Cybersix S1 E8

## Plot

I've taken a long hiatus from this series. There are many reasons for that, chief among them being that I simply couldn't find this episode. Also, an anime TMS YouTube channel started uploading the episodes officially. Very, very slowly. I think they're only up to episode 6 at this point, and they uploaded episode 1 five months ago. I guess no one has anything better to do during quarantine. Unfortunately, they're also uploading them out of order. They finally uploaded episode 13 on July 8th, 2022. The first episode was uploaded on February 24, 2020. Aw, that's my little brother's birthday! It's also on Amazon Prime, but I don't know how to work that. I think all of the episodes might have been freely available on YouTube at some point, but then they were taken down or made private or unlisted to try and entice people to watch the full series on Amazon Prime… which still isn't possible, because episodes 10 and 12 are currently unavailable for some reason. There's also RetroCrush, but you need an account, it has ads, and even though it's listed as an option on TMS's official website, something feels… icky about it. The ads just look like the ones I'd see on those piracy websites I used to visit. Plus, the ad just kept repeating endlessly. You probably have to pay for the premium version to actually watch the show. There are clips of it and other stuff on their YouTube channel at least. I think it was actually going to get a second thirteen episode season, but for whatever reason it didn't pan out. Outside of Canada, the show didn't get good ratings. They also never got around to releasing the full three minute version of the theme song "Deep in My Heart", or the end credits song, "As the Rain Falls on the Mountains", which are both amazing. Coral Egan provided the vocals to both songs for the English versions. The songs were composed by Robbi Finkel and the lyrics were written by Robert Olivier. I think TMS Entertainment owns the rights to both songs, and another company would need to license them to release them. Anyway, Cyber 6 and Data 7 are fighting Fixed Ideas when they're attacked by goblins. They tear up the roof of the building they're on. Their screams are destructive enough to rip apart… I think that's stone? It looks like stone. After all, why would anyone have a concrete roof? Cyber 6 can tell that Von Reichter is behind this. She and Data 7 run away. They're cornered, but the goblins and the Fixed Ideas leave when the sun starts rising. We see them a few seconds later though, and it looks like they can stay in the sunlight. They enter a subway and people see them. They're also seen by people on a subway train. Naturally, everyone is freaked out by what they saw. Von Reichter contacts José. The goblins were his idea to eliminate Cyber 6, and he doesn't want José to do anything. Julian hears about the goblins on the news, but he doesn't think they're real. He sneaks into the subway to check it out. He's almost run over by a train, and falls into a hidden room. It turns out that the goblins are sleeping on the ceiling, and he accidentally wakes them up. It looks like they're also guarding these… pink things? They're eggs, aren't they? When Julian tries to escape, they bury him under rubble. Data 7 hears his cries for help… somehow, and goes to check it out. He tries to dig him out, but the goblins wake up again and attack him. One of the eggs starts hatching. Julian tells Data 7 to take his hat to Cyber 6. She's at a restaurant with Lucas in her Adrian persona. She's extremely interested in a news story about the goblins, but Lucas doesn't believe it. She sees Data 7 on the roof of a building across the street and leaves, claiming that she has papers to grade. She gets to her apartment and sees that Data 7 has Julian's hat. They're attacked by the goblins again. Cyber 6 distracts them while Data 7 heads back to Julian. He digs him out, and they leave. More of the eggs have hatched. There were four goblins originally. Now there are seven. They leave again when the sun comes up. This time, Cyber 6 realizes that they're nocturnal and can't be out in the sun. Data 7 and Julian see them enter the tunnel as they're leaving. They meet up with Cyber 6, and Julian tells her about the goblin eggs. It only took them a day to hatch. They're in the subway maintenance room. Cyber 6 tells Data 7 to keep an eye on Julian to make sure he doesn't get into anymore trouble. Just before dawn, they'll load the goblins and the eggs onto a train. That night, they split up again, with Cyber 6 once again fighting the goblins while Data 7 gets the eggs. Cyber 6 leads the goblins to the train yard, and… I guess she knows how to operate a train car? When Data 7 gets to the maintenance room, he sees that the eggs have already been gathered… by Julian. The goblins show up and attack Data 7. Cyber 6 arrives with the train and fights the goblins. She tells Julian and Data 7 to load the eggs onto the train. She traps the goblins in a train car and drives it outside the tunnel and into sunlight. This makes the goblins turn into stone and die in blue fire or something, which makes them explode. I know the characters call them goblins, but they're clearly supposed to be gargoyles, and the only reason they're referred to otherwise is probably because the cartoon *Gargoyles* that was airing around the same time. I've seen a few episodes of it. The first two seasons are great, the characters are great, the writing and voice acting is great, the animation is great, etc. That's to be expected when Greg Weisman is involved, like in W.I.T.C.H. season 2. José and two Fixed Ideas see what happened and see Cyber 6 standing on top of the train car. They run away when she mentions Von Reichter. She, Data 7, and Julian watch the sunrise. Considering that the previous episode actually showed a police force though, why didn't they get help from the authorities this time, or even Yashimoto or Lucas, since he helped with the birds in the episode before that? Sure, the news reporter and the police chief were evil, but the chief got blown up.