Otaku Revolution Die Neue These Review Episode 6
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Second
by Christopher Farris, 
I experience like I've gone back and along in my opinions of Fable of the Galactic Heroes: Dice Neue These's hotly debated emotional elements. More than than just a disparity with what the previous anime did with this narrative and with these characters, there are things DNT is doing in a vacuum that make it seem like information technology's holding back. The biggest sticking point is of course the portrayal of the relationship between Reinhard and Kircheis. This episode sees the most pressure level withal put on the pair, but the option to have their connection seem more than sterile and afar than others the series has put on display hampers the overall effectiveness of what should be the core hither.
I don't want to get too far into the weeds regarding interpretations across the LOGH story of what Reinhard and Kircheis's relationship actually is, only regardless the text itself makes the of import signal here: These two are incredibly fond of each other, that fondness affecting their choices and decision-making processes in a way that both are aware of and welcome. The story, this episode peculiarly, makes a big thing of telling us all nigh this, by having both men reminisce on this fact also every bit several scenes of their comrades remarking on this nearly them as if it were obvious. The trouble is that while expository dialogue and descriptions may take communicated that indicate plenty in text form (specially the novels' dryer narrative style) simply being told near this connectedness doesn't come up through when we're getting it in an otherwise lush visual presentation. And visually, these two come up across as afar and curt with each other regardless of whether they've been expressing their addicted trust in each other or witnessing an emotional wall congenital up between them in the wake of the increasingly uncompromising acts of state of war they've been political party too.
It's frustrating because this seems to exist a choice of portrayal made specifically for Reinhard and Kircheis, as other parts of the serial, and indeed this very episode, prove that DNT can evidence warmer connections betwixt people when it wants to. This whole episode is less a contiguous narrative and more a collection of important moments, last turning points for all the characters involved in this civil state of war here at the cease of it. That'southward non necessarily a bad thing, given how LOGH has always at to the lowest degree partially occupied the style infinite of a historical documentary, just information technology does feel odd that this big story arc comes to a close not on some thousand, wrapped-up finale, but merely a serial of doors being closed. Though there is actually a piddling more than to go with this story, as we'll see.
A lot of what we're shown here is still more demonstration of how the privileged pride of the elite leads to their downfall. Nosotros're pretty much out of mid-level noble villains to make this betoken, so nosotros finally get to seeing the primary ones who started this get downwards. Flegel particularly makes an absolute fool of himself, desperately calling anyone who will listen to endeavor to arrange a one-on-one duel for victory in lieu of an bodily strategic space-battle. He pitches it as a question of accolade, which is an interesting counterpoint to the more sympathetic version of 'honor' espoused by Dwight Greenhill concluding week. The idea here lines upward with that pretty well, though: The Military machine Coalition'due south adherence to principles argued that if they'd been more thorough in doing so, the conflict may accept been avoided. Flegel's invocation of 'honor' here sees him trying to avoid a conflict he knows he can't win, with everyone including his own men arguing that his assured loss is the reason his question of 'honor' doesn't matter at this signal. That'due south a clever evolution of points LOGH reaches for through otherwise repeating itself. Less-and then in that regard is how Flegel gets taken out by his own men mutinying confronting him because of what a colossal jerk he's being. We've seen that dance hither earlier.
The other major antagonistic players come across their own endings. Most interesting is probably the short scene between Scheider and Merkatz. Not only do these two get their own oddly heartwarming scene in the wake of the episode's dank presentation of the Reinhard/Kircheis scenes, they too fix up interesting ideas for the future. Merkatz defecting to the Alliance is made clear equally a huge shake-upward, and shows what an influential figure Yang is all this mode on the Empire'due south side of the story. He represents hope even to quondam Imperial commanders like Merkatz, a show-off of powerful leadership styles that this series loves and so much. Meanwhile, big bad boss Braunschweig gets sent off by his subordinate Ansbach, a character you lot might not take initially expected to be so important (definitely still keep an middle on him). Braunschweig's downfall is perhaps more expected presentation of his cocky-preserving, cowardly noble fashion, but information technology still makes the core ideas of this disharmonize articulate: Reinhard's rise was inevitable in the face of what the Old Ways have washed to the Empire. The previous guard should, at this point, accept their downfall with dignity in the face of the rules changing.
Simply even with all those strong points in those scenes, I keep coming back to the scattered presentation off them this episode, and how they were clearly supposed to exist held together by the emotional core of Reinhard and Kircheis, only for that connective tissue simply to not be in that location. So many characters keep telling us how much these two honey each other, and whether they think that's skilful or bad for their control structure (guess what side Oberstein is on), only as it all comes to a head we really don't see that bear out. Opposite to how some may regard information technology from afar, Legend of the Galactic Heroes isn't an emotionally dry story, every bit some scenes in this very episode attest to. Just the storytelling in DNT has made some clear choices in the portrayal of this particular relationship, and more than than an odd lark, information technology becomes a clear weakness at this specific point.
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