Thanks, flying trashcans.
Impressions:
The crowning moment highlighting the pointlessness of this episode was not the multiple minute long scenes of the two Pods hovering as they talked to each other, but running into the antagonists, and both sides pretty much went “Uh, you’re still here?” And then one side simply left. Pissed right off the planet while the other watched and did nothing. Boy, that burning drive really… did nothing. A giant tower, four or five episodes spent flipping the switches to break into it, a few noble sacrifies to get in the front door, and then couldn’t be bothered to even TRY to stop their evil plan of… going away.
This is about a third into the episode, so we run credits, and then the Pods take over, fight their own war against their own machines, and reset everything! Turns out that, no, 2B was not actually dead all along, 9S could also be just brought right back, and they get to live happily ever after. Screw everybody else, got mine. Nobody matters except the one person I care about, and despite having learned nothing and grown in no way, happy ending pulled out of a floating robot trashcan. Is this supposed to be a happy ending? The new Adam and Eve bots? …Until they get reinfected by the legion of deathbots and whatnot still presumably swarming the planet.
The second season was absolutely a letdown from the first and did nothing to kindle any desire to give the game a third attempt to get past the tutorial without it janking out. I think I would’ve preferred it if Taro had shown up to do a puppet show himself. That would’ve at least felt like less of an asspull.
