EVERYTHING THAT WENT WRONG IN THE LAST EPISODE OF ALDNOAH.ZERO
1. Nobody knows about Lemrina, so they only see an Asseylum who was advocating the war now suddenly changing her mind and advocating peace, yet no one questions this abrupt change.
2. Counts/Vers still racist against Terrans (“lowborn Terran”), Asseylum has done nothing to fix this.
a. She also never changed Eddelrittuo’s racism against Earth even after being together for 2 years; hell, even Slaine did more since he got Eddelrittuo to actually sympathize with him.
3. Nina was able to recognize Asseylum as the “real” one through the power of a few weeks of friendship, even though in the beginning of the season she, Inko, and Rayet couldn’t tell the difference between Asseylum and Lemrina, and they never met Asseylum since then.
4. Lemrina is only truly happy when she’s with Slaine in their “home”, yet gets shuttled off somewhere and never appears again while the Moonbase blows up.
5. Slaine was originally planning on sacrificing himself and surrendering to the UFE, and even Marito notices that he’s self-destructing the Moonbase, but nobody ever mentions that again even though it’s proof he was still on Asseylum’s side.
a. Like, not once did they ever think “Hey this guy just evacuated the base and it looks like he’s self-destructing, maybe he’s surrendering.”
6. Inaho dueling with Slaine NOW. I’m glad they’re dueling again, but terrible timing since Slaine was on the verge of surrendering.
7. Mazuurek and Klancain being two different characters. There’s nothing Klancain did that Mazuurek couldn’t have done. Even if he is Cruhteo’s son, they never explored any route with Slaine and Klancain fighting over the Tharsis so it could have just been Mazuurek visiting Slaine, saving Asseylum, and getting engaged to her. Anything would have been better than introducing a character with only 3 episodes left and then having him marry Asseylum.
8. Inko, Rayet, Yuki, and Marito defeating Harklight and Barouhcruz even though their Kats are superior. We’ve seen no example of their prowess before this episode besides from assisting Inaho in his kills, so suddenly now they’re super competent enough to defeat 2 Martian Kataphrakts when they had trouble with even 1 and could only defeat them with Inaho’s help?
9. Harklight and Barouhcruz apparently dying when fighting the Deucalion? And then they never appear again. What a terrible resolution.
a. We also never learn how Harklight and Slaine met. I would have liked a flashback or something before he went and DIED.
10. Slaine loses against Inaho. I was expecting both of them to tie or lose to each other. But they had to shut down Slaine’s predictions to give Inaho the advantage even with his eye, and even though they both got smashed in, only Slaine lost? At least they both fell to Earth together.
11. INAHO DOESN’T GIVE SLAINE CPR ON THE BEACH, FREE! RAISED MY EXPECTATIONS TOO MUCH
12. Timeskip. Seriously? What the fuck? What a cop-out just to get a “peace” ending, holy shit.
13. Asseylum being Empress. We have never seen her being a competent leader, and I seriously still think she’s suffered brain damage after getting almost killed twice and being in a coma.
a. Also, this goes against everything Slaine fought for. He wanted to free Asseylum from her cage so she can live a normal life, yet she now has to be an Empress stuck in a political marriage still using Aldnoah. So there was no point to Slaine’s suffering and fighting, and he ends up in prison anyway.
b. Like seriously, what was the point of this entire show if this would have happened without the war anyway? Asseylum would have become Empress anyway, she probably would have started a peace trade between Earth to get resources anyway, so nothing at all changed from the status quo.
14. The UFE’s research on Aldnoah will probably allow them to have activation rights too, so Vers will have nothing to trade with when they figure this out. This peace is basically a temporary peace as long as Asseylum can give Aldnoah to people, but once UFE gets their hands on it, there’s nothing saying that they’ll keep the peace especially since Vers pretty much decimated Earth’s population.
a. I mean, Earth only accepted the trade because of the Aldnoah, otherwise they’d probably just tell Vers to fuck off for killing so many people.
