Darker Than Black Episodes 5 and 6

[creative_kiss]

Disclaimer: As a whole these are kinda short. I was a little distracted putting my notes together but I'm sure that won't limit the discussion at all since everybody always brings together meaningful material.

Comments

[alisonsawyer]

I love Hei's motivation to find Bai, but I'm not sure about his methods. At the beginning of the episode there two bottles of alcohol on the bar, which makes me think that Hei was a little drunk when he tortured Carmine. After Carmine's dream about Lora and her family his behavior kind of changes. He makes her food, releases her arms and even gives her the meal, because she is too weak/tired to take the spoon. I think that even though she had been a heartless killer Hei feels sorry for her and, besides finding his sister, he wants to help Carmine in some way. And along with this the line "I don't want to keep hurting you, but I will." shows his human side. :)

I feel sorry for Carmine, too. The hundreds of people she killed during Heaven's war were nothing to her then, but when she becomes human she realizes how terrible that is. Not to mention that her payment was to drink the children's blood, but then met Lora and her kids and started cooking for them. The children's blood drinker actually wants to make kids happy.

[bellevoix321]

That is an interesting thought, except Hei never seemed to drink before losing Yin. However, Alcohol is used in cooking quite often. She can't the spoon because Hei dislocated/broke her fingers...OUCH.

That line got me, too. It's only in the English, though. It's not actually there in the Japanese...odd.

Yeah, Carmine's death broke my heart, both for her and for Hei. I always wondered what could have happened had she gotten away and lived. Oh well.

[alisonsawyer]

What could have happened if she gotten away and lived? Hmm...that is interesting. Maybe someone have to write a story about it.

[creative_kiss]

I think I'd agree with Bri as far as the alcohol is concerned - we know he's a cook, and we don't see him touch a drop of alcohol before season 2.
I think his torturing Carmine not only shows his desperation and love for his sister, but also demonstrates his irrationality, which further compromises his "Contractor identity" - Carmine kind of confirms it later when she refers to him as the "sentimental Contractor" but that's another way that they hint at his personality not really obeying the 'rules' of Contractors.

Carmine is a beautiful, sad but spirited character. It took me a while to truly appreciate that but really, you can see how human she's become after regressing.

[alisonsawyer]

I agree with you about the "sentimental Contractor" and Carmine's regressing. :)