天下制覇

Why is everybody in the GOSICKverse so damn dumb?

Impressions:

Probably the most amusing episode of this show yet. Not that I would call it good. Oh no no no no no, I would not. But bad in amusing ways mostly and much better paced than the last few. They did a decent job with Ned attacking them, even if the scene really made little sense. Of special note on the stupidly amusing side was Kazuya sucker punching Ned in the eye with spiked brass knuckles, and then after knocking him out, instead of tying Ned up, or getting rid of the axe, the entire group flees, with Kazuya throwing away his only weapon. He could have won some testicle points too, if not for somehow managing to actually tread dangerously close to negative IQ. The ‘twist’ that Ned wasn’t dead was just awful too. At least it only lasted about 15 seconds. I was shaking my head in disbelief at that entire setup. Really? Why not just have him holding a little cardboard sign that says "I am dead, please check this hand’s pulse." Even Milky Holmes could crack this one, but probably only because of their ravenous corpse-feeding habits.

Unfortunately, almost all of the second half was spent explaining what happened on the ship. Keep in mind that they were only on the ship for about 30 minutes of actual show time. And then they spent about 8 minutes explaining those 30 minutes. Sigh. Ned was hired by the Illuminati to kick off the paranoia in the original child/country/who-goes-to-war game and unsurprisingly, Julie was the mastermind behind the more recent rash of revenge murderings. Bones ran out of money around this point of the show and had to put up some photographs of the war to fill the time. Great work, Bones. Victorique’s character was also murdered in the end, reducing her to a sniveling little child that is helpless without Kazuya and now snuggles up to him like an annoyed cat.

Preview:

Kazuya arrested for suspected statutory rape.