GARO #05 — Sweaty Men and Whores

November 7th, 2014

  

Always a great combo.

The site may be a little flaky tonight/tomorrow. The last time they said they were doing some server upgrades, they said they'd do it at 1am on a Monday, but instead decided to do it 9am on the Sunday before, which, if you'll remember, nuked an entire morning's worth of screen capping. We'll see when tomorrow's 8pm update actually takes place. Supposedly ~20-30 minutes of downtime will accompany it.
Unrelated, but FSN and Ange will be delayed tomorrow until the afternoon. I've got personal stuff I need to do in the morning.

Impressions:

They could have pulled a parallel between the dead son and the dynamic duo's stuff, but they didn't really get past "They're a father and son, and we're a father and son too!" And… uh… that was kind of about it. Hardly even seemed to note that. It seemed more of an excuse to make the guy sweaty and uncomfortable. Hell, they could have even also tossed in stuff about the kid basically being his adopted son. It doesn't need to be some grand moral lesson, but there are lots of ways they could have taken the episode to actually have a little more substance to it.

Instead, our protagonists were pretty much just gormlessly wandering around, getting hit on by whores, having one's penis mocked, and listening to kind of pointless exposition. You see, there are knights. And… is that it? Even the reveal was just the kid blurting out "It's like he's possessed!" which is the key word for the thought process to kick in and for someone to go "Maybe he's possessed!" And then they summarily killed it without any difficulty at all. At least the monster didn't look like it was copy pasted from a masochism catalog though.

Next Episode:

Pied piper.

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  • Sanjuro says:

    What do you think of the CGI armour? Have you gotten used to it yet? I don’t think it’s that bad anymore, apart from the 5 second walk away shot every episode.