So it's been awhile since I posted about this show. I think I last posted about it for Episode 2? I don't know, but it's time to talk about Cross Ange again.
I'm not going to talk about episode 22. There's no need to go over the fact that Embryo is hilariously incompetent for a being who is supposedly all powerful. No, let's ignore that, just as we have to ignore the nine million other impossible things and focus on the episode's ending.
You see, supposedly Ange is undergoing some kind of emotional arc in this show. I won't bore you with the fact that Ange is the byproduct of a hundred million recycled Sunrise ideas or how she's basically oversexed Char Aznable. Let's pretend for a minute that this show is actually somehow original and that this arc is genuine.
So Ange has hit rock bottom, and she's about to Metal Gear Solid 4 herself in the face because, well, why not? I mean, she's been a complete failure at everything she's ever attempted in this show, she's never known or bothered to learn the truth about anything in the world, and the two people who showed her kindness in a planet of lesbian rape dragon hypocrites are now dead.
You could argue this was good for Ange's development, because it shows her that being an asshole 900% of the time is the wrong way to go, and she should've tried being nicer instead of being the arrogant bitch she's been since she first appeared on screen. But now it's too late. It puts her in a great position for growth and really could make you wonder where the show is going to go with thi-
oh no I'm sorry it looks like Tusk is alive? How? fuckin' Ninja shit maybe. He's just 'not dead' no attempt is made to explain it. He just stops being dead. He escapes an empire of people out to get him and an all knowing, all seeing, all doing foe as well as BLOWING THE FUCK UP and no attempt is made to explain it.
And rather than Ange going "HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU ALIVE" and "WHAT IF THIS IS ANOTHER MIND GAME?" she's like "Well shit, I better fuck you to know you're real." And Sunrise hopes those hilariously censored boobies will distract you from asking HOW THE FUCK IS THIS GUY NOT DEAD.
But hey, that's not really enough! Nope. Ange fucks her boy toy literally the entire night long, and all night he kinda forgets to mention that Maid girl is alive, too. Hey Ange wait there is something important you need to oh tits never mind.
OH BUT AN EXPLANATION IS MADE HERE. Momoka had an entire frying pan stashed between her tits. You couldn't see it though. And between her tits would not have prevented the bullet from entering where she got shot. BUT OH WELL NOW YOU HAVE AN EXPLANATION.
You could argue that this doesn't invalidate whatever growth Ange had this episode because it still helped her to realize how dear to her her friends are, but I'd have to slap you in the face for saying it because like fucking hell it doesn't invalidate it. What is the point of killing off characters to teach a protagonist a lesson if you're just going to bring them back? Cheap drama, that's what. Either you find a way to teach Ange that lesson without the fake death or you kill these people off for real. Fake death is exactly that: fake, and any 'gains' the writer makes from it are equally as fabricated.
What the Hell, Sunrise? Can you seriously not tell one coherent mecha story this season? It's not like you have a shortage of opportunities? I mean sure, Tomino's gonna be fucking insane, but you're ripping off Gundam with Ange, you could at least have death matter. This is AGE tier shit.
