Southern_Writeoffs #7: Black Lagoon
I could talk about Black Lagoon’s penchant for violence and balls-to-the-wall action scenes. It has plenty of both. I could talk about the Lagoon company or the city of Roanopur and how every character in this show has their own distinct personality and makes the entire cast memorable. This is true. I’m going to focus on the ideological component of the show, though. The two ideologies in question are nihilism and existentialism. The first time I watched the show, these themes were never the focus of my enjoyment, seeing as the over the top action and excessive swearing were the biggest draws to 14-year-old me. When I watched it the second time, I had …
Doaks
Yeah I’ve always found Black Lagoon fascinating. It’s like if you mixed classic 80’s action films like Rambo and Terminator but with something that has a bit more meaning put into it. Well Terminator has some in the 2nd installment but funny enough that is when Black Lagoon also starts to delve further into the psyches of our core cast. The …
Southern_Air
Yes, it’s mature in the sense of treating the audience and characters with the respect they deserve and allowing them to change and grow in the process.
BYtheHORNs
I personally like how that ideological change in revy never changes her to drastically within the series. At least in my experience Rock’s changes, even after I further thought about it and came to appreciate how the show is constantly from his perspective still found his change (particularly in Roberta’s blood trail) to feel a bit unwarranted …