology is very useful. General Richard says, you
18:23
Speaker 1: finally connected. Dark haired Guy has like a bluetooth calm
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Speaker 1: looking thing on, and he's like, it roots through your consciousness.
18:30
Speaker 1: If you're asleep, you can't be contacted. So they are
18:33
Speaker 1: using the power raid. Like I have so many questions
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Speaker 1: about that, Like how how does that work? I could
18:39
Speaker 1: have sworn like it had to be like rooted into you,
18:41
Speaker 1: into like your freen or something whatever. Anyway, it's October tenth,
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Speaker 1: twenty one forty nine. Dark haired Guy continues, I can't
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Speaker 1: believe a five man force is able to get any
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Speaker 1: sleep so deep in enemy territory. General Richard's like, the
18:55
Speaker 1: battlefield is a daily life for them, huh? It is
18:59
Speaker 1: twenty three hour was fourteen minutes and seven seconds since
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Speaker 1: the mission began. They walk over to that like broken
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Speaker 1: railing from a few minutes ago. When they stop there,
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Speaker 1: dark haired Guy's like, where do you think they are? Now?
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Speaker 1: They're one hundred and twenty kilometers or seventy four point
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Speaker 1: five six four or five miles west of the old border.
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Speaker 1: We could marsh all night and still not catch up.
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Speaker 1: It's a little frustrating. General Richard sighs. I'm surprised. I
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Speaker 1: thought you wanted to ensure they didn't survive this battle.
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Speaker 1: What dark haired guy says, you seem to misunderstand me,
19:33
Speaker 1: I fucking hope. So I just think that a sharp
19:35
Speaker 1: blade should be put to good use. If we can
19:37
Speaker 1: use that blade for a long time, all the better. Yeah.
19:40
Speaker 1: I don't really like you, dude. General Richard doesn't look
19:43
Speaker 1: super pleased, and dark haired guy says we can't have
19:46
Speaker 1: the Legion taking them. General Richard kind of exhales and smiles,
19:50
Speaker 1: and dark haired guy says we need to get them
19:52
Speaker 1: back fast. We cut to a steamy interior of a tent.
19:57
Speaker 1: Maybe I guess Greth kind of like open the tent
20:01
Speaker 1: door thing and says we're starting the march before dawn.
20:05
Speaker 1: And then she's like you guys, and she looks really disgusted,
20:10
Speaker 1: And I'm confused because it's just a bunch of guys
20:12
Speaker 1: and I expected them to be like naked or something.
20:14
Speaker 1: By her reaction, so I think that what's going on
20:19
Speaker 1: is there's a lot of cigarette smoke in the tent.
20:21
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what happened, but it was really hard for
20:24
Speaker 1: me to figure out at first. Anyway, Berholt's there and
20:27
Speaker 1: he says, Roger, we're ready to go whenever. We're not
20:30
Speaker 1: packing much equipment, as you can say, I guess. I
20:33
Speaker 1: mean he has a rifle and that looks like nothing else.
20:36
Speaker 1: Greth is kind of waving her hand in front of
20:38
Speaker 1: her face to clear away the cigarette smoke, and she's like,
20:40
Speaker 1: are you worried about them? Sergeant Brunhold says, I could
20:44
Speaker 1: ask you the same question. Greth's like, we did all
20:47
Speaker 1: we could, so now we just have to believe. Brunholdt says,
20:51
Speaker 1: you say that, but just in case, you brought extra
20:54
Speaker 1: raven Leaf's AMMO spare parts along with a repair crew.
20:59
Speaker 1: All the way from the front line, we see a
21:01
Speaker 1: truck coming in with extra reagon leafs. Burnhold continues, you
21:05
Speaker 1: even force the chief of staff to authorize your transport
21:08
Speaker 1: by air. Dark haired guy sneezes somewhere. I guess he
21:13
Speaker 1: is the chief of staff, and Greath's like, and I
21:16
Speaker 1: suggested that you go back to the front lines and
21:18
Speaker 1: you refused. Burnhold is smoking, so absolutely that is cigarette smoke,
21:23
Speaker 1: and he says, what kind of man would I be
21:25
Speaker 1: if I did? You'd be alive. If the kids came
21:28
Speaker 1: back after catching their big centipede and all this old
21:31
Speaker 1: men are drinking, they'd make fun of us till the
21:33
Speaker 1: day they die, those little brats, would He exhales some smoke.
