Thursday, September 3, 2020

ERGO PROXY EPISODE 17: PLOT AND EXPLANATION

 

EPISODE 17 (NEVER-ENDING BATTLE / TERRA INCOGNITA)


---SPOILER AHEAD---

 

The trio rests their journey. Re-l develops a better attitude towards Pino. The trio becomes solid. Vincent makes Re-l agree to kill him if Vincent loses himself.

Pino wanders around without Vincent and Re-l notices. Vincent and Re-l looks for Pino. They find a cave. In the cave mouth, there are dead pale hairy creatures with a big brain. They hear a piano playing inside the cave. They find Pino playing piano in human civilization ruin. A young creature observes them. The creature is degraded that he does not respond to language.

Vincent and Re-l follow the cave deeper. At the deepest point, they find many more of the creatures. They are the original human left by Boomerang Project. They mutated to adapt the cave toxic gas while waited for outside air to clear out. They become weak, degraded and asocial because of the gas. They mutated until they can only breathe the toxic gas. Breathing the outside air even though the air is already clean will kill them. The cave gas actually slowly kills them, but they cannot get out.

The trio is followed by the young creature while they make their way out of the cave. They put the young mutated human back inside the cave. He is picked up by his pregnant mother. Re-l finds cave painting describing natural pregnancy. These mutated humans are fertile.

The Wombsys in Romdeau is off. Daedalus and Raul realize Romdeau will not last long without a proxy. Daedalus blames Raul for the lost proxy (Vincent) in Romdeau. Daedalus also starts to crack. He talks to Re-l’s picture.

Raul’s mind is consumed by his resentment towards Vincent. He sees Vincent illusions smirking and mocking him. Raul confronts the Regent about the outside healing nature. He knows that the Regent holds the citizens like prisoners inside the dome. He is angry that the Regent ignores that they are sterile and on the verge of extinction. He has enough with the Regent passive attitude.

Kristeva is appointed as the Security Bureau Chief, replacing Raul. Raul becomes a fugitive after he insults the Regent. Raul is capable to avoid the pursuit. He misleads Kristeva to the Rapture control chamber. Raul knew he would be fired. He has set missile launch timer. His citizenship deletion triggers system lockout. Missiles are launched from Romdeau. Kristeva cannot abort the launch. The trio sees missiles flying to Mosk. Raul wants to revenge Vincent by launching missiles to Mosk for stealing Romdeau life and his family. 


Details and Easter Eggs:

  • Raul citizen number ends with 666. The number symbolizes antichrist. Raul is anti God/anti proxy. He denies the reliance on proxy to provide lives.
  • As his name suggests, Raul Creed is designed to be a model citizen. To establish Romdeau rules and order is his raison d’etre. Raul drops his ID symbolizes he drops one of his raison d’etre. He keeps fighting because he needs to establish order above Romdeau chaos.
  • The episode shows the parallelism between Pino and Raul. They are driven by their emotions. Back then in the early episode, Raul jokes that he is infected with Cogito. While Pino gains her soul through love, Raul gains his soul through despair and hate.
  • The cave reflects Romdeau’s fate. They are accustomed to the norms they live in. Even though the norms are slowly killing them at a certain time. They cannot get out because getting out means death. Romdeau citizens cannot get out of the dome as well because they do not know how to survive outside.
  • The young mutated human is Raul’s parallelism. They do not accept their fate to extinct. They try their hardest to get out of the situation even if it makes them dying.
  • The Security Bureau Chiefs never finish their term because they always find the truth that Romdeau is fragile from extinction. It is against their duty to keep Romdeau safe. Romdeau can never be safe if they are sterile and rely on proxy. They become emotional learning the matter.
  • Rapture is the thermonuclear missiles used by Donov Mayer to assault Mosk.

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