Gargantia #09 — Soylent Squid
June 2nd, 2013
They’re made of peeeeeoooopppplllleeeee!
Impressions:
Well, this episode sure gave Valvrave a run for its money in the jerky and inane developments department. Which means I can be lazy and sarcastically summarize. Sooo. We begin with now the whalesquid are apparently absolutely evil and everybody is happy to hunt them and wage all out war on them. Not only that, but we have a flashback to them explicitly hunting down and killing ANIKIIIIIIIIIIIII. So Red goes around slaughtering them for… well… basically 14 straight minutes, which I’d be more enthusiastic about if it was better animated. At this point, he gets sucked into a news cast explaining world history and that the aliens/whalesquid are actually modified humans, whereupon Chamber pops the first non-hostile/still semi-human one for giggles. Which makes Amy’s psychic senses tingling and she cries for lost humanity while Red screams in anguish.
So yeah. It’s at least an episode with talking points, I guess, which is more than I can say for a lot of them. How most of the faffing about episodes were leading to this, or why Red is so horrified by killing meta-humans that are trying to kill him after needing it explained to him that slaughtering a ship full of pirates is a bad thing are questions I’m sure the writers would rather nobody asked, but that’s why they pay me the big bucks. It’s butkus as far as anything involving characterization goes, but hey. It’s something new for characters to anguish over. They almost made it a whole episode without doing that. I think I honestly miss the robster jetski lesbian surf harem and/or belly dancing.
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He killed those pirates as a part of his deal with Amy, and if you looked at his eyes when he made the deal it wasn’t something he considered as the same as taking out the trash.
Ledo comes from a society where unproductive members are removed, and that is how he viewed the pirates at the time. The whole point of the last few episodes is his transformation into a person who appreciates sentient life as intrinsically valuable.
Humans are no longer equivalent to the chicken he was offered to eat by Bellows, both are in his view now something more.
Character development, you can’t ignore it if you want to understand the story and characters.