Well, where else could they go, right? As I’ve said before, one of the
bigger conceits of supehero fiction is that any War on Crime would just on for
decades without any positive or negative movement. If the good guy’s actually
doing his job, he should start running out of bad guys at some point.
My favorite run on the Punisher (Garth Ennis’) set the vigilante in a
very specific time, and showed him gradually running out of mobsters to kill in
New York. Soon enough, he started facing off against incompetent third-string
wiseguys who got promoted because they were only ones left and, after he got
done killing them, he left New York to start dealing with organized crime in
other parts of the world.
I can’t help but view Guillotine Gorilla’s dramatic debut as being the
show’s several-layers-deep meta-joke about such... challenges inherent to serializing a
premise like this. It’s almost like they originally planned this
to be 26 episodes of slice-of-life humor sprinkled on toned-down superheroics, realized that could actually only
sustain six episodes of screentime, and thought, “Well, shit… we probably
should just make this a for-real sentai show.”
On the other hand, considering how Samumenco’s revelation about his
parents murder is presented rather… murkily (wait - - so is
the stationery scientist his grandfather? Wasn’t he just reading a story his
grandfather wrote?), it wouldn’t be too hard to imagine this as being some “jumping
off point” where the rest of the series just becomes an illustrated delusion. Guy
finally realizes his dream of being a superhero, runs into a stopping point,
can’t handle that being all there is, and so he starts imagining that whole
experience was just preparing him for the real supervillains.
That’s just my read on it, anyway. It’s not like the show hasn’t been
made many gas about this vigilantes being out of touch with reality, right?
Watch, "Change the World” and decide for yourself, then
read my comments about the previous episode.
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