15. Is that Lemrina at the end with the doctor? So nobody ever figured out who she was? She no longer has a home or Slaine? She got shafted so hard, she deserves better than that. Asseylum apparently totally forgot about her too.
16. SLAINE BEING BLAMED FOR ASSEYLUM’S ASSASSINATION AND BASICALLY THE WHOLE WAR. Asseylum basically used him as a scapegoat to bring about her peace ending that HE gave her the idea of.
a. Ironic since he is the one that killed Saazbaum because the latter tried to assassinate Asseylum. But nobody ever realized that. Even though Inaho and Mazuurek suspected something going on between Saazbaum and Slaine, they never explored that again.
i. Even more depressing since Saazbaum was Slaine’s adoptive father, and Slaine was very upset about killing him. If Slaine knew that Asseylum would just put the blame on him anyway, I think he’d do episode 15 a lot differently.
b. Like seriously, Asseylum, bitch move. Fucking worst friend ever, my joke post is no longer a joke post at this point.
c. I mean, why not blame everything on Saazbaum? He’s actually dead AND he was actually behind the assassination plot.
17. They also mention Dr. Troyard being such a good person which is why it’s surprising about Slaine. However, they never did anything with Dr. Troyard or his research. Talk about the biggest missed opportunity ever.
18. Also, Slaine was a 16-year-old slave under Cruhteo during the time of the assassination. Do people really believe he was the mastermind behind the assassination?
19. And Vers Counts are STILL occupying Earth territory. Way to go Asseylum, why are you still so useless?
20. Slaine imprisoned instead of allowing him to die with his comrades. He’s already lost Harklight and his crew, why make him suffer more?
21. Inaho basically suffers no brain damage from the eye, despite the doctor warning him several times and the pain he had been feeling up until now.
a. He just had it removed without any consequences. Seriously, why throw us all those deathflags if he’s just completely ok in the end?
22. No more Anal EngineTM.
23. Asseylum asking Inaho to save Slaine, despite Inaho literally bleeding out, unconsciously, and possibly dying from his ROBOT EYE ASSEYLUM, HE HAS A ROBOT EYE WHY ARE YOU NOT ASKING ABOUT THAT, and she doesn’t even do a thing to save Inaho himself and actually leaves him there in a battlefield.
24. “Please save him from the chains of misery.” THE ONES THAT YOU PUT HIM IN BY NOT LISTENING TO HIS EXPLANATION AND THEN BLAMING EVERYTHING ON HIM? Asseylum is such a shit character, I swear to god.
25. Making Inaho saving Slaine for Asseylum seem like a “good thing”, when he’s literally suffering every moment he’s inside the cell. I would rather he have died than suffer like this, holy shit.
a. Also, what kind of saving is this? Being blamed for the war and the assassination, as well as everything thinking he’s dead except for Inaho.
b. He has no friends left, just let him die in peace.
26. Inaho leaving Slaine while he’s crying. Seriously, no hug, not even an arm around the shoulder or something? So cruel ;_;
27. Eddelrittuo literally just last episode told Asseylum how Slaine always waited for her and never gave up.
a. This episode, Eddelrittuo never thinks of Slaine again.
b. Asseylum also agrees with Eddelrittuo about Slaine, but then ends up blaming the whole war and her assassination on him.
28. Asseylum forgets that Slaine kept her alive for 2 years and throws it back in his face with placing the blame on him.
29. Klancain is introduced in the 3rd/4th to last episode just so he can save Asseylum and marry her in the end. Like, does he not have any background? What about him and his father? He’s literally only introduced for the engagement. Again, nothing Mazuurek couldn’t have done.
30. Speaking of Mazuurek, so much for finding out Slaine’s objectives. They just threw that shit out the window like the rest of the plot.
31. Slaine never learns about Rayleigh scattering.
32. The ending theme is played without any further epilogue, just black screen and credits. I wish they had like snapshots of what other characters were doing.
