[DreamSword]

Episode 10: Encipher

My brain hurts.

I hope you love text messaging and science talk, because that's like 90% of this episode as Yun unravels more of the mystery of Ashihara's' research.

The big reason as to why my brain was thrown through a loop though is because most of the science talk involves time travel and various ways one could use it. Not just sending information between time, but people too.

And not just sending stuff back into the past either, but the future at the same time. An exchange, but also not an exchange. Yes it's confusing if you think about it too much. This leads to weird time loops such as getting answers to questions you didn't even know you were gonna ask.

Look, to sum it all up the best I can, there are two main takeaways here: First, that Ashihara, having such a thorough map of the different possibilities in the future, left the key to solving the Catastrophe within the text messages between Yun and Mei, and Second, that somehow, the Professor who introduced Archtypes into the story is actually the future version of Mei.

There's also a bit of backstory provided on those Godzilla bones: They're a part of what kickstarted Ashihara's' research and also belonged to a Kaiju that blew up his hometown years ago, but everyone forgot about it due to the war going on at the time taking precedence. Given the old painting that served as a warning of the Kaiju invasion, I'm guessing that it was another Godzilla, or atleast a Kaiju who was alot like it.

Anyway, despite time travel making no sense as per usual, I still found the overall episode engaging to watch. Sure, I might only understand like half of what they're getting at, but it's presented in such a way that it actively makes me invested and want to know more, so hey, points to 'em. It's the sort of thing I've seen many shows mess up. Plus, seeing Godzilla's' Atomic Breath premiere was a hype moment in and of itself that made me happy.

I am a very simple man with simple pleasures.