Read or Die - TV - 25: It's Not A Big Problem

Title:	Read or Die - TV
Episode:	25: It's Not A Big Problem
Synopsis
The President of the US realizes Joker has decieved him, and threatens to take military action. "Feel free to come by land, sea, or air" an unpreturbed Joker casually replies. American planes and ships prove no match for the fantastic weapons Joker can summon from famous Sci-fi novels. In a London which seems to have gone back in time, the three sisters meet Yomiko, Drake and Nancy, and discuss what course of action they should take. Yomiko has noticed that pre-1890 landmarks have remained unchanged, unlike the rest of the city. She reasons that if they can find anyone who is clearly out of place in this time period, that person must be working for Joker and the British Library. With a week to go before the crucial announcement, they decide the best way to identify what's right and what's wrong would be by reading, since that was the primary means of mass communication in the 19th century. The girls read voraciously for five days, until Yomiko notices that a famous building has somehow been moved since their arrival. Though they are not affected, the passage of time has somehow been accelerated in this strange city--only Mr. Gentlemen could do something like this. Joker has a problem as well; because the durability of the books has suffered more than expected, "rebooting" will be impossible and his operation must succeed on the first try. He sees little cause for concern; "Who else on earth could carry out such a preposterous, great, and incredible plan?". Joker visits Nenene in her cell, and reveals that contrary to what she had expected, the books in fact contain only a small fraction of Gentlemen's wisdom. The remainder, he says, is diffused within the air itself--"That is to say his wisdom exists everywhere". In two days the network of antennas which have been constructed around the world will collect it and transmit it to London, where it will be implanted into Junior, "the new Gentlemen". Junior/Gentlemen will then make a momentous announcement--"That's all it takes to format the brains of people, so that they can share the same values and a future under the same ideas". Joker claims that all famous writers met Gentlemen during their lifetimes, and as a result were inspired by him to new heights of literary greatness. He would like Nenene to likewise meet Gentlemen, then write "a book of enlightenment to spread his greatness". Meanwhile, Yomiko and the sisters spot a subway station that shouldn't exist yet...
Comments
Ah, so it was supposed to be preposterous--I wasn't the only one thinking that was the case! Surely SPECTRE would be jealous that somebody else had come up with this plan for world domination! I wish I knew just how seriously I should be taking this show, as it nears it's conclusion. Still, I'm trembling with anticipation as I near the final episode: will it be brilliant, preposterous--or both? I found the tactic the group of heroines (and Drake) used to be pleasantly silly: What do you do when you desperately need to find out what's really going on in a strange place? You read, of course! The US Navy tends to take a serious beating in anime as a method of demonstrating just how powerful and dangerous enemy powers are--you see the same in Evangelion, Magic Users Club, and Blue Seed Return. Forbin This continues from what you learned in the last episode. The Gentlemen is ready to return. Joker's experiment of mind altering was a success. The next experiment is to change reality. In the OVA, Ikku learned how to change legends into reality but needed technology to keep reality changed (Goku's stick and water ability are part of this). So Joker uses the books to change London to a time when the Gentlemen was in power. (The British Empire). This then allows him to draw up the writers of the time (Arthur Conan Doyle, HG Wells, and others) to create a reality that never existed. But since most of the people of the time have read those books, they believe that it could've happened. This then creates a large field that can sustain itself. It also allows them to create the ultimate defense against the US, creatures that can defeat jets or use weapons that are beyond normal means. The final plan is to make London when the Empire was about to dissolve and the new Gentlemen can step in and force the rest of the world to obey. Basically, since everyone is so simple, their minds can be manipulated easily and they can believe almost anything, including the fact that Giant Dinosaurs and Aliens can be inside of London. (Lost World and War of the Worlds) Why didn't the girls (And Drake) get affected? Because they were not part of the original conversion. The computers running this did not account for them. So they watched the changes from an outside location. If Joker wasn't in the middle of processing the books he would've just wiped the memories of everyone in London. But because of the US attacking was a distraction and the process could not be restarted, he couldn't. So this one shot plan was Preposterous. It was doomed to failure if anything went wrong. It didn't have a backup.

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