The first and second exams were so standard that I didn’t really see this coming. But seriously the third exam is awesome. Last week already threw the cast in an incredibly interesting situation, and this episode even made it better: splitting everyone up in three groups, and having everyone live together for two weeks. That’s two weeks of constantly being on each other’s lips, just like how things will be in a real space station as a test to see whether the characters are psychologically fit enough to handle it.
This episode really focused on that psychology, especially when they showed that footage of the three astronauts who crashed into the earth. Beyond being a great death scene, it built even further upon the previous episode taking the risks of the job very seriously, and again this had a different effect on many of the different applicants.
And then there was that cliff-hanger. For once it’s not a surprise what’s going to happen, but nevertheless it showed a very interesting difference between Mutta and the others. I mean, all of the applicants here have a technical background, that’s pretty much a requirement for the job. When asked with a question of what time it is, the most logical thing to do for such a person indeed make an as accurate estimate as possible. Mutta however is the only one who also has a creative background (again that car he designed), which gave him a very different perspective: we’re in space. Why should time matter?
Rating: *** (Awesome)
I think you’ve got the ending a little bit wrong. Mutta was wearing a watch, he put his hand against his head to show everyone else whilst avoiding the cameras.
It’s not that “time does not matter” as you say, it’s that he had a watch on his wrist, so he knew exactly what time it was…
No. Mutta saw the time after he got off the bus. He looked back and saw it: 2:01 AM.
He doesn’t have a watch on his wrist.
ah, spoilers
lol?
Yup what leokiko said… Bus had a digital timer, I didnt notice it either until I saw it from other people
I wonder if anyone in the other groups noticed it as well
The time was left of the bus driver.
http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/4747/screenshot350b.jpg
Ahh, so that’s what it was. I was totally distracted by the bus driver and his wig.
even though we know what gonna happen
cant wait for next episode
psgels – I think you got the right ideas, but in the wrong order. IMO Mutta’s calculation is working off the bus clock, but they’ll choose to use a reference time of 6am instead because Serika’s hungry (or something like that).
http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/8436/2h01.png
But psgels has the right idea about it : they’re in space, it doesn’t matter what time it is on Earth.
I don’t get the point anyway. Mutta’s already been shown (in the Hibito running scene) to have an extremely accurate internal sense of time. Looking at the bus clock was probably just confirmation of what he already knew.
Seeing as I myself recently spent a couple of nights sleep-deprived with no external stimuli, and was able to tell what time it was just by asking my internal time-sense, it’s not that hard to do. After several days of disorientation, you can start to lose internal time sense, but it takes a while.