cosmic era retrospective phases 9 and ten and early overall analysis

 episodes 9 and 10 are the climax of the initial arc with Lacus and man Flay has these moments of desperation emotionally that make me want to reconsider her but at every opportunity she chooses the most violently racist option possible. Threatening to kill another teen on the other side to save your father is scummy as fuck. The thing i can sympathize with flay on is she has what i think is a worse version of an expectation that promises given will work out. The battle ends with Flay's father and the relief force at large being destroyed and Lacus being held as a hostage. episode ten deals with the aftermath of the battle with Flay blaming kira for not saving her father and Kira along with Sai and Miriallia helping Lacus escape from the archangel without permission after prodding during the battle from athrun. in the moment as a two parter 9/10

Sai Miriallia and Kuzzey are much more interesting on this watch than when i first watched as a teen, It's fascinating as the character who is drawn differently than the other in terms of eye design that Kuzzey is sceptical of if Kira actually was doing his best in the battle during episode 10. There's this battle for me watching seed in 2026 of the moment to moment depiction of bigotry being really strong and incisive battling with the lack of tangible accountability for the adult crew of the archangel plus my memory of the endgame of seed as a series ending in a both sides arguement. I'll reserve final judgement for the end but the framing of bloody valentine as a tragedy and not a crime against humanity plus the franchise's tendency to emphasize the cyclical nature of war gives me pause on how the bigotry is going to be treated in the final picture but it's also like both persona and the apollo justice trilogy going to be fascinating even if as i hope i'm wrong i think it will fail cause for it to do what i'd want it to you'd need to take the series out of it's time and place of creation so it's weird watching this in 2026

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