Short Synopsis: Space battles? What space battles?
Overall Enjoyment Value: 7,5/10 (Good)
This series really is something different. Here we have Fan Hulic, he’s wanted by the entire country of Tytania, he’s just won a big battle against the empire, he’s seen as a hero now even more, so what does he do? He spends an entire episode staying at the house of a little girl and doing silly dances. Don’t get me wrong, this series is awesome, but SO NOT in the way I thought it’d be. XD
Because yeah, the fact remains that this would have been a pretty boring episode otherwise: Fan is depressed over the death of Lyra and sees the light at the end of this episode. It’s really one of these typical episodes that you see everywhere, just like the beach-episode or the “defeat the big bad guy”-finale-episode: they appear so often that they really get predictable and boring unless something special or extraordinary spices it up. In this episode this was Kallen and her strange yet energetic personality. And that mother of hers who doesn’t find it strange for her teenaged daughter to bring a strange man who’s about twice her age home of course. ^^;
And Bertrand! The poor bugger actually survived! The creators of this series really love to bring people back from the dead, only to let them struggle like a fish on dry land for an episode before fileting them for real. In this episode he’s given a final chance to find Fan Hulic, but instead of immediately arresting the guy, Idris commands him to wait things out for a bit longer. This allows Fan to escape before the forces to defeat him can even properly arrive. And that’s saying a lot, since Fan really wasn’t that focused on fleeing this episode.
Oh, and to close off. I don’t often praise this series for its gorgeous visuals, but I do have to say that this episode featured some pretty backgrounds. Could it actually be that the creators saved the biggest part of the budget for this series for the second half? Now that’s a new one.
The mother asked who he was, she was actually surprized but it seems they already knew he was Fan Hulick, the father at least sure knew it, and besides I if I’m not wrong the mother said not to ennoy him and all , well, anyway, I found it was a good ep in the way the little girl helped Fan to realize there were people that lived jist like Lyra, good people who enjoy life and that he had to protect that happiness of theirs and also that he had to live on despite the death of people precious to them, and I thought that Karen also lost her real mother and now lives with her aunt ( but maybe I’m wrong cause I saw it without subs!), and her mother wanted her to live happy despite that.
I thought Kallen was living with her aunt and uncle and her biological mother had died during some sort of civil unrest.
I was surprised too by Bertrand’s reappearance, but it looks like he is done for now. He should have gone and retired when he had the chance.
And it’s funny how Tytania never bothers to put a few guys at the spaceports to spot Fan. There’s only a few ways one can get off a planet, and Fan does’t really disguise herself (or change his clothing for that matter).
The question remains, why hasn’t Idris faced any consequences over the death of Alses. There is something to be said about the stupidity of lackeys and this episode proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that Bertrand is a lackey. He could have played a major role as a witness to the events that occurred on the ship and the death of Alses. Heck he could have even been used by another of the dukes like letting big brother know how Alses died and thus stirring some animosity between Idris and Zalish. Or better yet Jouslan could have used him as a witness in front of lord of Tytania in order for him to trump Idris and cause him trouble.