agreed, after this the remaining episodes feels so boring except the last episode because of Adam fucking Smasher really badass.

​@@GalihPratama-ky3ox true

I agree

This IS THE BEST ep

@@GalihPratama-ky3ox L take

They would have shown themselves to be even stronger if they listened to those around them and went light on the chrome. Because they both had a team that if David and Maine actually trusted them could have clearly made up for what those 2 could no longer do and clearly would have for them.

Maine didn't come out of cyberpsychosis, he already was a cyberpsycho. You can tell it by Maine's eyes and his words. He couldn't see anybody but himself and David.

they were both knee deep in their psychosis the moment the went over the edge, never came out of it.

Strong? They were both on immunosuppressants. David was straight up injected time and time again with military-grade fluid that you'd only use past the point of no return.

They never "came out" of their psychosis, they had moments of lucidity where they were aware of their degrading faculties. It reminds me a lot of a lucid spell in someone with dementia

Cyberpunks are only remembered for how they died, in Maine's case he choose to died with his humanity

If only V was there to incapacitate him and bring him to Regina, he would've had a speedy recovery lol

@@chrisa8863 then suddenly jump out of car from pressing the wrong button

* adopted son

i hate to be that guy but do you even know what "adopted" means

There were a few moments that David could have walked away to survive and love Lucy. This was the biggest one. He chose the route of destruction every time

@@hergie409 Lucy was distant from him ever since that day. There were being tracked by arasaka since then and it's hinted lucy knew of it and was trying to solo stop them.

@@no3ironman11100 yes, it was a bad episode for Lucy too. She could have chosen to run earlier but she made David convince her to keep going. They were both doomed by trying to save each other. Tragic love. It’s so heartbreakingly beautiful. Er i mean, I’m a manly manly and I just watched for the manly violence lol

@@hergie409 that scene where david stands up to adam and they're talking shit to eachother is such a typical thing for studio trigger and it was great that they played on that, when they do it usually it's to hype up how the protagonist is going to demolish the ennemy, in this case instead he gets shot in the stomach, almost goes cyberpsycho, sees rebecca be crushed and more as a more dramatic music plays.

He lost his mom in episode 1. Major survivor’s guilt from the start

Considering how some were cyberpyscho too lmao

@@Dr.HooWho were cyberpsycho cuz max tac can fix cyberpsychosis

You do see them,you can help them with a cyberpsycho in one quest but its quite hidden

@@Sheogorath- the jugjni clothes store quest? Just did that yesterday actually lmfao, the max tac squad leader is a brainwashed ex Cyberpsycho and she talks all about death how and enjoyable it is to kill and how she likes watching the life flicker from away from someone's body or some dhit, fucking sicko that one, crazy how maxtac would even allow that, imagine the PR if their operative went cyberpsycho again but this time with Maxtac gear and caused a fucking massacre or something 💀

if you kill a lot of people and cops, they send max-tac after you if im not wrong

This whole sequence is a work of genius I swear. From Maine going insane, to him being in an empty desert and the end of the road, to David, watching his mentor dying in slow motion, and lastly, him clutching Maines' hand while having a thousand-yard stare, still unable to compehand what happened. The music, the editing, the colors, the shot, the pace. Everything about it was perfect and in my humble opinion, a peak that 99.99999999% of media can never reach. We got Arcane and now this. What a time to be alive

Also Lucy's expression at 1:08, her eyes quivering with fear and helplessness as she listens to all manner of screams and explosions coming from above while the dial tone rings fruitlessly on. She was so afraid of being left alone again; the last one standing while all her companions die around her like what happened in the Arasaka hive (which, tragically, was her fate at the end of the series anyway). It explains why she was so adamant in keeping David away from trouble, so much so that she had to distance herself from him to deal with the prying eyes on him.

@@FrizFroz Remembering that Maine and Dorio's fault for being surrounded was Lucy's. She caused Tanaka to die and thus the Trauma Team to be notified. After that, I stopped empathizing with her. Because while she coldly did so, David tried to save them both.

my genuine reaction

@@PantherIsa While I understand that she was partly to blame for it, I don't think that wasn't 100% what she intended to do. I think her plan was to tell the team that Tanaka didn't have the sht they needed so they would bail before the trauma team arrives but unfortunately she was still out cold irl and the situation just got worse when Maine's cyberpsycho symptoms started to show. A bit hazy on all the details but I don't think she wasn't being ruthless/heartless just cause, she killed Tanaka to erase any trace of data they had on David to prevent him being hunted down. Which is just even more tragic to think about because her trying to save David inadvertently caused Maine's and to an extent Dorio's death, both in which she probably cared for too.

This episode made me think back to a lesson quote from an old cartoon; “sometimes the only way to push forward is to pull back.” He pushed his body too hard, and in return it pushed back harder. Do you think that if main listened and downgraded for a while, he would have avoided going cyberpsycho, for while longer at least?

@@samularsaber7943 probably, but Maine was living off as a Mercenary. You take dangerous gigs and most of the time you got up against people who don’t need guns to kill when they have blades, whips, and the tech to scramble your brain. Guns aren’t enough sometimes, I don’t know if he would’ve stopped or slowed down. Dreams in a place Night City are sometimes enough to keep on living through hell, take away a man’s dream is taking away a meaning, and reason for living. Especially in a place like NC.

@@itsjustme6018 damn, that’s just wonk. No one really have happy endings in this city, huh? If you don’t go far enough your screwed, and if you go too far your still screwed anyway.

