Remember the TV brick, a sponge that looked like a brick, especially made for throwing at the TV when annoyed? I need one.
No, I didn’t break my TV. I didn’t break the DVD player either, though I thought about it. It would be cheaper to replace than the TV. For some reason I didn’t even think about breaking the DVD itself. Probably because it was Weiss that pissed me off so bad.
I tell ya. If I were an assassin, I’d go hunting the writers. I watched it to the end, finally, last night. And a more–conflicted?–ending, I can’t imagine. Though I’ve heard the end of Gluhen, the second series, is far worse. I don’t know if I have the courage to watch it, if that’s the case.
Okay, it wasn’t that bad an ending. Others would probably find it pretty satisfying. See below, but heed the warning.
SPOILER WARNING–don’t read if you’ll be watching the series. And you should!
Actually, most of the ending was really cool. Big temple falling into the ocean as our heros fight to the last breath for Aya’s sister. (No, at this point it is no longer to save the world. They already did that.) And the delightfully ambiguous “end” of Schwartz… But through 24 episodes, twelve hours of Weiss, I watched Aya doing absolutely anything he had to for his sister. Armed with a katana and a death wish (I just love that line) he went after the most powerful family in Japan to avenge her, he joined Weiss and killed whoever he was told to, to pay her hospital bills. So in the end, after Aya-chan (the sister!) spent TWO YEARS in a coma, does Aya finally get to see his little sister open her eyes? No. He’s not there. And as far as the [()*)*&*(^%*%$%^] writers show, he never DOES get to give her a hug! It looks like (please note, they don’t tell much of anything for sure, they had to leave stuff open–more ‘dead’ people came back to life in this show than in any soap opera you’d care to name) Aya let his sister believe he was dead!
Grrr. Snarl. Snap. Bite.
Where’s the next disc?