21:37
Speaker 1: Now it is morning and the dead butterfly is still
21:40
Speaker 1: there on the ground. The mor fo and some ants
21:43
Speaker 1: are starting to find it and crawl all over it
21:45
Speaker 1: as they do, and then we see aragon Leaf stabbing something.
21:49
Speaker 1: Maybe it's really confusing, and it is Theo's Reagan leaf
21:54
Speaker 1: and he kind of jolts like it surprises him. And
21:58
Speaker 1: I think what happened after with this scene for a
22:00
Speaker 1: minute is that he like stabbed the legion and then
22:04
Speaker 1: he got his knife stuck in it or something. It's
22:07
Speaker 1: like a little knife. Anyway, he's like not good, and
22:11
Speaker 1: he's like moving his controls and we see that he's
22:14
Speaker 1: like on top of a legion and I think, yeah,
22:16
Speaker 1: he's trying to pull his arm more or less out
22:19
Speaker 1: of it, but it's stuck. And Andrew says, can you
22:23
Speaker 1: get it out to you. He goes like, I don't
22:25
Speaker 1: think so, it's not moving at all. I'm purging it.
22:28
Speaker 1: He shoots at I think the arm and then jumps off,
22:32
Speaker 1: so he like broke his Reaganly arm sort of to
22:35
Speaker 1: get out. I mean they have lots of arms, they're
22:38
Speaker 1: like got lots of legs or whatever, but I think
22:40
Speaker 1: you still need them anyway. Ryding's like laughing. Fox was
22:44
Speaker 1: damaged too, Huh. We're taking more damage than I expected.
22:47
Speaker 1: They're kind of in the ruins of some building. And
22:50
Speaker 1: Karina says, Andre and I got some shrapnel the other day,
22:54
Speaker 1: and when you were blasted back, you lost a machine gun.
22:56
Speaker 1: Too much exposition. He knows that he lost the machine gun, right,
23:00
Speaker 1: AND's like, only undertaker safe. Huh. He's out of spare
23:03
Speaker 1: bleeds though. We hear Shinn say, no, my engine hasn't
23:07
Speaker 1: been working right since yesterday. I think I put too
23:09
Speaker 1: much stress on it during the first battle. Right, AND's like,
23:13
Speaker 1: you haven't fixed your bad habit of destroying Reagan Leaf's legs.
23:16
Speaker 1: Sen's like, I think I can keep it patched up
23:18
Speaker 1: with repairs for a while if nothing else. It's not
23:21
Speaker 1: so bad that I can't move. We're seeing like this
23:24
Speaker 1: weird low shot that's like panning past all of them
23:26
Speaker 1: because they're actually pretty far apart, and we like get
23:29
Speaker 1: towards like some actual legion now and then like all
23:33
Speaker 1: the way to Shin who's in front of the legion
23:35
Speaker 1: that he's just killed. And Righton says, but if you
23:40
Speaker 1: put too much stress on it, it'll break. Don't get
23:42
Speaker 1: too crazy, Sheen says. Given the amount of AMMO and
23:45
Speaker 1: energy packs we have on hand, tomorrow will be the
23:47
Speaker 1: last day of our pursuits. We'll probably catch up before that,
23:51
Speaker 1: but it'd be a good idea to ensure we last
23:53
Speaker 1: till then, right, AND's like until we catch up to it. Huh, Roger,
23:59
Speaker 1: there are are There are a ton of ants on
24:01
Speaker 1: the butterfly. Now we cut to a trolley on a
24:05
Speaker 1: city street that's just covered in vines and there's some
24:08
Speaker 1: birds on top of it, and there are brick buildings
24:10
Speaker 1: in the background. Then we see like an overgrown park
24:14
Speaker 1: or square with a statue of sand magnolia and it's
24:17
Speaker 1: holding the five colored flag. So we're in Republic's territory again.
