Escaflowne Rewatch: Volume 5. Dilandau/Raving Psychosis is my OTP!

Episode 15 has:

-the dramatic mental sequence with pretty PRETTY and shippy and glowy finish
-Van suffering more and more mental trauma trying to control the Escaflowne
-ghosts
-Merle being useful again (yay!). I remember not caring for Merle when I first watched this show, but I'm appreciating her more with the rewatch.
-Hitomi again going out of her way to use her powers to save Van
-Alan being intensely noble and annoying chauvanist and vain at the same time (like every episode! I love Allen even though I would probably hate him IRL.)
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Episode 16 has:

-Folken being creepy. I thought that first time I watched, and I still think so.
-Dryden: "We're going on a adventure! You're all coming with me. Yep, everyone. Because I say so, and I am always right. Right? I thought so."
-Allen's dad is a dick. Of course, Allen's a dick too, so that makes sense. In fact, his dad's actions explain why Allen seems to treat women so dismissively. Women are either objects to be protected or objects to be covetted. Or women are the magical vagina through which a man can find salvation. Or the demon temptation that leads a noble man into sin.
-Isaac Newton!
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Episode 17 has:

- individual vision quests
- the slowly creeping truth about Dilandau's madness
- classic sci-fi ideas (ex: the will-to-matter machine that wipes out a civilization)
- how Gaia the world came to be
- Atlantis!
- racial memory
- Van admittng that fighting and warring is not as noble or great as he always believed. In fact, it sucks dead eggs.
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