Summary:
After some requisite parosonic/Wahoo! and Maria bondage, the Vice President of the US learns from Youtube that DAEDALA/Snake is behind the attacks and that the Ua virus was unleashed on the politicans. Angry that SWIFT rickrolled him, the VP orders a stealth bomber to stealth bomb the hell out of the conference center. Vaccines are now useless and Okoshi Pharmaceutical’s CEO Oosawa Kenji was blown up while delivering a top-secret antivirus, but Yuri visits Santana and his ghetto last-gen communications equipment to pin her hopes and dreams on Canaan’s hacking skills.
Alphard gives a monologue in which she explains that Siam was a two-timing loli-trainer who used the same pickup lines on her and Canaan. Alphard is annoyed that Maria has cliche amnesia, but this doesn’t mean that Liang is allowed to get violent. Upset at Alphard’s rebuke, Liang angrily storms away and gets left behind by Alphard and Cummings. Things are looking real bad until it is revealed that the video of Kenji blowing up was a hoax and Canaan can code with her eyes. With Yuri’s help, Canaan h4xx0rs the GPS on the guided missile and causes the strike to miss by 50 m. Maria and Canaan celebrate by rubbing their breasts together, but all the blood rushes out of Canaan’s head and she finds she can no longer use her Discotheque vision.
Reaction:
The best part of this episode was Canaan hacking the hell out of the GPS, and then winking at the audience while she symmetrically docked with Maria. The scenes with Yuri and Canaan teaming up were also pretty cool, and made me want to go frag something while on Vent. Unfortunately, the rest of the episode did not make quite as much sense. The whole fake Kenji video was so retarded, and at first I thought he had gotten attacked by a dove-bomb or something. And how would he have time to edit a fake video and feed it to the Snake guys? If he had that much time, wouldn’t it have been easier just to fire an RPG at their van? I also found the Canaan GPS-hacking to be a bit odd. I could understand Canaan using her eyes to decode programming, but it looked like she used her eyes to actively interfere with the program.
I thought that Canaan would be glad to be rid of her powers (since she likes color-free dolls), until I realized that now Canaan can’t find her way to all of Maria’s favorite spots Maria when she inevitably gets captured again. I liked Alphard tossing Liang away, because it’s clear that Liang was getting too popular and interfering with Alphard’s plan to make the new Canaan into the new Alphard who was the old Canaan. This makes me wonder if Maria’s memories of Canaan are messed up and she was really hanging out and flirting with Alphard in the past! I fully expect a Nanoha-esque fight between Canaan and Liang where they eventually bury the hatchet so that Canaan can defeat Alphard and deliver Alphard into Liang’s waiting arms. Finally, things are gonna be real awkward between the VP and the President when he gets home. Political dorama!
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One of the founders of Sea Slugs, I handle most of the blog admin tasks while wearing my I AM BOSS shirt. I like my action series well choreographed, and my romance series extra trashy. I also have a soft spot for puns.
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Observation #1: this death trap scenario is a parallel to the one where Maria was tied to a bomb underground. A moral quandary is suppose to be the center piece of emotional conflict, thanks to overly-manipulative script writing and jump-circuiting plot holes.
Observation #2: Eye-hacking is just like mystic eye of death perception, but even better.
It’s like Alphard’s just trying to teach Canaan a lesson or something. And how is Yunyun gonna get her prescription refilled with Liang out of the office?
On Observation #2: True that, though the former is definitely more easier to “use”. Though a fight between CANAAN and Shiki Ryougi (who I now want to joke is Alphard in an alternate universe, being voiced by the same seiyuu and all) would be interesting to watch if both eye types were used to their fullest.
HaXX0r eyes pwn everything. I wonder what would happen if they had used a laser guided bomb instead.
It’s funny how the episode half-solves the crisis, but still doesn’t tell us anything about what Alphard is up to. and yeah this episode didn’t make much sense. I don’t know how the VP and the rest of US officials concluded that dropping a bomb onto the president was the best idea at the time. Wouldn’t the bomb break the shelter room and release the contaminated air into the open?
Lol nice job spotting Canaan’s wink btw.
Oh yeah, my power level is finally >100!!!! Well it was yesterday but I forgot to mention it.
More than halfway through this show and I still barely have any idea of what’s going on… Alphard spent all this time and money on the attack only to give Canaan a chance to win (although to be fair, I didn’t see how Canaan could stop the bomb either). I guess the VP figured the bomb would incinerate everyone at a high enough temperature to kill the Ua virus, which makes sense.
2nd caption = WIN! Glad you’re also making extremely long captions (I didn’t want to feel left out ;3)
wish I had thought of it first
(damn, I really need to catch up with this show!)
I had to check it in IE to make sure the whole thing displayed.
I was half-expecting the last caption to be kyonkundenwa…
I was going to, but I used that already for Phantom 18.
I prefer the 1st caption best myself.
