September 06, 2004
Madlax Episode 22 - rage
Friday blathers on about his insane plans at Reticia, having captured Margaret and somehow placed her under his control. Madlax, meanwhile, has miraculously recovered from her bullet wound without a scratch and sets out to find Margaret, cutting remarkably non-lethal swathes through the fighting Gazth-sonikans. Elinor, Madlax and Vanessa separate in the jungle - Elinor searches for Margaret, Madlax faces off against Rimelda once more, and Vanessa has a fateful encounter with Friday that ends in tragedy and a shocking cliffhanger...
Okay, AARGH. This and episode 21 were aired as a double bill, and we end on the most enormous cliffhanger EVER. We've really got to the good stuff now, and I have absolutely no idea where the story is going to go now except from the snatches of imagery in the preview which I HOPE are misleading (as they usually are).
Incidentally, Friday, your Zone of Absolute Fortune plans are incredibly cliche and you're completely loopy. Ta.
Posted by BluWacky at September 6, 2004 12:53 AM | TrackBackSounds to me like Friday Monday worships the Demiurge.
In Gnosticism, the Demiurge is the "lowest part of God." The fallen bit that makes the world as screwed up as it is, and trapped in a cycle of creation/destruction.
And then there's the question of WHAT Madlax is. That she's a part of Margaret's mind is too easy an answer. (although possible, with what we've found out about Dawn and Poupee.)
If she is, though...I'd say that Friday Monday hit both chibi-Margaret and her father with the "kill or be killed" Elda Taluta effect. Margaret shot her father in self-defense, but couldn't take that she did, so created a separate being to "take the blame for it." Then she teleported back to Nafrece.
I don't very much LIKE that theory, though, as Madlax in too much of a person in her own right.
...also..Margaret is freaking batty insane, controlled or not. She ripped apart that soldier to pieces with her hands!