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Now in Japan
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Written by maehara
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Saturday, 05 March 2005 08:09 |
 With Interlude's R1 release due in the next few
weeks, I figure it's time to finish it up and see if the DVD release
will be worth picking up. After the first episode, I was left
intrigued but confused about what was really going on - but sadly,
episode 2 doesn't leave me any more enlightened...
Episode 2
Our boy is still stuck in what he thinks is his 'dreamworld' - although for
a dream, the dangers it presents are frighteningly real. It's not just
the creatures that inhabit this world that are dangerous, either - the
few humans that he encounters seem to be equally keen for his blood,
except for the girl he's been dreaming about for a while now. She
introduces herself as Aya Watsuji, and turns out to be his one ally
here. She's also his best chance of finding out exactly what's
happened to him, if only she could remember what happened to change her
world to what it now is. It's not long before he realises that this
world is just a fabrication, set up as a sort of holding place for Aya,
so he resolves to find a way for her to leave - but how? There's also
the opportunity for him to find out more about the mysterious Pandora
Project, although it seems that just known its name is enough to have a
person marked for death...
If anything, I'm even more confused about what's going on now that I
was before - what was originally presented as a dreamworld now seems to
be very real and on the scale of a waking nightmare. Other than
the introduction of Aya and the story of how she came to be on her own,
there's nothing in the way of explanation here, which leaves you very
much with the feeling that the episode is just a string of event thrown
together for effect.
Towards the end of the episode, the Pandora Project raises its head
again, as does the girl with the 'creature of flame' - it's fairly
clear they're connected with what's going on, but it seems that the
'how' of the situation will need to wait for episode 3.
Still confused, and yet still intrigued, as the revelation that this is
apparently all happening in reality and not in the lead character's
head does make you wonder what the hell is going on. I like that
quality in a show, although it doesn mean that episode 3 will have a
lot of loose ends to tie up if the series as a whole is going to
work. Look for the review of that in the next few days...
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