24:21
Speaker 1: I guess I don't think we're close enough that these
24:25
Speaker 1: are cities that were like okay until a little bit ago.
24:28
Speaker 1: I think we're in kind of that dead area between
24:30
Speaker 1: the places. Anyway, Daisies are growing out of a crack
24:34
Speaker 1: in the pavement. Frederica is watching the scenery from Ryding's
24:38
Speaker 1: lap as they passed this river, and she starts to
24:41
Speaker 1: remember Shin's memories of the last trip when they thought
24:44
Speaker 1: they were going to their death. And then we see
24:48
Speaker 1: like a golden field as sunsets, and it's thirty five hours,
24:53
Speaker 1: forty four minutes and twenty two seconds since the mission started.
24:56
Speaker 1: Frederica says, it's like the sea. There's standing on top
25:00
Speaker 1: of a hill sort of and looking out over this
25:03
Speaker 1: flat golden field like maybe his wheat in it or something,
25:07
Speaker 1: and the sun is low and it's like glinting off
25:11
Speaker 1: of it, and since it's just the beginning of sunset,
25:13
Speaker 1: there were pink clouds kind of drifting slowly overhead, and
25:17
Speaker 1: there's a slight breeze. They're all standing close together looking
25:22
Speaker 1: out over this field, except for Shin, who is kind
25:26
Speaker 1: of by himself next to a regan leaf on the
25:29
Speaker 1: left side of the screen, where everyone else is on
25:31
Speaker 1: the right. And Frederica says, have any of you seen
25:34
Speaker 1: the ocean, Karina says, I don't think I have on
25:38
Speaker 1: just like I thought I saw it on a transport
25:41
Speaker 1: between combat districts. But looking back, I may have been wrong.
25:45
Speaker 1: Theo says, not the ocean, but there was a big
25:48
Speaker 1: lake near me. I'd go play there a lot, right,
25:51
Speaker 1: and says my elementary school had a field trip to
25:53
Speaker 1: take kids to the ocean, but the war started first.
25:57
Speaker 1: Frederica is like me, neither, I've never seen anything like
26:00
Speaker 1: this before. There's so much I don't know. They're all
26:04
Speaker 1: just like staring and silently reflecting on all this shit,
26:09
Speaker 1: and Frederica continues, I want to go see the ocean.
26:12
Speaker 1: I want to go swimming. I'm sure it's lots of fun.
26:15
Speaker 1: Karina says, to see huh. She stands, Yeah, that might
26:20
Speaker 1: be fun. Theo also stands and he's like, how about
26:24
Speaker 1: a tropical island, coral coconut trees, white beaches are says,
26:30
Speaker 1: I'd love to see an ocean of ice in the
26:31
Speaker 1: north too. They say, when it's really cold, you can
26:34
Speaker 1: walk across it. Carina is like wow, and Rydon says,
26:38
Speaker 1: where'd you hear that? We cut to shin we can
26:42
Speaker 1: really just see his mouth and his lips are like
26:45
Speaker 1: just kind of quivering slightly. And I didn't realize that
26:49
Speaker 1: until I watched it this time, and it's fucking killing me.
26:52
Speaker 1: Aunt says, I saw it in a pamphlet for a
26:55
Speaker 1: travel company. Shin opens his mouth like he's gonna say something,
26:58
Speaker 1: and everyone's except for Anju's like really. Shin kind of
27:04
Speaker 1: gives up and closes his mouth again, and it's quiet,
27:08
Speaker 1: and they are all just staring at him, like really
27:11
Speaker 1: concerned as he looks out over the field and he
27:15
Speaker 1: doesn't even notice. Karina turns back towards the field and says,
27:19
Speaker 1: let's go all of us when the war's over. It's
27:24
Speaker 1: night now, and we see the butterfly again. It's mostly
27:28
Speaker 1: been eaten at this point, except for like little scraps
27:31
Speaker 1: of its body and wings, and also its head is
27:34
Speaker 1: still there, which is not how it would really happen.
