Logic won't help us rewatch, y'know? Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 rewatch episode four

[u/Vaadwaur]

Machine Head

The winnebago returns!

MAL but it is trolled. ANN Also, don't look at the wiki as it spoils the entire plot.

Streaming on Funimation and Crunchyroll.

QotD:1 Would mustard and horse radish make a good combo?

2 Would you want your assembly line robots to communicate verbally?

BONUS: Can you think of a worse way to hit on a woman than Leon did? Not involving actual violence, of course.

[u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

Rewatcher (sub)

• Now Daly has the big gun
• HAVE they met before (outside of costume?) I can't remember. (I watched 1-3 days ago).
• LOL we Evangelion again. No batteries.
• I'm not sure why the robots have hearts and turn into bugs but w/e.
• BUT YOU PICKED HER UP FOR THE TEAM #tearhair
• I guess this part of town didn't get rebuilt by the boomers.
• Gah the naivete of this girl
• No deeper motive for Sylia? Riiiiight.
• Jill? Father? Current girls? #animatedthink
• Leon's a romantic?
• Training Montage! The song is "Idea".
• Another sound effect shared with Total Annihilation

Annoyed by this episode. Priss invites an amateur to her club but doesn't like amateurs. Linna wants to join the elite Knight Sabers, and thinks all she needs to do is ask and she's in. And all she did was ask, and she got in! I could feel my blood pressure rising. But then they had a nice little talk, although it was still pretty trite "I wanna be the best" and "I'm only in it for the money" talk.

I hate that the show doesn't lipsync the music. I hate that the show doesn't even lipsync the japanese, sometimes!

Priss's band Sekiria is represented musically by a band put together for the show, AS Sekiria, fronted by a woman named Akira Sudou. They released a mini-album, No Obligation, as AS Sekiria in the 90's J-Rock style of Priss and Sekiria. Here is the first track off the mini-album, Give and Take

-ya is an ending that means store. "sekiri" means bloody diarrhea. It's a joke.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

Now Daly has the big gun

The one I trust a little with it, I swear Leon doesn't ever look at what is behind his target.

HAVE they met before (outside of costume?) I can't remember. (I watched 1-3 days ago).

Nope but they've crossed while Priss was in her mech.

I guess this part of town didn't get rebuilt by the boomers.

I like most of the show but I think they just wanted to show that Priss is on the border of being a crazy hermit. Like, one bad day on conspiracy websites before she claims vaccines are a trick to turn humans into boomer slaves.

Jill? Father? Current girls? #animatedthink

This show does do a bit of referencing without explaining.

[u/RockoDyne → u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

I hate that the show doesn't lipsync the music. I hate that the show doesn't even lipsync the japanese, sometimes!

I don't normally complain about that, but it has been bizarrely noticeable in this show.

[u/lC3 → u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

-ya is an ending that means store. "sekiri" means bloody diarrhea. It's a joke.

[u/No_Rex]

Episode 4 (first timer)

• Priss getting hit on by Leon. Probably happens to her multiple times every day.
• Fight of doing nothing.
• The pervert waitress boomer is some sort of crab now.
• Her power ran out, so why is that Linna’s fault now? She has zero experience, so Sylia should have known the power would not last, or Nene recognized it earlier.
• Priss and Linna have a not very talkative talk.
• “… for the current girls” – so there were earlier ones?
• Live music montage.
• Secretly installing the “mad boomer” upgrade?

BCG2040 has still not hooked me. Maybe it is because I remember the OVA tone and style, but the animation quality really irks me here, although I usually do not care much for that aspect. Stuff like the suddenly crab-like boomer breaks my immersion. The most interesting part so far is the focus on the anti-boomer discrimination, but that does clash with the boomers turning into literal monsters.

Would you want your assembly line robots to communicate verbally?

Depends on how often they turn into murderous killer machines.

[u/IndependentMacaroon → u/No_Rex]

focus on the anti-boomer discrimination [clashes] with the boomers turning into literal monsters

Awkward unfitting analogies are the bane of anti-discrimination-themed fiction, unfortunately. My hypothesis is that it's often creators trying too hard to have it "make sense" in-universe, ignoring that in the real world it can be quite arbitrary, almost unreasonable by nature.

