February 18, 2004
Noir Episode 6
"Lost Kitten"
From the moment Mireille says that it should be an easy job, you know all manner of things are going to go wrong.
The real downside of shows that move as slowly as Noir is that sometimes you're given so much time between things happening, you can more or less guess what happens next. Anything from a facial expression to an actual line of dialogue, it's all so predictable that I found myself saying lines and guessing a character's reactions before they actually managed to play out on the screen.
We get a little bit of character development for Kirika in this episode, but otherwise this is another throwaway one. Not just for plot, but for general enjoyment as well. How exciting do you think assassinating an old man who's about to die of natural causes is, anyways?
I don't know much about being a professional assassin (my experienced derived from watching Rurouni Kenshin... okay, maybe a few more pop culture references, also), but I have to assume that making any sort of emotional connection with your target only makes it more difficult.
Oh, and nothing really goes wrong. It was an easy job, after all.
Rating: C-
Posted by Kei at February 18, 2004 12:42 AM