Xebek\’s Blog

The groups of climbers all get separated and must pair up with others from different groups.

Impressions:

Wow, this episode was surprisingly big. I didn’t think a lot would really happen but it did. Although it’s not like everyone made a lot of progress distance wise there was the big event of Kally dying which seemed pretty damn big to me. Although it’s not quite the same as it would have been if someone in Jil’s group died, but it’s still a fairly big event. However I think one of the best parts of this episode was that they gave background stories to almost half of the characters, things we previously didn’t’ know at all. They revealed that Jil had a father who seemed to die and was labeled a deserter, which he doesn’t seem too thrilled about or even believe that’s what happened. We have Melt who was revealed to have some kind of falling out with other mages at the royal palace and that he used to be a lot more known and respected. Then there is Ahmey who we find out not only used to be in the Uruk army, but loved a guy, who proposed to her, and she turned him down due to lack of self confidence pretty much only to have that guy then die. All of those were thrown into one episode, that was pretty big. Not to mention the mystery behind what the hell the caskets are that the evil guy is carrying.

The other rather big part of this seemed to be Kaaya and Neeba’s talk. First of all Neeba seemed pretty sure Jil would be useless later on. It came off to me like he was talking more then just him maybe not having the strength, like there was something more to it. He also seemed to talk about either him deserting people or everyone else deserting him due to his weakness. Plus that ghost girl seemed to talk to her saying that she was sure that Kaaya would be the one to betray Jil. Which seems odd, first of all why the hell does she know this. However it does fit with the last episode revealing of Jil running into three betrayals.