FGC:Episode 04 Scene 04

War Games

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Screenshots	Cut #	Description/Dialogue	Commentary
	118	A field of susuki set against a twilight sky. SE <<Running through grass>>	Reichu: Susuki is Japanese pampas grass, a trademark of the Hakone countryside. (It can also be found in various other places it probably shouldn't be.)
	119	Missing Number: Kensuke running through the susuki.	Reichu: That's an aerial shot, in case you can't tell.
	120	Kensuke shouting. He quickly thrusts his body into the foreground. Kensuke:“Dadadadadada!!”	Sharp-kun: Ah, youth... Soluzar: Youth be damned; Kensuke is as nutty as a fruitcake. How many kids play war all on their own? He's an unhinged loon, I tell you! He's also sort of impossible to dislike. I don't know why. Maybe because Kensuke is my kind of eccentric tech-nerd. ;) }}
	121a	Kensuke (almost completely silhouetted) bends backwards and collapses. Kensuke:“Uwaaa!!”	Reichu: The best part of the episode. I mean, come on. It's Kensuke playing with himself! Sharp-kun: That pun makes Sharp-kun cry. T_T Treize X: I LOVE this sequence. It's SO funny. Mr. Tines: Ah, sweet cliché, reminiscent of every tale of GIs slogging their way up past Monte Cassino (a common setting for war comics in my youth). Otaprince: This scene reminds me of the airgun game in FLCL, which is also played in a field, and of the scene in Honneamise. (Pic) OMF: Also, the sound effects for the grass is quite well done. Good foley work here.
	121b	He gets up. Kensuke:“Captain!!”
	121c	Then he rolls over, striking a pose with half his body raised. Kensuke:“Go. Aida, keep going!”
	121d	Then he gets up and assumes a grieving pose. Kensuke:“But I won't go without you!”
	121e	He rolls again and punches. Kensuke:“You fool!!”
	121f	Reaction to getting struck. Kensuke:“Ugh!” His ridiculous one-man show over, he plops onto the ground.
	123	Kensuke looks at the sky, agape. SE <<(OFF) Sound of distant pampas grass rustling>>	thewayneiac: Yep, Kensuke's a strange duck. Reichu: Lying in the grass and watching the evening sky is a rather appealing "down with nature'" sort of thing to do. I would do it more often if I weren't afraid of attracting a certain blood-sucking arachnid. (Lyme's isn't fun.) OMF: I've just realised, I haven't done this in years. Must arrange a sky staring session soon.
	122	Looking up at the sky from within the pampas grass.
	124	Kensuke gets up. Kensuke:“Upsy-daisy...” He stands, lifting his model gun. Kensuke notices something in our direction. Kensuke:“!!”	Reichu: Kensuke looks like a servant of the undead in the bottom shot. Mr. Tines: Last sunlight reflecting off lenses -- just like Gendo. Reichu: Although with the gun (which, in silhouette, we wouldn't know is just a model) slung at his side, Kensuke actually looks somewhat more ominous. Heresy, I know.
	125	Kensuke looks, straining his eyes. Kensuke:“...The new kid?”	Treize X: This is the only time we ever see Kensuke in his military fatigues.
	126	Kensuke in front; Shinji plods wearily along.	thewayneiac: Okay, I only allow one violation of the law of incredible coincidence per episode, and this is it.
	127	Kensuke greets him familiarly. Kensuke:“Ikari!?”
	128	Shinji looks.
	129A	Shinji looking, stunned.	Sharp-kun: Stunned by what? Meeting Kensuke, or the idea that someone actually recognises him? Hexon.arq: Stunned by the incredible coincidence thewayneiac called.
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