For a bullet and blood ridden hellhole like Ronapur, very
little can instill fear in it’s inhabitants.
And then two Vampiric teeny boppers roll into town and begin offing
members of Hotel Moscow. They may look
cute and adorable but these two are more sadistic and terrifying than Revy can
ever be in her life. A hefty bounty is
put on their heads but Balialika and Hotel Moscow are determined to see justice
done their way first. All bets are off
and there are no innocents when Roanapur’s most dangerous group of former
Russian mercenaries go to war.
Black Lagoon is back for it’s second season aka The
Second Barrage. And just when I thought
it couldn’t get any better, man was a happily surprised.
It’s not everyday you get a story that makes you so
morally conflicted about the villains.
That’s not to say that everyone in this series is a straight up good
guy. However, the Romanian Child Killing
Twins were a whole new level of heartbreaking WTF especially once their
backstories were revealed. Do they
really deserve the fate that they received?
Would we be ok if they got away scot free? Well the answer to the latter is probably
not. As sad as it is to know the truth
of their horrific childhood, the twins thirst for blood and acts that would
make a stone cold killer vomit had to be stopped…and they just happened to piss
off the one person who would have no qualms taking them out
To see Balialika actually show compassion for her
comrades is something kind of unsettling.
Here is the coldest person in Ronapur and here we have her talking about
her soldiers like they are family. It’s
bizzare but it also leads to my absolute favorite scene of Black Lagoon so
far. Confronted by one of the twins, the
sexy leader of Hotel Moscow revealed she was not the hunted but the other way
around and watched with cold heart at max chill as her would be assassin bled
to death in tears screaming about how he’d live forever. We also got an amazing quote as well, “I
think Oingo Boingo said it best: Nobody lives forever, that’s just the way it
goes.” My God I love this show even if
the scene was a little hard to watch.
Evil they may have been, the twins were just children.
Revy and the Lagoon Crew didn’t get much to do in that
story actually until right at the end.
Even Revy teaming up with a sexy short sporting Eda didn’t serve
much. I don’t hold that against this
story as they still got some fun moments of levity in. Rock, on the other hand, was the audience’s
POV and his reaction to the killer twins origins was dead on. Just when you think you’ve seen the darkness,
it shows you something worse. Black
Lagoon may be an action show but it’s heavy on the commentary of the heart of
darkness.
The start of the next story arc does seem set to provide
some fun levity to balance things. We
got to see Roanapur’s gallery of killers expanded a bit now that everyone is gunning
for Revy and Eda’s new charge, Greenback Jane.
In addition to the return of the Chinese Knife wielder Xinghua, we got a
firestarting maniac, a trenchcloak clad wizard (?) and the cute but you would
gag at her chainsaw powered line of work “cleaner” Sawyer. Oh and we got to see the Rip Off Church
unleash hell with Revy at their side.
Chainguns, Golden Desert Eagles with Explosive rounds fired by Mother
Superior herself? It’s this kind of over
the top entertainment that reminds me why this show is so much fun.
BTW we really need a Revy and Eda spin off tale. They are frenemies at their very best. And it’s them, plus Rock, vs. the city of
Roanapur next week. Will Greenback Jane
survive the carnage storm? Or will Revy
be having too much fun to care?
Lock and Load and see ya next week.
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