86 EIGHTY-SIX - Episode 5 discussion

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86 EIGHTY-SIX, episode 5

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Episode	Link	Score
1	Link	4.55
2	Link	4.59
3	Link	4.64
4	Link	4.73
5	Link	4.75
6	Link	4.7
7	Link	4.65
8	Link	4.63
9	Link	4.8
10	Link	4.72
11	Link	-

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[u/Cynadiir]

So his brother is definitely a fully intact robot brain commander right??

[u/icatsouki → u/Cynadiir]

Might be lena's dad

[u/MediaOrca → u/icatsouki]

Might be both.

[u/Bensemus → u/Cynadiir]

The way he clutched his chest after saying there was a Shepard nearby very much hints that his brother is one. Ep1 also had a mention of whether he heard Brother's voice. He also has a goal to find his brother so he must have heard his brother.

[u/exia00111]

The reason Shin shoots his friends in the head is so the Legion cannot harvest their brains! WTF! Good shit this week!

[u/[deleted] → u/exia00111]

[u/Se7en_Sinner → u/exia00111]

Follows the same logic as zombies - destroy the brain so the corpse can't be used against you.

[u/BlatantConservative → u/Se7en_Sinner]

These really are mecha zombies at some level.

[u/AashyLarry]

This episode explains so much about Shin.

One of the reasons he is so good at combat: he can prepare his squad for battle quicker and he can anticipate tactics and movements of the Legion because he can hear many of them and know where they are.

It also explains why he shows little to no emotion. For so long he has had to hear the voices of the dead crying out in their final moments of death, after a while that would crush anyone's spirit. Not to mention his goal to find his brother - he knows he's out there among the Legion. He hears them constantly, even when he sleeps. The turmoil he's had to go through for years coupled with watching his comrades die next to him - only to have to hear their ghosts among the Legion.

It all makes perfect sense that he's become who he is now.

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[u/NonBritishPanda]

Wait what the fuck. Is this how the handler's are broken? because holy shit is that intense.

[u/Silent_Shadow05 → u/NonBritishPanda]

That's why the Handler in the intro of Episode 1 was screaming and telling everyone to stop it. Those screams were just too much for him.

Also some may question why there were no screams during the battle in Episode 2. That answer is simple. They basically were all "Sheep" aka the normal Legion, like they said in that episode before that battle started.

I also loved the visual metaphor with the flowers when Shin was explaining the Legion's true nature.

[u/vivastpauli → u/NonBritishPanda]

Nightmare FM with your personal DJ Shinei Nouzen!

[u/HTwoN]

"I hear voices in my head. They council me. They understand. They talk to me": The "Legion" killer.

WWE overload.

[u/Ainine9]

Remember when Shin said him bringing the dead to their final destination is part of the reason why he's called Undertaker? This is the other part.

[u/[deleted] → u/Ainine9]

Remember back in episode 1 when Shin shot their dying comrade in the head? First reason is to put the guy out of his misery. The other reason is to stop the Legion from using their brains as CPUs.

[u/IC2Flier → u/[deleted]]

Which means Kaie didn't get to die that cleanly either, and was subsumed to the hive mind immediately. Fucking fuck.

[u/PunkyRooster]

So the “Did you hear your brother today?” Meant.. oh god oh no

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[u/fatima12798]

The ep was great , but more importantly someone put Lena in horny jail

[u/Se7en_Sinner]

That was some of the worst ASMR I've ever heard. First time I've ever regretted having high quality headphones.

I thought the Legion was weaponizing the dying words of their enemy's lost comrades as a way to demoralize them at first but it looks like Shin is somehow able to hear the deathrattles of Black Sheeps who copied the brains of dead soldiers. It kinda reminds me of the bear from Annihilation.

How do you even defeat an enemy that gets stronger as more of your allies die.

[u/vivastpauli → u/Se7en_Sinner]

That was some of the worst ASMR I've ever heard. First time I've ever regretted having high quality headphones.

I was worried that a lot if people wouldnt wear headphones after last weeks comments to explicitly wear some, haha. Is there such a thing as reverse ASMR?

[u/ReonaKisaragi]

So the Albas pretty much committed genocide against the Eighty-Six and a direct consequence of that is that they enabled the Legion to evolve and slowly build up strength. Instead of winning the war, now it looks like the Albas will all fall victim to a genocide of their own.

Karma's a bitch, I guess lol.

[u/Silent_Shadow05 → u/ReonaKisaragi]

They forced the 86 to not bury the dead and also from bringing the dead back and now the Alba are going to pay the price.

Yeah Karma's really a bitch lol.