Nice video! Chapter 8 is really deep and has a lot of content. It has been more than 2 years after Chapter 8 was released, but I found there are still a lot of things to explore in this chapter. I will just note down some points which might be helpful to revisit in the future. 1. The conversation between Alina and Talulah when they were sitting together in the house. I would say this is the most important conversation in Arknights. Alina actually summarize the ideology for those who want to fight against the suffering and darkness. "The things you can see and touch are reliable", "You need to fight with the invisible enemy.", "This war is the war against self. It will never end", "The ideology cannot be killed"... There are lots of inspiring sentences and she actually give us a standard to evaluate the characters in the future. She is the one who directly fight against the Black Snake in the story, as she realize the Black Snake is actually an ideology and she teaches Talulah how to fight against it. 2. The conversation between Kal'tsit and Doctor. This is a very long conversation, I think it took me more than half an hour to finish, and I only understand it 2 years later. She literally told us all the important themes in Arknights. Every time when I think I have gotten some new ideas in the events later, I will find it again in Kalt'sit's words. Her words were hard to understand, because she directly told us the conclusion, assuming we already have the necessary knowledge to understand it. It is ok if we didn't understand it when we read it, because after Chapter 8 Arknights will spend several years to elaborate her words. It will be good for us to revisit this conversation after Chapter 11. 3. The Black Snake's ideology. I only understand it more after Chapter 10. It is strong and powerful because it tells some parts of the truth in Ursus. To fight against it we need society restructure, which is beyond my knowledge. His ideology is closely related to all the suffering and darkness in Arknights. We need to revisit it to further understand it in the future. 4. The different types of idealist. Based on my understand, Arknights can be summarize as the story of idealists. This might not be the correct definition of idealist, but I will define idealist as the people who want to fight against the suffering and darkness in reality. Of course, characters, such as Talulah, Kalt'sit, Amiya and Chen, are idealists based on this definition. Talulah failed and became part of the darkness she wanted to fight against. Kalt'sit as an idealist was extremely realistic. These characters give us hints to understand the idealists. We can take note of this and revisit the types of idealists in the future. Sorry for the long comments in English. I really think Chapter 8 is a masterpiece and it gives us most of the themes Arknights want to express. It is the start of journey for us to explore Terra, but I believe in the end we might realize, we will still come back to this chapter to hear the talking from Alina and Kalt'sit.
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I am very happy to hear your comments! I think the character of Alina is very important to the enjoyment of the eight chapters, so I am glad to hear that you share my opinion!