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After I watch this episode of Tower of GodI perceive what the creators have been hoping to realize. However that is not sufficient to just accept it on a logical or emotional degree.
This episode mainly sees Bam’s second workforce come collectively and tackle a serious risk. The issue is, they’re up in opposition to the self-proclaimed strongest man within the tower, and we’re given no purpose to doubt his phrases. He can simply take all of them out directly. The one purpose Bam is alive is as a result of Miseng is in the way in which, and Mazino retreats to maintain her and Bam alive. And as soon as Mazino will get what he got here for, he simply leaves. He has no want to kill kids, particularly not those who have been basically tricked into preventing him.
This combat, together with the ultimate check they did, is meant to convey a way of unity inside the group. Collectively they may face even the best risk. But, this does not really feel like sufficient to elucidate the selection made within the second half of the episode.
Certain, to Wangnan’s workforce, Bam is a strong however variety man. He could also be affiliated with FUG, however he’s executed every little thing he can to guard them and assist them climb the tower. Their targets and personalities mesh effectively. They really feel like they will belief him.
For Wangnan, nonetheless, it’s not the identical. He is aware of the entire story and understands that Bam is being blackmailed into climbing the tower. He is aware of that Bam and FUG are in an adversarial relationship and that by changing into Bam’s companions, they may place themselves proper within the center.
Logically, it would not be a nasty concept to take FUG’s deal, to let Bam climb with a FUG workforce and let FUG discover a new ringer for Wangnan’s workforce. It will free Wangnan’s workforce from the twin risk of FUG’s potential wrath and Bam’s reckless incapacity to surrender a check irrespective of the price. It will additionally free Bam from having to present FUG an entire new set of hostages to regulate him and the fixed drawback of getting to weigh their lives in opposition to his outdated groups in harmful conditions.
However in the long run, Wangnan and the workforce resolve to maintain climbing with Bam, ignoring the mountain of risks behind them as a result of… Bam is a pleasant man? As a result of they need him to be? There’s simply not sufficient logic right here.
We needed to dig deep into every character’s thought course of to see this selection as something aside from a dumb, feel-good option to appease the viewers. It’s solely as a result of Jinsung feels sorry for Bam and sees the workforce as innocent/hostages that he doesn’t simply kill all of them. In reality, that’s what the remainder of FUG needs him to do. It’s solely dumb luck that the workforce’s selection doesn’t finish in a pile of corpses.
I get what this present was going for, nevertheless it didn’t really feel justified based mostly on how little we find out about these characters, their pasts, and their targets. And now that it seems like we’re getting a two-year time soar, it looks like we’re skipping potential moments that may make their selection plausible, if solely on reflection. Nonetheless, I gained’t faux that I’m not excited to see this new workforce tackle the outdated, even when the character improvement of the previous pales compared.
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