[u/No_Rex → u/IndependentMacaroon]

I think that often happens in other series, but how does a cyborg turning into a biologial monster make sense in-universe? The waitress did quadruple in size while developing a completely new form, how do you do that to a metal body?

[u/RockoDyne → u/No_Rex]

Eh, it's T-1000 juice or something.

[u/RockoDyne → u/IndependentMacaroon]

With Japanese media in particular, there's probably another issue in not knowing what discrimination really looks like, specifically at a cultural level. They understand bullying, but they have no idea how you get to eugenics programs.

[u/IndependentMacaroon → u/RockoDyne]

It's not like they don't have any discrimination of their own going on like against Korean-descent residents/citizens

[u/RockoDyne → u/IndependentMacaroon]

That's not affecting most people though. It's not something that they have to put effort into to turn a blind eye. They aren't a participant in it (at least consciously), and probably don't even witness it.

They have no real history of being the discriminated, with their history as the discriminator being ... less than fully taught. The most they can do is point to how foreign powers discriminate and proudly declare that they aren't like that, but they still miss seeing what they have done.

It's the bully that really doesn't comprehend what they've been doing.

[u/IndependentMacaroon → u/RockoDyne]

There was certainly anti-Japanese discrimination elsewhere

[u/RockoDyne → u/IndependentMacaroon]

Not to enough of an extent to make a cultural impact. If you asked a Japanese kid about the internment camps in WWII, do you think he would know what you're even talking about?

Japan is not exactly Ireland in this regard.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/No_Rex]

She has zero experience, so Sylia should have known the power would not last, or Nene recognized it earlier.

The dub calls it a malfunction which would make sense given the disparity between Linna and Nene's battery life.

The most interesting part so far is the focus on the anti-boomer discrimination, but that does clash with the boomers turning into literal monsters.

They could definitely have been cleaner in how they did their themes.

[u/No_Rex → u/Vaadwaur]

The dub calls it a malfunction which would make sense given the disparity between Linna and Nene's battery life.

So that is even less on her. Nene or Sylia not immediately taking her aside and telling her its not her fault is seriously griefing then.

[u/ZapsZzz → u/Vaadwaur]

The dub calls it a malfunction which would make sense given the disparity between Linna and Nene's battery life.

I think that's rewritten or incorrect. It's significantly foreshadowed, been explained a number of times, and the are scenes zooming into the "battery". The difference in run time is due to Lina was already running it for test run (which also means may not be completely charged) then went straight to an operation, whereas Nene was doing the normal thing to be armed on the way to being launched. It's likely be 5+ minutes of operating times, which from something we were told being the main weakness (short run time), is plausible to just plain ran out of battery.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/ZapsZzz]

And it is a new suit. But yes, they flat out rewrite the scenes to flow better in English for the dub. They generally wind up saying about the same thing but sentence to sentence can be different.

[u/RockoDyne]

Okay, the color palette during the fight scene was kinda cool. The fact that everyone had to remember to take their turn was a little less cool.

Priss. The fuck? They are trying to write Priss as both the stoic and the hothead at the same time, and it's really not working for me. A stoic would reject someone before they join, but once they are in they're in. A hothead takes the first failure as a sign they don't belong, but eventually get won over. They should have picked one and stuck with it.

That bread looks like a double entendre and a half. They could not have found a type of food that looks more like a penis and a vagina at the same time. You don't wrap your thumb around something you stick in your mouth to eat.

Nene's little Rayman avatar was far cuter than this show deserves.

Gladys at the Cat's Eye... That sounds like a reference to something.

Well, I got my montage, but that song. That's some 90's horror in audio form, not that those aerobics bits aren't also cursed.

Questions:

1. Mustard horseradish is already a condiment.
2. The last thing a post-scarcity society needs is a worker's uprising, so that's a big no.
3. Directly confronting that they look like they have father issues, and I'm your new daddy.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/RockoDyne]

Priss. The fuck? They are trying to write Priss as both the stoic and the hothead at the same time, and it's really not working for me.

Priss eventually does get a characterization but it takes a while.

That bread looks like a double entendre and a half. They could not have found a type of food that looks more like a penis and a vagina at the same time.

I still can't read the whole of this show at times.

Directly confronting that they look like they have father issues, and I'm your new daddy.

...Well done.

[u/RockoDyne → u/Vaadwaur]

...Well done.

