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Just musing, since I've been playing Priest!Leo a lot lately and am thinking about apping him to Mways, and this was a focus episode for him.
I might end up going back and doing a retrospective of every episode in the series, though.
Okay, the fairytale-ish picturebook visuals for the flashbacks are very nicely done, and I like that as events spiral more and more out of control, the visuals become progressively more realistic.
Where on earth is Leo and Sigma's mother? Their father is featured pretty prominently in this flashback, and seems to be a very harsh kind of guy, but their mother is nowhere to be seen. Is she dead? Are their parents divorced? Seriously, I want to know this, Garo writers. Sort it out.
Okay, Sigma clearly has gigantic women issues, since this flashback is heavily implying that he sacrifices/kills and conducts experiments exclusively on attractive women, and there's something - very unnervingly sexual about the way he's acting towards that corpse. Wow, Sigma, I actually thought you were pretty awesome before this, now you're just intensely creepy.
Which just makes me want to know what happened to their mother even more. I mean, Leo clearly doesn't have the same women issues.
No, seriously. Mrs. Fudou. I want to know more about her, writers.
The actor playing Mio is amazing and I want to see more of her in things. I'm not sure whether the character is meant to be mute or not - I mean, she never talks, but Leo's narration never makes any reference to her not being able to speak, and he talks about her telling him things (which totally could be done with sign language or writing). But either way, her actor is absolutely awesome.
Leo, stop flirting with your brother's girlfriend. You cad.
It bothers me that the Garo writers have essentially just fridged her. I - don't really see the point of that? To give Leo something to angst about? His brother is clearly insane, that's totally reason enough. Or have Sigma kill his father, that'd make plenty of sense. Iiiiii might have to do a fixit for this if I app him, because it really bothers me that the writers have just introduced her only to casually fridge her.
So, Sigma's demonic hand and weird organic mask appears to actually be the blood of Ganon's corpse. That came rushing out when he touched it. This - really makes me wonder if Ganon is the one running the show here. Yes, he's dead, but he's also an extremely powerful Horror. I would not dismiss an 'even a dead god can dream' plotline.
Link called, by the way. He wants his nemesis back.
Okay, so fandom seems to be having a minor civil war over whether to translate Leo's knight title as Flash Knight LORD or Lightning Knight RODO. I'd say it's pretty obvious it's meant to be RODO, since we've had GARO (Fanged Wolf) and ZERO (Cutting Wolf), so RODO (Wolf's Fury) fits the theme.
The fact that Sigma has butterfly familiars is - interesting, since this flashback established that Mio was associated with butterflies. Which just makes me wonder about his similarly mute, weird uncanny value butterfly girl sidekick, Gigi. Sigma made a reference earlier to using his victim's bodies as servants - could Gigi actually be Mio's corpse? They're not played by the same actor, but. It's possible. Which would just make Sigma even creepier.
It would also make a fixit even more important, because that idea doesn't sit at all well with me.
I love that Leo's magic ring has the personality of a cranky old woman.
Aaand Sigma appears to have some kind of vendetta against Kouga. Eh, fair enough.
I might end up going back and doing a retrospective of every episode in the series, though.
Okay, the fairytale-ish picturebook visuals for the flashbacks are very nicely done, and I like that as events spiral more and more out of control, the visuals become progressively more realistic.
Where on earth is Leo and Sigma's mother? Their father is featured pretty prominently in this flashback, and seems to be a very harsh kind of guy, but their mother is nowhere to be seen. Is she dead? Are their parents divorced? Seriously, I want to know this, Garo writers. Sort it out.
Okay, Sigma clearly has gigantic women issues, since this flashback is heavily implying that he sacrifices/kills and conducts experiments exclusively on attractive women, and there's something - very unnervingly sexual about the way he's acting towards that corpse. Wow, Sigma, I actually thought you were pretty awesome before this, now you're just intensely creepy.
Which just makes me want to know what happened to their mother even more. I mean, Leo clearly doesn't have the same women issues.
No, seriously. Mrs. Fudou. I want to know more about her, writers.
The actor playing Mio is amazing and I want to see more of her in things. I'm not sure whether the character is meant to be mute or not - I mean, she never talks, but Leo's narration never makes any reference to her not being able to speak, and he talks about her telling him things (which totally could be done with sign language or writing). But either way, her actor is absolutely awesome.
Leo, stop flirting with your brother's girlfriend. You cad.
It bothers me that the Garo writers have essentially just fridged her. I - don't really see the point of that? To give Leo something to angst about? His brother is clearly insane, that's totally reason enough. Or have Sigma kill his father, that'd make plenty of sense. Iiiiii might have to do a fixit for this if I app him, because it really bothers me that the writers have just introduced her only to casually fridge her.
So, Sigma's demonic hand and weird organic mask appears to actually be the blood of Ganon's corpse. That came rushing out when he touched it. This - really makes me wonder if Ganon is the one running the show here. Yes, he's dead, but he's also an extremely powerful Horror. I would not dismiss an 'even a dead god can dream' plotline.
Link called, by the way. He wants his nemesis back.
Okay, so fandom seems to be having a minor civil war over whether to translate Leo's knight title as Flash Knight LORD or Lightning Knight RODO. I'd say it's pretty obvious it's meant to be RODO, since we've had GARO (Fanged Wolf) and ZERO (Cutting Wolf), so RODO (Wolf's Fury) fits the theme.
The fact that Sigma has butterfly familiars is - interesting, since this flashback established that Mio was associated with butterflies. Which just makes me wonder about his similarly mute, weird uncanny value butterfly girl sidekick, Gigi. Sigma made a reference earlier to using his victim's bodies as servants - could Gigi actually be Mio's corpse? They're not played by the same actor, but. It's possible. Which would just make Sigma even creepier.
It would also make a fixit even more important, because that idea doesn't sit at all well with me.
I love that Leo's magic ring has the personality of a cranky old woman.
Aaand Sigma appears to have some kind of vendetta against Kouga. Eh, fair enough.
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Date: 2012-02-20 01:41 pm (UTC)