{"id":7463,"date":"2020-01-20T13:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T21:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=7463"},"modified":"2020-01-13T14:26:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T22:26:17","slug":"mark-watches-monster-episode-39-the-hell-in-his-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2020\/01\/mark-watches-monster-episode-39-the-hell-in-his-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Monster’: Episode 39 – The Hell in His Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the thirty-ninth episode of Monster<\/i>, we see the aftermath of Johan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attack on the library. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Monster<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Trigger Warning: For brief talk of death, trauma.<\/b><\/p>\n

Hi, friends.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you.<\/p>\n

Thanks for your patience and allowing me the time to do a lot of necessary things. I saw many of your names in the register for the GoFundMe for Baize\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family, as well as for me, too. I appreciate the support y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all have given me. I said this on Twitter a week or so ago, but I want to repeat it here. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I am even close to done dealing with this, and I know it may take the rest of my life to fully process this heartbreak, to accept this tragedy. But I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m ready to start to embrace some normalcy in my life. I wrote nearly 20,000 words while in Hawai\u00e2\u20ac\u2122i between two new and exciting projects I hope to tell you about very soon. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve just made my first video in weeks, and I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a breakdown during it.<\/p>\n

So, progress. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s there. And I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to come back.<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t plan on there being another interruption until the fall, when my second book comes out, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m jumping back in! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have the schedule updated accordingly. And, because it is worth saying over and over again: I am so thankful for all of you. I have seen all your messages and kind words. You were all a light in a terrible, terrible darkness, and you will continue to be as I try to find out how to live without the love of my life.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my first step.<\/p>\n

The Hell in His Eyes<\/b><\/p>\n

I love that this just jumps ahead to the aftermath of the attack, rather than picking up in the immediacy of of the previous episode. Johan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attack killed five people and injured pretty much everyone else. Schuwald and Nina survived, thanks to Tenma\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s efforts to save as many people as possible. But what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most important is what these people do<\/i> with what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happened. Tenma is gone for all of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Hell in His Eyes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d until the final scene; we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see Johan once. Instead, the story brilliantly focuses on the the survivors and the new \u00e2\u20ac\u0153team,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d made up of Dr. Guillen and Dr. Reichwein. I love this shift, too, because Johan is starting to leave survivors behind, ones who are motivated, smart, and incredibly aware of just how talented and nightmarish he is.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But before I get to them, I wanted to briefly talk about Detective Lunge, as I think I might have finally scene the pivot point for his character. One thing that has made Johan so hard to track or catch is the fact that he leaves virtually nothing behind except a dead body. And often, someone else<\/i> actually killed that person, so there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing to link any crime to Johan. Lunge is a character who operates entirely<\/i> on information, something that has been built up over numerous appearances on Monster<\/i>. (Again, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get over how well this story uses detail over a long period of time; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s astonishingly good.) So, what information does Lunge have on all these murders?<\/p>\n

Well, as frustrating as it is, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not hard to see why he still<\/i> suspects Tenma of everything. Seriously, if Tenma\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prints are found on that sniper rifle, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not going to look good. The only person who consistently leaves behind evidence of his presence in this case is Dr. Tenma. And yet, in this episode, Detective Lunge gets a huge nudge from Karl that pushes him to take Johan Liebert seriously as a person of interest. Despite that there was plenty of circumstantial evidence of Johan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presence in town, Lunge is shocked to find that Johan left no literal<\/i> evidence that he had lived in Munich. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, is this disturbing enough that Lunge will actually consider Johan??? Because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clearly frustrated by Johan. Maybe \u00e2\u20ac\u0153frustrated\u00e2\u20ac\u009d isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the right word. Intrigued? Bothered? The word I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking for exists between a lot of these feelings, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m interested to see what he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to do next.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SO! Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s talk about the Reichwein\/Guillen team. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty sure I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve addressed this before, but if not: Johan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s victims have largely been isolated from one another. I believe that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s by design. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so much easier to manipulate and harm people when they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re by themselves, and in this case, the people who have crossed paths with Johan have repeatedly had to deal with the fact that no one would ever believe them if they told the truth. Except here are a bunch of people in the same city\u00e2\u20ac\u201dDieter, Lotte, Nina, Dr. Guillen, and Dr. Reichwein\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwho have all had some sort of experience with Johan. They can compare information. Both of the doctors bring their own expertise to the table.<\/p>\n

But then there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a huge question left behind: what the fuck<\/i> do they do next? Johan and Tenma are gone; the police still suspect Tenma. So, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guessing that this is not the last time we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see sessions between Nina and Guillen\/Reichwein, right? Nina has so much undealt-with trauma, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, and she is only just beginning to unmask it all. And at least she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to do so with professionals. Still! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so damn upsetting to watch her go through this.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

BECAUSE WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO HER AND JOHAN? Obviously, the answer to that is related to Schuwald\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s message for Tenma. What is The Three Frogs? What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the bridge? THEIR MOTHER IS STILL ALIVE IN PRAGUE??? What does the mom know that we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t?<\/i>Oh god, clearly Schuwald wanted Tenma to go find the truth, but this implies EVEN MORE than the last episode that Schuwald is far more knowledgable about Johan than we thought he was. WHAT THE FUCK.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Will Nina and Dieter find Tenma, though? That poor kid, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. Tenma just keeps leaving him behind!!!<\/p>\n

Anyway, this was A LOT. I loved that it also signified the next chapter of this story. I truly believe we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re about to delve in deep into Johan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Nina\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s past, and I, for one, am incredibly nervous about that. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m truly not ready.<\/p>\n

The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Hell in His Eyes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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