Board Thread:Series Discussion/@comment-71.200.48.223-20150223062605/@comment-68.224.91.76-20150718044956

72.171.16.181 wrote: thanks but saazalbum told him his involvement and gave him the option to take the thrasis and leave but slaine lacked the will to act. and when he finally acted he made a dumb choice. And as I said if you don't know who to trust then "keep your cards down." And slaine could have joined the earth forces by claiming to be a defector and offer information. In war defectors were treated well(not great) especially if they offer valuable intel. I mean the thrasis itself was a bargaining chip he could have used for getting into the earth forces.

Also did anyone else find it suspicious that inaho who was shot in the eye recovered way faster than the princess who received a shoulder wound and a graze on the head? I think that her extended coma was caused by saazalbum. I mean saazalbum is driven by revenge towards the royal family. To your first part, Of course you must keep your cards down, but for how long? Wait too long, and your opportunity will slip by. He probably should have waited, but there is also the chance that things would progress much worse if he didn't act quickly. As for joining the earth forces, sure he could try to use the Tharsis but he didn't know he had aldnoah rights. Who said that trusting the UFE would be a wise decision in the first place, because for all Slaine knew, they were exploiting the princess and didn't care whether her safety was relevant. If he tried to use the Tharsis as a trade, who's to say the UFE won't shoot him in the back and take the Tharsis for themselves? I wouldn't put it past them to do  something like that. So Slaine went with the enemy he knew over the enemy he didn't know. Either way, it's a huge gamble, but the gamble with Sauzbaam paid off: Sauzbaam gets to continue his war and gains an asset in Slaine, while Asseylum gets medical treatment and placed away from the battlefield. All in all, I think he did the best he could considering he's a 16 year old boy.

As to your second point, I'll have to rewatch that scene, but I think the Princess was shot in the back, as well as the head. Something like that might take longer to recuperate from, but I'm no doctor.