more on elfen lied
So I've kept on with Elfen Lied and watched another episode and let me just say, it's really awesome. Besides, the theme is really exquisite, it gives me the shivers, but a good kind. I don't know, it's Latin and kind of heavy, but it's nice.
Episode 2 seems to raise more questions than answers, although there's the revelation of Lucy's secret weapon: two meter long invisible hands that are inhumanly strong and kill instantly. We also see she's something not unlike a demon and is likely possessed, as we see from her interaction with the SAT guy and Korah. It starts at the beach and you see the SAT guys and immediately dislike Bantoh because he's a cocky asshole, for the lack of a better description. He is reckless and loud and arrogant and that pisses me off and I'm sure it's done on purpose, because he's the "bad guy" or something, although he's on the apparently "good side". Or something like that. When you see Lucy on the beach, it's immediately after you see Bantoh say "Bingo!", so it's obvious she's caught, but first there's also Korah that goes after her and finds her before his cousin does. There is also a third party presented, the normal cops/detectives, that are going from house to house inquiring about Lucy. Korah lies to them, thank God, and he finds her, then he gets beat up by the SAT guys and almost dies (his cousin calls an ambulance) - he's not even bleeding - and then the guys go and beat Lucy up a bit and then shoot her. After that, we see an abuse of the color red again, because the demon in her protected her from being shot, possessed her and opened a hole through one of the soldier's chest. Nice. And then a game of cat and mouse follows and Bantoh is the loser, but he doesn't get a fatality because she chooses to play with him first (obviously, he's a challenge, they don't want to lose him too soon) and then the good side takes over, although she does quite a damage. She tears one of his arms off and breaks the other and lets it stay on a really weird, unnatural angle, and puts her invisible fingers through his eyes and blind him. Again, abuse of the color red. I don't know, I sort of enjoy the killing scenes, despite their brutality, because they're so well done and seem realistic.
And then comes the comic part of it, when Korah finds Lucy at the steps of his borrowed house when he's released from the hospital and has to change her out of her wet clothes (of course it's raining!). It's second-handed embarrassment and I couldn't stop laughing at his reactions, specially when he closed his eyes to dress her and apologized like crazy. He's cute. And then his cousin enters and finds him taking her shorts of. Awkward. I bet I'm gonna be laughing a lot the next episode. And there's this cute, apparently homeless girl with an even cuter puppy that helps the SAT guy with stopping the bleeding on his arm and then he runs, but she may be somehow important. Besides, I'd like to take a moment to comment the cuteness of that dog. Gosh, he's just adorable, barking cutely and following her around with his ears billowing with the wind! Okay, that was weird.
Episode 2 seems to raise more questions than answers, although there's the revelation of Lucy's secret weapon: two meter long invisible hands that are inhumanly strong and kill instantly. We also see she's something not unlike a demon and is likely possessed, as we see from her interaction with the SAT guy and Korah. It starts at the beach and you see the SAT guys and immediately dislike Bantoh because he's a cocky asshole, for the lack of a better description. He is reckless and loud and arrogant and that pisses me off and I'm sure it's done on purpose, because he's the "bad guy" or something, although he's on the apparently "good side". Or something like that. When you see Lucy on the beach, it's immediately after you see Bantoh say "Bingo!", so it's obvious she's caught, but first there's also Korah that goes after her and finds her before his cousin does. There is also a third party presented, the normal cops/detectives, that are going from house to house inquiring about Lucy. Korah lies to them, thank God, and he finds her, then he gets beat up by the SAT guys and almost dies (his cousin calls an ambulance) - he's not even bleeding - and then the guys go and beat Lucy up a bit and then shoot her. After that, we see an abuse of the color red again, because the demon in her protected her from being shot, possessed her and opened a hole through one of the soldier's chest. Nice. And then a game of cat and mouse follows and Bantoh is the loser, but he doesn't get a fatality because she chooses to play with him first (obviously, he's a challenge, they don't want to lose him too soon) and then the good side takes over, although she does quite a damage. She tears one of his arms off and breaks the other and lets it stay on a really weird, unnatural angle, and puts her invisible fingers through his eyes and blind him. Again, abuse of the color red. I don't know, I sort of enjoy the killing scenes, despite their brutality, because they're so well done and seem realistic.
And then comes the comic part of it, when Korah finds Lucy at the steps of his borrowed house when he's released from the hospital and has to change her out of her wet clothes (of course it's raining!). It's second-handed embarrassment and I couldn't stop laughing at his reactions, specially when he closed his eyes to dress her and apologized like crazy. He's cute. And then his cousin enters and finds him taking her shorts of. Awkward. I bet I'm gonna be laughing a lot the next episode. And there's this cute, apparently homeless girl with an even cuter puppy that helps the SAT guy with stopping the bleeding on his arm and then he runs, but she may be somehow important. Besides, I'd like to take a moment to comment the cuteness of that dog. Gosh, he's just adorable, barking cutely and following her around with his ears billowing with the wind! Okay, that was weird.