@@samularsaber7943 there's a reason why most of the "good" endings in 2077 involve just leaving Night City entirely. Try to play by the City's rules and it'll win every time.

You can't wind down that's the life. You die like all the men you killed if your weak. Maine has killed too many to wind down, he has a target the moment he winds down he can't protect himself or dorio. That's the curse of the cyberpunk, the curse of those who run on the edge. Behind you are wolfs waiting for a moment of weakness, in front is a cliff. You either become food for the wolf or bones in a pit. The show never stated it directly but David and Maine knew. They knew the whole time......

because david had a mental breakdown either he wanted to save or not he’s just a kid and ofcourse he’ll go insane

​@@joshuagraham2843 The reason why he toggled sandevistan on there is really depressing. Maine is his best friend, teacher, big brother, and father. He knew he couldn't save Maine, so he decided to have a last long glimpse of him.

@@DarkDiDi and that glimpse was the most horrifying thing

This image broke me man, not gonna lie 😪...you feel the sheer dread and powerlessness that David feels right in this moment

@@DarkDiDi i feel like he doesnt turn it on willingly, it seems that whenever something traumatic happens to david his sandy activates and forces him to watch all his friends die

something I also noticed here is that it looks like Maine before any implants

Both of them reached the same future: a coffin

he saw david death from future

What I love about this scene (tho it isn’t in this video) is Maine’s reaction when David tells him he will save him, “we’re gonna get out of here Maine, you and me” as Max Tac is about to get them, Maine’s eyes in that moment speak so much. It’s a beautiful detail which I missed first time watching. Honestly this show is so good, I’ll probably rewatch it a third time lol

That's exactly it; I was wondering why Maine's eyes felt so haunting in that scene when the whole concept behind that scene is akin to more innocent scenes where a mentor does the same thing to a pupil. The fact that he's looking straight at David but is so mentally out-of-touch he's not properly sure he's there is just... haunting.

@@aerodynamo4874 it's also a way to say that he can't be saved, that anything what David tried would be in vain since he got lost in cyberpsychosis. In many series/anime some people die in a similar way but is so frustrating knowing that they could have made it out alive, but not Maine, he was already dead inside

Studio Trigger are gods of anime bro

@@joshthemartian7419 No doubt, i was already a fan. But i haven't seen them on this level before.

They've actually killed it with many titles. The best are Cyberpunk, Kill La Kill, Little Witch Academia, Darling of, and BNA. Their other projects are all solid 6 plus out of 10

@Abraham Johnathanthe writers of cyberpunk edgerunners are polish. They are from cdpr

I didn’t know they made all those animes too 😮 it’s so good made me cry :(

Every run has to end eventually, and these characters literally run on the edge. David knew when his time was coming up, that's why he was able to die triumphant by comparison since he accomplishes what he wanted to do.

This whole season is just David losing everyone as he tries to achieve his own goals. In the end he still had Lucy but at the cost of his own life. Brave kid, went 1 on 1 with Adam smasher but didn't stand a chance, he really is a legend.

@@horrorpleb249 that's why there is his drink in the Afterlife

@@LegendaryITA Yes I am aware, only way to get your name on a drink in the afterlife bar is if you go out like a legend. Fun little fact, there is a dialogue choice in game after completing the main story where you can get V's name on a drink. Since he died during the arasaka tower heist when dex killed him he passed the death requirement and then took down adam smasher which brought him to legend ranking.

​@@horrorpleb249 David never had any goals of his own

@@tokisugar He did, he wanted to be a legend in night city and follow his mothers dream to reach the top of the arasaka tower which was confirmed in the last episode when he and the gang were off to save lucy. Man was fighting cybersychosis.

The music is harrowing. It's so good. And the amount of DETAIL on Maine's face when he says Keep runnin' *GRABS* your attention.

It was his humanity calling out you notice especially in the last frame

reminds me of hiroshima anime

@@joshuagraham2843 what anime

@@joshuagraham2843 bruh

Been looking for it for 2 days thanks so much

You a hero man

LEGEND

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

hero moment. thank you

Enhancing the scene is an understatement. 0:44 I was making the same face as David with how godly it played out.

It worked perfectly for this scene, Masterpiece

That's Akira Yamaoka for you

What's the song going on in the background?

@@silentnight6810 Żurawie by Wydech (Ugory) - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hrmSf9B-1JzTdIk.html

What makes this scene powerful is that Maines death is what gave David the push he needed to become a full feldeged Merc hell David even surpassed him maine would be proud

Solid 9 for me

@@knockout924 W

Solid 12\10

@@PillowHeroReact W

they probably would’ve had to send in adam smasher to deal with it, considering he has the same tech

@@vagabond8460 Adam only works for Arasaka, in this case I think they will send the army

he’s like if barret had a twin brother

Me too. I cried so hard... That episode killed me more that the ending... Seeing the clip Let you Down and Maine there, make me sad asf...

PLLLLLLLT

I watched the episode yesterday night, I never expected anything than my main man died! 😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔

nice detail

At least David made him proud that he got RIZZ 😢😢😢😢

I definitely feared of Maine going to die, that says a lot out out of all the gangs, that's my man gonna die I feared the most, and I never expected anything to anyone like this, my freaking God, this episode is INSANITY! 😭😭😭😭😭

I already got spoiled so much But this scene still impacted me alot

feels like father and son, but son loses his father..

It is very deep. It's playing on heart strings of Psychosis, humanity and Death. Such an amazing scene.

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