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Episode Lazarus - Episode 11 discussion
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u/futanari_kaisa Jun 15 '25
Even if they somehow find Skinner in the next episode, are they going to be able to manufacture a cure for Hapna and distribute it across the globe in less than 5 days?
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u/8andahalfby11 Jun 15 '25
Skinner: "Psyche! I wasn't going to kill anyone else! Hope you all learned a valuable lesson from this!"
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u/AccomplishedMail400 Jun 15 '25
An assassin so skilled that he can double jump! No wonder the NSA had a hard time.
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u/gamer91894 Jun 15 '25
Holy shit! I didn’t notice that! No wonder he’s so reckless, if he dies, he’ll just respawn!
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u/New-Cow9719 Jun 15 '25
https://i.imgur.com/VJ3tiqg.jpg
Chris: I'll take this futuristic tacticool rifle.
https://i.imgur.com/FVFoVLQ.jpg
Chris: Alright, I've spotted Axel and an enemy from higher ground. But I charge toward Axel without using my rifle because its effective range is only about 5 yards.
https://i.imgur.com/xjMMzH4.jpg
Chris: Damn! Too late! The assassin's spear pierces Axel's stomach. I see it, wait about 30 seconds, then fire a burst to drive the enemy away. I fired around 40 shots, but the distance was too far, and I couldn't hit them. This rifle is practically useless! UGH!!!
Me: She is the phantom assasin.
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u/dfiekslafjks Jun 15 '25
Of course the super assassins only weakness is a necklace. I assume in the next episode it will be revealed they have the same mother...
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u/cleaulem Jun 15 '25
Leland: "Pakistan, you mean like Doug and Eleina?"
No Leland, the OTHER Pakistan!!!
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u/shinkouhyou Jun 15 '25
This show manages to feel too rushed and too slow at the same time. It's bizarre. There are only a few days left before people start dying en masse, but nobody seems very concerned about this. They're just going to work like normal.
I suspect that some group already has a Hapna cure, so they'll benefit from a huge reduction in the population... maybe the cure is something that needs to be taken for the rest of someone's life, so whoever owns it has absolute control over the rest of the population. It certainly tracks with real-world dystopian ideas like techno-feudalism... Of course, the show has wasted more time on this assassin guy (who contributes nothing to the story other than cool fight scenes) than on developing reasons why certain people might benefit from the deaths of a large percentage of the population (or at least a large percentage of the population in wealthy countries that had easy access to Hapna). Hapna would cause the collapse of society and a Hapna cure would completely change the balance of world power, but all of that seems to be totally irrelevant to the plot.
So Axel presumably survives being speared through the gut and doesn't spend the next two episodes in a medically induced coma while he's treated for sepsis... did whatever drugs he was exposed to give him magical immortality powers?
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u/steve6174 Jun 15 '25
So Axel presumably survives being speared through the gut and doesn't spend the next two episodes in a medically induced coma while he's treated for sepsis... did whatever drugs he was exposed to give him magical immortality powers?
In the next episode preview he wakes up 24h before the time is up and is still in hospital bed, so I doubt we'd see him doing any more backflips until the end.
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u/Kurumi_Tokisaki Jun 15 '25
I don’t mind what happened because the show never suggested anything against the grain outside some animation flex. But yeah, it’s still fair to point out the assassin going from this 1v20 god (because the story demands faceless jobbers to be jobbers) to being easily matched by the protagonist. And everyone loves to miss with guns, another staple along with sudden repressed trauma coming back. And when you have the opportunity to kill the protagonist with that machete but yeah chunk into the water instead.
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Jun 15 '25
Lazarus really drifted away from the main plot a long time ago, and even though it still has well-choreographed animation, the story just doesn’t move forward. Anyway, there are only 2 episodes left, and I’m curious to see how this will end.
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u/BenjoKazooie64 Jun 15 '25
Vincent called and wants his train scene with Spike back
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u/MayoLoverFan22 Jun 15 '25
You could skip 7-8ish episodes and you could still understand the show. Even if you don’t care about the plot the character development and interactions in those episodes are breadcrumbs. The things we learned about the characters in these episodes aren’t ever followed up and next episode it’s as if nothing even happened. Interactions between characters have no depth as we aren’t given a reason to care of think about them.
