Recap: Voltes V: Legacy, Episode 62 – Savior Returns
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Mark goes to check up on Jamie who had gone to her room because she said she wasn’t feeling well. She takes Mark’s hand off of her arm and tells him she wants to rest. But a few seconds after closing her door, Mark sees her quickly leave to talk to her friend Annie.
Mark finds Steve and demands to know what he did to Jamie earlier. Steve says he didn’t do anything to her, but he may have a kasalanan to him instead. He admits that he told Jamie that he loves her. He apologizes, but it’s the truth. Mark shoves Big Bert aside and fights with Steve.
Big Bert gets back up and holds Mark back as he calls Steve a traitor for having pretended to help him while instead secretly diskarte-ing Jamie.
Steve says sorry, but Mark tells him to never show his face to him ever again.
Later, Jamie sees Mark has packed his things. She asks why he’s leaving and Mark says he doesn’t want to be a bother to her and Steve. He knew all along how she felt. Jamie wants to explain, but he understands you can’t force yourself on someone. He’s not mad at her, but he asks her to leave him alone.
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Just then, Zardoz joins his generals on the Skull Ship to watch Desler’s rampage first hand. The Volt Machines are still under maintenance, but Steve says they can take the risk.
Little Jon asks where Kuya Mark is and Jamie tells Dr. Hook he should speak to him himself. Steve wants to talk to Jamie about what’s happened, but she’s not in the mood. Before Big Bert can marites to Little Jon, Steve orders them to hop in their chairs.
Dr. Hook is able to reach Mark who says the others can handle the Beastfighter and doesn’t give a shit if he is kicked off the team.
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The VoltesIV struggle against Desler’s arrows. Little Jon says they have to Volt In, but Steve says that’s impossible without his Kuya Mark. Just then, Mark pops up beside them and they are happy to see him. Mark says to thank Dr. Hook since it was he who forced him back. Steve says regardless of how, it’s good to have him back.
They Volt In and immediately whip out the Laser Sword and prepare the Ultraelectromagnetic Ball. But Little Jon warns that the Ball is overcharged and their system is overloading. Desler jumps out of the way of the Ball and Zardoz and Co. laugh about Voltes V getting burned by the power they themselves summoned. Zardoz orders his people kill the Voltes V team once and for all.
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Desler shoots arrows straight at Voltes V’s chest and it luhods. Desler approaches it with his own sword. But of course the Mechanical Eagle comes flying in to save the day once again.
Episode Thoughts
I assumed the episode title referred to Mechanical Ex Machina… I mean Mechanical Papa… I mean Mechanical Eagle. But then Mark immediately came back so then I was like “Oh wow! They consider Mark a savior! Nice!” And than Mechanical Eagle showed up at the end and I thought, “I should’ve known better.” Lol
Anyway, it would’ve been more impactful for Mark to have been gone longer, even if into the next episode at least. Can’t have a prodigal son moment if he’s only gone for a few minutes.
But I also think part of the series’ bad pacing is their poor sense of time. We don’t get the sense of whether a few hours or a few days have passed between events.
Like at the start of the episode. Why immediately jump to the scene of Jamie being kawawa in her room? Why not have the scene of her telling Mark she doesn’t feel well first. Then jump to Zardoz and Co. before jumping back to then Mark ringing Jamie’s doorbell.
So it feels like things just happened a couple of minutes ago when it would seem that they want to make it look like a much longer length of time has passed. Very strange. But I suppose that’s also part of the problem with the hour-long episode-to-teleserye episode editing. I dunno.
It just would’ve been more exciting to see the team struggle more before Mark came back. But at the same time, it doesn’t matter since the main event is Mechanical Eagle showing up anyway. So I guess that’s all a moot point.
It also would’ve been fun to see Mark and Jamie experience more emotional damage too lolol But now they’re free to be together, so who cares anymore lol Back to Eva starting trouble I guess. Eek!
Voltes V: Legacy Episode 62 is supposed to be available on GMA Network’s official YouTube channel:
However, they’ve decided not to upload even split-part episodes so as to force people to watch live on TV or even the livestream since the ratings have been a bit lower than previous.
The episode is available to view via the Kapuso Stream livestream on YouTube:
Except for in the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the USA. But if you have a VPN, then that should be no problem. =)
Though GMA also sometimes deletes/privates the livestream later.
I’ve seen people talk about how people worldwide should subscribe to GMA Pinoy TV in order to watch the series. I’d recommend that if you are interested in watching lots of Filipino programming. But if you only want to watch Voltes V: Legacy, I don’t think it’d be a good investment. Especially since you can’t watch the series on demand anyway. GMA Pinoy TV is a linear, premium TV channel on most cable and satellite systems.