{"id":7454,"date":"2019-12-09T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T21:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=7454"},"modified":"2019-12-08T21:48:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T05:48:25","slug":"mark-watches-monster-episode-36-a-monster-of-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2019\/12\/mark-watches-monster-episode-36-a-monster-of-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Monster’: Episode 36 – A Monster of Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the thirty-sixth episode of Monster<\/i>, Tenma reflects; Dr. Reichwein confronts, and both Lunge and Lotte have epiphanies. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Monster<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This episode is INCREDIBLE, friends, and it is such a tense set-up to what will surely be a disaster. And the next episode is the halfway<\/i> point. HALF. WAY. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 frightened.<\/p>\n

Reflection<\/b><\/p>\n

In hindsight, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so brilliant that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A Monster of Chaos\u00e2\u20ac\u009d opens with flashbacks to the decision that set all of this in motion. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a chilling reminder, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it? Dr. Tenma approached that decision with humility, fairness, and kindness in mind. He operated on Johan because it was the right<\/i> thing to do, and it cost him his reputation and stunted his career. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only now, years and years into the future, that Dr. Tenma reflects on this choice, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very easy to wonder if he regretted this. Johan took so many lives after Tenma saved him. So even though Tenma acted within his moral code, a contradiction arose: saving Johan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life led indirectly to the loss of other lives.<\/p>\n

Thus, this show is made up largely of Dr. Tenma\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reaction to that, and it all leads to him hiding atop that bookshelf, certain that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to right this wrong through assassination. The path to this point has been chaotic and confusing and illuminating, and I loved that this episode brought us back to the beginning to help us understand the present.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 can he actually<\/i> do it??? I know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve asked the question numerous times before, but this is it. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see the next episode delaying this shot any further, so he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got to either take it or give up. My gut tells me he won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be able to\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just not at a place in his life where he can truly take another life, even if the reasoning is morally solid to him. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s murder<\/i>, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. Tenma\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s whole thing is about how precious life is. Can he truly<\/i> take a life???<\/p>\n

Reichwein<\/b><\/p>\n

Again, his technique here has been so, so bold. Once Reichwein sat down in front of Schuwald, I had my own belief about what would happen: Schuwald was so enamored with Johan that he wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe a word of what Dr. Reichwein said. Indeed, Johan has charmed so many people to get where he is, but in this specific case, Johan brought together a father and son after decades of being separated. Who wouldn’t<\/i> feel affinity for a person who had done such a thing?\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, as Dr. Reichwein spoke, I took Schuwald\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s silence to be a negative thing. Seriously, he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t not react once, and I expected Reichwein to finish, Schuwald to take a breath, and then he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re full of shit, go away, JOHAN IS MY EVERYTHING.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Or something to that effect, you know? I did not expect Schuwald to basically accept what Reichwein posited and to insinuate pretty heavily that he knew something was wrong with Johan? And he let it all happen anyway? I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if this is because Schuwald knows this is an inevitability\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat someone would try to take his life out from under him\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor because he has something else in mind. But even with the warning, he still goes to the donation ceremony. He still lets it happen, even though Reichwein said that someone named Dr. Tenma is coming after Johan. THIS WAS NOT A CONCLUSION I EXPECTED HIM TO COME TO. Lord, the sheer chaotic possibilities of this alone<\/i>? And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not even considering the two OTHER plot lines, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL. What exactly does Schuwald know or suspect?<\/p>\n

Lunge<\/b><\/p>\n

What the HELL is Lunge going to do if he gets in that room and finds out that Johan is not<\/i> a personality of Dr. Tenma\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s??? Oh god, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so frustrating watching him work because he keeps clinging to his hypothesis that Dr. Tenma made up Johan. If he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d approach this case with an open mind on that one<\/i> element, I bet Lunge would have figured this out. And yet, here he is, convinced that Dr. Tenma is about to murder Schuwald.<\/i> Which puts a thought in my head: What if Johan is way ahead of everyone and is about to murder Schuwald himself? What if he somehow knows Dr. Tenma is here to kill him?<\/p>\n

Lotte<\/b><\/p>\n

THE BOOK! THE BOOK!!!! Oh my god, I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t read\/translate the name of the title, but y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL. Lotte confronted Nina with her epiphany that she and Johan are twins, but that pales in comparison to what happens immediately after. Somehow, Nina had the same<\/i> reaction to that children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book as Johan did, which\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. how??? Did this happen to them before they arrived in Germany? What was that horrific flashback of Nina wandering darkened hallways about? WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING ON THIS SHOW???<\/p>\n

The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A Monster of Chaos\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n

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