[DreamSword]

Episode 7: Omniarch

Halfway in and I am convinced that this show is absolutely better off binged.

The reason being that I feel like I'm kinda out of stuff to talk about? Don't get me wrong, things certainly happened here, but I'm struggling to think of what to say.

I'm not even trying to say that this episode is bad, or dull, or whatever, I am still having a good time, it's just more of what the show has already provided in terms of characters and whatnot? A recap is really all I can think to do here.

So, if you're curious, the Otoki crew continues to try and find ways of upgrading Jet Jaguar, with their latest addition being a spear made out of one of the spikes torn from Anguirus' shell. A spike so sharp it can cut through metal cable like it's nothing, I might add.

Meanwhile, the subplot of the makers of the Archetypes continues forward, with them finding a way to kill a beast that can control the red dust via using a device that I think is an homage to the oxygen bomb from the first Godzilla movie? And it's all thanks to Mei breaking down Professor Asahashi's' research.

...Right, I forgot to mention that stuff in these write ups, haven't I? Yeah, one of the many, many subplots going on in this show is the mystery behind the guy who first discovered the red dust and studied it, known as Professor Asahashi. What exactly the red dust is is unknown, with the only definitives so far being that it's what allows the Kaiju to exist in our world.

Also, Godzilla shows up in this episode! Which actually surprised me given that I for sure thought that the dinosaur bones contained in the basement of the government factory were supposed to be the bones of Godzilla, especially with how this episode establishes that the skeleton is technically alive, to the point that it's what played the song in episode one and appears to be beconing the other Kaiju into the world.

One thing that I am surprised that this episode really didn't dive into is the question it poses near its start: What good is having knowledge of the future if there's no way to change it? This is actually a rather deep question(to me atleast) that I've not only heard discussed myself, but one that alot of people have various different answers on. But outside of the question getting posed again during a chat between Mei and Yun, it's unfortunately not really explored. So I hope it gets brought up again in a later episode.

Oh, speaking of the start of the episode, it actually had me thinking that Yun had gone deaf due to the climax of the the previous one. Which really would've made sense given he point blank fired a harpoon cannon, and those things I imagine are incredibly loud, just like guns in real life. But no, the weird white noise transition was just kinda... there, for some reason. Well whatever.

Yeah, that's about all I got. Surprised we're getting to Godzilla at the halfway mark rather than during the final couple of episodes, honestly.