#MuvLuv ep8: the team is coming together, while the world is falling apart. #anime 

I'm glad to see that Yuuya and Yui are getting along better, and
working together finally. It almost feels like a good old rational
relationship. Something that is pretty rare in the anime I watch now.
It appears that there's a crossroads coming in this show. Or maybe
this is the long build up to a finale. The test pilots are going to
be working together to help quell an invasion. And a new weapon is
being deployed. And I'm of the belief that possibly some of the test
pilots won't make it back alive. As stated, for Yuuya at least,
there's a lack of actual combat experience in the group.

The Soviets really suck in this show. I thought they were bad on the
test base. But it seems that ethnic differences are what rule the
roost on this base. Being Soviet means nothing there apparently.
Those jealous douchebag kids looked like they were ready to humiliate,
beat and rape anything fancy that they saw come on the base.

There's not much else to go on in this episode. We get a short
glimpse of the Thunder God in action on the front lines in this
episode. And I honestly don't know why they had to play up her
reappearance at the end of the episode. The only people surprised
were the test pilots. I'm just glad that for the most part everyone
kept their pants on and we're back in the business of mecha combat and
despair.