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[Spoilers] Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury Season 2 - Episode 2 Discussion
So what's your reaction? The big mystery has been revealed, according to the theories that people have been talking about. From the very beginning, I felt that there was something strange about Prospera
2 words.
Holy shit.
Sophie is dead.
And dear God, I hate that this happened this early.
Not just in terms of her being one of my favorite characters of the entire show, but also because it at least initially on the surface seems like such a squandered opportunity. I feel like several things that happened here, like the actual death itself and Suletta having her brief flashback to when she killed someone to protect Miorine, would have a lot more power if there had been more of a rapport between Sophie and Suletta. Suletta has, until she had the revelation that Sophie was piloting that one Gundam during the incident to close out last season, no real relationship with Sophie. Sophie didn't enroll at the school until halfway through episode 13, and any "fun" they might have had was in montage or implied to happen off-screen. It's VERY forced on one side, and Suletta caring about Sophie honestly has less to do with Sophie as a person with deep wounds and struggles--who also seems rather taken with the idea of killing Miorine, not that Suletta knows what she meant, because of course--and more as Suletta being an inherently caring person.
What I'm trying to articulate here is that while the episode rides the adrenaline of the Rumble going bonkers, the episode's true shock is surprisingly hollow since the dynamic between the two characters involved is so hollow.
Everything about the Rumble was hollow and shallow, they played way too safe for a scenario that was supposed to be shocking and hellish.
I agree with Sophie's death, but what disappointed to me the most is how those two had all the weapons and power to deal some serious damage, and everything played according to their contractors, people who supposedly they hate but not enough to rebel against them.
The reveals were fine but nothing we didn't knew already, or theorize.
I hope Norea at least gets to be more interesting, or simply better used as character and not a tool in all the whole meaning it could have.
Sophie...one of your favorite characters? Just how
Sophie was also my favorite character, before she got completely ignored in her death scene. She had a strong personality, ready to fight people, and not insufferable or boring like most of the characters
Quiet Zero seems to be a call back to Victory's Angel Halo (At least,, from what little we know of it) and Sophie's Bit MS are a nice callback to Gundam X's G Bits. That aside, I'm happy we finally get the Eri/Aerial confirmation. I was honestly expecting this to be somewhere near the finale, not right at the start of S2. Suletta is finally starting to have moments of doubt, which I also greatly appreciate. Don't trust your mom!
Probably the best episode we've had overall. Suletta and Sophie's relationship is exceedingly deep and interesting to decipher despite them having barely any actual interactions, which actually adds to the episode in some absolutely great ways.
Suletta is what Sophie wishes she could be, and while that's a very simple way to put it, it applies for so many things with their relationship. Suletta can sympathize with Sophie's wish for a family since she herself lived a much more solitary lifestyle who only had Aerial and occasionally her mother around, but Sophie only sees her life in Asticissia and her relationship with Miorine with envy. At the same time, Suletta only really sees Sophie as a maniac despite sympathizing with her, and while a certain person in these comments might tell you that the episode would have been better if Suletta and Sophie's roles in this episode would have been improved if they had a stronger relationship, it's these assumptions that actually MAKES the episode work.
Suletta's entire world has started to crumble into dust thanks to Sophie, portraying her own hypocrisy. Someone as insane and dementer as Sophie (to Suletta) suddenly becomes a much more sympathetic figure, and also drives upon a very important point. Gundams aren't only just to help, but are also weapons of war; Suletta herself realizes her own hypocrisy and the final nail in that coffin is Sophie's death. Suletta didn't just kill her, the Gundam did. What she thought was a tool to help sheds that skin and becomes a weapon of war to her, the Aerial included. In Sophie's death does her ideological view of the Gundams become Suletta's reality.
What this really means for the rest for the show is absolutely a huge jumping point of development for Suletta's character. She can't trust the Aerial, or her mother, and she won't be able to trust Nika and perhaps the other Earth House members, or anyone. So while Season 1 was Miorine's season for her development, learning to sympathize with Suletta and accept their relationship as something more, Season 2 is Suletta's season to start questioning the world and what she took for granted, growing past the shadow of Prospera.
Entertaining with some added twists, but tbh felt a bit rushed in terms of plot events all suddenly happening at once crammed into the second half of the episode, the terrorist attack, Ariel secret reveal, Sophie dying so soon etc - might have been better to have strung it over two episodes.
Agreed, the Eri reveal in particular felt like it was just Prospera giving that information because we need a revelation now. It wasn't even to any actually important character, it was just a reveal for the audience that our main characters are going to have to learn somewhere down the line to less impact. I feel sometimes like there are too many ongoing plotlines that feel completely disconnected from each other.
