*** [TSR] *** Episode 4 - Daylight

Weltall Elite · Post by **Weltall Elite** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:40 am

Mao's pretty hardcore. She may have been losing that battle, but I was surprised to see just how well she could move. I wonder how well Sousuke would have done against that girl in close combat.

Anyway, it looks like it's finally catching up to the novels. But I think they're skipping the part where Sousuke takes apart the teacher's car. I guess it's not that big a loss, but I'd like to see some more of Kaname. In every season of the series, we haven't gone entire episodes without Kaname. I guess they're establishing Sousuke as the main protagonist of this story.

Mangadude · Post by **Mangadude** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:30 am

As the series dwells deeper into the plot of the novels we will probably see entire episodes devoted to Kaname. I'd like to be more specific but I'm yet to master the spoiler tags.

Weltall Elite · Post by **Weltall Elite** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:47 am

Just put whatever you want to hide between [ecs] and [/ecs].

Circle · Post by **Circle** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 10:24 am

Yea, and make a note of how far in the story you're spoiling.

The car disassembly scene will probably just take up a couple mins in the begining of the next ep, I'm sure it'll be there.

Post by **Taurec** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:49 pm

Sure, Mao was on the defence but I wonder what she could do if she too would have gotten two machetes. Gawd excelent action sequence.

Does anyone else feel that the Savages have a slight resemblance of Tateo. <grin>

JelliCelli · Post by **JelliCelli** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 6:54 pm

The car disassembly scene is in there (I have a hunch anyways). If you look closely at the first shot of Sosuke in the coming attractions for ep.5, you can see a red car door and what looks like some wrenches/screwdrivers behind him.

Yeah, I pay way too much attention to detail.

Weltall Elite · Post by **Weltall Elite** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:24 pm

By Joe, I do believe you're right.

Looks like it's going to follow the novel pretty much from here on out.

AEmer · Post by **AEmer** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:10 pm

Still, I doubt they won't modify it to include additional tidbits of both assasins and gates...

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:13 pm

Action, action and MORE action!!! What more can you ask for?!?!?!

...More action of course...

The twins show their not all talk and can dish it out like the best Mithril has
to offer. Had me wondering if our fave SRT wasn't on the ropes before
the ep even started.

Gate's preplanted explosives kinda unnerved me... i don't know how good
he is, but you can't tell me things were set up THAT good... or he just
believes there's no such thing as overkill

Personally, I think Gates
stole the whole ep with his whacky, almost playful demeanor. To him,
the whole thing was a game to capture the Arbalest... disrupting the peace
talks was a sideshow. I'm not saying Gates has managed to fill Gualun's
evil role from the 1st FMP!, but he's definately making his mark on things

Another technical / storyline nitpick is Gates' group's ability to eavesdrop on Urz's
comm links. It was already shown Bluno wasn't close enough to know
about the Cretan injoke, yet he had detailed info about Mithril's
deployments, codenames, droppoints, etc. Just the GunBunny in me,
but you'd think Mithril, and by extension Tessa, knows a thing or two
about compartmentalization of Operational Information, etc.

Anycase, LOVED the ride as usual! Keep it up TSR!!

...bet I know who's getting some tonight

Regards

Reaper DXR-7 · Post by **Reaper DXR-7** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 1:05 am

So far I've been loving the series except for one minor tidbit. They've really portrayed Kaname horribly. I swear it almost feels like the first and second series didn't happen by the way she's been acting so far.

Weltall Elite · Post by **Weltall Elite** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 1:34 am

Why's that?

Reaper DXR-7 · Post by **Reaper DXR-7** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:49 am

She hasn't particullarly acted like anythings happened between them. Almost feels like everything got reset. I mean you'd think they'd be a little different like how season 1 ended. Besides her introduction into the series the majority of the time she's been nothing but comedic value. Sousuke has been getting great development when Kaname seems to only be a mean, selfish, horrible little woman. I haven't read ODBD in a short while but I don't remember her hitting Sagara that much and yelling almost all the time. Honestly this is why I wish they had started like the novels did. Atleast Kaname didn't have that nasty intro and seem to only be a bi**h when she was around. I feel like the Anime is killing her character.

Weltall Elite · Post by **Weltall Elite** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:07 am

I don't know about killing her character... it's just another part of her existing character. Granted, they haven't explored the kinder or even more romantic side of Kaname in regards to Sousuke yet, but I'd give it time.

Kaname doesn't normally hit him that much, be he normally isn't that big of a problem for her. Trying to find a stalker who was taking pictures of her kinda messed up the balance.

Anyway, is there an OST out yet? What's the name of the opening and closing themes?

Teletha Testarosa · Post by **Teletha Testarosa** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:47 am

there is an ost out i think

Minami Kaze is one of them the intro

Pyrite · Post by **Pyrite** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:02 am

Actually, I'd have to agree with Reaper on that point. What little of Kaname we've seen so far has been pretty negative... and the producers had better follow up with her good side in later episodes if they want to maintain some balance. (And for what it's worth, if they leave in her "Why don't you choke on that apple and die?" line from the Sigma manga, it'll be the last straw for me.)

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