Metallic Rouge - Episode 5 discussion

This is an anime original series, so no spoiler concerns for this show. Spoiler rules still apply if you are talking about other series.

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It's amazing the number of upvotes this show gets, despite the lack of gushingly positive reviews.
Did something interesting happen in this week's episode?
- Nothing special happened in particular really. I suspect that a lot of people might just like the visual. To be honest, I just chose a frame in which the characters were as confused as I was because I thought it was funny. This show's strength is definitely its visuals.
  I say that, but there are a lot of lurkers. I posted a while back about my experience posting a clip to this community. If you don't want to dive into the technical details, the short version is that I could see from the super basic analytics from cloudflare, that clips I post can get 700-1000 views while only getting ~10 upvotes. I haven't been keeping track of the analytics since that first post, but the community has grown a lot since back then, so who knows how many people are actually seeing the post.

Rouge pretty much sums up most of this episode with this line...
Like I mentioned last week, I am not going to try to make sense of this story. If you can understand what is going on in this story, more power to you, but I am confused as hell and, judging by both Rouge and Naomi this episode, I am not alone. My running thoughts:
I like the cool guy that helps Naomi out by infiltrating the circus through his elite spy technique of...asking to be let in...they don't teach you that one at spy school. Seems like a nice guy. Would be a shame to see Rouge kill him.
We get to see quite a bit of Rouge's family and past this week. Except...do we? Or is it all a fabricated dream to extract information from Rouge's brain? Only one freaky alien thing knows the answer and he isn't telling us, the viewer anything.
So, the alien species, called Usurpers in a previous episode, now have a more formal name of Junoids. I wonder if that name is going to be at all derived from the asteroid Juno. It is one of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt and was originally thought to be a planet. Maybe Junoids come from the asteroid belt?
So, if Rouge's dreams are to be believed, she and her brother are out on a mission to avenge the death of her father. But, everything about this show tells me that the reality is going to be 5 layers more complicated than that at least.
Rouge finally got some chocolate again this week! To celebrate, I had a chocolate bar as well. This one's for you, Rouge!
I hope we see more of this character in the future, I really like her character design. Plus, dual wielding daggers combined with fighting hair? That's dope. Do we still say dope?
- You pretty much summed up my exact thoughts on this show. It's really pretty to watch, and I'm having fun, but each episode I get more and more confused.
  
  With this show, I have settled into just unwrapping a chocolate bar, turning my story brain off, and just taking in the visuals and OST. It is very clear that the story was really the lowest priority when they were developing this show.

That certainly was an episode. That's all that I can really say about this tbh
- I have had a lot of fun these past two episodes trying to pick a screenshot for the post to capture how I felt watching it. When Rouge dropped this line near the end of the episode, I literally pointed at my screen and said, "That's it!"

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