We continue to ride the trapar waves as Zigg & Aqua watch the classic 2005 mecha anime Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, and discuss their thoughts and feelings on it as it celebrates its 20th birthday. Keep an eye out for this podcast between main installments of The GLORIO Chat – every two weeks or so – as we work our way through the show.
This installment we cover Episode 25 “World’s End Garden” and Episode 26 “Morning Glory”
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Opening Music: “GEKKO-GO” – Eureka Seven Original Soundtrack vol.1
Closing Music: “Kibou no Sora” – Eureka Seven Original Soundtrack vol.1
Title font by Daeres
Show Notes
Intro: It’s all go around these parts
02:07 – Episode 25 – “World’s End Garden”
- This is Zigg’s secret favourite episode
- Introducing William Billiam Baxter
- Talking about this episode’s message about simple living and ‘back to nature’ philosophy
- Tom Bombadil mentioned
- Is this episode even something which really happened?
- Fatalism and the way William is presented to the audience
- William & Martha’s military past and how it’s different from Holland and Charles & Ray
- We all go full hippie for a moment
- Making the best of a bad hand
- Tying Martha’s sickness to this world’s sickness
- Pile bunkers are actually a metaphor for Capitalism
- Meeting William is the culmination of Renton’s journey of discovery and growth
- William & Martha as a contrasting force to Charles & Ray
- William is just weird enough to be relatable
- Some brief words on the Gekko plot and Holland solving his problems with violence (again)
40:57 – Episode 26 – “Morning Glory”
- This is very much a season finale level episode
- Eureka gets a chance to shine this episode
- Good to see Gidget taking her pledge of friendship seriously
- Holland has never let Eureka down (citation needed)
- Eureka has grown into someone more able to understand the Holland/Renton dynamic
- Holland immediately reverts to type once Renton is back
- Things are so serious Hap has opened an eye
- Charles knows Holland is a gullible idiot
- This is an incredible looking episode
- Ray definitely does not want to kill Eureka, honest
- Zigg has forgotten a major plot point
- Eureka gets dangerously close to getting flame-broiled
- Forget Willie Mays, this is The Catch
- Eighth Swell, bitch!
- The triumphant return of the one true Secret Base
- Aqua asks an extremely dangerous question
- Though this is a finale episode, there are still some threads left hanging, most notably Ray and Charles
- How are we going to save the world with love?
1:14:07- Final thoughts, respect to Ramba Ral, wrapup, and plugs
The Glorio Blog 
What I find most interesting about the Will Baxter episode is that, in most fiction, a character like Will with apparent delusion would normally deteriorate in the presence of Renton’s disturbance in his life, and yet here he remains completely in control of himself.
I do like what you said about how Will doesn’t have all the right answers, but gives Renton a new perspective to reflect on. Just masterful storytelling this arc.