Macross Δ #10 — Jamberry Burst

June 5th, 2016

 

Laser cannons do not work that way!

Same as the last few weeks, Re:Zero's broadcast is extremely delayed today, to the tune of three and a half hours this time.

Impressions:

This episode didn't start well, with a bunch of cryptic exposition and Arab businessmen wandering around with luggage, and no, I am not joking about that, but then before we even reached the third minute, we had "It's our mission to attend this festival and make festival food" and "Wow, look at all those couples, because this is a festival for couples." That was about the point where I mentally checked out of the episode and I spent the next ten minutes dozing until I was unpleasantly aroused from my slumber by the obnoxious castrati doing its usual shrill yelling that they keep trying to call singing. Which woke me up just in time for yet another idol… thing. I really couldn't tell you what the plan was or even happened here. They parachuted rocket skirted in, yelled briefly at some structure, then two of them got sucked into The Song Dimension or something for a moment which blew them both back and knocked them out.

The dog fighting bit took over after that, with a little more sensible bullets instead of astral trips and magic songs, but they put all the effort into the fight at the end and the third insert song of the episode, so it looked especially butts for most of it, along with all the usual issues of close ups of faces, yelling, half the combatants randomly vanishing, and everyone's efficiency in battle totally spoiled by their need to be as overly dramatic as possible. Sure, we could all just shoot your ginormous lasers or missile barrages at the crowd of people who keeps stymying you, but how about instead, we all get in a fancy formation, only one guy attacks, from one angle, only fires one shot, after waiting for a lock on to a specific one of them, and then we all futz off and totally forget about them? 

It's also more than a little difficult to feel much of anything for Whose-His-Face's death, mainly because his involvement with the story to date has been minimal. I guess it's supposed to be the 'mentor' dying thing? But he hasn't even been that. Mostly, I suspect it'll be cause for an episode or two of moping. But also because it was telegraphed for about two or three minutes straight leading up to it (and half the episode), so while obviously intended to go out on a "Holy crap!" jarring moment, they were already mourning him long before he burst like a ketchup packet. Also because it was a hilariously ridiculous explosion of jam inside a cockpit from a laser accurate shot that had no effect otherwise except for messing up the windshield.

 

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6 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Yyi says:

    Way too many death flags for my liking. It’s like teasing people he’s gonna die and then it blows up in their faces…

    Btw, quick Google search on the impact of laser on biological systems does demonstrate the possibility of human implosion, though the test limited to a computer simulation conducted on eye balls.

    http://io9.gizmodo.com/386790/air-force-study-shows-how-to-boil-eyeballs-with-lasers

  • Tiresias says:

    I laughed when the shot blew his head off and did absolutely nothing to the rest of the plane, as if the laser decided “welp, that’s enough for the day” and quit after just popping the tomato

  • arknoir says:

    the face goes to finish off the heel. The heels partner distracts the face and takes the hit and the heel finishes off the face 1-2-3. Boom, instant heat on the heel.

    Shiningami(face) vs the White knight(heel)dogfight. Simple Wrestling booking 101.

  • arknoir says:

    oh I forgot. Bonus points for seeing evil purple Sheryl unconscious face down in the dirt. Really don’t like that little tart.

  • algorithm says:

    He didn’t fly so good.