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Boo @ Faldio turning into a bastard.

The new opening is nice, but wtf is up with Alicia's new power? XD I don't get that at all since I haven't played the game. And I liked the AliciaxFaldio moment, but I blame Faldio for getting the Darcsens killed.

Come on, I guessed that Alicia was probably a Valkyria since the episode they introduced Selvaria and her powers (without palying the game) At that time, I thought: "So Alicia is probably going end up as a Valkyria" since why else would the series' name be VALKYRIA chronicles. The chances of Selvaria turning into protagonist is close to zero. And when Alicia mentioned that she was an orphan and when the Ruin reacted when when she touched the door made my suspicions stronger.....So I wasn't surprised by the OP.

I guess that everyone here must feel the same way (that Alicia's Valkyria origin wasn't a big shock) In my opinion, it's a pretty cliche development.

right on.

Haha. It's not about the obviousness of the reveal. The problem with the OP is that it's revealing information not yet relevant to the viewer's understanding of the character or plot. Hence, by definition, it spoils those later developments.

It's easy to see this by looking at the difference between the OP's reveal and a flash-forward. Flash-forwards are often used to create suspense -- how is a character going to get to a future point. However, because we're dealing with a "secret" origin here before it's relevant to a viewer's understanding of the plot, the function is exactly the opposite, eliminating suspense if you already suspected her origin and ruining a future surprise if you hadn't. In either case, this is undeniably lame shit!

Nice episode, but unfortunately it happened to me as well:

I GOT SPOILED.....Call the medic! ;]

supreme episode. glad to see the old man go.

It was unexpectedly a good episode.

Good episode and epic opening.
Even without the op spoiling I tough it wasn't hard to guess since at the start it say that Valkyria defeated a greedy man who took everything for himself, right off the start I though they were refering at Alicia defeating Maximilius but it look I was wrong, at least I knew she had a link to Valkyria if she wasn't her herself.

Haven't played the game but it sure make me want to try it.

Nice episode. Love the action. Great new OP and ED. They sound much nicer but the visual spoiled the story and reduce suspense. Some scenes to remember by -

Tense scene: timing in bombing the railroad/train track.
Sweet scene: Faldio and Alicia moment
Sad scene/decision: Faldio took the upper command. End result - sacrificed the Darcsen citizens

The hell was this about?

The battle tactics were utter crap! That bridge is so damn vulnerable at the basement, why do they put the explosives on the rails at the top? What do they want with an artillery train at close combat?? (The train cannon can not be fired at that angle without derailing it completely.) And so on.. damn, someone please shoot the story writer or at least give him basic combat and physics training.

And Welkin was a wuss all episode long. This was so not Squard 7 like at all. How they won with this kind of crappy tactics is beyond me, but I guess it has to do with the fact that the Imperials were complete nuts too.

Please stop the BS in the next episodes, it's kind of painful to watch.

This was a good episode, although I have grown accustomed to the non-combat episodes. Rosie's charge seemed rather anticlimactic, but at least Alicia looked extra cute for a few seconds there.

so much for gregor and his weapons; but faldio shouldn't have given the order to attack in my opinion, but i guess what else could they do?

Didn't really like this episode, seemed cliche for some reason I really disliked the part where he said "as expected of squad 7" ><, but everything this episode was pretty predictable =/

spoiler op ftl

what a fail, how could they do that with this opening? XD i kinda suspect that (strongly, well somebody besides of Selvaria HAD to be Valkyria) but i couldnt be sure of course, and now they ruined whole fun T_T
come to think of it that op has even two spoilers, lmao, rotfl, lol (but being serious its not really funny)

Well i guess that OP answers my question back in episode 9 about Alicia.

This episode was Ok i guess, killing all those people was a nice choice since they have to show the bad things of war a little.
As about Welkin? Well this time he really wasn't all smart ass i guess. No clever ideas when things are this shitty. Faldio looks to be more mature about the difficult decisions of war.

new op :O woow so alicia is a valkyrie.

Excellent episode, a lot happened. It was sad to see all those Darcens get killed though. Now Rosie sees that she was wrong all this time.

Liked the new opening, but it seemed to have some big spoilers in it. New ending was cool too!

wow a really exciting ep. but also a bit sad.its war after all...