Pandora in the Crimson Shell #05 — Candy From Strangers

February 5th, 2016

 

Creepy old robot strangers.

Impressions:

More and more, it's looking like a certainty that the stuff they tried to tease at the end of episode 3 is going to be stretched out ofr the entire rest of the show. I guess this episode sort of inched forward slightly, but you wouldn't know it from the first third, and still had the protagonists just trip over a couple random other cyborgs for particularly random random encounters while the lion waved its dick leg in a pinwheel. The first random encounter was somehow the more incomprehensible. They befriend some random robot lady. Then circumstances make her collapse, so they need to rush her to the hospital after tripping over her a second time. The end. Some real meat on those six to seven minutes, stock footage of hand down the crotch and transformation, and obligatory new fetish costume.

I'm not sure what else to call the corny thieves who pulled a sword and scimitar out of their asses other than random. It was probably another one of those "this would be weird" things, but only weird enough to make me wonder about the writers, not enough to actually be funny, and that they felt this needed any time at all for setting up does not speak well for getting this story moving again. The plot inching forward part I mentioned comes from running into a corny giant robot buddy just before that who is actually working for The Man. That's it. That's all. Oh, but their pure hearts may have touched him. Great.

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3 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Sanjuro says:
    February 5, 2016 at 5:09 pm

    I laughed when the old lady fell out of the chair. Not because I think old ladies falling out of chairs is funny, but because of the way it was animated.

  • Longhaul says:
    February 5, 2016 at 6:16 pm

    This was a dolljoint fetish episode.

  • XK says:
    February 8, 2016 at 12:59 pm

    This was a transcendent exploration of future transhuman society, as well as a prescient warning against putting too much data on the Cloud in the era of socialized medicine and being overly reliant upon the internet of things

    The internal struggle of our heroine with the regard to the impact on her self-worth of reliance of Matrix-style downloaded skills and the preeminent importance of the goal itself being more important than one’s own self-importance in achieving that goal was of mild interest.

    Far more significantly, it was edifying to see how robot dolls shower. The attention to detail there was certainly sublime, including the careful placement of a sticker over the data ports, special sprays, and the use of a cat-eared shower cap.