Why 9 and 12 bother with an overly complicated set of bomb threats just to leave cryptic clues about their past? Why not simply record a video for the media and police explaining what happened and who they are? They have more than enough evidence to do so, including some witnesses who, apparently, had no problem explaining what happened when questioned by a single police investigator.
"You keep him in here, and make sure HE dosen't leave!"
They knew both of them had limited time left and there was only one investigator they had faith in to see it to the end. The threats and bombings were to get the police attention. The clues were for the only cop who could piece them together.
shareThat’s laughable. I’m a huge fan of this director, huge. But this story doesn’t hold water at all. And frankly it was boring.
Sorry I’m just disappointed. Wasn’t big on the last one either, Kids On the Steps. Though that one at least made sense.
It’s too bad because Terror had a hell of a lot of interesting ideas, particularly this feeling that Japan is still a defeated nation. Too bad it took like 9 episodes to get to it. The characters, too, were like cut and paste from lesser work. I don’t get how it could be so terrible coming from this team.
It’s like the team was so excited, had so much fun, they forgot to write something worth watching.
Emperor’s New Clothes here.
I thought it was one of the best of the year. This does absolutely make sense, when you realise that the whole point was to play a cat-and-mouse game with the police. They wanted attention. That was the point. Coming out with the information, quietly, was never their modus operandi. Just look at them, at everything they're doing.
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Why don't you take a pill, bake a cake, go read the encyclopaedia.
I have to agree that any semblance of theme that the show alluded to came too late into the story, and therefore not build up as well.
I am mostly baffled by how the show used most of each main characters. Lisa starts of as an outsider to the group but we as an audience get the sense that she will inevitably become part of the gang in a small or big way, something that never really happens. It is very much agreed upon by the guys and her that she and they would be safer and better off without her, which turns out most of the time to be true.
Five, who was one of the most exciting additions to the cast, has a past that's never really brought up, nor is her "unfinished business" with Nine. In the end, the way she confesses her feelings and kills herself completely clash with her "survivor" characterization and generally cold demeanor. I'm not saying that she having feelings of gratitude or even love for Nine would be unreasonable, but nothing about her till that point indicated anything other than disdain about everyone.
Finally, Twelve (my favorite character up to a certain point) chooses to save Lisa and betray Nine, but his choice is ultimately meaningless as it turned out that Nine didn't even need his help to execute the final part of their plan. In the epilogue Nine somehow forgives him and minutes later Twelve gets shot by the Americans in the most pointless death i 've seen in years, partly because of the fact that they were going to die anyway in the near future.
I have no problem with the way the theme was presented. The goal of the attacks was clear to me as soon as Shibazaki uncovered the secret project. I do however think that Five was not developed fully and that twelve's "betrayal" and death did not contributed to much to the story.
All that being said, I really liked the show, but with a couple of more episodes and some minor fixes to the script, it would have been even better.