Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2 Episode 14
宇宙戦艦ヤマト2 Ep. 14 (TV, Anime)

SPOILER Summary/Synopsis:

Susumu, Sanada, and Analyzer arrive with the requested artillery piece (cluster missile launcher) that Saito requested. However, it is going to take some time to assemble. Since Saito’s forces are being blown away, he decides to grab grenades and attack. Saito somehow manages to get onto several tanks, open their hatch, toss in a grenade, and destroy said tank. He even manages to commandeer a tank. However, his forces are decimated, leading Susumu to order Sado-sensei to get down to the planet in a rescue shuttle. Joining Sado is Yuki, who wants to make sure Susumu gives some flowers to Teresa on top of helping treat the wounded.

With the cluster missile launcher assembled and loaded, it is fired, where all of its missiles launch, then release anti-tank cluster piece which completely destroys General Zavival’s tank unit save for the general’s own tank. Saito decides to take care of this since he’s the only one left of his troop and after a brief hand-to-hand with Zavival, he manages to shoot the general. Saito then races to catch up with Susumu, Sanada, and Analyzer, who are heading to a cave where Teresa is while Sado-sensei and Yuki treat and evacuate the wounded.

On the Gatlantis, Emperor Zwordar receives a report from one of his generals that General Zavival had been abandoned by Desler on Teresart and after engaging Yamato’s ground forces, were mostly decimated. Elsewhere, Desler meets with Sabera and Gentitz and learning that the Emperor won’t speak to him directly, Desler turns to leave. Sabera forbids it, asking if Desler didn’t want to know why he’d been recalled. She continues, saying that Desler’s forces are not needed, which Desler finds odd. She also tells him that he was ordered back by the Emperor because of Teresa. At that point, Desler understands that the Emperor had nothing to do with the recall and that this is a political move by Sabera. He turns to leave again, but is arrested under Sabera’s authority. As such, Desler leaves his aide Talan in charge of the fleet.

On Yamato, Teresa sends another message to direct the ground team to her location. She asks if Daisuke will be there and he tells her he will before taking off for the planet’s surface. Meanwhile on the planet, Susumu, Sanada, Saito, and Analyzer make their way into the cave where they encounter some Comet Empire troops, guarding a giant door. They kill all of the enemy troops and open the door, where they find Teresa’s “residence” high up on the cave roof, appearing to hover over a large lake. Susumu has the flowers Yuki gave him as a gift when Teresa greets them. She uses her powers to cause the waters to part and provide a path to her giant home.

Thoughts/Review:

I just love seeing the stupidity of Saito in these episodes. He’s like a delusional psycho nut case, constantly going against Acting Captain Kodai when there’s nothing to be gained from doing that and constantly doing all kinds of things that seem to have no other purpose than to draw attention to himself, except he’s too dumb to even do that right. He reminds me of people who to this day still get all angry and outraged, ranting and raving over how the Star Wars prequels sucked. Rather than get over it and go one to stuff they like, they’d rather keep flailing and wailing around, hoping to hit a target here or there as they insanely rant on. That’s what Saito and his space cavaliers reminded me of in their battle, blindly attacking when there was no point to it other than to show their insanity. It is a shame too since I really hoped that maybe Saito and company would finally get a chance to shine. Instead, they got a chance to fester in their ignorant stupidity.

Susumu isn’t much better though. It is pretty stupid to not have an orbital bombardment of the enemy forces rather than waste time bringing down a fancy artillery piece, which then has to be assembled and loaded. Ugh. Every space cavalier should be dead, but naturally, they will all just be wounded, save for Saito, who’s got lots of dumb luck. Just so you know, the action sequences (some of which are repeated) makes it look as if all of the troops are being killed, so what magic keeps them alive is for you to make up (much like the 1st series magical ship repairs).

Teresa is another character I’m annoyed with for some reason. I think it is her constant, “This is Teresa from Teresart” messages.

Thus far, the series has been somewhat disappointing and not as well written.