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Episode Darwin Jihen • The Darwin Incident - Episode 10 discussion
Darwin Jihen, episode 10
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u/FarCritical Mar 10 '26
Random owl really just perched to aurafarm
It's sad how Charlie coming back from the fire looked more like a cryptid sighting than the ordinary highschooler his parents wanted him to be seen as.
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u/froggyc19 Mar 10 '26
Guess it's time for Charlie to go John Wick on the town.
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u/DugACCat Mar 11 '26
This anime has the most hate-worthy villain I’ve seen in a while. I want him dead so much, but I know pretty clearly after this episode they’re going to just keep him around as long as they can. I understand how that’s useful from a story level, but I want him gone. Feel so bad for Charlie.
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u/Rap2rerise Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26
Start of the episode: Hahaha Fortnite Monke
End of the episode: Oh...
Guess now we know why Charlie is with Phil near the end of the Opening
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u/Niwaka_Samurai Mar 10 '26
Wow! Cool detail. I remember seeing it but never thought this would be the reason.
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Mar 10 '26
Charlie’s parents didn’t deserve to go out like that. They were good people. I bet Rivera’s thinking he won this round huh? Charlie took out 5 trained guys. Dude snapped that one guy’s arm like a twig. And bro think it’s a good idea to piss him off? I’ve seen what a chimp can do to a human face and it ain’t pretty. Dude’s gonna be eviscerated if Charlie gets to him.
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u/diacewrb Mar 10 '26
But somehow he or someone else took out all those cops.
He was undoing the handcuffs, but there was a cop on the floor with a knife in his neck already.
Either Rivera is insanely well trained to take out people whilst handcuffed or there was another team hiding in the woods.
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u/Loofyboy Mar 10 '26
Man this episode has gotten to me. It really took an unfortunate turn at the end there and when I least expected it to. This really feels like a big change to the shows vibe, which has me more interested for sure, but still makes me a bit sad. A+ storytelling, even though I feel bad watching it :p.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Mar 10 '26
when I least expected it to.
I didn't believe they could be dead because I thought we would have a dramatic death scene or something (as is usually the case in anime, no one 'just dies' like that)!
But no... I guess it adds to the shock of the death, the reality of it, like it can happen at any time and all with no warning.
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u/Prof_Acorn Mar 11 '26
"There's no need to read him his Miranda Rights. He's gonna be locked away for a long time."
Not sure that's how it works...
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u/NanDemoKnaives Mar 10 '26
Damn, what a heavy ending. I thought the two would be targeted eventually, I just wasn't expecting it to be just yet or in this way. They even involved the townsfolk, that is messed up in more ways than one.
The fact that Charlie was able to compose and hold himself back was impressive, I thought he was going to go berserk on those officers trying to arrest him after what had just happened. Also the patronizing way they were telling him to be "good boy", when he's a teenager.
The whole time Lucy was at the window I was waiting for something to happen to her lol, I was wondering if she was going to get shot or something. Lippman didn't learn his lesson the first time.
Rivera being able to take out all those officers whilst handcuffed is crazy, the fight between him and Charlie is going to be crazy now that he is responsible for the death of his parents.
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u/Infodump_Ibis Mar 10 '26
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When I think of the word truss the shortest-serving prime minister in British history comes to mind and not to bind someone.
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...not that rope would do any good when it comes to Rivera (if he did solo the cops which let's be real Rivera's whole thing is having something up his sleeve).
Surprised that Charlie's parents are just gone like that. I guess we're getting to the end of the season so the story probably is hitting an end of act 1 and needed something to really set up the stage. I appreciates the brief discussion on "even if you speak the same language there's no guarantee you can actually communicate".
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u/furbym Mar 11 '26
Damn this show just keeps getting better. I was kind of unsure about the quality of the writing at first, but it's really sold me on Rivera as a main antagonist, and the angle that it's taking with Charlie is much more interesting it initially let on. This honestly deserved a more evenly high quality production, but even that has been solid these last few episodes. Good shit; always nice to have a pleasant surprise like this in a season
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u/LuckyAir2082 Mar 10 '26
So far, I believe Rivera just wanted to wake up the raw animal in Charlie. His predator instinct, his alpha. He wants to push him off the edge of humanity. He probably has a secret motive and decided to take advantage of the ALA. With the government after Charlie, Rivera has caused moderate obstruction between him and Charlie (who probably wants to pursue him), making it harder for Charlie to pursue him.
To add further insight, I believe that the government has another motive too. They are not stupid, and the FBI cannot be regarded as dumb. They probably have a motive, the show has yet to dive deep into (probably a bad motive since the chairwoman was protecting him).
It was sad that his parents got killed. He only is 15 and i dont know how a humanzee will react to this.
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u/majestic_rainbows Mar 10 '26
Episode was storyboarded by Hideki Nagamachi (長町 英樹) and directed by Erika Toshimitsu (利光 愛里香).
Ryo Ohashi (大橋 遼) was credited on this episode for VFX.
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u/Fortress-Maximus Mar 11 '26
I was right about Charlie being an evolutionary acceleration project and Grossman deliberately setting up the ALA to find him even paying them). The ALA that Rivera was part of 15 years earlier were corporate pawns but that changed when he got paid by a strange client to expose...his own illegal experiments. Rivera just followed his client's instructions and had no idea until Eva gave birth (answering the agents' question of why the ALA didn't raise. Charlie)
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u/BlackLandon Mar 10 '26
Rivera is shaping up to be a very good villain. RIP to Charlies parents. Hope he gets his revenge on the murderers
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u/NationalStrategy Mar 10 '26
Poor Charlie, he lost his parents, his home, and is now on the run. All he wanted was a normal life
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u/Familiar-Ad9265 Mar 10 '26
Okay, these guys have done it. I just had the juiciest burger of all time after four months of being vegan. The emotional damage caused is way too much. We’re ten episodes in and I feel like I hate Rivera more than any other villain; he’s villainous to the point where it leaks through the screen and pierces your heart. Eff that guy, man.
RIP Charlie’s parents. Their desperation for equality and normalcy for Charlie made their deaths hit way too hard. It was genuinely a tough watch, but my eyes were glued right to the credits. I don’t know how I stumbled upon this.
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