33. Nobody ever sees Slaine’s scars or realized how much he suffered.
a. He never had a decent childhood, always moving around everywhere.
b. He crash lands on Mars.
d. He’s abused for 2 years without his “best friend” ever questioning why he’s changed so much.
e. Then his “best friend” gets assassinated.
f. When he tries to find out what happens to his “best friend”, he gets shot down by the guy he was just working with.
g. He’s tortured and left with scars all over his body.
h. He chooses Saazbaum over Inaho, the guy who although did try to assassinate Asseylum also had very good motives concerning the feudal system over the guy who shot him down and left him to torture, in a split-second decision and it ends with Asseylum getting shot.
i. He witnesses his “best friend” getting shot.
j. He realizes that his “best friend” is in a coma and may never wake up.
k. He kills his adoptive father for his “best friend” and deeply regrets it.
I. Considering that Asseylum later blames him for the assassination, this is just an extra helping of shit on top of the shittiness.
l. He has to lie to Lemrina in order to gain power to actually change something about the war.
m. We never actually see how his objectives were going to turn out as since Asseylum waking up and all the princess drama interrupted any moves he was going to make.
n. His “best friend” doesn’t listen to what he has to say and instead points a gun at him.
o. His “best friend” runs off and proclaims peace, ruining any plans he has so far.
p. He planned on sacrificing himself and surrendering for the sake of Asseylum’s peace.
q. Harklight, Barouhcruz, and his crew presumably all die.
r. He’s taken prisoner instead of killed like he wanted to be, all because his “best friend” has some noble notion about “saving him”, even though she ends up condemning him in the end.
s. He’s blamed for the assassination and the war despite being a slave when it started.
t. Everything he’s done so far amounted to nothing in the face of a PEACE PRINCESS.
34. Lemrina never finds out what happens to Slaine. I bet she’d be supremely pissed when she realizes that Asseylum is placing all the blame on Slaine.
a. And seriously, what are they going to do with her? She has Aldnoah rights too. She’s a princess of the royal family. Only Asseylum, Klancain, and Eddelrittuo know about her. What’s going to happen to her?
35. None of the other Counts receive any repercussions – only Slaine gets blamed.
36. The feudal system is still in place, so Asseylum has changed nothing. Counts are also still racist and also still holding territory.
a. Counts were also super powerful and badass in the beginning of the season, apparently they’re no problem now, we can deal.
b. No reformation, and no trade once Earth figures out how to get Aldnoah activation rights. A+ leadership, Asseylum.
37. Nobody ever dies on the UFE side.
a. Just that one classmate in the beginning of season 1 to show that this is SRS BSNS.
b. And then some random unimportant mooks just to show that the Counts are good, but not good enough to kill off any side characters like Yuki or Inko.
c. I mean seriously, Yuki had so many deathflags. Inko had a lot of deathflags. Inaho even said Yuki was giving HIM a deathflag. Yet NO ONE DIES.
38. Does Marito’s PTSD just get magically healed at some point?
a. I mean, he never treated it. Except for the goddamn ALCOHOL THE DOCTOR GAVE HIM, holy shit why.
b. Now he’s gonna get an alcohol addiction on top of the PTSD, awesome.
39. Rayet’s character arc is very unsatisfying.
a. She’s at her father’s grave, but does she ever accept that her father was pretty much in the wrong? Does she ever get along with Martians again even though she is one? They really dropped the ball on that.
40. They could have done so much more with Inko. She could have been so much more useful. She was really novice in the beginning of the show, I would have liked to see her take down a Martian Kat herself or something. But no, she’s just Inaho’s little helper all the time.
41. Almost every Count introduced in previous episodes died in the same or next episode. Why not have them live and have THEM be the ones to start changing their minds about peace instead of introducing completely new Counts just to have people follow Asseylum.
a. SERIOUSLY STOP INTRODUCING CHARACTERS SO LATE IN THE GAME
b. I mean, it’s really hard to take them seriously when they’re thinking about surrendering when we don’t know shit about them. For example, they could have used Orga, Rafia, and Zebrin, who supported each other and actually fought against the UFE before.