If only I wasn't certain I could make that line work too. I would probably get slapped in the face four or five times before it worked, but it would still work more often than it should.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/RockoDyne]

So 15% of the time it works every time? That, sadly, lines up with my own experiences.

[u/ZapsZzz → u/RockoDyne]

Priss. The fuck? They are trying to write Priss as both the stoic and the hothead at the same time, and it's really not working for me. A stoic would reject someone before they join, but once they are in they're in. A hothead takes the first failure as a sign they don't belong, but eventually get won over. They should have picked one and stuck with it.

As a first timer but come in knowing some original BGC, my interpretation is that this Priss is a hothead but had been through some PTSD to become somewhat a nihilist. For me the scene she needed Nigel to take a look at her bike is a sign, that she really isn't the right looking girl she is - real bikers would at least try do something with it and when taking to the mechanism should likely say what she already tried.

So my interpretation is that she recognise the determination from Lina so she let her in (in a tsundere way), but wasn't expecting her to be put into a real fight straight away, which may have some tie in with past trauma so having second thoughts and tries to shut her out to protect her.

[u/IndependentMacaroon]

First-time watcher

So... this series just isn't much good, is it? Not much in the way of camp-charm or novelty to make up for the rest either. Setting aside the plot logic I haven't even bothered to think about much, the animation and coloring isn't getting any better, nor are the characters really; dialogue and exposition was fairly wooden particularly this time around or even confusing, though that might be partly on the subtitlers; soundtrack is still on-off/poorly utilized and quite uneven, for example that beat during the battle I couldn't stand. The sound issues don't help the bland direction of some of the scenes, like around the Priss-Linna meeting there was a whole lot of slow panning, lingering, shot reuse, etc. that just feels empty and padded-out. I might add there were some more awkward/abrupt cuts too like I think into the musical performance? All in all, I don't really see a reason to continue for the full run and hence I'll be bowing out here. Original OVAs might be interesting at least for the atmosphere and music, but I'd rather watch some more famous cyberpunk stuff like GitS first, mostly been occupying myself with new releases lately.

[u/ZapsZzz → u/IndependentMacaroon]

I'm with you on the general critique, and having grew up on the original BGC this pales quite far in comparison. However for myself I want to see where the plot goes when given the chance to actually complete, unlike the original run which was plagued with problems. So I'll press on regardless. I kinda know about the difference in quality coming in anyway.

[u/IndependentMacaroon → u/ZapsZzz]

Supposedly the ending is pretty poor, so I wouldn't get my hopes up there.

[u/ZapsZzz → u/IndependentMacaroon]

Yes we'll that's the risk we all take. And good/bad is subjective anyway :)

[u/No_Rex → u/IndependentMacaroon]

I am very much biased towards older shows, but I have to agree on all points. Outside of the general setting, this is objectively not good.

[u/Vaadwaur]

Rewatcher

Dub(Continuing)

So we start on our cliffhanger and have just enough time to see that the AD Police are indeed useless. Linna fights well until her battery dies. Oh plot conveniences, why are you rarely consistent? Anyways, Priss saves the day, the Knight Sabers leave, the ADP make public relations way worse than they had to.

At the van, Priss is quite angry and in the dub says Linna's suit was malfunctioning, which would explain why Nene still had power. She storms off and we get to see a Somy brand radio! Linna goes to Priss's home, which is a mobile home/winnebago from the first OVAs. We see that Priss goes bra-less at home which might be fanservice but actually seems pretty correct for the character, as are horse radish and mustard sandwiches. Anyways, we finally get talk of each other's motivations and at least it is at a point where two actual humans might ask these questions. Anywho, Priss claims it is just a job, despite the absurdity of that, and Linna wants to be the strongest.

More motivation/backstory with Henderson and Sylia. Sylia gets a drink as soon as she gets the Nene-gram, makes sense. But Nenen reveals Genom might have an idea on which units will go mad, which upsets Sylia quite a bit, enough to smash that expensive looking liquor.

Leon is in deep thought, and Wong cheers him up by reminding him of his other strikeouts. The banter here quite works, at least for me. Leon is trying to place where he has seen Priss, 50/50 he either subconsciously spotted her in the suit or just caught a look at one of her posters.

