If you think you seen these before, than you are problem right. Unless, you know, you haven’t visited the site in a week or two, in which case maybe you haven’t. The reasoning for their reappearance here is that the domain was shuffled across to a different destination over-night, I’d forgotten to take make a Wordpress export file after I’d posted them, and I can’t really be faffed with trying to recover two posts about Linebarrels and some moaning about the exchange rate. Hence, they are reposted here just to ensure I keep Linebarrels covered.

Speaking of Linebarrels and transfers, this leads into why I’ve not got around to doing the two most recent episode (though I have watched them). Aside from my usual procrastination, aided by the fact I knew the domain transfer would occur this week, that is. The video cable running to the display of my most recent laptop seems to have become internally frayed to the point that the display doesn’t work properly, forcing a drop-back to my previous laptop. This isn’t too bad in-and-of itself – my old laptop is still a pretty well specced machine – but I kinda seem to have lost all reference of my Paint Tool Sai license details, and I’m once again procrastinating about having to rebuy the thing. Suppose I could do it in Photoshop, but it’d probably turn out even more janky than usual ^^;
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This week on Linebarrels, things start off in what has become it’s usual pattern of being rather, well, moronic (including the token buy-the-DVD’s steam-laden shower scene), only for a not-so-shocking betrayal to completely ruin the atmosphere by forcing a jump into serious mode. Oh noes!

Oh, and Emi is apparently all Factor-y and able of pilot Linebarrel. That’s probably actually far more significant than the betrayal of a character that no-one liked, didn’t actually appear all that often and will probably be dying in a few episodes time.

More than one panel seemed like overkill for this weeks episode ^^;

I’ve mentioned previously that I’m no good at drawing robots, and since this episode predominantly featured robots doing stuff, I went off on a tangent instead. There’s nothing really, really significant of interest in this weeks episode anyway.

Alternate caption for the last panel – PIGS…. IN….. SPPPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

So, I guess Doumyoji isn’t necessarily a badguy after all, rather a member of the JSDF. We shall see, I guess.

Otherwise, yeah, it’s an episode of Linebarrels. Nothing much else to be said about it, really.

The funny thing is that the reaction from Rachel really was along those lines.

Anyway, in the wake of the whole Strike-Witches-Breaks-Newtype-Server thing from earlier in the week, it is a little difficult to see this episode as anything other than an attempt to get viewers to buy the DVD release for some de-misted nipple action. Otherwise, it’s a pretty pointless episode, it’s main other point merely being to portray Moritsugu as being a jerk – something which has already been battered into it at length.

The final reveal of the guy whose name I can’t remember standing in a flightsuit infront of an ARMA wasn’t exactly the most surprising thing in the world, either.

Having left this to do for a week made this rather more difficult to do, not least because I had little to no desire to sit through the whole episode again. I guess I should try and get episode 9 done in the next couple of days.

In any case, I think the real key points were just the introduction of a bunch of random badguys who’ll probably be criminally underused (bar maybe Jack Smith, because he cuts planes in half with a sword), Cowboy-guy creating some kind of magical spinny-dome which, unfortunately for Linebarrels, does little but evoke memories of the far, far superior RahXephon and Zegapain, and Emi and Miu randomly stripping at the end.

Honestly, at this point, I think I’m just watching to see how ludicrous the attempts at humour are going to be…

Now that any expectation of it being a good show has been thrown out of the window, Linebarrels has picked up a certain degree of entertainment value just for it’s randomness.

This weeks highlight has to be the fact that the series main villain not only walks straight into JUDA seemingly unchallenged – despite the fact that they know who he is – but he also does so with a briefcase full of spongecake, which is used (in a pretty deadpan fashion) in a discussion about characters motivation. It’s hilarious for all the wrong reasons.

Conversely, they seem to be writing Emi with a completely different personality every single week. I’m almost convinced that by the last episode she’ll have someone transitioned into a car-eyed-loli-meganekko-robot or something.

Also, Dojima looks so much like Yajima with dyed, messed-up hair that it’s hard for me to really see him as anything beyond a replacement Token Male Friend at this point.

Last week I complained about the knob jokes. The bright side about the sixth episode is that there weren’t any. Unfortunately, what they did stuff the episode full of was even more painful. I’m really not sure how much more of this I’m going to be able to take…

This week on Linebarrel – knob jokes, and our hero being marginally less of a jerk.