Thursday, September 3, 2020

ERGO PROXY EPISODE 8: PLOT AND EXPLANATION

 

EPISODE 8 (LIGHT RAY / SHINING SIGN)


---SPOILER AHEAD---


Pino sees something sparkling in the distance. Vincent and Pino arrive at Charos. They are caught in the middle of Charos vs. Asura war. Their Rabbit is hit by helicopter bombs. Charos army captures them.

Vincent is given meals at Charos army building. When Pino mentions the shining light, the soldiers mention they heard the same thing from a crazy woman prisoner. The soldiers cannot answer about the cause of their war. Actually, they do not have any reason for that. Their raison d’etre is the war itself. The soldiers take the Rabbit to repair it. They force Vincent to join their war and use the Rabbit for the war.

The card soldier is a reference of Alice in Wonderland. Charos soldiers blindly obey the command from the Commander (the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland). Funnily, Pino asks them if they are the card soldiers.

Vincent suddenly feels nauseous. This is a sign that a proxy is nearby. Vincent goes to the toilet. Pino notices a light on the bottom floor. It comes from Senex proxy. Senex starts to murder her own creation (the soldiers) in a gruesome way. The other soldiers think that this is Vincent or Pino’s doing. They put them into a jail cell next to the crazy woman’s cell. During this, Vincent remembers he kills Monad. Monad dies with tears in her eye.

Asura knight autoreivs breaks Charos army defense. They free all the prisoners without harming them. Charos artificial womb comes to it ends by bombs. The helicopter shoots a missile to Senex. She stands with no scratch. She brutally kills the last soldiers with her primary weapon, the tentacle-ribbon -blade-hair. She descends the helicopter and drops it on the crazy woman.

After long painful feeling, Vincent transforms into Ergo. Ergo fights and throws Senex to the wall. He breaks her primary weapon. Senex’s mask falls. Ergo kills her with UV light wave beaming from his eyes, the same way he used to kill Monad. Vincent faints after the battle. A blonde long haired man in sandal comes. He takes the joker card and smiles.

Ergo/Vincent uses Joker mask. The joker is the highest trump; make it one of the most important cards in the game. Ergo (One/Vincent) is the strongest proxy. The card also means wild card. Ergo/Vincent is the wild card of Proxy Project. His decision in the final episode determines how the story goes.

Details and Easter Eggs:

  • The light Pino sees before entering Charos is from Senex. Senex wakes from her long sleep because she hears the pulse of awakening.

  • Charos loses its dome. Yet, the people are not affected by the outside air. Probably they have vaccines or the nature gets better.

  • Charos soldiers main objective is to protect the artificial womb. They don’t value human lives as long as they can re-produce through the womb. The pseudo human produced there is merely to keep the war continuity.

  • There is no single child in Charos. The Commander does not rush the production or the making new human. It implies that human grows rapidly in Charos or their Wombsys produces adult human only.

  • The crazy woman is actually possessed by Senex. She utters poems describing the pulse of awakening and incoming original humans from space. She refers them as the Master (because all her work maintaining the dome is to serve them). Riding across the moonlight means original human comes in flying spaceship. The shadows mean the domes and the dark places mean the earth. He takes his time means they wait for sunlight and all proxies to die. She describes the pulse of awakening as throbbing sound. She considers it as music that brings the birth of a new world. A gift of death means all proxies will die and leave the world for the original human.

  • Ergo vs. Senex battle is an example of the pulse of awakening effect. They fight without any reason. They fight when they meet the others because proxy is designed that way.

  • The scattered cards sum the entire series.

ü  Jack of spades means change (the pulse of awakening signs new era is coming)

ü  King of spades means victory and triumph (proxy One’s version of victory or Vincent’s victory to cheat the pulse of awakening)

ü  Six of diamonds means anxiety and mental unrest (all proxies feel this)

ü Two of hearts means lovers and joining of two souls (Senex and Kazkis, Ergo/One and Monad, Vincent and Re-l)

ü Ten of spades means sadness mixed with tears and disappointment (Kazkis sadness over Senex death or One’s feeling when Ergo/Vincent leaves him)


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