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Written by maehara
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Monday, 02 June 2008 16:00 |
 Major happenings in this episode of BLASSREITER, but sadly nothing that I hadn't expected since about three episodes ago. Events are slowly moving forward in a way that might make some sense in a while, but we aren't there yet. Sadly.
Beware the downtrodden. After seeing Gerd's demise and later the suicide of his friend Johann, Malek's despair drives him beyond the bounds of reason & is enough to trigger his transformation into an Amalgam. Changing in full view of his bullies, he takes his revenge in violent fashion. When XAT agents arrive on the scene, Malek attacks them as well - even Joseph's attempts to calm him fail, leaving XAT with no option but to prepare for a full assault on the boy. Meanwhile, XAT's commander has a problem - he's been infected by Amalgam nano-machines, and the doctor he turns to for help may not have his best interests at heart..
Well, Malek's transformation isn't any surprise - it's been fairly well telegraphed for a while now. The question is was triggered it - if becoming an Amalgam is to do with nanomachines in the blood (as this episode reveals), then how did he some into contact with them? For that matter, how did Wolf, who seems to be on the way to turning himself? I have to say that it's the whole matter of becoming an amalgam that I follow the least in this series - the background to it has been flipping back and forth all series so that it seems the writers just can't make up their mind. That's something that really needs to be dealt with, soon.
That said, Malek did actually do something other that look miserable this episode. I've said before how his tormentors were just annoying, so I can't say that seeing them being graphically dealth with bothered me, while the confrontation does throw a fairly big spanner into the show's works, thanks to his connections to Amanda (and therefore to XAT). What will they do with him? Can he become a controlled Amalgam like Joseph, or will he self-destruct in the same was as Gerd? There's a storyline there that I may just be interested in following, which is something that BLASSREITER had completely failed to do before now.
None of that really changes my overall opinion of the show, though - it's shallow, poorly-written and with far too few story hooks in it to really give it any sort of hook. Sure, I spend 25 minutes watching it every week, but if it ever produces anything that makes me sit up and look surprised, I'll be.. well, surprised. I'm not holding my breath.
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