Gosh it's hard not to keep watching this show when you get going! Will bounce my thoughts off of others.
Welcome back for another episode of
Smallville. Sorry, but you can never unhear that, though I much prefer the Ergo Proxy song (Kiri by Monoral).
Aaah blast from the past, I loved that Smallville opening (didn't that Mack lady get busted for some sex cult/ring thing?) but yes the Ergo Proxy one is better, what a tune. The movie-like direction that has been mentioned, and three opening and closing credits definitely add a Western flavour, in the way that Blood: The Last Vampire from the recent simulwatch felt.
"I am amazing! Dont you think so Vince?" Pino is such good value in this episode. I love the way she learns by mimicry. Especially when she copying the doctors laugh- coughs included.
Pino is utterly adorable and her mimicry is identical to how a toddler learning behaviours around them would interact, with all that fitting very well with a newly sentient being capable of significant intelligence adapting to the world around them. That cough-laughing was hilarious indeed - impressive work from the VA to make that sound genuine! Though she seems lacking in the imagination department when juxtaposed with her human toddler friend. Those two were so cute when driving Hoody insane during the "negotiations" heheh. I hope that Pino can continue being a ray of sunshine in this dreary landscape despite the loss of her friend...
it's clear that they're trying to convince themselves they're happy with their lot to avoid giving in to despair at being cast out
Like a spurned suitor claiming "Bah!! I never liked them anyway!!", until they get very excited at the prospect of being asked to return heh. The way Hoody happily hoodwinked them, in spite of Quinn's efforts to inject clarity, were very amusing. The sheep being herded either way between the two made for good comedy heh. Hoody must have been a failed small-time politician, chucked out though possessing the prerequisite compulsion for lying, due to just being too incompetent when using it for those with a tad more sense than the desperate Commune denizens. He certainly had some interesting things to say about Proxys, but is immediately & repeatedly shown to be so unreliable that it's difficult to know which of his spiel to believe.
Hope you guys like the new topical avatar pic.
Brilliant!
Daedalus being voiced by a female VA in Japanese is also no different from Shinji. It's actually quite common practice to have an adolescent male whose voice hasn't broken yet be voiced by a woman.
Yeah that's what I was thinking that it was a male character with a female VA. Quite accustomed to that now heh, though I didn't think Daedalus was meant to be that young.
Did you notice that when she gained self-awareness, her hair started to be coloured a quirky purple instead of its original drab brown?
There was such a change in personality that despite this being obvious, it didn't even register for me!
The commune lives in this bizarre sense of delusion that parallels the people of Romdeau. It seems that no one is really living their lives anywhere. Inside the dome they do what they're told fed endless propaganda by the powers that be and outside Hoodie has just taken up that role for the commune.
Spot on and there was that great line from Hoody that fits nicely with how the truth is not necessarily what everyone needs to be happy.
"Discerning the truth from the lie might be the right thing to do, but it won't always make you happy."
Yeah that one heh.
a dead, grey world as a backdrop, can't help but put me in mind of our future simulwatch target Casshern Sins
Whatever one could say about Romdeu, at least it feels like a potential safe haven from the lifeless world outside, whereas I felt Casshern Sins
was a lot more bleak with a dying world with absolutely nowhere that would be left untouched by rust and decay.
Despite realising last episode that Daedalus had been keeping information about proxies secret from her, she can't help but keep listening to him. He, and the manipulations of Romdo that he respresents at this point, are a literal voice in her head that she can't escape until she casts off the biohazard suit and the city's 'protection' with it.
You've got to use whatever resource, however untrustworthy, whilst possible especially when so restricted in your activities and under constant surveillance. Daedalus seems to have his own agenda, to be king maybe? He doesn't seem much impressed with not being entirely in the loop and up to his own machinations using Re-l. Was her passing out at the end genuine and physiological or was it psychological/psychosomatic or worse yet: induced?
Think I got this via the psplus subscription but I can see it lounging on my playlist for a good while still sadly. Is it meant to be like, or made by the team that did Heavy Rain? That was a gooood game.
Side note: does Quinn live in that wetsuit? seems... inconvenient to me.
That's commitment to fanservice I guess heh.
I wonder if the Proxy is capable of detaching from the host and acting independently.
It made me think of what Hoody was saying about them being able to "possess" others. Somehow though I don't think we're going to be changing genre to fantasy heh.
Right when can I watch some more arrggghh!?!
