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Episode 11: Target Planet

So upfront, one of the major twists I was predicting did not come to pass.

To get it out of the way, I was speculating that Eva might've had an affair with Ash, given that Ash mentioned a divorce awhile back.

And while that ended up not being the case, the other twist I was predicting is not entirely off the table, and given how this episode was structured, I imagine we'll see if that one will come to pass next episode.

But no, rather, it turns out that Gene's' real father is Eden, which honestly raises a whole not of questions and concerns. Ones that I expressed during the only episode of the Kikaider anime that I felt a bit iffy on. If you know what I'm talking about, well, then you know what this episode pulls.

Outside of that, this episode continues with the show's' themes of examining freedom and the various ways people can use and abuse it. Sylvia continues to preach of revolution, but doesn't realize that she's doing the exact thing that she accuses the humans of doing. It's a slippery slope that we still see people fall into today. Perhaps even more so with the advent of the internet.

Shout out to Gene in this episode too, because not only does he get the rawest line in the show so far, but it turns out that I was right in my prediction that there was more to him than what he lead on. The reveal that he set out to kill the Immortal Nine because he learned of what Sylvia was plotting does not at all contradict what he said about wanting revenge, and shows that he has his own ideas about how to ease humanity into the idea of coexistence with Neans.

Rouge and Naomi have surprisingly little to do with this one, but that offered a nice change of pace, especially since it seems we're not headed into the action climax of the show as a whole, and I look forward to it.