Even leaving the original series out of it ('cause I didn't see it), Hyss in this series never, until this episode, showed anything that I, at least, recognized as hints of the basic decency to do what I cited in ep. 23. He seemed like a sycophant, marginally competent at best -- I'm thinking of how often Dessler's orders or information requests would catch him unprepared and off balance, and then the Amazon bodyguards would giggle contemptuously while the Leader smirked. He was a kind of comic relief ... and then, this....
Ref. Domel, and considering that ep. that, as you complained and I silently agreed, skimmed over a "Lot of good stuff via flashback that I REALLY wish they'd spent an extra episode on" -- I had to wonder if Yamato's crew hadn't kept, and played back for the Garmillans, Domel's last message. If anything would've bridged the hard feelings at least on the Garmillan side, what Domel said just before blowing himself up should've done the trick. (And what's up with those hard feelings, anyway? Until Yamato launched, it seemed the Gammies were stomping Earth's forces without major loss to themselves, so why're they holding such a grudge?)
Note: The Garmillans claim we started the war by attacking when they entered our system. But considering the means they've used to deal with other worlds that weren't happy as part of their empire, they "came in peace" the way the Spanish conquistadors came in peace to the Native Americans ... and them coming to Sol was an act of war in and of itself.
As always, curse the transliteration discrepancies.
Edit: Having now finished the series , a comment on ep. 25: A while back, I commented that either Yabu, the porky, cowardly junior engineer, was a nearly-Spark-level technical genius, or someone in Personnel thought they were in an anime and the ship needed a "comic relief" character. I hereby withdraw my objection. He's only been part of the "space submarine" crew a few months, but already learned its workings so well that when the system malfs so they can't dive, he's apparently the one to figure out an unconventional fix that saves all their butts. Tech wizard, sho nuff.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
Ref. Domel, and considering that ep. that, as you complained and I silently agreed, skimmed over a "Lot of good stuff via flashback that I REALLY wish they'd spent an extra episode on" -- I had to wonder if Yamato's crew hadn't kept, and played back for the Garmillans, Domel's last message. If anything would've bridged the hard feelings at least on the Garmillan side, what Domel said just before blowing himself up should've done the trick. (And what's up with those hard feelings, anyway? Until Yamato launched, it seemed the Gammies were stomping Earth's forces without major loss to themselves, so why're they holding such a grudge?)
Note: The Garmillans claim we started the war by attacking when they entered our system. But considering the means they've used to deal with other worlds that weren't happy as part of their empire, they "came in peace" the way the Spanish conquistadors came in peace to the Native Americans ... and them coming to Sol was an act of war in and of itself.
As always, curse the transliteration discrepancies.
Edit: Having now finished the series , a comment on ep. 25: A while back, I commented that either Yabu, the porky, cowardly junior engineer, was a nearly-Spark-level technical genius, or someone in Personnel thought they were in an anime and the ship needed a "comic relief" character. I hereby withdraw my objection. He's only been part of the "space submarine" crew a few months, but already learned its workings so well that when the system malfs so they can't dive, he's apparently the one to figure out an unconventional fix that saves all their butts. Tech wizard, sho nuff.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.