Hmm, I’m not sure whether I actually get the plan of the major villain in this one. It’s a bit weird. First she invites thirteen people to help her retake Shiva’s castle from the Chaos Troopers, which was already in the hands of the Chaos Troopers anyway. Out of these thirteen people, she invites a bunch of other Chaos Troopers as well. She then immediately kills those Chaos Troopers off, revealing her own fatal weakness by stating how you can recognize one. Honestly, I don’t get it. Also, how did she know that Cobra had been to Shiva’s castle before?
Overall, my favourite arcs of this series were the short ones: the ones who just took up one or two episodes. This really isn’t the type of series that should drag on for long with elaborate story-lines, instead it should be a quick-fire series. This final arc… it could have been done in about half the time as well.
Nevertheless, I also pretty much enjoyed this episode for what it was. I’m still hoping for Osamu Dezaki’s next series, but in the meantime this was a nice enough substitution. As an adventure series, it did pretty much what it should have.
Rating: (Enjoyable)
I think what they were trying to get at was she was a chaos trooper who didn’t want to be assimilated. So she was a lone individual in a hive mind. Course they only gave her 1 line as she was being assimilated to convey this. Maybe she hired them to retake the castle and kill the “queen” of the hive mind so that she could live her own life. Or maybe she wanted the treasure so she could buy a ship to take her off planet. Who knows. I did like the twist that it was her who burned the image of King’s wife onto his body though.
Yeah she didn’t want to be assimilated into the hive mind.