William French

Baccano Episode 16 part 2.

Added 2021-12-01 04:20:35 +0000 UTC

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Well! That was a nice final palate cleanser, at least! I love Isaac and Miria so goddamn much. Best characters in the show by a country mile. An absolute blessing. My skin is clear. My crops are watered. Life is good with them on screen.

Graham Specter? Not so much.

Graham was aggravating, annoying, pompous, and taken more seriously by the narrative than he deserved. He’s just...lame. And at the very least I was expecting him to get a final showdown and get the shit kicked out of him, but then he goes and pulls the worst narrative move I’ve seen in fiction in a very long time and just. Shaggy Dogs his way out of the story? It was such an anticlimax! It was horrible! No payoffs, no fight, no catharsis, no satisfying conclusion, just Graham walking away and the writers using their mouthpieces to tell us how much better that is than letting us get a real climax. I hated the OVAs. They didn’t ruin the show for me, of course, they’re an entirely separate thing, but a large portion of the OVAs just straight-up sucked. Which is a shame, they could have done so much more with the characters.

Ah well.

That is it for Baccano, for good this time! Show completed! A very good show overall, and Isaac and Miria were an absolute treat every moment they were on screen. Love those two. I do recommend watching the main series at least! Though if you’re reading this you almost certainly have already yourself.

Anyways, that’s it for Baccano! That’s not it for tonight, though--I’m doing one last liveblog, finishing the first episode of School Live. See you soon for that!

Thank you all for tuning in, and thank you to my 57 patrons who make it so I can do this for a living! I’ll see you guys in a few minutes!