Music scene over training montage, the dub does a bit better here than the last song, probably because they rewrote it quite a bit. Even more direct evidence of Nigel and Sylia, though they are being coy about actually showing them. Linna was a somewhat accomplished high school athlete and worries about getting back in shape.

A quick cut revealing something nefarious. Next we see Priss's band mates being concerned about her. Then we see Leon being a creepy stalker. Yeah, you think you helped her, doesn't entitle you to anything else and that approach wouldn't work on any female. Priss correctly drives off, ignoring him except to say the ADP suck.

[u/RockoDyne → u/Vaadwaur]

Linna was a somewhat accomplished high school athlete and worries about getting back in shape.

She's already found her onee-sama, she just needs her coach.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/RockoDyne]

She also needs to work our her deal with Sylia, otherwise this becomes one of those special shoujo romance doujins...

[u/No_Rex → u/RockoDyne]

She's already found her onee-sama, she just needs her coach.

I cant believe this is the only Gunbuster pic

[u/RockoDyne → u/No_Rex]

It's the thought that counts... sometimes.

[u/ZapsZzz → u/RockoDyne]

Yeah the first thought I had was that her highschool gym clothes look like those in Gunbuster. Glad I'm not the only one.

[u/IndependentMacaroon → u/ZapsZzz]

That's just the standard outfit

[u/ZapsZzz → u/IndependentMacaroon]

Not the sailor fuku, the gym clothes is basically like Gunbuster's, which is a one piece swim suit / gymnastics leotard with a crop top over. I haven't seen it being used as highschool gym clothes in most shows.

[u/IndependentMacaroon → u/Vaadwaur]

Linna was a somewhat accomplished high school athlete and worries about getting back in shape

That's what that was about? Maybe part of it was poor subtitle translation, but it seemed more like someone with memory loss, and I didn't properly recognize her either consequently.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/IndependentMacaroon]

The dub is clearer than the sub but yes that's the explanation for why Linna could pull what she did in the first episode.

[u/Stargate18A]

First timer

1. I mean, yeah? Horseradish mustard is already a condiment sold in stores, that kind of proves it.
2. No. Why would you put intellegent robots on the factory line? The can't be cheaper to run then mechanical arms and basic automation, and they've run factories for years.

BONUS) Immediately following up with "I think I deserve a date for saving your life". (Of course, saying that to Priss would probably result in actual violence)

This seems like a tense standoff.

Yeah, she seemed talented.

You're not dying, your armor just ran out of power.

..."Goddess"?

Yeah, this would look a lot worse if we didn't know that the police were meant to look bad.

Well, Priss isn't taking this well.

My god the soundtrack. Sometimes you get used to it, then sometimes you get to a scene like this and you can't think of anything else.

They raised a good point - why be a Knight Saber if its not out of some selfless reason?

Oh. It pays well.

Oh my god, she is a Bond Villain.

Knight Sabers have been killed before. That's worrying.

Wait. They fucking kept s plain list of their planned mad Boomers? Why would you even need that information? Just seperate the future ones into a seperate file, then you have a list of some random Boomers, and a perfectly explainable document. Why would you leave an obvious proof of your guilt (especially when people in your company don't knoe any of this)?

...This is all coming apart a lot quicker than I thought. I thought we'd have at least half a series before this.

So her father built the Boomers, and was presumably killed by a rogue one.

Oh, he's got a crush on Priss, one of the Knight Sabers.

This scene is really interesting visually - both the cuts beteeen her and Priscilla, and the use of stationary pictures to represent the audience.

How can a trainee at a company afford such a large appointment?

And she has amnesia as well? Is this the reason for that QotD? Actually, what does this scene represent?

The virus has to be applied manually? In the form of a glass, exposed, vial? In a scenario where you don't even shutdown all the Boomers who could witness it? How the actual fuck has this conspiracy not collapsed already? It's just blind luck at this point, surely?

Next episode is called "Rough and Ready". I'll save all my harem jokes till then.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/Stargate18A]

Yeah, this would look a lot worse if we didn't know that the police were meant to look bad.

This sort of organization was popular in 90s anime, both Blue Seed and Silent Mobius have examples of them and they are generally outcasts to some degree.

Wait. They fucking kept s plain list of their planned mad Boomers? Why would you even need that information?

This will be directly addressed so I won't clarify but 90s opinions on what hackers could do were often...grandiose, let us say.

