Dr. Stone: Science Future Episode 7 Discussion

They both even look like brothers

I frickin cried when both of em stood besides each other..... none of em said a word yet it conveyed everything..........UGGHHHHH i wanna do good in science but physics is too hardddd

I like how this explains why Xeno knows Japanese to at least some extent, but that doesn’t explain how they knew the green light was the petrification ray, If that were the case Senku would have known as well, which in episode one he did not. It feels a little bit like a recon, but not quite, but I don’t hate it. It definitely makes for a more interesting story and I want to see how Xeno is going to react when he finds out it’s Senku and not Teiju. I also find it somewhat hard to believe that Senku never mentioned his friend, Teiju, helping him with his experiments? Weren’t they emailing for like 10 years? Xeno definitely should’ve at least questioned the name.

Pretty lame. This brand new back story feels like a clunky way to tie everything together but feels almost retcon-ny.

To be clear, idc that he knows xeno from before. The whole "comedic" effect of buying equipment on a NASA credit card, but having to fly to Houston to see his dad to get it just so they could set up that standing next to each other scene by the rocket was lame. That they knew beforehand how to undo the petrification (this feels like a retcon; I don't recall this being the case in season 1). And that senku maintaining consciousness for thousands of years wasn't just some sort of anomaly, almost anybody could do it if they knew to do it. Nevermind that the brain requires energy to function, and that obviously they didn't eat anything during those thousands of years (I honestly didn't think about this or care until this episode, because the series decided to bring it back up and make it an important part of their story/history, and now I'm annoyed by the lack of science behind it)

okay here's my question.... why does he have to be a bad guy?? i mean, it's a bunch of kids and his backstory doesn't really showcase him doing wrong things in modern society, he was researching the petrified swallows as much as any and was preparing for the worst which he was correct.

this is just me as an anime only but its setting up dr. xeno to work with senku instead of resisting each other. He doesn't have a lofty goal of destroying statues and petrifying those who oppose him (yet) but has a brutal view of gaining power by being the most knowledgeable. and we know that senku... doesn't give a crap, xeno can be president of America for all he cares, he just want to bring back civilization and modern science. imo Xeno and Snyder just became hostile only cause they were in a hostile environment with no descendants of ishigami and no revival juice. They survived with who they're with and what they know. Unless Xeno specifically states he's against senku's revival all humanity project and finding the source of the pretrification then i don't think he's that much of an antagonist.