I don't think the girl they picked up is the princess. (Although the short one is the maid who was with her.) I think she is just a guard or something who knows there the princess is. She's not blond and her hair is shorter for one thing. I'm guessing one of the first plots will be retrieving her. Maybe she contacts slaine and he picks her up with the dropship. I'm guessing teh Aldnoah they get is the one that was pawning everyone this episode. Wonder how though
This episode is the textbook on why you don't bring real robots to a super robot fight.
The Martian mechs are really badass.
I got a laugh at the kids talking about how unlikely it is they will be drafted.
The shields are some kind of anti matter field? That is gonna be tough to get through.
Is it me or was Inaho not really trying hard to hold that guy?
Not sure if I really believe that is the princess, the ED shows them as reflections so probably but I don't know
In regards to the Martians' attitude towards Earth, people feel superior to others over things much smaller than being made a holy knight of Mars and given a super robot. Being told you are superior and given the firepower to back it up would be enough for a lot of people to just go along with it at first. Not that you have a lot of options to say no being stuck on another planet ruled by people with super robots. The knights were obviously selected from those with a grudge against Earth/most loyal to the Emperor/sociopaths.
The princess's line in episode one about them being from the same people long ago makes sense. If you are really trying to build an empire of superiority obviously you have to indoctrinate the children, wouldn't be that hard. Everyone else either doesn't care, has no choice or is in it for themselves. You are seriously underestimating the human ego.
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Hell, just look at the Stanford prison experiment
. It didn't even take them six days to reach the point the Holy Vers Empire is at after thirty years. Also, that's not antimatter. Antimatter is not that clean, and nowhere near that level of "not exploding constantly". It looks more like some kind of atomization field.
Anyway, I don't think it's a fake princess. Maybe it is, but I doubt it. It's a little too convenient for the princess to have more than one body double, and even more convenient that they'd end up on the same transport wagon as the main character (well, I guess he's the main character, kinda).
edited 12th Jul '14 7:25:41 PM by KSPAM
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Yeah I meant anti-matter as in it breaks down physical matter, didn't even think about that being confusing. Atomization is a much better term.
Also good idea on linking the prison experiment. Yet again it explains my meaning better than I did.
Probably right on it being the princess, just something feels off about it to me idk. It is possible that the princess did die and the one we see is the body double unable to come to terms with letting the princess die. She only refers to the princess in third person which I can't imagine her keeping up the act enough to do that with everything that is going on. Most likely she is the princess though.
edited 12th Jul '14 7:44:48 PM by jedi1113
Did we see any other Vers machines with Nilokeras' type of forcefield? I'm wondering if it's the mech's special feature or just standard-issue Vers tech. If it's the former, then Trillram obviously made some friends in engineering back on Mars, because his Kataphrakt makes the other Knights look like shit.
If it's the latter, then HOLY FUCK ARE THE TERRANS SCREWED.
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Couldn't that just be the mech's forcefield extending to cover the plane... jet... spaceship... craft thingy?
x4 Well, the girl they got looks totally different from the one Slaine was talking to(short hair vs long and different colors. Face seems different also, but it's hard to tell). The mini-maid is the same however. Given Count Dickhead's reaction to her talking to Slaine I think the blonde is the actual princess; while they might have her wear a blond wig for official functions, it seems odd that she would wear it while casually talking to her tutor.
It would make sense for both Nilokeras's plane and mech to have same field. Considering that I think Slaine is going to defect, that could be how the Terrans get their hands on the technology.
edited 12th Jul '14 8:13:06 PM by kiukiuclk
The Standford Prison experiment's usefulness as a source of information is dubious, kind of anecdotal at best. The issue with that is that it was people 'playing' roles, which is very different from how groups operate in the wild (plus the whole 'unreplicatable due to the obvious breach of ethics' thing)
Cultures don't just spring out of nowhere by fiat. There has to be longstanding tendancies there to be exploited. Saying that a bunch of colonists decided to spontaneously organize themselves into an Earth hating hereditary monarchy because of 'space madness' beggars belief.
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Given the way they focused on the eyes and that little miss "very definitely not a princess" has similar speech patterns, plus being suspiciously bundled up, I'd say that we're supposed to assume that this is the same girl unless explicitly informed otherwise.
Thirty years is hardly spontaneous, especially given the hostile environment they inhabited and the alien technology they were surrounded by. To assume that their society wouldn't change under those conditions is frankly more bizarre.
edited 12th Jul '14 8:18:36 PM by HighVelocityPointyThings
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And now that dude is dead.
Coincidence?
Caught eps 1 and 2 in one go. I gotta say, it looks like there are dark things in store for our heroes.
As one person pointed out, the only remaining would be assassin and the person she tried to kill are literally on the same boat (well, truck, but still). That's gonna get really awkward once they find out what she did (and considering how many people have died because of it, I doubt that it will matter too much to most people if she was barely involved or not).
Also, is it just me, or is our hero kinda..... lacking in emotions. His friend just died in front of her, and he barely seems fazed at all. To say nothing of not being the least bit bothered by a girl pinning him to the floor with ease.
Also, if said girl really is the Princess, then she may be much more Bad Ass than she looks....or Inaho is a wimp. We'll have to wait and see.
Expecting more horrible deaths out of a show that has Urobuchi involved. Handsome Rob.....OUT!!!
One Strip! One Strip!IMO that guy was Too Dumb to Live. Come on, the truck is moving, and she's safe as long as you keep driving.
The Terran Kataphrakts have been the Series Mascot in all the marketing so far. They're going to be relevant in some way.
edited 13th Jul '14 12:48:02 AM by Iaculus
What's precedent ever done for us?![]()
They are. As fodder.
Talk about a Curb-Stomp Battle. Guess whiskey was right. (and alive)
That poor pilot and MC's friend. And the assassins too. And the girl. That guy sure is an ass.
Fucking martians!
edited 13th Jul '14 4:29:30 AM by batter
Episode 2
Yay, the OP now has animation. I've been rewinding the first episode's credits for like a week now, nice to see actual eyecandy(Princess~). With that said I know jack shit about directing or music video directing, but that was pretty weird directing. Can't quite put my finger on it, but it feels almost SHAFT-y and all. Not bad. Dat princess-chan with the gun at the end
Moving on, Fuck the Martians
That was a serious overpower fest. The power gap is so different it's not even funny. EDIT: Also you'd expect some long-ranged weaponry for that huge-ass mech that was chasing everyone around and all. Serious design problem.
We need more focus on Slaine and princess-chan and less on Inaho, unless he gets better. That overly unfazed attitude better have good justification for it. As he is, he's not only boring, but convenient.
The villain of the episode was unpleasant to have, I hope he dies soon. That was a dick move, really, killing your own spies/allies/people defecting to your side.
ED is okay, nice and simple and clean for the job.
Other than the rather slow pacing, so far I'm fine with A/Z I guess.
edited 13th Jul '14 4:52:26 AM by danna45
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Just watched the episode. My theory on how they take down that Kataphract: aim for the feet, or at least for the soles. If there's a point where the field doesn't cover that's likely it if only to prevent the mech from falling right through the ground.
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