C&C - Sym-Bionic Titan - "Shadows of Youth" [11/24]

[BrianLeague]

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Sym-Bionic Titan
Episode 8 - Number 108

Shadows of Youth

Opening: http://youtu.be/be9o3_kD1ls

This week on Sym-Bionic Titan...
Lance flashes back to his time at the Galalunan military academy shortly after the death of his father.

Last time on Sym-Bionic Titan...

Spoiler:

Using Sym-Bionic Titan, the group defeated a blob Mutraddi. However, a small piece survived and followed them to school, where it reassembled itself and attacked while they were vulnerable. The creature encompassed the school, taking the whole student body prisoner. While Lance and Ilana fought for their lives and the other students, Octus had to devise a means to defeat the creature- which turned out to be cell phone signals.

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[Kitschensyngk]

I see we're taking the Stephen King homicidal school bully route.

Now, Lance, it doesn't matter who STARTED it, it's JUST as bad that you fought back.

Baron just got away with attempted murder.

[Nobodyman]

I see we're taking the Stephen King homicidal school bully route.

Holy crap, I was thinking the same thing.

And this is why I'm glad they're re-airing this show, since I didn't catch this episode the first time around.

[EroSennin]

Was I the only one that thought this episode just screamed Ender's Game?

[Peter Paltridge]

Holy crap, I was thinking the same thing.

Is there a Stephen King Trope I'm not aware of?

Not very many comments on this yet. Some people didn't like it when it first aired because the bullies got away with everything constantly, while Lance got blamed.....I thought it was about right. That's real life.

[Kitschensyngk]

Is there a Stephen King Trope I'm not aware of?

Not very many comments on this yet. Some people didn't like it when it first aired because the bullies got away with everything constantly, while Lance got blamed.....I thought it was about right. That's real life.

It's one of many cliches in Stephen King movies. Gotta take place in Maine, gotta have abusive alcoholics, gotta have irredeemable bullies who are not above committing murder.

[zoombie]

Well Chan looks like an angel next to Baron. Man that guy was a creep. Unique episode in that it was a complete flashback, there is no setup in the present day to the flashback.

[Light Lucario]

I remember how I felt after watching this episode the first time and seeing it again still left me feeling pretty sad at the end. While the bully getting away with everything and the victim getting all the blame is how real life tends to work, it was still too depressing for me because of how often that happened to me. Plus, Baron got away with attempted murder. He really should have been punished for that, instead of Lance getting punished. Baron being the typical bully for no good reason was also kind of a turn off. It's just a boring way of making a villain without giving any kind of depth or reasoning of his behavior.

Seeing more of Lance's past was nice, especially when I prefer most of the focus on their home world over most of the Earth problems they deal with. It adds a bit more to Lance working out in the middle of the night and it shows how he went from the denial to the acceptance stage of grief for his father. I would have preferred some sign of Baron being punished at the end, instead of his father bailing him out, but it was still a pretty interesting episode.

[zoombie]

Well this is kind of spoilish of what won't happen.

Spoiler:

We never to got to see present day Baron. I wonder who would have been a good voice of him.

I don't know if Genn answered this question, if so could someone tell me if we gotten a season 2, would we have seen present day Baron. If so, they could have gone a few interesting directions with him.

1) Be the same duchbag he always was. Maybe he even betray his own people.

2) Reformed as a nice guy. Sometimes bully in later years turn over a new leaf. Though mostly as adults, not as teenagers. And as we soon see in the series, they do reform bully like characters.

3) Still a jerk, but not to the extreme of siding with the villains.

Either way, duchbag or reformed duchbag he probably would have been Lance's rival for Ilanna.

[StellaMagic]

My guess: he might behind the invasion somehow. Doesn't it seem a little coincidental that he, a high class soldier, wouldn't be around when it happened? Plus, how did the General gain those eye beam powers on his hat when Mutraddi are obviously too primitive? Something tells me the General may just be a puppet to the real mastermind.

[Neo Yi]

What I really liked about this episode is just how frightening it really can be. I mean, Baron is what, ten years old? And he tried to attempt murder. How scary is it seeing a kid using real ammunition to kill someone? Brrr.