42. Even with the trades, Mars is still going to suffer since they can’t grow anything or keep livestock. Are they supposed to survive on trades forever? Doesn’t Saazbaum point out at one point that even with trading, circumstances on Mars are still going to be shit?
a. And once Aldnoah runs out or Earth figures out how to use it themselves, what is Mars gonna trade with? They’re fucked at that point. This is basically just a short-term fix for a very long-term problem.
b. I mean, I liked my solution about moving everyone back to Earth. It fit with the whole “no differences” theme, and it would have actually been a change from the status quo.
c. After all, Saazbaum said moving to Mars was a hopeless venture and Aldnoah ruined everything. The obvious long-term fix would be to move everyone back to Earth and give Aldnoah to everyone so they’re no longer different , right?
d. They got the Aldnoah part down, but now that they’re still on different planets, if Earth finally decides they don’t need Asseylum’s Aldnoah anymore, they can just fuck Mars over again. Again, terrible resolution.
43. I’m trying to keep shipping out of this because I really don’t ship Asseylum with anyone after how terrible of a character she’s been, but anyone who shipped Slaine/Asseylum or Inaho/Asseylum got fucked over hard. Asseylum ends up marrying Klancain politically. A guy the introduced for the last 3 episodes of the show. Hahaha wow, NTR at its finest.
a. So much for the “confession” in episode 22. Now he’s nothing but a “lovely memory”, congrats Inaho.
44. Also Inaho/Inko never goes anywhere. Slaine/Lemrina got some nice moments at the beginning, but now he’s in prison and she’s all alone on Earth or whatever.
45. SLAINE BEING IMPRISONED IS NOT “SAVING HIM” ASSEYLUM.
a. Seriously, he’s spending every day in a cell and never gets to look at the sky unless he’s being marched somewhere to meet Inaho.
b. He gets blamed for everything, so if he ever does get free or escapes, he’ll be everyone’s enemy. And that’s assuming he actually gets freed because HE WAS BLAMED FOR EVERYTHING.
c. He also has to live with Harklight and co.’s deaths without getting to join them. He sent everyone off so he could die alone, but they came back since they’re such bros. Then he went out to fight with them, and he ended up being the only one alive in the end.
d. I mean, I guess keep him alive, but unless you’re going to visit him every day Inaho and play Fifty Shades of Orange with him, he’s not being saved, he’s just suffering.
46. Did Asseylum ever learn how much her people were suffering? Like they had nothing to eat but krill? Or was she just like “Hey you guys, want resources? I’ll trade away the only thing we have over the Terrans so they can eventually find out how to use it themselves and we won’t have anything left to trade with.”
47. Did Klancain ever even have any relationship with his father? Apparently he never knew his dad was a racist who abused Terrans, and he never talks about his father again besides with Slaine and Asseylum once. Nothing about Tharsis either, I was expecting him to challenge Slaine or something for the right to use it. Does he even have a Kat of his own? Why does he exist?
48. They built up the whole uprising thing with the lower class and Slaine, yet nothing came of it. Counts still in power, lower class still lower class. The only mention was the lower class mooks coming back to help Slaine, but then they all died anyway so no more revolution. Slaine’s efforts were apparently completely pointless and in vain.
49. Inaho’s Odin comparison never reappears. Slaine, who is described as a “wolf”, is implied to be Fenrir. But nope, they never bring up Norse mythology again. Another dropped plot point.
50. Asseylum is able to wake up from a coma and then brings about peace while doing nothing. She hasn’t learned anything about war or about her own people’s suffering. She gets her way just because she wants it. There is no character development here.
a. Also apparently she can’t do anything without marrying Klancain for power, so she’s still literally useless.
51. No but seriously, the status quo didn’t change. Asseylum would have taken over as Empress after Rayvers died anyway, and she probably would have traded Aldnoah for resources if it meant peace. What’s the point of a war in the show if everything that happens after would have happened before too?
a. Vers feudal system hasn’t changed.
b. Vers racism hasn’t changed.
tl;dr - Basically there was no real resolution to a lot of character arcs and plot points they set up, they just dropped the ball on everything, brought in the magical peace princess, and suddenly Earth and Vers are buddy-buddy with all repercussions and blame pushed onto Slaine, whose efforts literally amounted to nothing.
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