Monday, January 5, 2009

Hakushaku to Yousei Episode 12 : Final Episode!

Hakushaku to Yousei Episode 12

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BUT I WANT TO!!!

Lydia’s dad is working and being attacked by cookie hungry brownies. It has absolutely nothing to do with the plot at all. Nico and Raven are walking about el creepy mansion when Raven asks about what his sister is. Nico answers that she is a seal fairy because she died at sea. NOT A GHOST APPARENTLY! Ermine tells Edgar and Lydia she will lead them to the exit. Lydia is all frantic because Edgar’s wound needs sunlight to heal. While they are walking Edgar hands Lydia his gun and to run just in case things get bad. They walk past the room Paul and the Banshee were in earlier and stop in. Lydia manages to wake Paul up who is a bit frantic about the painting and the Banshee being gone. Edgar decides that it is too dangerous for Lydia to go with him and tells her to stay with Paul. To make sure that everyone knows that Edgar is really stopping Lydia, he pushes her like 2 feet which gives him enough time to lock the door apparently. It is all dramatic and stupid.

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Did you seriously push me 2 feet away?!

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I must scream and act dramatic now!


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Ermine asks what Edgar is going to do now and he says he has to protect the people in the Earl’s family. He also comments that she is no longer the Ermine he knew. Ulysses shows up with all the wolfy things and is like HA I have the painting and the Banshee now. Edgar tries to calm the Banshee down but Ulysses manhandles her a little bit and ticks off Edgar. They trash talk each other back and forth, one saying the other does not deserve to be the Earl. Lydia and Paul are trying to get out of the room but nothing is working. Luckily Nico comes on by and opens the door. Ulysses decides he is done trash talking and is going to undo the seal on the painting. He spreads his blood on the amber hair and it gets all sparkly. We then see a series of really fast memories from the Banshee and she falls to the floor crying. No explanation for us! Edgar runs to her aid but Jimmy stops her. Ermine then holds Banshee hostage and tells Edgar to run away. Apparently she is going to kill the Banshee so no one gets her power and all is well. Edgar manages to convince Ermine not to slice her up and Ulysses laughs at Edgar’s weakness. All the little unsellie monsters go to attack Edgar but Raven skydances on the scene and protects him. Lydia, Paul, and Nico show up the scene where Paul mourns the loss of the burnt up painting. Raven starts battling with Jimmy and kelpie (who has just arrived on the scene) attacks all the other Unsellie. During all this Banshee says that she will given Ulysses the item if he just let’s Edgar go. Ulysses decides it would be easier to kill her instead. Lydia gets the brilliant idea to run down the stairs and scream that she knows what is going on now. Edgar panics and goes to protect her, leaving his back open. He is almost attacked but Banshee takes the attack for him. Anyway Lydia holds up the gun and says that the second moon has not moved since they got there, thus it is fake or something. If she shoots it down (the window I guess) sunlight will be exposed and all the unsellie will be hurt. Edgar tells Lydia he believes in her and she fires…AND MAKES THE SHOT! The window breaks and lots of sunlight comes rolling in. All the Unsellie run away and Jimmy makes a passageway to take Ulysses away. But not before Ulysses tells Edgar that he and the prince will get him one day. Edgar’s wound begins to heal and Lydia is all happy. Paul comes up carrying Banshee who won’t be healed by the sunlight. She smiles and says that it is okay, that now she can be with Glady’s and she can fulfill the prophecy with her death. She then hands Edgar a key that he and Lydia can’t see. She then fads and poofs away. Back at home the frog man butler is helping prepare a meal for all our little warriors….hold the liver of course. Kelpie and Ermine are having a conversation about how they did what they did for other people…then why are they flirting with each other? In a carriage ride home Edgar is still trying to think ov the name, but gets mad when Raven tries to help him. Then Edgar explains that now he has a reason to live and he won’t use the title of Earl to get his revenge. He will actually serve the people. He then reminds Lydia it is kissy time. She doesn’t seem thrilled with that idea so he kisses her forehead instead, saying he will wait until she really wants to be kissed. THE END!

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Next time protect the plot!

I am really sad. I had this whole major speech planned out in my head. I was going to rejoice that the series was finally over and that I could move on with my happy little life. I was going to say THANK GOD this show was only 12 episodes long. I was going to dance around my living room and happily pick out a new series. It was going to be magical and I was going to have fun.

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But she is a fun killer. :(

But now I can’t do that. And do you know why?! THERE IS GOING TO BE A SEASON TWO!!! *goes to find rusty spoon* And before ANYONE goes off running to see if there is a second season in the works, I am just saying it. I am not all knowing or actually looked it up. I am just going by how the show ended. And if there wasn’t a season two the show would be even lamer than it is right now. Dear lord…just bleh.

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End the series and no one will get hurt!

So let’s get on to talking about this show…just not with much joy. Um….yeah. Raven and his sister. The heartfelt over flowing of emotions almost killed me. NOT! I would just be a little more concerned that my dead sister is now alive and a fairy. Or we could just protect Edgar-sama with mighty ballet moves of doom. Maybe they could do bonding with their weapon of choice: tiny little knives. I felt as if they really could have done more with Ermine and Raven’s connection and past but too much of the show was devoted to Lydia’s whining.

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MMM that makes so much sense!

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That was totally necessary.

