SUPER DIMENSION CAVALRY SOUTHERN CROSS
EPISODE 19: CRISIS
ICONIC SCENE: Looks like he’s having a crisis, all right…
BROADCAST DATE: September 2, 1984
1. We start off seeing the hull of the mothership being repaired by Bioroids, which seems strange, since before, the motherships always repaired themselves pretty well. Maybe running low on bioenergy is affecting the ship as well…?
2. And Seifriet’s apparently gone missing. Ominous news for the Zor, since the last time we saw him, he was trying to fight off their mind control. Based on how Seifriet acts, the Zor will decide what to do with Jeanne and the others: if he reverts to the mind control, the Zor will use them as Bioroid pilots. If he fights off the mind control, they’ll execute them.
3. Meanwhile, Musica can’t get Bowie off her mind, and her sisters are worried. I can’t blame them, since, as we saw last episode, if one of a trio gets erratic, then the others must suffer as well.
4. Then we see Seifriet himself, looking the worse for wear, wandering around and having hallucinations of Glorie and Jeanne. Musica briefly rescues him and it’s clear that his memory has been messed with even more, but as she starts to get through to him, he’s shot from behind with a stun bolt, and is taken away to be executed, along with Jeanne and her team.
5. I love Jeanne’s response when the Zor come to execute them: “It’s unfashionable these days to execute compliant POWs.”
They don’t get taken very far, though, when Musica rescues them, as well. This episode, she’s quite the busiest that we’ve ever seen her.
6. Before executing Seifriet, they extract his memories, and Jeanne times the rescue to when all of his memories as a bio human have been taken out, so theoretically, he should be back to normal and free of the Zors’ mind control.
There’s another chase on a hovercar through the mothership’s corridors, and although it doesn’t get brought up again, it’s easy to see why the amusement park right from Episode 12 would trigger memories of the Zor.
7. They get to the control center, and then an alarm sounds: Emerson is attacking. The 15th is shocked that Emerson would attack the mothership when his son is still inside, but couldn’t he be trying to create a commotion that would allow them to escape…?
8. Musica tells Seifriet that he was used by the Zor as a spy, and he runs off and grabs his old Bioroid. Jeanne and the others escape (via Louis implausibly fixing up some scrapped Bioroid biovers) and escape while Seifriet stays behind to blow up the control center. For a moment, it looks like he sacrificed himself, but Andrzej has gone back and rescued him. Yay…?
9. The Zor citizens all managed to evacuate before the ship blew up, but we see Musica’s sisters, and we already KNOW that they’re in big trouble, because one of the trio is gone. Musica, with Bowie, doesn’t seem to care much.
10. The art and animation wasn’t quite as good as usual in this episode (except for one EXCELLENT scene in the hovercar), and there are a number of recycled scenes and still shots. But again, I like the look into the Zor society. A race of trios who act in concert with each other is, I think, a pretty original concept, and the show does its best to sell us on it.
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