Without any question Renton’s appearance is the highlight of the episode, and I was quite pleased with the way it was written.
Ao can clearly sense that things are still very wrong here, and when he sees what he thinks is Eureka’s arrival, he races to her – only to find a Nirvash that looks like his own, yet different. Ao has apparently won a great victory – over Naru, in part, who’s been fighting with the Allied forces against the Secrets. Truth seems to have disappeared from existence altogether. As to the world that’s created by the use of the gun, it’s clearly not ours – but a lot has changed, including the political landscape. Ultimately Ao ends up having to use the quartz gun – exactly what Truth wants. He’s seen the fallacious nature of the choice being presented to him – Secrets or Scub – and realized that in order to achieve happiness he needs to try and find a third option (though we still don’t know if that’s possible). This, of course, is where his path finally diverges with Naru’s, and he turns on her and shoots her out of the sky (she’s rescued by Nitorin Rajkumar) before turning his sights on Ao.įor Ao’s part, his path seems to have come down largely where I expected it to. As for Truth, he’s on what amounts to a suicide mission to bring reality back to reality – as he sees it, anyway – a reality where the Scub and Secrets don’t exist but nuclear annihilation and the cold war does. What we can see based on episode 23 is that “our” world does indeed exist, and appears to be running in a sort of parallel to the ones we’ve seen in the series. It leaves a lot of work for a very busy finale, but it’s plenty action-packed in its own right. I can’t say yet whether or not that’s true here, but I thought this was an outstanding setup episode – it certainly didn’t create any anti-climaxes for episode 24, because almost nothing got resolved.
#EUREKA SEVEN AO EPISODE 23 SERIES#
By its very nature this is mostly a setup episode, but often the next to last ep of a series – especially a multi-cour one – is actually better than the finale. I’m actually writing this portion of my post before having watched the final episode, because if I’m going to be try and be even-handed I may as well go all the way and give the penultimate one a chance to impress in its own right. That was based on the first 22 eps of course, but I think the best thing to do is to try and judge the finale on its own terms. Suffice to say I’m a big fan of AO and I think Aikawa Shou has delivered something bold, challenging and faithful to the original while daring to be very different. I’m not going to rehash all those old arguments, tempting as that is, because they’re circular – I don’t see any minds being changed. I think it should be pretty obvious by now that Astral Ocean has split the audience in a big way, and it’s fair to say a good chunk of the original fanbase was disappointed with the show before these two eps even aired. Already facing an impossible task in pleasing its audience, the last thing in the world AO needed was to be left hanging for two months after a classic cliffhanger. And if you’re as big a fan of this show as I’ve been, it’s tantamount to torture.
#EUREKA SEVEN AO EPISODE 23 TV#
It’s a real shame that the idiocy of TV scheduling caused these final two episodes to be delayed for close to two months, because irrespective of how you feel about a series, having to wait that long for a conclusion is undoubtedly going to dull the impact. Only one thing was certain about these last two eps of Eureka Seven AO – they were going to be controversial.
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