For all the trouble and understanding that they preached before about understanding the Japanese TSF, the "sudden learning" part of it was a real mood-killer. Don't just make something "hard to understand", then dish out an "oh, I got it!" and leave it with that.

The ideology part of it was fun.. how the "Japanese way" was to adapt yourself so you can fit in with your environment, while the "American way" was to manipulate your environment such that it fits yourself. I don't have an opinion on how truthful such statements are, but I'm glad that they at least gave us an explanation after all the "they run on different philosophies" stuff from the past eps.