Optic Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 (edited) First of all, this episode had A LOT of talking with little variety in scenes and a lot of cutaway shots so apologies in advance for the bland screenshots. The episode starts off with a glance at Alicetaria and Blitz Talker together. The two reflect on their pasts, with Alicetaria being aware that Blitz Talker lost her daughter in the past. We then continue back with Sota’s story. Setsuna texts Sota, confirming she definitely hasn’t plagiarised the artist she is working with, but does not want to defend the allegations and starts to question whether she should even continue to draw. It is apparent Setsuna was trying to draw on Sota for support, but he responds half-heartedly with a “don’t ask me”. Sometime later, Sota then discovers a farewell message from Setsuna and with it, a debut video of a new character: “Altair World Etude.” At this point, Sota then ceases contact with Setsuna completely. He later gets a phone call from Setsuna’s mother via her mobile, we are led to believe that Setsuna killed herself. In shock, Sota deletes every memory of her from her computer and smartphone. In short, Altair was created by Setsuna’s despair, and Altair is now trying to fulfill her wishes by destroying the world. Sota FINALLY acknowledges to the group what he did to her was terrible and he tried to run away by trying to forget. With this, Sota exclaims he wants to stop Altair for good. Meanwhile, Alicetaria has freed her creator, and the two have a conversation in very frightening circumstances – soaring through the air on horseback whilst she dangles the creator with one hand. As the episode ends, the group discovers that Altair has the ability to gain new abilities based on fan made videos. They decide they need to undertake the support of all the creators and government to make a new story capable of containing Altair. 5/10 – well, we finally learned the full backstory of Altair and Setsuna Shimazaki. I felt the execution was quite a letdown. Part of the problem is, it’s hard to have the same impact with just text messages. Why didn’t Sota try to meet Setsuna again in person? Why just that one time? Not even a phone call? To me I just find it baffling Sota would just cut all contact with Setsuna like that. At least now this sets the stage for the second half of Re:Creators, as now everyone is FINALLY on the same page in wanting to stop Altair. Edited July 9, 2017 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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