25 July 2018

Hellsing Ultimate: episodes 5-7 reviews

Episode 5
  • What I like about this episode is the Integra being chased scene - pretty tense.
  • What does the woman do when there's no man there to protect her? This is not the typical shoujo fashion where the damsel-in-distress is always crying for help or that she's always helpless without a man.
Episode 6
  • Here we see poor mercenaries who lay down their lives for money. They're using regular silver, not blessed silver, so no wonder their bullets aren't as effective. As for the ghoul attack earlier in the series, some nameless Hellsing guy shouted, "THE ENEMY ARE GHOULS!" over the radio. Obviously, they weren't prepared for a vampire attack on their headquarters, and were using regular ammunition. Monumentally stupid for a supposed anti-vampire organization.
  • Is Integra commanding the 'bad guys' who are holding her hostage believable here? Ok, I know that the author wants to provide a bit of comic relief and to establish her character as "the leader", "the commander" type, but I don't find it realistic that if such situation were to happen that she could do this. Maybe the guys who hold her hostage aren't really 'bad' and she knows they won't kill her anyway.

Episode 7

  • Gruesome deaths, but avoidable deaths. The harsh truth in this is that (2) a lot less would die if the Hellsing Org prepped these mercenaries with anti-vampire weapons. Second, it's because Seras refused to drink blood that she couldn't have been more useful. In the real world that, it might make some sense. But in the Hellsing world where you can die at any time, not choosing to become immortal/powerful is pretty naive, not to mention it makes you less fit to protect the people around you. But if she did drink blood from the start then there'd be no story to tell, right?
  • Seras can fly but Alucard can't (?)

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