27:38
Speaker 1: Some of the pieces of its wings scatter in the breeze,
27:42
Speaker 1: and then we cut to Spearhead except for Shin asleep
27:46
Speaker 1: on some cots. They're in some sort of domed building,
27:49
Speaker 1: like I don't know, like a sports complex or a something.
27:54
Speaker 1: There are some holes in the ceiling where moonlight is
27:56
Speaker 1: streaming in. It's like a glass ceiling, and it's forty
27:59
Speaker 1: four hours, thirty minutes and three seconds since the mission began.
28:04
Speaker 1: Shin is in a different area of the building, just
28:06
Speaker 1: by himself with a rifle, like sitting under this really
28:10
Speaker 1: large hole in like a concrete ceiling with like rebar
28:13
Speaker 1: sticking out and shit, it's pretty cool but looks dangerous.
28:17
Speaker 1: Fido is there too, He's like several feet away, just
28:20
Speaker 1: kind of watching, and Chin says, Fido, Fido beeps. Sin's like,
28:26
Speaker 1: I ordered you to switch to stand by mode until
28:28
Speaker 1: I wake you up tomorrow. Fido makes some like weird noises.
28:32
Speaker 1: There aren't exactly beeps, and Chin says, fine, if that's
28:36
Speaker 1: what you want to do. He hears footsteps and looks up.
28:40
Speaker 1: Frederica is walking over and she says, I thought it
28:43
Speaker 1: was weird that I heard you talking so much. It's
28:45
Speaker 1: because you're talking to Fido. Huh. Chin's like, yeah, we
28:50
Speaker 1: got too, I guess. A few minutes later, because there's
28:52
Speaker 1: a campstove with like a pot on top, and Frederica
28:55
Speaker 1: is sitting on this chunk of concrete near Shin, drinking
28:58
Speaker 1: something hot. She kind of sighs, and Chin says, what
29:02
Speaker 1: is it? Frederica is like, I felt that I understood
29:05
Speaker 1: you a little today. I looked at the scenery the
29:08
Speaker 1: whole time. It was so beautiful. If you lived your
29:12
Speaker 1: whole lives surrounded by that scenery, then I felt maybe
29:15
Speaker 1: I could understand the reason we see flashbacks from earlier
29:18
Speaker 1: in the day, the reason you're so disinterested in humanity,
29:22
Speaker 1: survival and your own lives. What the beauty exists only
29:26
Speaker 1: because there are no humans here. I don't think this
29:30
Speaker 1: is what is going on with them, Frederica. But okay,
29:33
Speaker 1: we got to a pink stuffed bunny on the ground.
29:36
Speaker 1: It's got ripped seams with like little bits of cotton
29:39
Speaker 1: coming out. Yay. Frederica continues, Maybe that scenery is what
29:45
Speaker 1: the legion want. They have a closeup of the bunny's
29:48
Speaker 1: head with its sad eyes. Shin's like, I don't know.
29:54
Speaker 1: They may not want anything. Frederica kind of gasps. Shin continues,
29:58
Speaker 1: their ghosts goes aren't supposed to want anything. Shin. Frederica's like,
30:06
Speaker 1: how do you know? Shin says, because I'm the same.
30:10
Speaker 1: We're only seeing his mouth now, and there's a pause
30:14
Speaker 1: that night I failed to die, and I think I'm
30:17
Speaker 1: still dead. Ever since then, I haven't been able to
30:20
Speaker 1: want anything. Frederica is just kind of staring at him intently.
30:24
Speaker 1: Shin looks away. I don't want to see the ocean.
30:28
Speaker 1: I don't have anything I want to do or any
30:30
Speaker 1: place I want to go. It doesn't really cause me
30:34
Speaker 1: any problems, but I kind of understand now that not
30:37
Speaker 1: being able to have something small that you want to do,
30:40
Speaker 1: like our conversation at dusk, is bizarre. Frederica says, but
30:47
Speaker 1: last fall was fun, wasn't it. Shin looks at her.
30:51
Speaker 1: She continues, when you left the eighty six districts, it
30:55
Speaker 1: was the first time you were able to decide everything
30:57
Speaker 1: for yourself, the first time you had freedom. Right. Shin
31:02
Speaker 1: tightens his fist and then relaxes it slightly and says,
31:07
Speaker 1: it was fun because I thought it would be over soon. Yeah.
