DTB REVIEW CREW: Episodes 3 and 4

[creative_kiss]

EPISODE 3: A NEW STAR SHINES IN THE DAWN SKY (PART 1)

• Tahara’s flower - the only remnants of life in a space littered with human remains. Beautiful on its own and glowing (literally). Not only that, but it releases seeds, produces life right before his very eyes. Symbol of hope (before we even know what it can do).

Comments

[aerysa]

... Part 2 of my response, since I'm over the limit! ^^;;

Skipping forward to ep 4, where I wanted to comment on a few comments made.

When Li confronts Tahara, I think the reason he starts talking like it's common knowledge is because of how he was approached. He shows the response of someone who has awareness of the situation. Also, Tahara is a high-level scientist, who had sadly bottled up his own concerns for years.

I don't know if you know any highly educated people, but sometimes people are so expert at what they know, that they can no longer communicate on layman levels. I think that's what happened here. (haha, geeky science girl talking again!)

Mai was showing signs of being a contractor at a young age and he was hoping to find a way to "cure her" or suppress her urges. But the method he used was only adequate within a set time frame - when the seed decays.

It's like a can of soda/pop. There's always gases inside and if you were to open it normally, there's a small burst of pressure. But if you were to shake it, the pressure builds up and when you suddenly open it, everything explodes over. Her urges were much stronger than the "sealing" the seed could provide and by suppressing it for such a long time, it eventually became out of control; hence her display of power as a moratorium.

Her rejection of her father... I don't think it was so much as her rejection of him on a emotional level, manifest as a physical outburst. After she was captured by Luco and blond man (I don't think he was ever named, because if he was, I didn't catch it), she was seen just kneeling off to the side. Her mind had reverted to a very childish state. She spoke the way a child would as she drew her father.

So in that sense, I think why she was outwardly rejecting him was because he was no longer than father of her memory. Rather, the years had aged them both, but her mind was on those childhood years - where her father would tell her stories and what not.

Did anyone notice this? When she was going to burn up blond man, Hei calls out to her to stop, that she didn't want to do that. Then when she turns, her eyes already had that red glint of a contractor?

... And I'll stop for now! XD

[csg_dear4life]

I agree with you on Mai's rejection of her father because she reverted back to a child like state.

Of course I notice it. It was like the scene with her father when she was a child.