The Mysterious Cities of Gold - S1E3 - Le Grand Oiseau D'Or

Mariko, the fisher girl

As the girls are trapped in the Condor Estaban does his signature move and calls forth the sun (I don't recall if they ever did that in season 2) and Zia is able to guide the plane to the kids can get away. On their way they head over the rice field (if they found it on the way to the castle or knew where it was I don't know, but I get they wanted to show Mendoza and the others they haven't abandoned them). Mendoza and his pals are digging around the airship while Ambrosius try to fix the ships engine while trying to get back his things that the lord confiscated as he was captured.

Flying the condor have the ethereal synthesiser sound from the original and now we get the kids harassing the lords forces so that Mendoza can spring all of them and run away in the forest. The kids have to leave them since they can't land and goes north I gather toward Mount Fuji and a shrine where the mirror shield is located. I assume it's one of the three sacred treasures of Japan. The kids fly against time since there is supposedly a ceremony that only happens once every year and it's next morning, but they arrive at nightfall and see the shrine is guarded. So they look for an alternate way in and find a fallen tree that they can bridge the river that surounds the shrine. And of course Estaban falls into the water as he's the last on it while being afraid of heights. And the episode ends on a cliff hanger.

At the same time Mendoza and Co runs through the forrest with the plan to join the portuguese ship, but as they are hunted by the lords forces Pedro gets an arrow in his arm. Ambrosius tells them to continue while he lures the troops away. I get that he believes he has the upper hand since he is trusted by the lord and Mendoza don't trust him so when he gives himself up to the hunters he says he have interesting information to give them, implying he will sell Mendozas plan to them so that he can fix his ship. Or at least I think that was going on.

And the documentary was a bit about the lord himself. Apparently he is a historical figure and it's pretty much something similar to Pizarro from the first season.

So far the series is definitely better than the second season. The music is on point. But it feels a bit formulaic in that each episode so far ends on a cliffhanger that within 5 seconds of the next episode is resolved. And then it feels like a subplot that have been present for the current episodes is that it was revealed that Zia also was a descendant of the people of Mu at the end of the second season so they reveal it to Tao that gets super happy about it, but he drones on and on about it. I don't know if I'm lucky that I can't understand it or if that is the reason why it nags on me.