31:14
Speaker 1: I thought we'd die out there without anyone ever knowing
31:17
Speaker 1: what happened to us. But we survived. Unfortunately, I was
31:22
Speaker 1: supposed to die. The future is too long for someone
31:26
Speaker 1: like me. At this point, the flame on the camp
31:30
Speaker 1: stove has gone out. Shin says, I'm not your knight.
31:35
Speaker 1: Frederica makes a noise. Shin continues, I knew that, but
31:41
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for using your night as an excuse. I'm
31:44
Speaker 1: still going as far as I can, but my brother
31:46
Speaker 1: isn't here anymore, so I wanted another goal that could
31:49
Speaker 1: take its place for a while. Frederick is like, I
31:53
Speaker 1: don't think that's all. Shin looks over. She continues, you
31:57
Speaker 1: should be aware that you're looking in the mirror of
31:59
Speaker 1: the wrong way. She stands. You're not nearly as cold
32:03
Speaker 1: as you think you are. You're a softy reaper. If
32:06
Speaker 1: nothing else, I can release Kiri because you agreed to
32:09
Speaker 1: help me. I was so sad seeing him crying and
32:12
Speaker 1: trapped within the battlefield. I wanted to free him. I
32:16
Speaker 1: wanted to be freed from being forced to see his misery.
32:19
Speaker 1: But she grips her jacket tightly with one hand and
32:22
Speaker 1: she puts her other arm over her eyes. I'm scared
32:26
Speaker 1: of Kiri dying. I'm terrified of losing him. Shin just
32:31
Speaker 1: kind of stares at her. The credits start to roll.
32:34
Speaker 1: Frederica continues, the Frederivacy doesn't need a child like me.
32:38
Speaker 1: It's a republic now. Just by being alive, I could
32:41
Speaker 1: potentially start a war. It's better for every one if
32:44
Speaker 1: I'm not here. But I thought I had to stay
32:46
Speaker 1: alive to put an end to my night's life. But
32:49
Speaker 1: if Kirie dies, that excuse will cease to exist. Shin
32:53
Speaker 1: puts his hand on his shoulder. Frederica continues, and that
32:57
Speaker 1: scares me. She clenches her fist. The only reason you're
33:01
Speaker 1: terrified of going forward right now, she kneels down to
33:04
Speaker 1: be closer to him, is that you tried to see
33:06
Speaker 1: the future for what it is, because you tried to
33:09
Speaker 1: look directly at the dark, untrodden path before you. Shin
33:13
Speaker 1: looks away. No, Frederica is like, it's nothing to be
33:16
Speaker 1: ashamed of, and while you're doing it, at least let
33:19
Speaker 1: those who are around you support you. That's what companions
33:22
Speaker 1: are for. That's why people come together. Shin says. Brighten
33:28
Speaker 1: said the same thing. Frederica is like, then just admit
33:31
Speaker 1: he was right, and Shin cuts her off. I'm not
33:34
Speaker 1: like them. Frederica makes like a little confused noise. Shin continues.
33:39
Speaker 1: Not having any wishes is the same as not wanting
33:41
Speaker 1: to be alive. I'm the only one of us who
33:45
Speaker 1: still isn't truly alive. I'm just the reaper. The ending
33:49
Speaker 1: theme starts up at this point, he continues, and the
33:53
Speaker 1: ones who call me that will some day go on
33:54
Speaker 1: ahead and leave me behind. There's this long pause as
33:58
Speaker 1: Frederica just stares at him and shut Shin has his
34:01
Speaker 1: head down and he looks maybe kind of ashamed. As
34:05
Speaker 1: shooting Star goes across the sky, we can see it
34:08
Speaker 1: from the holeless ceiling. We see the butterfly again, and
34:11
Speaker 1: this time it has all gone except for the head.