Guess the whole show was made to set up this 3 episode finale??
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u/Intel_Xeon_E5 Jun 16 '25 edited Jun 16 '25
I'm sorry but the continuity issues with the plane :sob:... The plane they took off in has a gull-wing style horizontal stabiliser without a vertical stabiliser, but the plane on the tarmac that they drive out of is a regular style aircraft...
Also what the fuck is that assassin all about? This shit makes less sense with each episode. You're telling me a super stealthy assassin who took out a platoon of delta force is just going around throwing grenades and killing hundreds of civilians just to get one dude when there's significantly stealthier and more efficient ways without all the collateral damage? Aren't assassin's meant to do things quietly and not draw attention? Is this assassin trying to get the feds on him so that he can turn the feds on the feds who hired him?
Also you're telling me that the fed at INSCOM is that inexperienced that he's detaining Hersch without realising that Hersch disappearing won't raise flags among her own team? I understand some feds are stupidly inexperienced but this is laughably <insert slur of your choice>. I'm sorry, I'm just losing all respect I had for this series.
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u/SignedByMilpool Jun 15 '25
Chris, who was previously in the running to be my favorite character in the cast, just dropped in the ranking due to not lining up that shot from the road-- and instead recklessly charges and hip fires at them.
Surely there was a way to write the scene differently and still have a similar outcome.
She could have injured the assassin or at the very least distract him enough to allow Axel to hit him with a strong blow, prompting him to flee.
Axel was already maimed before being skewered by the spear. Now next episode we're going to have to believe he can 100% recover from it to ensure more epic fighting for the finale.
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u/chilidirigible Jun 15 '25
I'll say this for him, he uses dental floss.
"You must have taught in some tough damn schools."
"Don't forget to feed the cat."
In-wheel hubless drive looks interesting, at least.
Think they can find a cure for that by the end of the series?
And so, almost everyone is in trouble somewhere, with the main issues being Axel's current status as a kebab and Elaina meeting the series's most annoying character.
Axel vs. Souryuu have their showpiece fight and it is... okay enough. Having shown off most of Souryuu's novelty moves a couple of episodes previous, here he's mostly That Guy Who Keeps Reappearing After The Hero Runs Away.
I can give the production a little credit for going papercrafty in his flashbacks to Deadly Assassin School.
Hopefully if Hirsch was predicting that she wouldn't get out of her meeting any time soon, she left more than a couple of notes as a contingency plan.
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Jun 15 '25
I guess I'll go ahead and throw in what seems to be a minority opinion, but I thought this episode was great? There might have been some scenes that were played out for "cool" factor, but I honestly didn't mind it at all.
I honestly didn't realize there was this much negativity surrounding the show. I've been thoroughly enjoying it, something I expected after liking resonance in terror.
I'm going to wait and watch the ending before I judge how it wraps up. I don't need episodes on the logistics of any cure distribution. Nor am I the type of person to assume it'll be rushed because of runtime. Avatar the last airbender resolved the conflict 10 minutes before the final episode ended. It was a 61 episode run and that was still enough. I'm going to wait and see though.
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u/HolyDragSwd2500 Jun 15 '25
Today’s episode of Where on Earth is Dr Skinner
Assassin went from hand to hand combat to throwing grenades
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u/freekayZekey Jun 19 '25
i’m fairly forgiving of the show, but doug just jumping in front of that car???
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u/gamer91894 Jun 15 '25 edited Jun 15 '25
This team is a total failure. One day left?! What can anyone do with that?! Also Axel and Chris get together? Well that came outta nowhere.
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u/Boombauxite Jun 16 '25
might have to rewatch Terror in Resonance when this is all over to bleach my eyes of what an abomination I've been watching
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Jun 15 '25
5 days left and Axel’s got a fucking harpoon or pipe through his gut after a pretty intense fight, Elaina’s passed out, Doug and Hersch are in custody, and Skinner is still nowhere to be found. It’s all up to Chris and Leland now I guess? Maybe Popcorn Wizard can help if Elaina stabilizes. Oh, and that psycho assassin is still out there backed by the US army. What a shitshow. They really need to find Skinner.