The stars fell on Vladivostok
Oct. 15th, 2009 23:24![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starladyDarker Than BLACK - Ryuusei no Gemini 02
Flying squirrel to the face FTW! And, omg, I love Hei so much. I love Suou, too, though in a completely different and slightly less admiring way. For that matter, I love Misaki too (and I want her mountain bike). The Magician and the other contractors are pretty kick-ass, I must say--I can't decide which of them is the most badass, though it might be the golemist.
I find the use of language in this show pretty interesting, actually. When the golemist contractor (can't be arsed to look up his name) runs into Suou, he runs through Mandarin and then German before she starts talking in Japanese, and he explicitly says, "Oh, you speak Japanese!" Now, this is interesting because it's Vladivostok and all the signs are in Russian...but even the Russians speak Japanese. So it's kind of schizoid on the show's part, but it also shows a not-inconsequential gesturing towards some kind of authenticity.
So, it seems pretty clear that Yin is dead. Can't say I'm surprised, though I am sad, for her sake and for Hei's--I mean, what hasn't he lost? And now he's in hock to the CIA to boot? When they ran after the Tokyo Explosion, he had to have feared it would end up like this, but even the most pragmatic of people--even a half-contractor like Hei--have a hard time extinguishing hope.
I also wonder whether that field-thing has robbed him of his contractor powers: certainly the fact that his star, as observed by Misaki, vanished would seem to indicate that. Though when contractors actually die, their stars fall rather than just disappearing, so it seems like, once again, Hei is unique. (But if the field took Hei's powers, wouldn't it have taken the Magician's too? Or is he dead? I can't quite believe it will be that easy. Or is the field keyed to the Magician, to leave him unaffected?)
Flying squirrel to the face FTW! And, omg, I love Hei so much. I love Suou, too, though in a completely different and slightly less admiring way. For that matter, I love Misaki too (and I want her mountain bike). The Magician and the other contractors are pretty kick-ass, I must say--I can't decide which of them is the most badass, though it might be the golemist.
I find the use of language in this show pretty interesting, actually. When the golemist contractor (can't be arsed to look up his name) runs into Suou, he runs through Mandarin and then German before she starts talking in Japanese, and he explicitly says, "Oh, you speak Japanese!" Now, this is interesting because it's Vladivostok and all the signs are in Russian...but even the Russians speak Japanese. So it's kind of schizoid on the show's part, but it also shows a not-inconsequential gesturing towards some kind of authenticity.
So, it seems pretty clear that Yin is dead. Can't say I'm surprised, though I am sad, for her sake and for Hei's--I mean, what hasn't he lost? And now he's in hock to the CIA to boot? When they ran after the Tokyo Explosion, he had to have feared it would end up like this, but even the most pragmatic of people--even a half-contractor like Hei--have a hard time extinguishing hope.
I also wonder whether that field-thing has robbed him of his contractor powers: certainly the fact that his star, as observed by Misaki, vanished would seem to indicate that. Though when contractors actually die, their stars fall rather than just disappearing, so it seems like, once again, Hei is unique. (But if the field took Hei's powers, wouldn't it have taken the Magician's too? Or is he dead? I can't quite believe it will be that easy. Or is the field keyed to the Magician, to leave him unaffected?)
