Gaslighting Mom; The Witches from Mercury episode 16 impression
Dark and gritty atmosphere starts as soon as we watch the 16 episode of the Witch of Mercury second cour. It follows the continuation of the conversation between Belmeria and Lady Prospera in episode 14. She finally tells us that after successfully creating connection with Gundam Lfirth, Eri's child body can't withstand the harsh condition of space. Therefore, Prospera links her biometrik inside the Lfirth and turns her into a permet data. This is borderline crazy as she plans to achieve the level 8 permet score which may need up rewriting the world itself. Using the Quiet Zero, Prospera wants to engulf the world with the unlimited range of data storm. She is doing that crazy thing so Eri can move freely away from Aerial as she technically no longer has a physical body at the moment and can only moves on the limited space of data storm. Imagine if Prospera increases the range of data storm to unlimited...no normal human body can't withstand that and it may lead to catasthropy. Bel is shocked after knowing her real intention and immediately rejected Prospera's offer to finish Quiet Zero.
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| I don't know much about all those technical stuff, I just know one thing..she is evil...man |
Lady Prospera gets quite infamous in this episode after showing her ability to gaslight anyone that she encounter. Gaslighting itself is actually an toxic exploit in which a person just mentally push a lower esteemed person so that he/she got the feeling of guilt and inferiority. She manages to make Belmeria stressed with her knowledge about Bel's experimentation to enhanced children like Elan Ceres' body double; making her no less amoral than lady Prospera herself. Belmeria gets hit so hard from Prospera's gaslighting and falls down to her knees. It is because her joining Peil after the Vanadis incident in order to save her own skin and since then she must do what Peil's higher up commanded her..even if it means she has to sacrifice her enhanced children. Unlike Prospera however, she doesn't hold grudge and let go of the past while still believing to Cardo's ideal about Gundam for humanity's benefit (hence why she helped the Gund arm Inc develop the Prosthetic leg).
Another aspect that this episode focuses is on how the higher up of the acticassia can no longer hide the truth to the civilians about the attack of Plant Quetta by the Dawn of Fold. The fact that the Benerit Group lost the Jeturk's C.E.O (Vim Jeturk), the comatose of the Asticassia's president (Delling), and the abduction of the Grasley's leader (Sarius) makes many students left Asticassia; afraid that another war may break out in the school's ground. The effect of the terrorism not only makes the dispute escalated on the earth but to the school itself as the spacian "anti earthian movement" intensifies. Meanwhile, the board of directors, Peil four C.E.Os, Lauda, and the Grasley representative(Shaddiq) hold an emergency meeting to find the solution of the school which is now without any real leader on it. With no other option available. they plans to elect another presiden to replace Delling who is still unconscious at the medical bay. The scene moves to Miorine who has already finished with her interrogation. The Gund Arm Inc have been deemed not responsible to the attack of Plant Quetta and Lauda tells Miorine about the next president's election and how she should be happy as the "thropy and holder" element will be gone from the system for good. Miorine takes no interest to the election and checks her phone mailbox instead; seeing Suletta's personal messages to her.
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| Do you want me to pilot a mobile suit? I had 21 years experience of keeping vengeance you know |
The next scene shows how the spacian tries to drive away Gund arm Inc employers. The situation turns heated as both side had their own hot blooded person with them. Fortunately Miorine comes at the nick of time and manages to control the situation. Suletta who had been longing to meet her bride tries to talk with her again but she is too shy to talk..One reason might be because they were parted after the tomatoes incident and during that time Miorine called her a murderer. Luckily, Tyl Nis catches her gesture and raise her hand; giving her a chance to speak with the Bossgirl. Suletta wants to speak privately again with her and she asks Miorine to check the greenhouse together.
In Aerial hangar, Elan number five is trying to hijack the mobile suit by entering the cockpit and trying to start the initiation procedure. The machine reject the initiation code and suddenly an image of Erict Samaya comes down to him. He looks with own eyes 11 Erict look alike spirits above him and as Erict touches his forehead, a huge amount of data storm overwhelm him; making him writhe in pain and agony. Barely escape from the cockpit, Belmeria; who has just arrive at the same location, tells him that it's impossible for him to start the unit. As Elan asking her to help him initiating the mobile suit, Belmeria reject his request. Off course he threaten to tell the four Peil C.E.O for her disobedience and he lashed out to her for never caring about her "child" and only use them for her own survival. Belmeria who had just get pressed mentally by Prospera feels that the world has crumble behind her.
The climax of this episode happens when Miorine found out how Prospera has completely brainwashing Suletta. At the beginning of their meeting, she apologizes to Suletta right away for calling her a murderer as she did save her and Delling's life. However, she gets heartbroken when she ask her if Suletta would abandon her dream over Prospera's demand. Suletta tells Miorine that her mother knows best and gives her the same creppy smile; showing that Suletta's emotion is controlled by the word "move and gains two quotes". I am impressed that Miorine catches the abnormalities in Suletta's word and expression. As she is unable to continue reasoning with Suletta, she left Suletta and goes directly to the root of the problem. Full of Anger Miorine confronted Prospera directly and asks her to leave Suletta out of her clutches. Off course the Gaslighting Mom doesn't budge and instead, tells her everything about what Miorine's father had done to her family and colleagues. Miorine knows nothing about Vanadis accident and this revelation shocks her. Then, Prospera pushes her mentally for not knowing the amount of sin her father had done. As Miorine takes a step back, Prospera continues to gaslighting Miorine as she tells about her colleagues and husband; who kept whispering to extract revenge against the one responsible for their dead; Delling Rembran.
Another solid performance again by Prospera and Miorine in this episode. Prospera is capable to give amazing performance and her presence can be truly frightening. In order to create damages, she doesn't need to pilot a mobile suit. She can literally terrorize anyone with her knowledge of her opponent weaknesses. And this episode truly shines as she change 180 percent from the Elnora Samaya that we know from episode zero. A mother who has lost a husband and soon her only daughter (the aftermath or episode zero)..The experiences was very traumatic; enough to sent her spiralling down to hell and back again..as a demon, hungry for vengeance. Meanwhile, Miorine also makes a strong performance in today episode. Nothing is more saddening than finding out that your loved one is just an empty shell and she had to experience Suletta's change of behavior right in front of her eyes. She is angry for the selfishness of adult; playing with the life of their offspring..and to make it worse, she had grow fond of her. The sudden realization that Suletta's words is nothing more than a her mother's way to control her makes her totally angry and heartbroken. She is a stout, hard headed character, and I think she will not stand idle and watch; leaving it flow in front of her. In addition, there is also a scene about Guel making a comeback to the Asticassia with a more confident aura and by the time he says to Petra that he will take care of everything, I feel his status is more than just a main character. He gives a vibe of a bonafide shonen protagonist now xD. This episode is great.. not the best episode but has a very interesting build up in it. The only problem is we get another recap episode for the next week "sigh", which makes the next episode is kinda postponed for another two weeks T-T *sad*
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