Nineties Crossdressing Cartoon Theatre: Let's Watch Cybersix

Indeed. For all the ridiculous cheese of the storyline, the animation is absolutely top-notch (barring the Hair Moles), the voice acting is mostly good (some of the scripting is quite Narmy though), and the fight scenes are fun.

@Freezair: What's a hair mole? Also yes they are SLASHAY @Bright Blue: I completely forgot about the comic plot! Ooooops D8

Terra, Part 2

Now, where were we? Oh, yes, Lucas just hurled a metal thing at Terra! Terra looks around, then DROPS THE MOTHER AND CHILD (sorry that’s kind of shocking!), and catches the other metal thing. He seems to treat them like either threats or toys, holding them in each hand and peering at them. But then he sees Lucas rescuing the mother and child, tosses the metal things, and runs after them with…a smile?

Mother and child get away, and Terra picks up Lucas. Just as it looks like he’s about to eat Lucas whole, there is a HEY from Cybersix! Yay, she’s going to save her naughty candy! A thingy is thrown, and Terra pushes it away, bending it. And who is here, but Cybersix and Data 7, now a sidekick I guess! Terra shoves over to get her, but she parkours out of the way and throws a wire over to Data 7. Together, they, uh, tie him up? Bad move, kids. He expands until he breaks free, pushing them back

A car rolls around just for Jose to come out and yell at Terra to commit mass murder. Terra tries to do so, chasing Cybersix across rooftops…while still holding Lucas. I hope this mud does not smell too bad! Cybersix tells Data 7 to grab Lucas, while Data 7 is probably thinking “why don’t I ever get any naughty candy?” Terra comes up the building, C-6 lassoes his arm, and Data 7 chomps it, dislodging the arm…somehow…and letting an oddly silent Lucas fall.

The mud slides away from him and back to Terra. C-6 and D-7 punch and kick at him for a while until…he disappears. Oooooohhhhh. C-6 runs around, hollering for it as Lucas comes to his senses. And what does he see, but OH CRAP, TERRA HAS MELTED INTO THE WALL. So he shouts a warning, just in time for Terra to heed it. So Terra splashes all over C-6, and when he comes up SHE has been captured. (This is so well animated like oh my god.) Terra then…electrocutes her? What? What?

Back on the ground, a FI and Jose show up, and Jose’s like YEAAAAAAAAH, entirely forgetting to make a pun, instead settling for “Cybersix is doomed!” And indeed does she ever look doomed! We cut to commercial…and she looks even more doomed, and now is screaming in pain! Lucas yells at Terra to let her go and punches Terra a bit, to no avail but soiled cuffs. Terra is like “oh you dipshit” and knocks him off the edge. C-6 is like LUCAS and Data 7 catches him by the pant leg, probably thinking “You know, you might just be worthy to scratch my ears.”

C-6 is still being shocked…she has remarkably high tolerance! Lucas and Data 7 run to get her, but she addresses them individually (awk…) and tells them not to come closer. So we see…a purple ball, making woopy-woo noises, float out from Cybersix, which…shorts out Terra? I still don’t know what’s going on, guys! As Terra struggles, Cybersix falls, and Lucas runs to her. Terra then freaks out, spinning all over the place, as Lucas and C-6 are like “what” and Data 7 is like “too much stupid mud.”

Terra then resolves itself into a smaller, sadder-looking form, and leans its Noh-mask head in close to look at Lucas and C-6 cuddlin’ up. They are of course terrified. But…what’s this? Terra seems to be trying to annunciate! “Luh…love?”

…

I’m not sure whether this is adorable or creepy or a cop-out. “What…love?” Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more! Jose will not take this shit, but Terra seems kind of worried. Cybersix moves in, offering to help Terra with the narmic line, “You don’t have to be evil.” Terra says “You…different,” then glops down to Jose in order to angst. Jose’s like NO, GET CYBERSIX, but Terra doesn’t even kill him – he just runs away, mud head in mud hands, until he hits and slithers up a wall. Yeah. Jose orders the F Is after him, while we hear sirens and see Data 7 turn away, likely thinking “Go and write poetry, I’m a panther.”

C-6 and Lucas are now having A MOMENT~ C-6 tells Lucas not to be so reckless. Lucas then asks if she’s afraid for him, and says she doesn’t have to be, and that he can help. C-6 flies away without another word, with Data 7 following behind. Lucas stands on the rooftop, disappoint that he did not get any naughty candy.

Meanwhile, back at this ugly old mansion, Jose is imitating an ugly old painting. He is lecturing a very crestfallen Terra. Terra says “No kill Cybersix.” Jose grins condescendingly, taking the fact he can talk in stride. He says “Don’t go anywhere” as a cage descends on Terra (DUDE, THAT’S NOT GOING TO HELP) and then leaves, remarking there is something very wrong with Terra. The FI asks “Terra broken?” (Now we know where he got his speech pattern!) and Jose remarks that they can’t trust Terra. Then, Jose gets a plan for a “very nasty monster.” Oh no…

Terra says that he will go see Cybersix and tries to get out, but the cage is electrified. Shiiiiit.

