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To Your Eternity 2 ep. 18- Whaaa

Irina

Remember when I started doing episode reviews cause I figured they would be nice short posts I could just get out in a couple of minutes? No? Yeah, me neither….

Admittedly, I don’t pick series that are very easy to review in just a few words. So that’s on me. To Your Eternity has a lot going on. It doesn’t always handle it well but golly it tries to do so many things. This week was an example of it trying to do way way too many things!

Ok so… I think no one knows exactly what to do with Kohaku right now. As in none of the characters do and the writers don’t either. In the grand scheme of things, it’s not odd that Kihaku broke. That’s where the character was going and it has been properly foreshadowed. But the pacing of it all is wonky. Everything just really accelerated all of a sudden. And I’m not too fond of the execution. It’s way too excessive for my tastes. But that’s a me thing.

As for March. I’m not mad that she’s bad. I really like what her return represents as an idea. But I feel like the story as it is, at this point, simply has no place for her. She shouldn’t be here…

Maybe these images will help me explain it better. in her day, March was Fushi’s “mom”. She was playing dolls with this odd person who really needed a lot of guidance back then. It made sense. And Parona was a great foil to that relationship. Right now, Fushi has an entire city of people counting on him. He has all these complex and occasionally difficult relationships to juggle. In many ways, Eko brings a lot of the same elements to the table that March does but Eko is better suited to the story right now. Fushi doesn’t need a parent as much as he did back then but he certainly needs a friend and someone to take care of him. That’s what Eko does and March seems a bit redundant now.

To a certain extent, in a more distant way, that’s what the citizens and more immediately the infantry of Renril do as well. They are all counting on Fushi for their very survival. It’s a lot. It puts more pressure on him than he can bear it seems. But it’s also the first substantial show of trust he has gotten from people in general.

And how does the Man in Black figure into all this? He has always been completely disinterested in lives. As in anyone’s life. I wasn’t expecting him to be shocked or moved in any way by Fushi’s disappearance but it does make me wonder even more what his endgame is. I suppose if it doesn’t work out with Fushi, he can always just make another one. But can he? And if Fushi is meant to replace him, does that mean Fushi could eventually make other immortals as well?

I think anyone who’s watched to your eternity has wondered at some point what happens if Fushi loses all his vessels. Is that the limit of his “immortality”. The most logical conclusion has always been that he would go back to his primal form which is that pearl-like orb thing. And he did. But what now. I don’t think it has ever been clearly said how Fushi gained any form of consciousness or how long it took. The image that we got invoked a very gradual sort of evolution. There is reason to believe that it could be hundreds, if not thousands of years before Fushi wakes up again if left to his own devices.

And having the people close to him kill themselves is the logical solution. It’s the first thing that came to mind when I thought about it. By this point, the episode had gone so past my limit for melodramatics that seeing the festival of suicides shape up was actually kind of funny to me. I think that with a different soundtrack, this could have played out as a fairly brilliant black comedy.

And of course, my immediate thought is that death is meaningless now so I’m not sure why the show is trying to trick me into worrying. Of course, Fushi’s going to wake up and resurrect them all. Even if it doesn’t technically work and it takes Fushi centuries to wake up, he can resurrect them then. So I found this entire sequence lackluster on an emotional level and then the Fushi arm thing happened. And very quickly we got from eye roll to WTF territory.

Ok so whaaaaaa? Eko was infected by a nokker. Can Fushi take over nokkers now? Or did she go crazy as well? Why are the boy’s eyes purple and not Fushi’s signature gold? Can nokkers turn into Fusho cause they are on some level, similar creatures? Or did I go crazy? All very good questions…

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