I'm quite fine with the pace too. It's basically a historic whodunnit and mystery stories never move at a frantic pace. The good ones don't anyway. It's not particularly practical nor fun if all the mysteries come out or get solved in first few episodes. What do they do with 15+ epis after that then? Unless it's one of 'em episodic shows.
The character development does get a bit left behind with progressing the overall story though. Arang is a perhaps a bit too plot driven atm and I hope tehy'll balance that in the coming episodes. EO seems to be moving on now though. Yes, I think he's probably too emphatic by nature both in human and supernatural sense, so closing off has been a coping mechanism. He needed some sort of incentive to kickstart himself into action and this is it. I suspect he is more sensitive to the supernatural in general than he likes to admit so it'll come handy with this job. :)
Arang herself is kinda boring now and I actually think that her character has sort of gone backwards as she isn't nearly as kick ass as in the 1st few episodes. Where's the feisty girl who fought all the other ghosts and was able to hold her own?
This may be quite off mark but I wonder if EO isn't the heavenly duo's equivalent of a 'hunter', only he doesn't know it. Arang is clearly the bait.
I wonder if the Jade Emperor and Hades know that EO is the demon's son (whether biological or through possession of him Mom). They don't seem to know who the demon is, but you never know.
I think Arang is still fairly kickass, especially when you consider that she has bodily limitations now (her rescue of EO was pretty epic and I don't blame her too much for freaking out about the ghoul now that she's human-ish). My problem isn't that - she's had no emotional/character development at all and that would be fine if she was complex to start with but she has the complexity and maturity of a starfish so it gets a bit wearying...
The character development does get a bit left behind with progressing the overall story though. Arang is a perhaps a bit too plot driven atm and I hope tehy'll balance that in the coming episodes. EO seems to be moving on now though. Yes, I think he's probably too emphatic by nature both in human and supernatural sense, so closing off has been a coping mechanism. He needed some sort of incentive to kickstart himself into action and this is it. I suspect he is more sensitive to the supernatural in general than he likes to admit so it'll come handy with this job. :)
Arang herself is kinda boring now and I actually think that her character has sort of gone backwards as she isn't nearly as kick ass as in the 1st few episodes. Where's the feisty girl who fought all the other ghosts and was able to hold her own?
This may be quite off mark but I wonder if EO isn't the heavenly duo's equivalent of a 'hunter', only he doesn't know it. Arang is clearly the bait.
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I think Arang is still fairly kickass, especially when you consider that she has bodily limitations now (her rescue of EO was pretty epic and I don't blame her too much for freaking out about the ghoul now that she's human-ish). My problem isn't that - she's had no emotional/character development at all and that would be fine if she was complex to start with but she has the complexity and maturity of a starfish so it gets a bit wearying...
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