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Written by maehara
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Friday, 19 September 2008 06:56 |
 Like a bad dream, BLASSREITER never seems to end - it just gets caught in a loop repeating the same horrible experience, over and over again. So here we are for the twenty-first installment of the story, and you'll forgive me if I can't get all that worked up about it...
Xargin and the Demoniacs attack the Zwölf headquarters, causing complete mayhem. Sasha confronts Xargin, telling him that she has been brought back to life for the purpose of purifying him, but he's on a mission of purification himself - one that will see worldwide destruction - and he's not about to listen to a ghost from his past. With Sasha unable to stop him, his mission of destruction continues. Meanwhile, Amanda and Hermann's search for Malek leads them to an orphange...
I usually try and write a review of reasonable length, even when I'm not enjoying a series, but BLASSREITER has passed that point now. This episode is another action-fest, with the Zwölf HQ falling to an essentially one-man assault by Xargin. Guess those nano-machines produce wicked strength. He's past the point of caring who opposes him - enemies or one-time lovers, they're all opposed to him now and dealt with accordingly. As to what he's up to... well, that's still essentially unstated. He's just a Bad Man™ doing Bad Things™ and Must Be Stopped - but I'm sorry, that doesn't give me a reason to feel that I have to keep watching. I just keep watching out of some misguided sense that I hae to finish what I've started.
BLASSREITER has introduced a lot of major characters over the series - most of them have died, other have replaced them, and the result is a mess of a cast that you really don't care about. Neither is there any sense of caring for any of them - they're just there to form a firefight around, and nothing more. That's nothing to build a series on, especially a 24-episode one. What little plot the series has has been flimsy in the extreme, and despite us being just a few episodes away from the end there's been very little explanation of what's been going on, or what it all means. So what's the point?
Bah. No point to this episode, no point to this series. Avoid.
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