The animators are really saving this series here. Seriously, that’s something I don’t get to see often with a TV-series, but I have to applaud A-1 with probably the best animation of the entire season. Eight episodes in and it’s still consistently fluid. Now that we’re into the action-packed episodes again, they especially deliver here. This episode didn’t look as good as the previous one, but even though I couldn’t care less about the story nor the characters at this point, they did put a lot of soul into the drawings and animation here.
When this show actually tries to deliver, it really succeeds. This episode was dark and disturbing and that worked out wonderfully well. It’s just such a shame that it sucks at building up. It’s dull and generic and completely ignores the interesting parts of the story in favour of the ever-boring Clain.
Here is something that dawned to me while watching the opening of this episode: this series is called Fractale, but if you removed the Fractale system and just replace it with your average fantasy science fiction setting, you don’t really need to change much, do you? The Fractale system was a nice idea, but it’s like the creators ignored it completely for a generic adventure story. Also, the creators really let a chance slip by by not trying to find some sort of link between the Fractale system and the fractals that it was named after. I mean, that’s what the OP has been hinting after again and again, and yet there’s nothing regarding this.
Rating: * (Good)
I think this episode is almost as good as the last — maybe just a tad better (or worse, whatever suits your fancy). Going from “awesome” to just “good” while all these climaxes and revelations are popping up doesn’t quite do the episode justice, in my book.
I’d speculate Nessa is one of the only successful keys they made out of all the Phyrne clones, and our Phyrne is/was the original top candidate. Her “father” doesn’t quite suit his role, the pig.
Agreed with hoiut. This was another very well executed episode with evil cliffhanger to boot. I cannot wait for the next week.
This episode is way better than the last one. It was heart-wrenching imo.
Well the direction is still spinning like crazy:
Virtual cities and wired people last episode and It’s changed again this week.
Now we have the clones. Nice, where did I hear of sisters treated as lab specimens before?
I mean, It’s not that fractale sucked (yet) but I still fail to recollect some meaning from all of this.