Board Thread:Series Discussion/@comment-71.200.48.223-20150223062605/@comment-68.224.91.76-20150723011502

Slaine also sympathized with Sauzbaam on  a certain level; Like I said, the Princess was nowhere in sight; it was only Sauzbaam and Inaho. In that instant, his body and mind reacted before he had a chance to think things through; and he paid for it. Up to that point, he did all he could to help the princess. Are there a lot of things he could have done differently, perhaps. But hindsight is 20/20 and we as the audience will always know more than the characters in the story. In the second second season, we see that he is a lot more level headed in his decisions; including manipulating Sauzbaam. He used all the tools and personel at his disposal, and he did it magnificently. If he wasn't such a great manipulator, he wouldn't have been able to fool Sauzbaam or convince the other Orbital Knights to name him leader. There's a reason why Inaho says Slaine is a force to be reckoned with, and it's not just his Tharsis or his position. Those things are just tools;it's how he used them to get an advantage that's so frightening. If Inaho didn't have Inko with him during his first official fight with Slaine, Inaho would have died. If he also didn't have Mazuurek to help him, then Slaine would have won the entire war; no question. Sure the UFE could put up some resistance, but that's it. The Martian forces were overwhelming the Terran forces from the beginning,but using new tactics allowed them to stand a fighting chance. Now that Slaine had united the Counts, they are all but unstoppable; and although Inaho managed to defeat the three of them it was only through using team tactics. Inaho knows he can't defeat Slaine politically; he needs Asseylum to do that. As for a sequel, I heard somewhere that Aoki had some ideas for one, but nothing is set in stone. Slaine's return wouldn't necessarily undo the things in season 1 and 2, it just depends on the script and where they want the story to go.