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Our heroes came to the island with one foremost arrangement: to defeat the ant queen. With this completed, no extra ants might most likely well be born and the final ants would die off in just a few years. At wonderful, the swarm would change into leaderless monsters to be picked off one by one. At worst, it could most likely well be a battle of attrition to succor them on the island until nature took its route.
So noteworthy of this episode is spent exhibiting issues going to thought. The elite Korean hunters destroy into the hive, battle by way of wave after wave of guards, and spectacularly manufacture off the queen. There’s magnificent one insist: the other half of of the episode is all about exhibiting that here’s a fully pyrrhic victory.
The key to the queen’s extermination thought became once that time became once on the human’s facet. On the other hand, with the queen’s closing child (who I would possibly call the “Ant King” for simplicity), this thought is doomed to failure.
This episode is all about exhibiting how highly efficient the Ant King is—basically by exhibiting him tearing apart the Jap hunters with little to no effort. It proves to be a large account juxtaposition; whilst our heroes secure their wonderful victory, fear and rigidity continue to manufacture for the combat destined to return after.
Then, in the contrast between the Ant King and the Korean hunters, we peep pretty clearly, that even a plump birthday celebration of S-Tainted hunters has no chance in opposition to the monster—in particular with its human-stage intelligence. This kind that, with him in the lead and an military of thousands of ants that every match an A-ranker in power, their few final years of existence might perhaps be ample time to wipe out every human on Earth. And even supposing that proves most unlikely as a consequence of the sheer scale of the project, there absolutely would no longer be ample hunters spherical to overcome all the dungeons performing correct by way of the world. The Ant King is, frankly, an global-ending menace.
Yet, what’s appealing is that none of this seems to be to be ample to secure Jinwoo off his butt and into the combat. He doesn’t advance to the rescue when the Ant King begins attacking the Korean hunters—no longer when Cha’s facet is caved in or when their sole healer is killed. He doesn’t step in when it goes off to combat Goto either. No, Jinwoo entirely shows up when the customary ants inaugurate up to swarm the stop to-tiring Korean hunters en masse.
Right here is a lot and away the most inexplicable ingredient of the episode. Genuinely, the Korean hunters like been in extra anxiety from the Ant King (who might most likely well abolish every of them in a single hit once Byung-Gyu became once tiring) than from the swarm. So, as we did not secure to sight anything on this episode from Jinwoo’s point of behold, I’m death to know what precisely precipitated Jinwoo to change his mind—and hope we secure a proof of this next episode.
No topic this quirk of the episode, here’s a large episode of the sequence. The aforementioned juxtaposition of an titillating, flashy victory with the looming fear of an inevitable defeat is beautifully realized. Now all that’s left is for the mountainous climax the build Jinwoo pulls out all the stops and shows the world who’s truly the most highly efficient being on the planet.
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Random Thoughts:
• Byung-Gyu raised so many death flags in these previous few episodes that I would like been truly panicked if he had lived by way of this episode.
• I am hoping Byung-Gyu managed to heal Cha at the very least a little bit of bit before he died because of she’s bought to be struggling from inner bleeding apart from her beaten arm and ribs.
• Ethical to know the jamming labored. Take into consideration how badly issues would like gone if the Ant King had known about the assault on the queen magnificent because it started.
• I’m questioning if the title/environment adjustments for the Jap broadcast of this sequence like been as a consequence of the Jap executive backstabbing the Koreans on this episode.
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