Lydia annoys the hell out of me. She acts like she knows everything, puts people in danger, gets someone KILLED, and yet at the end she has to play the cute OH I don’t know much, I am inexperience bullshit card. I AM NOT BUYING IT LADY! You either get to be a know it all or an innocent little idiot NOT BOTH! She only said that so she could get showered with praise. Sorta like thin girls are always asking if this outfit makes them look fat. Fishing for compliments much?! Also congrads on KNOWING what is going on. Thanks for helping Ms. Banshee with her own death. Next time just act upon your suspicions and explain how you are right later. That separates the bad guys from the good guys.

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Next time keep it to yourself!

Poor Paul. :( His chances are getting any are slim now….and were probably low when Banshee was alive anyway (not up to speed on fairy sex rules). Not to mention he had to watch that painting burn. It is like how book lovers feel when a book is destroyed for no reason. I am not sure why Paul was even an important character in the story…I guess Edgar needs another guy to be friends with since Raven is not really a friend but someone who wants to jump his bones. Paul really….had nothing to add to his episode except his fist banging against the wall and his sad little face near the end. Poor forgotten Paul.

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Poor sad Paul :(

Ulysses is a bad guy made of fail. But I guess that boils down to him not really being the REAL bad guy. He is the warm up bad guy. That Huskley or whatever dude does not even get to be the warm up bad guy how sad. But anyway….I don’t like how he sucks at life. And I don’t see how he is a fairy doctor. The only reason those unsellie whatever things were listening to him is because he stole crap from them (or was that just Ermine…) Either way he wasn’t REALLY using his own power to further his own goals. Just a weak guy hiding behind people/things he seems to think are dispensable. And he wants to be EARL of these people. Yeah, how wonderful is it be given born into a position and you don’t deserve it? I wish the artists had made him look slightly different from Edgar as it just seemed really lazy. I know it WENT with the storyline but still…does that mean the Prince is their triplet? Or quintuplets since this Is Ulysses the 2nd?

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A really old bad guy...

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You haven't seen the last of me HAHAHAHA!

I love how Edgar was nearly mauled by some wild animal and was in a life or death situation but on the carriage ride home he is STILL thinking of the moaning name incident? He is either really in love with Lydia and wants to make everything right…..or a moron. But probably both. He is that kind of guy that gets caught up in the moment and thinks inappropriate things. Those kinds of people seem to manage to get out of trouble all the time and it can drive normal people up a wall. But I am glad he is now going to take his job as Earl seriously and not a tool for revenge. YAY FOR LEARNING!!!

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I shall NOT listen to you!!!!

I found Nico throwing his mask at Jimmy funny. Not very effective but at least he didn’t get anyone KILLED LYDIA!! I just hope he got his mask back in the end.

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Um...not too many pics of Nico...so have some sibling knife fight?!

I feel bad that Banshee had to die when the bad guys never did nor did any other character. Or that everyone was traveling home happy at the end of the episode and no one cares about her. Also slight irony to predicting her own death. But where the hell was she keeping the key? And more explanation on the flashback please?!
So let’s talk about the series as a whole now…that sucked.

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Oppies? Dead now?

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But she shall die happy now.

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Into a big sparkly mess.

I think the major thing that sucked about this show was the main plot was solved in 4 (5?) episodes. Based on the description of the show, I was expecting Lydia and Edgar to spend WAY more time looking for the sword. Nope, let’s just get that silly thing out of the way so we can spend more time having Lydia not love Edgar. The sword was just way too easy to find and made their journey seem really lame and pointless. Undermining seriousness it did.

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But everything worked out in the end YAY..not.

The romance was one giant fail. Edgar fell in love way too fast and Lydia was in denial for way too long. BORING! I want to see some build up and or drama. Not the same old crap every single day. Then everyone is rewarded to a kiss on the forehead. Because that is what dreams are made of people KISSES ON THE FOREHEAD!! They didn’t seem like a cute couple or a believable. Just super duper boring. And made me want to shoot myself in the head all the time. I hate girls or people in general who can’t be honest with their feelings. Well, that is not true. If I see growth and conflict it is not so bad. But Lydia was straight up denying it the entire time and even at the end she was DENYING a kiss she promised to seemingly dying Edgar. Nice you big fat liar.

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So very special, that awesome kiss.

I thought the entire concept of what a fairy was full of fail. Everything is a fairy and when everything can be something, it is not as special or fun anymore. It really made the writers look lazy. I mean people DIE and become fairies. There is a random fairy for everything. They don’t need explanations for what a fairy is. It is hard to explain but it is really, really lame. I want something that is concrete and makes sense. Just don’t slap fairy on something and think your job is done.

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The brownies have no name.

I also think the fact that everyone being referred to their species name and not having real names. I am surprised that Lydia was not called Human. I think things/people/animals should have names. Because what if you meet more than one kind of fairy :P FAIL TRAIN!

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Kelpie is being a kelpie.

There were way too many lose ends for this series. Lydia never explained how she got to the merrow place. Ermine’s past and how she died was never explained. WTF was up with that key at the end? Banshee’s memories made no sense. Why are there two or three Ulysses? WHO THE HELL IS THE PRINCE?! Since all these questions and many others were not answered…there is probably going to be another season. I just won’t be dumb enough to blog about it. Thanks for putting up with my rants on this series for this long though!!!

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Thank God it is over :)

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