Ah, I love flashforwards. Or, as Godlen likes to call them, timeskips. You get to see young characters grow up and get into fresh new circumstances while skipping all the boring stuff in between. Anybody else remember the one in TEKKEN 3? It’s 15-17 year jump was a bit more drastic than the 7-year-long one here, but I’ll mention it because I’m still convinced that Lord Genome won the King of Iron Fist Tournament at some point. SamJaz wasn't speaking metaphorically about childhood being over either, was he?
There’s a lot to cover in this one, so I’m going to approach it rapid fire. Picture Yoko, laying out a cliff top with her sniper rifle primed, and these points are going to fly up like skeets.
Pull… BANG!
I called that Nia was a sleeper agent! I called it! Though it’s probably not going to be any less heartbreaking, now. Seems like she’s more of “Manchurian Candidate” for Tron after it got infected by the Phalanx... if you can reconcile all those references.
Pull… BANG!
Nia’s got to have the oddest kinds of naiveté. She didn’t accept Simon’s proposal because she thought they’d be literally fused together? I suppose it’s a dangerous game to use metaphors around her - - although Simon was a bit smoother about this kind of stuff than Kamina was.
Pull… BANG!
Ha! If Simon was a bad choice to lead the rebels, he’s an even worse choice to run a city. Drilling might be a good skill underground, a good skill for battle… but it’s not going to be too helpful for this job unless he’s going to drill taxes out of the people. Ay-oh!
Pull… BANG!
Lord Genome’s prophecy had to be one of the most thinly-disguised riddles I’ve ever heard. Bad, Moon-related things happen when the population passes a certain threshold. C'mon, that was too easy! I suppose he was playing to his audience though. Make the riddle much more complex and it’d confuse these knuckleheads more than scare ‘em.
Pull… BANG!
Quick theory now! Lord Genome actually had humanity’s interest at heart. He kept them underground and used the Beast Man to periodically keep their population down so as to prevent this prophecy. He was actually a good guy!
Watch this episode below, "You Understand Nothing!" below and read my comments on the previous episode here.
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