“Now bring in the Sustenance!” NO. Is this gon’ turn Terra evil? D8 Oh, no, I see what’s going on! Jose is, uh, somehow connecting a bunch of ferocious animals to a vat of sustenance, perhaps to give Terra their qualities. (Psuedoscience, thy name is this episode. Genetic experiments I can believe. Brains stuffed into panthers I can believe. This episode, no way am I believing it) Terra falls in and struggles to get out, but begins to mutate right before our eyes (Hey, kids!). He then turns into a giant antennae’d superbeast. Jose remarks that Cybersix is next to die, and laughs!

Cut to Lucas’s apartment, which is now actually fixed. I’ll drink if it gets destroyed. C-6 tells Data 7 not to let Lucas leave his apartment (to which Data 7 is like “It’ll be good practice for when I stalk him in the future”) and hops away. She hops all over the city, remarking that a creature that size can’t just disappear. (Unless Jose has it.) She then notices a bunch of F Is running into another court-like building. She follows them…only for us to find that Jose is spying through his binoculars at her.

C-6 enters the building, and finds a nicely furnished dining area, with a picture of Jose giving C-6 the eye on the wall, perhaps meaning “neener neener.” Wait, this is actually the best decoration ever. I want one of my own face. C-6 runs in and crains her neck, and we get a focus on the Jose painting. She then walks closer, staring at the painting, which WHAT THE HELL IS IT DOING IT’S TURNING DIFFERENT SHAPES. THE WHOLE WALL IS RIPPLING.

But as the mud shows up it is revealed that we are not suddenly on acid, but that Terra has arrived. Lots…and lots…and lots of Terra. Mud coats the whole room, surrounding Cybersix. She makes a run for the rapidly diminishing door, beating back mud tendrils, but manages to punch through to a greenlit room, where she finds whatever she will find in Part 3.

“What…love?” Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more!

I watched ahead, and told myself I would be massively disappoint if you did not make this joke. You did not disappoint!

Terra says that he will go see Cybersix and tries to get out, but the cage is electrified.

Jose! Have you not played Pokemon, you fool? ELECTRIC ATTACKS WON'T WORK ON GROUND-TYPES!

Also, I am curious as to just how many extremely lare abandoned buildings there are in Meridiana.

^ Yaaay! I'm happy I did not disappoint. Also your Pokemon reference has driven me to ask if I can be your very best friend.

And by the look of how many large abandoned buildings have been targeted so far, I'd say...thirteen?

Terra, Part 3

That is to say, in the room full of Sustenance from before! Before Cybersix can sneak over for a snack, Terra pours in through the door and Cybersix parkours over the wires. She then sees a doorway at the end, and so runs, parkours over the vat, and goes through the doorway, bolting it shut. She ends up in a stone tower room something like a jail cell, bars included, and tries to break said bars (and succeeds in bending them!) to no avail. Then Terra breaks through the door. So she runs up the stairs that lead up into the tower, and Terra follows, breaking them in the process.

With some sense in mind, Cybersix parkours up ahead of Terra (SO cool), but Terra flies up in a hand to catch her. She ends up tripping on the stair, and getting a good look at Terra’s monster form. She keeps going, as we see through Jose’s binoculars. He yells “After her!” even though at that distance Terra probably couldn’t hear him. He then asks if he has to do everything himself, and runs off to…I don’t know! I mean, who’s more likely to kill Cybersix, a powerless tyke or a blob of sentient mud?

Cybersix ends up in an attic tower room, wherin she finds another set of bars. Elsewhere in the room she sees…I can’t see that well, but something to break the bars! She begins running over to it when the boards break under her feet and HERE COMES TERRA. Terra now has huge horrible yellow eyes.

Jose, always the party pooper, has gotten the FI to pile a pyre by the building, and they all have torches. The FI asks about Terra, and Jose says, “So what? It’s only mud.” D8! JOSE, YOU BITCH. So building catches fire. Burning mud. Fun. Jose’s having a Cyber-barbecue? Sounds either very electronic or very gross.

There’s then a bit of a shocking cut to Lucas pouring coffee calmly in his apartment. (Goodness does he ever have a wide chest. The Tropes page says he gets more handsome over the run of the show…I hope they’re right.) He looks out his window, sees the building on fire, and auto-assumes Cybersix is in trouble. Which makes sense, considering they’ve SET A BUILDING ON FIRE IN EVERY EPISODE. He tries to run out of the apartment like a big damn hero, but Data 7’s like “no can do sparky.” Lucas calls him by name and insists they go after her. Data 7’s like “okay go ahead you always save the day anyway” and follows him.

