So, it was an episode dedicated pretty heavily to the part-time warrior, which I feel was well done. This is how you are supposed to build up a character before changing the tone dramatically, unlike whatever Blood-C is attempting to do, but that is a rant for another time. So, we finally had another time jump to throw the story back into a cliffhanger spiral.
With two scientists - one being mad and the other a genius hacker - how did it fall upon the airhead to figure it out? It's not a super huge surprise, since it was heavily implied in the last episode. At least we finally figured out what the pin stood for. I do believe that they should actually get that pin made. Still mind-blown that it had to be the airhead that put the pieces together...
This was an extremely awkward moment, but I think they failed to capture it all within the scene. The moment of awe was way too short and everyone was way too accepting of this breaking news. I guess they were trying too hard to create a super-emotional reunion scene, but fell short at the execution. I mean, there should have been a bit more awkwardness than what was displayed...
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| Wasted, indeed. |
This I can buy, though. Her life was dedicating to saving the future and it was all lost because of her own curiosity about her father. I think this was probably explained in the anime, but I am sure that she cannot change the future by travelling back in time. This could explain why SERN wouldn't care if she left, because there was nothing she could do to alter time enough to cause any real effect. Without the "reading steiner" ability, there would be no way to tell if time was altered in the way that they wanted, since they would have no recollection of it. Without "extra" knowledge introduced from another timeline, this flow of time had already accounted for the arrival of the person time leaping. So, basically, her leap back was already determined to fail, so her jumping back in time had no significance to the future. The determining factor of her success hinged on the extra knowledge of what would happen (something like the "reading steiner"). It's probably a very messy explanation, but I guess it is hard to explain without a large post dedicated purely to it with charts and graphs.
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| I don't think so... |
At least this episode gave me some deeper insight on how their time travelling works, which seems to have filled in many of the holes. It also helped that there was a huge focus on the part-time warrior, who is extremely important to the story. I am assuming that, by the end of everything, Ookarin will find a way to travel back in time and fix everything, which might be related to the first episode of Kurisu dying. I'm sure we haven't seen the last of the part-time warrior; at least, I hope not...
~Pearz
