Tower of God episode 5 Followup
A few things! First: I’ve been informed that what happened with Bam at the end of the Crown Game was a mistranslation. From Snowwhistle: “ When Lero Ro was discussing Bam’s Shinsoo blast, he describes Bam as becoming Shinsoo. This is incorrect. In the manhwa, it’s worded that it was as if the Shinsoo acted of it’s own volition to protect Bam.“ Or possibly a retcon, but without more confirmation we’re going with mistranslation. Second: Episode 4 ended with Stab Happy asking Rachel if it was ok to kill all of them, and Rachel focusing on Bam while saying “of course”. Sooooo...at first I thought that that was just a completely dropped stinger. But actually it’s more of a bait and switch. TECH-NIC-ALLY (I say in a whiny nerd voice) the WORDS of the characters didn’t indicate that they meant “kill Bam”, that was just what you CHOSE to IN-TER-PRET from the camera zoom. But let’s be real, that’s a load of bull. They knew what they were doing. Cinematography is an art and a language and it relies on common understanding to be understood and if you abuse that understanding to lead people into valid assumption you don’t mean you’re just cheap and obnoxious. So yeah, look, the stingers here are kind of ridiculous and I’m going to grade them harshly on it. Asks and comments!
Hmmm. I’m still dark enough on what exactly is underlying all this that it doesn’t mean too much to me. Can’t, as in it’s not allowed, or can’t, as in physically impossible? Don’t answer that though!
I’m sure it does! To be honest I have a hard time focusing on pages though. Anime has sounds and moving images that keep my squirrel brain in one place! Also liveblogging gives me an excuse to actually watch stuff - I’d been so lethargic for years I could barely be bothered to even watch anime - and, hopefully, it provides entertainment for all ya’ll out there too! So I’m keeping to anime-only, spoilers-free =)
Huh, alright. I’d assumed water was its property since that had shown up several times, but if that’s wrong, then I’ll remember that.
