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13: Grahf's Spreadsheet [Brave Battlers + The Sewers]
🕑 Added 2019-12-16 12:00:02 +0000 UTCIt's episode 13, the best number. We begin with an outrageous Blue Guy/Red Guy Digital Thunderdome sequence before moving onto the Battle Arena and discovering someone tried to make a fighting game in the middle of this role-playing game. We also find Hammer The Supplier in our modern society, get body shamed by French cooks on a planet that doesn't have France, question whether Rico seeks justice or recruitment, stomp out grotesque monsters in the sewer, experiment with vertical platforming, and discuss the biological and social nature of Solarian sympathy. Memory cubes exist in Xenogears' world but the real life versions of save points are apologies.
And yes, we missed the discrepancy with the red/green vision thing. That's because we're dumb! We'll talk about this a bit next week, when we press on to become the Battling Champion!
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Cain does have authority. He can stop the Ministry from doing things. When they try to use the Gaetia Key, he uses dark force lightning to stop them and calls them his "subordinates." But even though he has some serious power, he exists in the context of a society with complicated politics. He picks and chooses when to exercise his power, just like any politician (even autocrats). It may also be that his powers are declining, since the pieces of the Kadomony system were only meant to live for 10,000 years (perfect works).
Seth Who Talks Too Much
ALSO, I just realized something I wanted to add re Citan and the Gazel - that the Gazel doesn't give him orders to kill Fei but just chooses to try to kill him while they're at it is itself a bit of foreshadowing! :) That while the existing foreshadowing makes us already know Citan is up to no good at this point, he's already "burned" as a [spoiler we already know but I'll spoiler it a little longer just in case] in the eyes of the Gazel but *he* doesn't know it.