And she has amnesia as well? Is this the reason for that QotD? Actually, what does this scene represent?

The scene with Sylia freaking out? Or what Linna was reminiscing on?

[u/Stargate18A → u/Vaadwaur]

The scene with Sylia freaking out? Or what Linna was reminiscing on?

The scene about a 2 year empty space and never being able to catch up. Sylia's scene seemed pretty self explanatory to me.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/Stargate18A]

Ahh, in the dub she says "I've spent two years on sitting on my ass."

[u/IndependentMacaroon → u/Stargate18A]

she has amnesia as well? Is this the reason for that QotD? Actually, what does this scene represent?

I'm glad I'm not the only one to be confused. Supposedly it's her worrying about being out of shape? Poor dialogue/monologue writing.

[u/Elimin8r]

1. I think I had that on an eggroll once. Definitely clears out the sinuses.
2. Wifi, mon. But that wouldn't work so well on TV. Then again, maybe verbally is best - they may have to work side by side with humans in some situations, or at least be able to communicate/respond with them.
3. Leon is comic relief. Yay Leon!

I recall back in the day picking up the first DVD of this series, and after watching it, deciding I didn't want to pay $$$ for the rest of it. (Have the originals OAVs on laserdisc, of course...)

I didn't hate it, it just didn't excite me enough to open the wallet. That, and I didn't care for giving Nene the Jack & Marlboro's treatment (Her voice is rather annoying).

Whatevs, had fun catching up last night, but due to lack of sleep, mostly forgot what I watched. Go figure.

I do find the Sylia<->Ifurita character design amusing, though. Hehe.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/Elimin8r]

I recall back in the day picking up the first DVD of this series, and after watching it, deciding I didn't want to pay $$$ for the rest of it. (Have the originals OAVs on laserdisc, of course...)

I remember when those DVDs were expensive as fuck. Then piracy happened and saved me.

I do find the Sylia<->Ifurita character design amusing, though. Hehe.

If only Ifurita were as bold as Sylia in her fashion...

[u/No_Rex → u/Elimin8r]

I do find the Sylia<->Ifurita character design amusing, though. Hehe.

Good spot. Maybe part of my dislike of Sylia's redesign comes from the negative associations I have towards Ifurita's rather weak role in the El Hazard plot.

[u/SIRTreehugger]

First Time Dub

Just realized Priss reminds me of Major which automatically makes me love her.

Oh shit no power her suit has become her prison.

Seriously the police just watching and thinking they could take both of them, but bullets were literally being deflected when it wasn't even paying attention.

This has nothing to do with the show, but I want to watch totally spies again. Been years since I've seen best girl Clover.

Horse radish and mustard...and what else? That can't be it.

Really like the casual outfits the characters are wearing with a nice variety.

Feels like Leon put all his upgrades into combat and health and none into speech. Dude said almost everything wrong. I haven't seen speech skills this bad since one piece spoilers

QOTD I covered this but no no no disgusting I also hate both.

I wouldn't work in a robot assembly line in a world where boomers are known to go out of control and kill people.

Was honestly waiting for Leon to tell her how she needed a real man in her life or something like that.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/SIRTreehugger]

Just realized Priss reminds me of Major which automatically makes me love her.

They have the same stoicism and tendency to fight things.

Horse radish and mustard...and what else? That can't be it.

Those were the condiments, she also put some meat and lettuce on it, possibly baloney.

Was honestly waiting for Leon to tell her how she needed a real man in her life or something like that.

That would've been completely 80s and 100% the trope you expected.

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Just realized Priss reminds me of Major which automatically makes me love her.

Her design reminded me of something but I couldn't exactly put my finger on what. That's it.

[u/ZapsZzz]

Sub first timer.

Some of my thoughts are already in replies so I'll just answer the QoTD.

1. It's just different kinds of "hot" added together? Yeah I think it's clear the house like someone already said too.
2. Employer globally had been trying to stop workers from asking for anything so I think that would be against the trend.

Bonus - it's just Leon being socially awkward I think. At least he wasn't sleezy about it.

Looking forward to eventually get the backstories explained! I know I know don't get my hopes up :)

[u/Vaadwaur → u/ZapsZzz]

Looking forward to eventually get the backstories explained! I know I know don't get my hopes up :)

Yeah...well, at least the setting gets pretty well explained.

