We continue to ride the trapar waves as Zigg & Aqua watch the classic 2005 mecha anime Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, and discuss their thoughts and feelings on it as it celebrates its 20th birthday. Keep an eye out for this podcast between main installments of The GLORIO Chat – every two weeks or so – as we work our way through the show.
This installment we cover Episode 17 “Sky Rock Gate” and Episode 18 “Ill Communication”
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Opening Music: “GEKKO-GO” – Eureka Seven Original Soundtrack vol.1
Closing Music: “Kibou no Sora” – Eureka Seven Original Soundtrack vol.1
Title font by Daeres
Intro: Our counter to other podcasts talking about Problematic Women
01:47 – Episode 17 – “Sky Rock Gate”
- The musical reference for this episode is currently unknown
- FAC51 is itself a musical reference however
- The less-than-promising beginnings of this episode
- ‘Guys Being Dudes’ vs ‘Women do be Shopping’
- Nobody knows what Autumn is
- Renton has actually matured a bit
- Checking in on the Talho/Holland drama
- Meeting drunk Neal and his dead father
- Showing a little love for Ken-goh
- Day drinking is in fact plot critical
- Eureka’s encounter with Gidget and the facade of normalcy
- A bittersweet ending to Neal’s story
- This world is slowly dying
- Dewey lays out the New World Order
- Eureka is trying her best
41:41 – Episode 18 – “Ill Communication”
- Check your head, it’s the Beastie Boys
- Starting off with some cool mechanical detail
- More hot pissing action
- Talking about the way these two episodes are very similar thematically and are both centred around weird lonely old men, but have opposite arcs
- Brittany isn’t very developed but conversely that might actually make him a stronger character
- Renton’s grandfather is digger-famous
- Talking smack about Dogstar
- What both Brittany and Renton are searching for
- Eureka’s uncharacteristic lashing out
- Talho is still not a big fan of the Eureka/Holland dynamic
- Clearing up exactly the relationship between KLFs and LFOs (LFO actually stands for Light Finding Operation)
- Grand Theft Nirvash
- Renton can legitimately kick ass at this point
- The bitter, sad denouement of the episode
- Eureka’s historically bad timing
1:23:47 – Some quick thoughts about the next episode preview, topical Lazarus joke, wrapup, and plugs