So now we have electrocution by mud again! Poor C-6…fire’s coming up from the floorboards…imagine being a child in 1999 and seeing this! (Kickass, right?) Again, as C-6 faints, there’s this purple bubble dealio that floats out of her mouth and shorts Terra out – and then shrinks him again! Is it C-6’s Super Ultra Goodness? Probably not. Anyway, she’s watching all this happen…and then here comes Terra’s Good Face! He reminds me of No-Face :3 He gives C-6 his name, which she remembers, and then retreats back into the mud.

Terra picks C-6 up, and she remarks that Terra is “like me…aren’t you?” I guess meaning that he can think for himself and is nice? YES! The latter is confirmed as she tells him he’s not really evil, and he puts her down and starts flailing some more! Yes! He’s gonna be good again, true, but you guys really better get out of there! D8 And then – I wonder if Cybersix would have done anything like this in the comics, maybe she’s just feeling tender today due to her lack of naughty candy – she hugs him, tells him she feels sorry for him, and sheds the one tear allotted to –

MAGICAL CRYING! I mean maybe C-6 has an excuse because she’s a genetic construct, but this one tear that falls on the mud reverberates through Terra, turns him blue (yep!), and, by the magic of science…turns him back into his former nice form, which then gives Cybersix a hug right back! YAAAAYYYY! She tells Terra to get out while he still can, and leave her (one wonders where a blob of mud might get work in Meridiana if he were to survive). There are several long shots of everything burning…

I love the way the flames move. Jose does some more side-laughing, and then – I really don’t know what to make of this – he yells “got her now!” and then makes the FI repeat it like some sort of demented cheerleading chant. I don’t know how old Jose is mentally, but I’d guess somewhere between forty-three and nine.

Terra and Cybersix just sort of sit there as the whole place catches fire. Cybersix looks all worn out…;___; Terra, at the last minute, gets a SUPER SRIOUS FACE and begins flinging mud around, putting out spots of fire, perhaps to demonstrate what he wants to do. Cybersix (and I) are like NO but he is like YES. He bursts out the doorway, into a room full of flames, and, as Cybersix watches and pleads him to stop, he spreads out all over the tower, creating a curtain of mud that extends several inches from the actual building.

Jose is sitting back admiring his fire when he notices this curtain, and then says WHO’S PUTTING OUT MY FIRE, BITCH? Terra then falls on the whole fire, which is kind of like his way of saying I AM, BITCH. We then see a cloud of steam, which Jose is stumbling through to the only remaining spot of fire. Super sad scene…Terra stumbles up to this fire, reaches out to Jose, who is terrified, and then puts out the fire with his dying move. SO. SAD. OMG.

Jose throws a tantrum about Terra’s uselessness, and then, upon Data 7’s arrival, he and the FI scarper. Data 7 turns to the doorway of the ruined building, perhaps thinking “oh, we missed the disco inferno?” Cybersix stumbles out, looking super-sad, then…tear jerker…kneels down by the ashes of Terra, picks them up, and sifts them through her hands. Poor Terra…all he wanted was to be loved, and he ended up just being used by those assholes! I DEMAND JUSTICE.

Cybersix commands Terra to come back, but despite her apparently magical tears, all she succeeds in is getting the ashes wet. (And look at that detail.) Data 7 is by her side, perhaps thinking, “There there, sis, it’s gonna be okay. I mean, I’m still alive.” Lucas, who has done nothing in this fight but many things in earlier fights, then rushes over. Cybersix tells us again that Terra was not evil, though he was created to be – perhaps a parallel with her own existence. We then get a shot of the building, which is somehow still standing. Woow.

Cybersix tries to walk by Lucas, who stops her and asks if he will ever understand what is going on. Cybersix is pretty much like “nope, brb” and walks off. Oh, wait, she also walks off beautifully with Data 7 into the sunrise! Awesome.

Points of Interest

• Terra was adorable when he was a sweetie! I want to go find Jose and kick his little behated ass right now
• ADRIAN IN A SWEATER VEST~
• Both Cybersix and Lucas wanted naughty candy and neither of them got any
• Felt like a monster of the week episode, something that hasn’t really happened yet
• The animation is still beautiful
• I LOVE THIS SHOW

Homework assignment: Describe what, in your opinion, would happen if Lucas were to take Adrian to a bar.

edited 30th Oct '10 1:54:58 PM by Carth

HYPOTHESIS: Adrian is the woman's version of Bridget.

As for what would happen if Adrian and Lucas went to a bar: Not much, I imagine. Adrian's probably too "Ew no no thanks I don't drink," and he'd probably be the Designated Parkourer while Lucas got sloshed. Then he'd be all like "Ugh he's cute but kind of obnoxious" and she'd carry him back to his apartment and put him to bed and then swoosh home.

I love how Lucas keeps being all "CYBERSIX IS IN TROUBLE I GOTTA GO SAVE HER" and then arriving just as the party ends. It's better than Louis Lane, but not by much.