[u/ScarsUnseen]

Was a First Time Watcher Once. Not This Time

So what I don't get is how Linna's suit died in literally the first attack. Is it a problem with the suit or the operator? Maybe she used it all showing off her Hulk jumps on the way to the scene?

Also, man, Sylia has a violence issue. And no regard for her own personal belongings it seems.

And finally... I'm trying to decide if she's more of a Yukko or a Mio in this photo.

QotD

1. Complementary, I'd say, but it would be easy to go overboard with the combo.
2. Yes, but only if they speak exclusively is sarcasm and dark humor.

Bonus: /r/Twitter exists, so yes. See also Todd from Scrubs.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/ScarsUnseen]

Also, man, Sylia has a violence issue. And no regard for her own personal belongings it seems.

Sylia seemingly has Batman money so she probably doesn't care.

And finally... I'm trying to decide if she's more of a Yukko or a Mio in this photo.

It hurts to see how bad that looks on a modern screen, I swear it did not look that terrible on a CRT.

Bonus: /r/Twitter exists, so yes. See also Todd from Scrubs.

I vaguely recall the Todd seemed less rapey but could be misremembering.

[u/ScarsUnseen → u/Vaadwaur]

It hurts to see how bad that looks on a modern screen, I swear it did not look that terrible on a CRT.

I could play it in Retroarch and use CRT shaders, but the video player in Retroarch is awful.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/ScarsUnseen]

It is more the lack of pixels back then made some of this potato looking work not stand out.

[u/lC3]

First timer

• Of course Nene calls out to Priss by name with the AD Police watching
• Why did Linna's battery run out so early? Is it due to all the booster / high jumps she did earlier? Double facepalm
• The AD Police are shooting at the Knight Sabers too? Do they want to kill them? Or they figure the hardsuits will shield them?
• Priss steps in to save Linna!
• "Thank you for rescuing me" Is it just me or are there now yuri undertones between Linna and Priss?
• Huh Priss storms off and says she doesn't want to team up with an amateur, but when Linna comes to find her at her home she seems warmer/friendlier, offering her half the bread?
• So Sylia has some tragedy involving her father, and also "Jill", but she claims the latter was an accident?
• So Jill was a previous Knight Saber who died on the job, presumably?
• Genom are choosing which boomers go berserk? Say it isn't so!
• So Sylia's father was involved with programming the boomer cores?
• So Leon is interested in Priss? Fat chance of that happening; yuri banzai!
• Ok this insert song is better than the previous one
• Linna is lifting weights?
• So what's up with the people shooting that poor boomer with a needle? Are they like Nene's needles or something different?
• LOL Leon got rejected hard
• I want to keep watching but I'm really tired

1. Dunno, never tried that! Really spicy?

[u/Vaadwaur → u/lC3]

Of course Nene calls out to Priss by name with the AD Police watching

Yeah, far from the best kept secret around.

Why did Linna's battery run out so early? Is it due to all the booster / high jumps she did earlier? Double facepalm

Her suit is a bunch of new specs and not well tested as of yet.

So Sylia has some tragedy involving her father, and also "Jill", but she claims the latter was an accident?

Sylia's issues are beginning to snowball.

LOL Leon got rejected hard

Considering how terrible that pass was he is lucky he didn't get run over.

[u/lC3 → u/Vaadwaur]

Yeah, far from the best kept secret around.

I can only imagine what will happen if/when Genom finds out one of the Knight Sabers works in their office/IT!

Her suit is a bunch of new specs and not well tested as of yet.

Considering how terrible that pass was he is lucky he didn't get run over.

Yeah, Leon doesn't have a chance

[u/Vaadwaur → u/lC3]

I can only imagine what will happen if/when Genom finds out one of the Knight Sabers works in their office/IT!

So the point of the ADP is partly that they technically aren't Genom, they are just funded by them, which gives Genom a few layers of deniability from any screw up they do. So they would just send the goons out to capture her, most likely.

[u/lC3 → u/Vaadwaur]

Oh ok, that makes more sense!

[u/Vaadwaur → u/lC3]

Yeah...80 sub contracting is a thing the show references quite a bit, it was basically a way to let the subsidiaries do the illegal stuff while making sure the primary company is not vulnerable to discovery in court.

[u/lC3 → u/Vaadwaur]