34:15
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's supposed to mean something is October eleventh,
34:20
Speaker 1: twenty one forty nine. The wind kicks up and blows
34:23
Speaker 1: the head away, and sparkles appear in the air, and
34:27
Speaker 1: a mass of legion approaches in the background, and it
34:29
Speaker 1: just overtakes the camera. We cut to Katy spreading his
34:34
Speaker 1: wings and we hear him say pale Rider to no Face,
34:38
Speaker 1: beginning combat operations. No face says no Face Roger. We
34:43
Speaker 1: see Katy's blue face, and No Face continues. There's new
34:47
Speaker 1: information to share from the wide area network. We found
34:50
Speaker 1: traces of an enemy unit within our territory. From the
34:53
Speaker 1: information available, it appears they're pursuing you. You already begin
34:57
Speaker 1: searching for them in the vicinity of your operations here
35:00
Speaker 1: kitties like Roger, he thinks about Shin's symbol and he
35:05
Speaker 1: grins widely, and then that's like the ending theme picture.
35:11
Speaker 1: So his face is like really dark blue and his
35:13
Speaker 1: teeth are red, and then we see the next episode
35:16
Speaker 1: title card. All that's left and that's it. Yay, So
35:23
Speaker 1: like closing thoughts. Yeah, so we learned possibly a lot
35:29
Speaker 1: about Chinn in this episode. One of my favorite things
35:33
Speaker 1: is like when a character is in a conversation with
35:36
Speaker 1: another character and the other character is telling them about themselves,
35:39
Speaker 1: like you are like this, and instead of that character
35:42
Speaker 1: being like, oh, you're right, I understand everything now, they
35:45
Speaker 1: just push back and they say, no, you're totally wrong
35:47
Speaker 1: about this. I just like that. I don't know why.
35:50
Speaker 1: I think it's because maybe when people say things to
35:54
Speaker 1: me about me, I just go like, oh, you're probably
35:56
Speaker 1: right instead of pushing back. And I wish that I
35:58
Speaker 1: was just like, no, no, I really do want to die.
36:02
Speaker 1: I don't really want to die. I'm just using this
36:03
Speaker 1: as an example. I'm actually very scared of dying, don't worry.
36:08
Speaker 1: So I think the main thing about this episode that
36:12
Speaker 1: is important is those two conversations between Shin and Rydan
36:15
Speaker 1: and Shinden Frederica. So they both don't understand, right, Rydin
36:22
Speaker 1: kind of gets it. He understands that something is very
36:24
Speaker 1: wrong with Chin. You know, there's nothing that is influencing
36:27
Speaker 1: Shin at all. This is just Shin being Shin, but
36:31
Speaker 1: something is wrong and things have gotten worse. He is deteriorating.
36:36
Speaker 1: And I thought it was just really really interesting when
36:41
Speaker 1: Ryden was like, you didn't go all through that just
36:44
Speaker 1: to kill your brother, like there was supposed to be
36:46
Speaker 1: more like, and Shin's just like there was like why
36:51
Speaker 1: did I do it? Then? Like, because he's pretty closed
36:55
Speaker 1: off and he's not gonna express like, hey, I want
36:58
Speaker 1: to kill my brother so I can die. But that's
37:00
Speaker 1: absolutely what it was. He was seeing that mission, that
37:05
Speaker 1: last mission with San Magnolia as like that was the
37:08
Speaker 1: end of him. That was going to be where he
37:11
Speaker 1: stops existing, and that was fine with him. He did
37:14
Speaker 1: peace with it, and he's just been forced to continue
37:19
Speaker 1: way past what he thought he'd have to. And yeah,
37:24
Speaker 1: I understand Ryden's anger because he's not being a good captain.
37:28
Speaker 1: He's not there consistently for the people he's leading because
37:34
Speaker 1: he's being so reckless because he wants to die. So yeah,
37:41
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think we can just kind of
37:44
Speaker 1: relate that to Frederica's conversation with him too, Like nobody
37:49
Speaker 1: gets it, right, I just said that already, but still,
37:52
Speaker 1: like it was nice to hear him come out and say,
37:57
Speaker 1: I don't want to do this anymore, because I think
38:02
Speaker 1: maybe you noticed for a long time that Shin didn't
38:07
Speaker 1: want to do this anymore. Like he's got nothing going
38:11
Speaker 1: for him, I mean, besides being like a really talented pilot.