*Laughs out loud* Hahaha! Your yuri recap of this episode is the funniest I’ve ever seen! But damm, I will have a nosebleed if I were to see Alphard and Maria symmetrically dock. The women on this show are incredibly hot! Looking forward to your next recap!
With new authors, I’ve had to step up my game.
Hm I thought the fake video was fed to the UN or something by the Snakes to trick them into bombing the place.
This makes much more sense, although it still seems like a waste of time and money.
Agreed with Flamestrike.
But what I didn’t understand was the part when MariaDad got delivered to Shanghai in a nick of time. If he was being delivered by the rescue team, wouldn’t the Veep and co have had the news sooner?
VP and White house get their news from “online videos.”
Sounds about right. Especially for an ersatz Bush admin. :blank:
Whatever happened to Liang’s nunchuk? I actually thought Cummings looked pretty cool in this episode, right before Liang tosses the toy gun at his face I mean. He looked like he was prepared to die, or take one for the team. And he actually showed concern for Liang’s safety too. I thought he would detest her for always shooting pellets at him, but it looks like he may protect her when the time comes.
You know, that sound crazy enough to work!
Well… I think Cummings might get off on Liang’s punishment…
You don’t say. The kinky aside though, he does seem to be genuinely fond of Liang.
And either Alphard has some excessively kunnin’ plan in the works or she sucks at personnel management even worse than Liang, who only jettisoned the essentially inconsequential YunYun. Alphie just dumped and alienated her longtime right-hand woman who knows much of the organisation and its tricks inside out, and in all likelihood is too crazy to be really predictable once cut loose…
Something of a Bond Villain career move that, I’d say.
I think that Alphard is trying to use some tough love to shape up Canaan and Liang, and at least Liang isn’t stumbling out of a bathroom puking ;P . I do agree that Snakes/DAEDALA has a bad company culture!
At least they thus far haven’t ‘fired’ people the old-fashioned villain way, ie. by headshot…
Granted that sounds like a surprisingly credible theory actually. When you think about it Canaan and Liang are probably about the closest thing to “family” Alphard has had since she snuffed Whatshisname, and certainly she just more or less signed her own death sentence by pulling a fairly epic and literally world-class troll on nigh every powerful state on the planet, and not a few others to boot. Could well be she’s aiming to go out with a real bang and is trying to arrange for C. and L. to “bear witness” to it without getting caught in the blast radius, and maybe grow up a bit on the side too. (Realistically Liang at least would be as good as dead meat given her former status in the Snakes and the absurd lenghts the letter-soup intelligence agencies have proven themselves willing to go in tracking down far smaller fry, but given that the CIA was apparently unable to pick up Alphard’s trail in a freakin’ high-profile cocktail party only a short time after she was busted out of their hands…)
Given how quickly it drove her over the edge and into quitting the gang in a huff, it’s probably safe to assume Alphard didn’t previously treat L. half as disdainfully as she’s lately done too, which would certainly fit into the proposed scheme – basically, toss her out before it’s too late so she doesn’t die with Alph and the rest. (Also makes me wonder how A. actually regards Liang – theoretically, could be anything up to a sort of adopted daughter…)
Also, I may have too much time in my hands to over-analyze over-the-top action animus like this.
I loved when the VP was sitting there and learning about the “SWIFT” report that DAEDALA was a front for Snake. If the report was so SWIFT, where was it BEFORE they let the President of the United States attend a conference “guarded” by terrorists?!
Also, Alphard looks very different in work clothes, I guess.
Or the spooks spent too much time looking at somewhere other than her face. :hmm:
Speaking of world class trolls and national leaders in bunkers, maybe Alphard should have just screened Endless Eight instead of using the Ua virus.
But would that get her face plastered on T-shirts and image macros for decades down the road ?
Watching this and episode 6 makes me think the producers watched too much of:
1) Air Force One
2) The Matrix (c’mon Cannan’s whole enter the lobby thing was such a rip off)
And BTW, I feel bad that Obama wasn’t elected to a second term and was replaced by Mr. Love and Peace
Obama probably caught a cold and then got bombed by Joe Biden.
Or the original game or whateveritwas was made during the Bush tenure, given how obvious a parody of W the Prez is. BO doesn’t have such long-established comedy potential either, anyway…
Off on a tangent, I’m actually quite curious of how the various animu scriptwriters will deal with that shift over the next few years.
Probably like this, sadly enough.
I daresay getting Koizumi‘d would represent a very considerable improvement in popular-culture representation over what Dubya has gotten, though. Obama, Fukui in any case apparently loves the man for obvious reasons.
Mind you he’s already been Rule 34′d in a H-doujin that co-stars Hillary Clinton and Aso Taro, too… o_O
Wut…
Well the President in Gundam 00 was a black guy :p
And in Blassreiter.
See, if I picked up stray lolis, the last thing I’d do is raise them into becoming killing machines. Sham had it coming.