Bones, what the hell was this supposed to be? (warning: angry rant) First of all: what on Earth was Sugata trying to do? He got in Samekh just so that he could come out and then put Samekh back to sleep? Is there some subtlety that I’m missing here?
Then we have Keito. They basically tossed out her character and replaced her with a needy, obsessive teenage bitch. Seriously, she wanted Sugata to wake Samekh so that he could become the king of the world? I couldn’t make up crap this stupid if I tried. What happened to the Keito who pulled a knife on the obsessed Sugata, sucked out Takuto’s snake venom and does Karaoke in secret?
Then we have the Hiraboshi, which Head reveals is a silly game that even twelve year olds wouldn’t be fooled by. That part at least had it a long time coming. But then they all switch sides and decide they should never have tried to bring the Cybodies from Zero Time in the first place. But why were they even trying to in the first place again…? So it’s everyone against the Big Bad Guy (who, by the way, uses some mind control over cybodies which he pulled out of nowhere and gets broken out of nowhere).
As if this wasn’t insulting enough, we have Trans-Am Wako playing the damsel in distress, who resolves the love triangle by revealing that really, she loves them both.
Once Head is defeated, Sugata tries to seal Samekh again (why did he wake him up in the first place again?) but Takuto breaks Wako’s seal. This part was actually pretty decent.
Then Sugata and Takuto go to outer space, and Takuto defeats Samekh. I’ll just say that this ending belonged with Gundam 00 and not Star Driver.
Both the Cybodies are destroyed, and Sugata and Takuto are trapped in orbit. They cannot return to Earth since there is no space elevator. They follow in the footsteps of Sam the squid hunter, wandering the stars. Eventually they discover their true feelings and marry. Fifty years later, they find a way to return to Earth. They go to visit Wako, just in time for her funeral. She has remained alone all this time, waiting for them to return. The End.
I didn’t think that they’d have enough time left to do a solid ending, but I did think they could come up with something better than this. So many questions were left unresolved and there are gaping plot holes. Star Driver came down to a rather generic “unite to save the world” ending, and I thought that it had the potential to be so much more than this. So I’m disappointed, I’ll say, but this wasn’t enough to ruin the entire journey we took to get to the last episode.
First of all: what on Earth was Sugata trying to do? He got in Samekh just so that he could come out and then put Samekh back to sleep?
The maidens are born whenever one with the kings mark is born. He is trying to stop a repeat of the cycle by putting himself and the cybody in Zero Time permanently so that there won’t be another Samekh driver and that no one can access the Samekh cybody (which previously had existed in real time).
What happened to the Keito who pulled a knife on the obsessed Sugata, sucked out Takuto’s snake venom and does Karaoke in secret?
She is Head’s opposite. He was deluded in trying to recreate the past that no longer exists. She is trying to create a future that can’t exist. Her friendship with Wako and Sugata has pretty wilted and she is longing for a Sugata that doesns’t exist, the one who would uses Samekh to become the King of the World. She just never bothered asking Sugata his feelings on the matter.
OK, that makes a LOT more sense now about Sugata! Thanks for the explanation! I still don’t think the show did a very good job explaining that though…
As for Keito, I get that she’s longing for a Sugata who doesn’t exist that wants to be the King of the World, but what I don’t understand is why she wants that… I mean before it seemed like she wanted Sugata to love her, but where did him becoming the king come into it? And it didn’t seem like she was willing to compromise her dignity for Sugata before, but in this episode she suddenly transforms into a needy obsessive bitch?