38:16
Speaker 1: His family is all dead, his brother tried to kill him,
38:20
Speaker 1: and he probably still blames himself for everything because it's
38:25
Speaker 1: really hard to overcome trauma like that. When you're a
38:28
Speaker 1: kid and someone you love tells you something, even if
38:30
Speaker 1: it's not true, it sticks. And Anju had kind of
38:34
Speaker 1: pointed that out too, So he hates himself. He doesn't
38:40
Speaker 1: have anyone. I mean, he's got these people around him now,
38:43
Speaker 1: but his whole history of fighting at least has just
38:48
Speaker 1: been people dying around him and him being the person
38:52
Speaker 1: who has to kill them to let them go, and
38:55
Speaker 1: them thanking him. And he doesn't want to lose everyone.
39:00
Speaker 1: You know like he's got no one who he feels
39:03
Speaker 1: is going to be a consistent presence in his life.
39:06
Speaker 1: And he's right to think that. I mean, it's obvious
39:10
Speaker 1: that he knows that it's only a matter of time
39:12
Speaker 1: until ryden Anju corrina An THEEO die or he has
39:17
Speaker 1: to kill them, and he will be alone. And he
39:21
Speaker 1: doesn't even know why he's here in the first place anymore,
39:24
Speaker 1: because he doesn't want anything. And that's not true, first
39:27
Speaker 1: of all, because he desperately wants to not be here anymore.
39:31
Speaker 1: So he does have a desirous desires just to die
39:35
Speaker 1: and also to stop losing the people that he loves,
39:38
Speaker 1: but he doesn't believe that that's possible. And for a
39:40
Speaker 1: second there, a little bit earlier on the show, he
39:45
Speaker 1: had Lena, and for some reason he really really connected
39:49
Speaker 1: with her. He wanted her to stay alive, and maybe
39:53
Speaker 1: he thought she'd get to be that person who gets
39:56
Speaker 1: to carry on for him, the person who was still
39:59
Speaker 1: going to be there when he died, who maybe couldn't
40:02
Speaker 1: comfort him, but was gonna remember him, was going to
40:07
Speaker 1: take him forward the way that he's been taking the
40:11
Speaker 1: rest of his comrades forward this whole time. Someone to
40:15
Speaker 1: kind of pass on the I don't know, metaphorical torch too.
40:19
Speaker 1: I think the whole thing with when he wrote in
40:21
Speaker 1: the note like one day, if you reach our final destination,
40:25
Speaker 1: will you leave flowers was kind of like that. It
40:28
Speaker 1: was like, please be there and remember me. And now
40:34
Speaker 1: that San Magnolia has probably fallen and Lena is probably dead,
40:39
Speaker 1: it's just another blow of Oh, everyone I care about
40:43
Speaker 1: goes on ahead of me, and I have to stay
40:46
Speaker 1: here basically forever and just watch everyone else die and
40:52
Speaker 1: it sucks. And on top of that, he's hearing like
40:56
Speaker 1: Legion's voices constantly, and some of them are just his
40:59
Speaker 1: dead calm calling out like their final thoughts, which are
41:02
Speaker 1: just like I want to go home and I want
41:04
Speaker 1: my mom and shit all the time, twenty four hours
41:08
Speaker 1: a day, and he's exhausted and he doesn't want to
41:11
Speaker 1: do this anymore, and I understand, like why would he
41:15
Speaker 1: want to? What does he have? And in a way,
41:19
Speaker 1: his comrades are sort of in the same position as him,
41:22
Speaker 1: but not because they have been able to look to
41:26
Speaker 1: him for comfort, because they believe he's gonna make it.
41:30
Speaker 1: He's gonna be there even if they die, He'll be
41:34
Speaker 1: there to comfort them. They're not going to die alone.
41:36
Speaker 1: And also they don't want to die. They you know, believe,
41:41
Speaker 1: like most people believe that it's not going to be them,
41:44
Speaker 1: you know, that die, and even if it is, Shin's there,
41:49
Speaker 1: so it's not going to be too scary. Like, but
41:51
Speaker 1: Chin doesn't have anyone who's gonna be there when he dies.
