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Madlax Episode 25 - sacred blood

I think everything about this episode needs to go in the extended entry - to be honest, there wasn't actually anything new as such that you wouldn't have worked out for yourself already, but it's all spoiler-tastic for the rest of the series.

Since there wasn't a lot in this episode, only a brief little recap - Margaret shoots Madlax again, then goes off with her page of Secondary and opens the door of truth with Friday. We see twelve years ago again, and the entire truth is revealed - Richard Burton accidentally shot Carossur, then Friday Elda Taluta-ed him which made him want to kill Margaret. Margaret picked up a gun lying on the ground, but couldn't face killing her own father - so she split into THREE distinct personas - Madlax )the manifestation of Margaret's guilt who then shoots Burton), Margaret herself, and Leticia (who is the manifestation of the "true" Margaret and possessed Margaret's doll). Margaret is rather upset by this, which allows Friday to use the books to re-commence his mass Elda Taluta attack on the world, causing complete chaos and the death of that stupid guy with the bad hair whose name I have yet AGAIN forgotten. Thankfully, Madlax steps into the breach to do something about this.

I felt vaguely cheated by this episode since it didn't really tell us anything we didn't already know, frankly. And I'm slightly confused as to how Elda Taluta etc. actually works - Friday says it releases man's intrinsic nature, but it doesn't have the same effect on everyone - while we saw loads of maniacs in this episode, we've seen Madlax reduced to an innocent and Elinor eventually resisted it entirely. Madlax makes sense in some ways - since she isn't actually real, being reduced to "nothing" IS her nature. Perhaps Elinor's true nature was simply to be Elinor. But WHY would Richard Burton want to kill his own daughter? Aside from being an army man, which the writers seem to suggest makes you Evil (a little bit on the naive side, perhaps). I think my main dissatisfaction with the episode is because I've been hyping myself up for it all week and couldn't fail to be slightly disappointed...