I’ve decided to take blogging a little less seriously. Not “less seriously” in the sense that this whole thing is a big joke. What I mean is, there are lots of other great blogs where you could easily find an awesome summary of the latest episode of whatever (I flatter myself by assuming anyone but me reads this) and because of my terrible internet connection and general lack of time lately, my big summaries come out really late, so what’s the point? Instead, I’ll try to offer some commentary and work through some issues. And I’ll do a lot of stating the obvious, because I’m just that slow.

…Starting with DtB03. Come along, won’t you?

This episode had another little girl in trouble. Sensing a theme here, anyone? She was, however, considerably less annoying than the hooker/doll and she lights shit on fire with her mind. She’s kind of angsty and has a lot of Daddy issues, but I’ll forgive that. She’ll probably die in episode four, but until then…we’re buddies.

The scene with the cat was amazing and I lol’d, you know it. I thought the “Chinese people eat cats” stereotype was an American thing, but it apparently crosses cultural borders. That’s nice, one big happy world. Unless you’re a cat. Or Chinese. Li-san didn’t seem upset about it. Not as upset as the cat, at least.

Anyway, the big conflict in this episode was the little girl and her Papa. Papa went into the Gate (dun dun dunnn) and came out a little crazy. He gave his daughter a little blue glowy pebble thing and implanted it in her arm. I assumed the bandage was covering up a suicide attempt (angsty, remember?), but I was wrong. She’s just embarrassed. Kids can be so cruel.

So her blue pebbly thing is starting to “wake up,” which coincides with the glowy flower Papa is tending to. It looks like the health of the flower represents her “awakening” - thus when the flower dies, she’s “awake” in her powers. Papa gets lax about water, and his sweet little girl goes crazy. To be continued…!

I learned something really valuable after watching this episode. Everyone else had figured it out already (lowest common denominator, right here), but the Contractors have to do weird things to keep their powers. Like the guy who exploded the plates and then ate the flower? Yup, eating flowers is his trade for the powers. Why? Who knows. Same with Jean and his stupid rock patterns. And same with Li-san and his eating and the new guy and his page-folding (I hope his powers included anti-paper-cut-abilities). I think Li-san got the best deal out of those four, personally.

This episode was a little short on action, but pretty high on Sexy Time With Li-san, so who cares? Towards the end he started to kick some ass - without the benefit of his bulletproof coat or doom string - and in the previews he whips out the white mask, so we’ll definitely get an action-packed part 2. Plus fire. I’m hot already.

Problems with this episode:

1. The scene with the two friends in McDoness (mmhmm). It was so forced and so contrived and so obviously an attempt to put some backstory into the episode. I was literally offended that I had to watch it and I’m shamed for the people responsible for it. The friends basically said, “hey, we’ve been friends a long time, but refresh my memory…your Mom’s dead? And your Dad works a lot? And you spend most of your time alone? And it makes you sad?” It made me want to take the script and write on it in huge red letters: NO. NO NO NO.

2. The pool scene. Seriously. How is anybody going to respect Porsche-san now that we’ve seen her in a swim suit? Why do they have to short-change her like that? Can’t a woman be strong and in charge and driving a hot car without being turned into a sex symbol?

Oh…I guess not. Nevermind.

Next time: I’d like my thug well-done, please!

Posted on Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 at 8:42 pm in Darker Than BLACK. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.