Anime @ani.social wjs018 @ani.social 9 mo. ago

Metallic Rouge - Episode 7 discussion

This is an anime original series, so no spoiler concerns for this show. Spoiler rules still apply if you are talking about other series.

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the gears are falling out of allignment

Nice of them to describe their own plot.

I don't know why I'm still watching this.
- I have been having fun just kind of shitposting about this show. Plus, it gives me a good excuse to have a tasty chocolate bar while I watch anime. My personal chocolate recommendation is either Tony's Milk Caramel Sea Salt or, a local company to where I live, Taza Sea Salt and Almond. I will occasionally swing by the Taza factory shop and pick bars up as gifts for me people.
Alright everybody. Time to settle into a comfy chair, crack open a chocolate bar (or three), turn on, tune in, and drop out. Like normal, here are some of my running thoughts as I absorb the sights and sounds of Metallic Rouge this week:

About all of that Venus stuff...I know I said I would turn my brain off, but wow, talk about suspending disbelief. I find it especially hard when the laws of physics are pushed to comical degrees like that. I can't really help it, I have a PhD in physics and all my years of school prevent me from disengaging that part of my brain. Anyway...now that that is over with, back to the catchy OP...

So Naomi is actually some big shot and arrested Rouge for real? To catch her brother? The brother that seems physically attached to that piano? I am starting to think that he fell for a prank where he sat in super glue on the bench, but is too embarrassed to ask for help.

You know what would make this story a lot easier to understand? Arguments between lifelong bureaucrats about finer points of jurisdiction, committees, and escalating complaints. That's the ticket. However, it seems like Naomi is kind of a big deal. Did Rouge know that?

Rouge is running out of Nectar, but a mysterious stranger is showing up just in time...guaranteed to be a super Nean, wonder if Rouge is going to try to kill them?

Have we met Jill before? If we did, I don't remember it. Rouge seems to know who they are, so let's roll with it...

Who could have guessed by this point that the Neans earning their freedom was going to be a story point?

So Neans literally die when they violate the Asimov code. So, it isn't preventative, just punitive? Seems not very Asimov-y at all then.

Naomi is waving at Rouge as she ~~leaves~~ escapes. Was this part of Naomi's plan all along?

So Aes and Alice are the same body, but split personalities? So, we all shouldn't feel too bad about being unable to tell them apart now.

Our detective and his Nean pal are now housing Rouge and Aes/Alice for a little chat. Seems like he suspects something is rotten with the system to house a fugitive like that.

Also, my prediction that shape-shifting dude survived was correct. I have no idea how he survived re-entry or without nectar for that long while drifting through space though...

And that is another episode in the books. It looks like we might see Rouge and her brother meet next episode which will be exciting and also probably confusing. I hope all of your chocolate bars were as tasty as mine was this week!
- Naomi is waving at Rouge as she ~~leaves~~ escapes. Was this part of Naomi's plan all along?
  
  Who knows at this point tbh.
  
  I have no idea how he survived re-entry or without nectar for that long while drifting through space though...
  
  Same, but he also magically grew his legs back? Like, didn't Rouge cut them off last ep?
  
  he also magically grew his legs back? Like, didn’t Rouge cut them off last ep?
  
  I believe so. iirc, that is why he drifted away from the ship, because his magnetic feet were cut off and that is what was keeping them on the ship. I think this has precedent though, because I think something similar happened in the fight from episode 1, where a limb was cut off, but then when they de-transform, it comes back. I am not going to go back and check though.
- You know what would make this story a lot easier to understand? Arguments between lifelong bureaucrats about finer points of jurisdiction, committees, and escalating complaints.
  
  I almost spit out my drink at this comment. Too true. Let's spend valuable time with this rather than something that moves the story along or explains things
  
  Have we met Jill before? If we did, I don’t remember it. Rouge seems to know who they are, so let’s roll with it…
  
  I was thinking she was on the land crawler trip on Mars but could be entirely wrong. Too lazy to go look, but I had the same attitude as you "Well she's here now, and Rouge remembers her, so I guess that's fine"
  
  My impressions at this point are that rather than starting to wrap things up and move to a conclusion in episode 7, they're adding in more and more plot threads that they'll have to resolve in the next 5 episodes. Still having a good time though.
  
  I was thinking she was on the land crawler trip on Mars but could be entirely wrong
  
  You are, in fact, entirely correct. This comment motivated me to go back and check and she was there in episode 2:

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