Total Eclipse #11 — Hurry Up And Do Nothing

September 9th, 2012

 

What the living hell was this episode?

Impressions:

I don’t even know what to say about this one. Last week ended with "Holy crap! BETA right under us!" and then this proceeded to be twenty straight minutes of talking heads. It was obviously some kind of horribly inane Soviety ploy to get all the good weapons and undermine everybody else or whatever all along. That was done with all the subtlety of a giant penis alien, even before they spent an entire two damn minutes explaining the entire thing at the end of the episode for the particularly slow individuals. "Why would they do it… unless it was on purpose!?" "Oh, by the way, everybody evacuate and everyone else is now under the Soviet command." "BUT WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS!?" Not sure, guys! This one’s a toughie!

Good god, though. You can’t spend twenty minutes standing around going "There’s no time to do anything!" That does not work. Not to mention that the entire plot of "Leave tunnels for a month and hope that the BETA conveniently only use them to invade again when the UN comes to visit" makes my brain itch. And then we end this week having moved from "Holy crap! BETA right under us!" to "Holy crap! BETA right next to us!" Congratu-bloody-lations. I feel like we realy accomplished something here.

 

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12 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Embok says:
    September 9, 2012 at 11:36 am

    …yeah we got to watch three or four different groups of characters all have the same discussion one after another.

    But hey, with the Beta right next to us this episode maybe they’ll manage to get right on top of us the next.

  • algorithm says:
    September 9, 2012 at 2:27 pm

    I finally dropped it last week. Good luck for the rest.

  • Gorilla13 says:
    September 9, 2012 at 4:29 pm

    What? BETA can go on the f*cking offensive?!! You don’t say… it seems that Japan can finally salvage their low birthrate ^_^

  • Barkip says:
    September 9, 2012 at 9:30 pm

    Even last episode the map didn’t show the BETA right under them, about halfway between them and the coast, and they were told they were about 13 kilometers away. Guess the inability to show that clearly was a big failure on their part.

  • The Phantom says:
    September 10, 2012 at 12:54 am

    This show needs named people dead, and a lot of damned violence. First two episode were awesome why are they dragging things after those episodes were so godly.

    Give us blood dammit.

    • anon says:
      September 10, 2012 at 11:52 am

      No, it doesnt.

      Its your own damn fault for falling into thinking those 2 episodes were in any way related to the novels, they werent.

      This is a adaptation of Total Eclipse, not Schwarzesmarken.

      Not say killing named characters would accomplish what exactly? pulling that eventually just makes the Red Shirts that nobody cares about or get any kind of meaningful development since the only reason people would be watching would be fanservice and yes, its fanservice … the snuff type.

      • Nanaya says:
        September 10, 2012 at 6:48 pm

        It’s not the viewer’s fault for not reading the source material of an adaptation (ie not an extension) and being mislead by two original episodes that misrepresented the rest of the series.

        The fault for that lies with the show.

        • anon says:
          September 10, 2012 at 10:17 pm

          The fault its pretty terrible adaptation, I dont even like MMuvLuv but I am pretty sure the LN cannot be as bad as this.

          However doing “their own thing” would very likely produce far worst then this.

  • xRichard says:
    September 10, 2012 at 10:14 pm

    >It was obviously some kind of horribly inane Soviety ploy to get all the good weapons and undermine everybody else or whatever all along.

    You really didn’t even try to see past the cover of the book, right? There are many layers to this whole event. And saying that “It’s just the Soviets being evil” is just what a small fly caught in the first layer of the webs would think.

    – BETA attacked from underground not too long ago. Soviets should have filled those holes, but didn’t. So this attack was unnoticed due to the lack of tremors. How did they time the invasion that well (while the whole flight was testing) is a big mystery here.
    – They hid the information about the attack from the Argos flight and all this implies that they knew that Takamura was bringing the Imperial Army prototype cannon to their base.
    – Now who leaked that info? Cryska/Inia/Yuuya being Russian spies is nonsense. But what about Takamura’s uncle? He was the one that put her on this task. How involved is him on this ploy? If it wasn’t him, then who?
    – The PROMINENCE project leader asked for all the Argos flight to deploy for this test. That puts him on a bad light because that’s very convenient for the Russians too. Because if it had stayed at the base, the Shiranui 2nd could have evacuated with the cannon.
    – In the end, it seems that UN higher ups don’t want Japan to get so strong and are using the Russians for this.

    This episode did well in portraying 5-6 different groups of character not being able to communicate properly between each other, all of them with different missions. And then there’s the living Murphy’s Law prophets, aka BETA. All pawns in a mysterious political maneuver.

    This week’s post reads not too different to an /a/-tier shitpost. Man, you should put more effort to it. Give the show a chance or just stop the blogging.

    PD: Apologies for my rude tone. I’m not a native English speaker and I like Total Eclipse.

    • Anonymous says:
      September 11, 2012 at 12:23 pm

      don’t take it too hard. aroduc’s thing is hating on everything, it’s just the flavor of the blog.

    • Yue says:
      September 11, 2012 at 6:04 pm

      Yes, the Soviet plot is there. The only thing that’s missing here is urgency.

      Episode title is [BETA ATTACK] but plot says [BASE CONSPIRACY] otherwise. Could have shown how the base got overrun by the aliens if last screenie is taken into account. =_=