41:54
Speaker 1: No one's gonna save him for the legion, like taking
41:57
Speaker 1: his head, because no one's capable of it. So it
42:00
Speaker 1: just seems like he's just marching towards a really upsetting end.
42:05
Speaker 1: Oh it's that fucking law dispute song again, marching towards
42:10
Speaker 1: a curtain call that no one asks for and no
42:13
Speaker 1: one wants to happen, but it still has to be. Yeah. So,
42:20
Speaker 1: and I think it just hurts him to be around
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Speaker 1: all these people who have hopes because he just doesn't
42:27
Speaker 1: have that, and he doesn't know how he can have that.
42:29
Speaker 1: You know, he is very very clinically depressed. Yeah so,
42:39
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I'm just tangenting here, But
42:41
Speaker 1: I thought that was great. I thought finally just having
42:45
Speaker 1: him come out and say, like, listen, guys, I basically
42:49
Speaker 1: want to die or at least listen Frederica, I basically
42:52
Speaker 1: want to die. Especially when she's like, you're just scared,
42:55
Speaker 1: He's like, no, like I'm not scared, Like I want
42:57
Speaker 1: to die. Was just really really good and also probably
43:01
Speaker 1: good for him because he wants to talk about it.
43:05
Speaker 1: He wants to share his emotions, and it was very
43:07
Speaker 1: clear when they were standing on that fields talking about
43:12
Speaker 1: the ocean that he just kind of wants to be
43:14
Speaker 1: heard and he can't. He doesn't know how to say
43:18
Speaker 1: it because it'll hurt them to hear that too, you know.
43:23
Speaker 1: So where do we go from here? Is Shinn going
43:26
Speaker 1: to find his release and death? That would be very
43:31
Speaker 1: convenient for him, so I don't think. So does he
43:36
Speaker 1: eventually get better? Does he figure out how to have
43:39
Speaker 1: hopes and dreams and not just feel like everything is
43:42
Speaker 1: going to be a disaster forever? I hope. So. I
43:46
Speaker 1: hope he doesn't lose the rest of his comrades. I
43:49
Speaker 1: hope that the cycle stops. You know that he's not
43:52
Speaker 1: just the thing that takes lives away gently and kindly,
43:59
Speaker 1: but is something that is valued for other reasons. Yeah, yeah,
44:09
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make myself cry. So yeah, I really like
44:16
Speaker 1: this and This is probably the kind of big thing
44:20
Speaker 1: that makes me like Shin because I like depressed people.
44:23
Speaker 1: I don't know, He's just such an interesting character to me,
44:27
Speaker 1: and this episode just really gave me what I wanted,
44:30
Speaker 1: both of those interactions with him, which is really important
44:35
Speaker 1: and satisfying. So I think we have like three episodes
44:39
Speaker 1: left twenty one, twenty two, twenty three. I think I'm
44:41
Speaker 1: right about that, So I hope you're interested to see
44:45
Speaker 1: where this ends. I heard recently, if Twitter is correct,
44:49
Speaker 1: that the light novel series is going into its final arc,
44:54
Speaker 1: so that's something. I think there's like fifteen light novels
44:58
Speaker 1: or something. There's definitely a bunch of them, so we
45:02
Speaker 1: should probably pick them up again. But yeah, hopefully next
45:08
Speaker 1: week will be I mean, it'll be interesting to see
45:11
Speaker 1: where we go from this and how Shin acts because
45:15
Speaker 1: you know, right and is right, like, he can't take
45:19
Speaker 1: them down with him, so he has to keep fighting
45:22
Speaker 1: right now, so that not everyone dies. So yeah, they
45:29
Speaker 1: gotta go confront Katie. Yep. Anyway, that's all I got.
45:35
Speaker 1: I think. I hope you have a really good whatever,
45:40
Speaker 1: and yeah, I'll see you when I see you, which
45:44
Speaker 1: is going to be next week. Unless something happens later,
45:47
Speaker 1: weeps