[Locke]

Faiz 17.

I'm seventeen episodes in and I'm getting real fed up of this shows shit. Masato almost kills Takumi in one of the worst fights in this show yet, and even after that, Takumi refuses to fucking speak up and defend himself. For the love of Christ!

Yet, it's also a show so slow, even though I'm seventeen episodes in I barely feel I have even a slight grasp on what this show actually has to offer. Maybe I should drop this before suddenly I'm thirty episodes in and I've wasted half a day of my life on this show.

It's infuriating because it isn't like the plot DOESN'T move, but for some reason every character moment, every plot advancement, every twist or moment of realisation never seems to move anywhere from the episode it's introduced in. I mean what is this, the seventh time now where Takumi has said some variation of 'I will not hesitate'?



And that isn't to say there isn't some interesting stuff going on, like how Chie's brother forced himself to turn into an Orphenoch I mean I can't even begin to comprehend this and it's extremely short lived, but it's cool and I hope we find out how he did it.

Plus, the action started MUCH earlier this week and I enjoyed the use of interior locations and extras so it wasn't just another disconnected fight in some warehouse.

and a third belt?!