Damn you Space Brothers and your cliff-hangers! Seriously, it’s been a while since I’ve watched such addictive ones. You can see them from miles ahed, but just keep hoping that the show will extend a little bit further, or that by some stroke of miracle there is a double episode this week or something. One point of criticism though: if you want to retain tension, don’t name your episodes “80 minutes left to live”. Just sayin’…
And seriously, how little of Mutta has there been during the past two weeks. He only appeared at the end of the episode for a very small, but very significant role. I really like how he instantly realized that Hibito would try to make his way out of the cave. We also saw a completely different Mutta than usual. For the past two weeks, all silliness has been removed from this series. Normally this is like signing a series’ death warrant. Here though, it fleshes out the characters even more. This episode still had me at the edge of my seat from start to finish.
What I also really like about this episode… they revealed that Brian Jay had an older brother. I’m not sure whether it’s my memory being buggy again, or whether they really saved that revelation for this episode. But still: 30 seconds was enough to create yet another really interesting character in this series. As if the series didn’t already have enough of them!
Rating: 6/8 (Awesome)
In regards to Brian Jay .. yeah it’s been known since the beginning that his brother was also an astronaut, although I don’t think we’ve seen him before. They were introduced as the first brothers to be astronauts, so it’s the main reason why Hibito was so drawn to him.
Right. It’s been mentioned a few times. Both Brian and Eddie were in Mutta’s favorite astronaut, sit-up scene =)
I wonder how their flares worked on the moon when there is no oxygen there. 😀 Great episode though. I wish Mutta and JAXA will have an I-told-you-so moment in the next one.
Flares have their own oxidizer =/
Ok. Thanks for the info.