Xebek’s Blog

The group makes their moves to lower the Outer Lands and have a major conflict with the God Generals.

Impressions:

Well sadly for the group they got tricked this time around. Though suppose they had to do what they did since there didn’t appear to be any other way. Besides when the God Generals ambushed it did appear like what they were doing was going to cause Van some major problems. Just too bad for them it didn’t quite work out that way. Wonder if Legretta and the others even knew that stopping Luke’s group wasn’t even the plan. Still they get swept off by an avalanche, possibly to their deaths. Though considering that they didn’t get the same major moment Sync did those deaths have to be questionable at best. Besides the fact Luke survived without making it to the others leads more possibility to that theory being accurate.

Thinking about it I do feel sorry for Arietta right now. It’s clear Van is using her as a weapon without telling her that Ion is a replica. Holding back the information that the Ion she cared about is long gone. Sure she would still be upset about the ligers, but it would take away a reason for her to be fighting the group. Was a perfectly good chance to make some ground if Anise hadn’t jumped into it. Of course she is upset about her mother getting hurt, but she only makes the matters worse with provoking Arietta. She should know how Arietta feels better than anyone right now. Her mother was put in danger and she has her own Ion to protect. Still the girl isn’t willing to say anything. There are times that I like Anise and other times I just shake my head at her.

Just a little worried that Luke is being far too accepting and a little naïve. Really just let Spinoza off the hook without thinking much about it. Though suppose if he was too hard on Spinoza that would be him condoning people being hard on him. The guy just takes everything and that could come back to haunt him. Another thing that could be an issue is Luke wanting Van’s approval. The guy is out to annihilate everyone and replace him with replicas. Yet Luke continues to respectfully call him Master and is disappointed when Van wants Asch instead of him. Someone needs to get Luke to figure out that Van isn’t important. Ion himself was perfectly correct in that Luke has to become independent of Van. If he continues to seek Van’s approval then Luke will never truly grow.

Honestly was happy when Asch just charged onto the scene and attacked Van. Finally someone figured out what should have been done long ago. Guy and Tear have these long chats with the guy out to kill everyone on the Outer Lands. Finally someone just comes and tries to kill the guy. If you take care of Van that’s a major gain and removes a major source of trouble. Of course it didn’t work since everyone arrived on the scene and yet just stood there while Van left. Asch just couldn’t take someone like Van out on his own. It was still quite nice to hear him talking about having precious things to protect. Definitely doesn’t require much of an imagination to get who he might be talking about. Not surprised that he does hate the world and score that would have let him die in Akzeriuth according to the fon stone. Yet it was Van that took Asch away from his life and effectively ended his existence as ‘Luke’. Of course he’s going to hate Van and want to kill him.

A nice comedic moment here was with Dist and Jade. That is one weird relationship that I’d rather not get too deep into. Dist should have just run for his life when Jade showed up at the scene. Instead he gets beaten up in an alley and apparently will need time to recover. Still Jade gets some good information about an ambush so it was all worth it. Really hard to see Dist as a villain when you know he’s just a lonely person at heart. Be better if he could stop helping Van out though since it only means getting beaten up by Jade.

Well now the group has a major calamity to avert. Can’t exactly let the Outer Lands plummet to their doom after all the work put into saving them. From the preview it appears a match against Van is on the horizon so hopefully will be a good episode.