天下制覇

How did these two survive at all?

There's six shows today, and I have some rare work meetings this morning, so expect multiple breaks. Shy is the only one I have any true hope for anyway.

Impressions:

I'm still really not sure what to make of this. It does immediately begin with a bloody murder, so is not subtle about something sinister going on, but at the same time, most of their scheming is plainly ridiculous and relies on the targets being blind, deaf, numb, idiotic, and occasionally simply frozen for an extended period of time. The whole thing about trying to get the old dude to pick him up, for example. They were throwing things around and setting up an entire counterweight system while he patiently monologued to himself, and apparently kept his eyes covered the entire time, including leaving. How exactly did they extricate themselves from that? And what if he just went and got a ladder or box instead of this who convoluted piggy-back ordeal? Same with the post-credits adoption scheme.

 Confusing isn't the same as good though. The music is definitely pushing it into a more unsettling/criminal masterminds direction but it's all so silly and Mr. Magoo level of deception. The level of suspension of disbelief needed here just to swallow the premise is pretty staggering. The lady randomly screaming obscenities was a part of amusement at least. Except they were trying to show that she has a temper, and one profanity yelled about cooking ingredients is a lot of extrapolation. It wants you to just run with what it's doing, but it's hard to even figure out how serious and how silly it's meant to be.