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Content rating: 7
Posted 2003-05-01 by StupendousMan
Endorsed by kurt on 2003-05-20 01:20:00
At last the threads begin to weave themselves together in this,
the third disc in the series. That wierd old guy hooked up to all
the life-support equipment -- Rosenkranz -- may not be the
Big Bad after all. We learn a bit about the history of his amanuensis,
Mason, who turns out to have a connection to Sylia. He's not the
only one: we are shown that several of the minor characters in
the story once worked for Dr. Stingray. And, in a moment of crisis,
we see a flashback (?) into Sylia's own memories which make me think
that there may be more to her, or, perhaps, LESS to her, than meets
the eye.
It's about time that the Big Picture began to unfold, too. Some of the
action was beginning to get a bit stale. I'm not sure how many more
times I can stand to see Leon and his partner screech to a halt
in front of a mad boomer and then ineffectually fire at it until
the Knight Sabers arrive to save the day. Once, just once, I'd like
to see some member of the AD police actually destroy a boomer.
At the very least, it would put some tension into these encounters:
we might wonder who gets to kill the next machine gone mad.
The final episode sprouts a completely new story line, too:
a budding romance between Nene and Mackay (or Mackie,
as it is inconsistently spelled in the subtitles). It's not clear
who, if either person, is pushing the relationship, but
I find it intriguing. I hope that the writers can do a good job
exploring the facets of a man-machine connection in a
fresh manner. They're off to a good start: I can't remember
the last time that the human member of such a couple was
the female.
One of the high points of this set of episodes comes when
a mysterious monster deep under Tokyo -- a giant creature
which grabs its prey in two serrated forelimbs and drags it
to a circular maw ringed with crushing plates -- is described
in passing as being the recreation of an early sea animal from
the Cambrian period. Ha! I thought that there
was something familiar about it. As soon as the word "Cambrian"
was mentioned, I realized what it was: an Anomalocaris!
You can see pictures and read about this ancient terror of the
sea at
the British Natural History Museum site or
the Smithsonian Anomalocaris page.
It gives me a warm feeling inside to find that anime writers and
illustrators think paleontology is cool :-)
Equipment used when writing this review:
JVC 27-inch TV, stereo speakers, Sony DVD player.
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