MLA: Total Eclipse #13 — By The Way, The Soviets Are Up To Something

September 23rd, 2012

 

You think?

Impressions:

The opening flashback was so ridiculous. I particularly liked when they were just staring at the BETA ‘coming towards them’, but not actually moving. Well, I liked more that one of their cameras was pilot cams was conveniently focused right on her breasts instead of her face. How useful for everybody. We then returned to the present for about five minutes of Yuuya and Yui flirting. The BETA that had the base surrounded at the end of last week didn’t actually bother to get there until the end of the first half… and the two would’ve just died like twits if nobody had reminded them that they were… you know… on a battlefield being swarmed by giant hungry genitalia.

But wait, the real twist of this episode was that… and you’ll never see this one coming, but the Soviets have their own plan. Good lord. The only people who haven’t been told this three or four times already are the BETA. I know I’ve said it before, but stretching things out and being so redundant simply does not mesh with trying to claim that they’re in a tense, life-threatening battle. Come on. This base has actively been being ‘swarmed’ for like… the last hour of the show with the BETA packs appearing and disappearing as is convenient for characters to flirt. I also like how the afterburners apparently cut off all radio contact, except when they don’t. I’m sure I just missed some of the technobabble about how it creates too much interference to communicate anything but names. It made for some more hilarious redundancy yet again. –Engines fail– "My engines are busted!" "He’s slowing down. Are his engines busted?" Why just show it when you can show it, say it, and then say it again? All in a row! And then the radio started working again just long enough for him to yell her name before going dead once more. Silly, silly show.

And like has now become tradition for the last month, it ended with the BETA 30 feet away, about to supposedly eat someone. Let’s get back to the Scarlets already. I’m tired of Yuuya’s dick waving and Yui’s nonsense in general. At least they’re 35% liable to rip something to shreds on the battlefield instead of squirming and blushing.

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4 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Gorilla13 says:

    The Soviets are portrayed as huge douches in this anime. Why am I not surprised?

    • Anonymous says:

      The upper echelons of the Soviet government and military are rarely portrayed positively in anything. At least the Soviets end up being on the receiving end of backstabbing conspiracies too in this particular story, not the sole perpetrator.

  • The Phantom says:

    Are you working on fall 2012 preview? I heard that there is a second season of Ichizon incoming.

  • doc-KLAC-who says:

    well give now series in 2nd half of series yet still on russia?

    wonder can guess russia are pull a cyclops system blast & used expendable soldiers to take advantage?