I haven’t yet read The Dawn but what I did see of it seemed to involve a walking coffin so I wasn’t quite certain I wanted to give it a go just yet. He’s literally a girl there though and not just prey to a different concept of masculinity that a Western European audience?
I don’t know about marrying Integra but if I was an overpowered vampire I certainly know whose dog I’d like to be.
I, myself, don't think that was Murac in the rape either. It has a cross patterned stole he wore. He didn't dress like a Sultan.
That scene always strikes me as a really odd one. I know that it’s a device for upping the angst and giving him a reason to become a monster but it always struck me as rather gratuitous and completely random. Though this being Hellsing gratuitous really seems to be the way to do things and it’s not as if Rip has it any better.
I’m presuming that Alucard has to come back with some great revelation about himself as a result of that but if he can see down the paths of all those lives he’s taken he’s got a fair chance of resolving his own issues by comparison. Not in the sense that other people have had it worse but by way of allowing him to view those other possibilities and responses to said possibilities. Note to self: must find time to write alternative ending to Hellsing that leaves him chained up in a basement in Albion until Isaak finds him and dubs him Reißzahn.
The environment design in that intro does seem rather charming. I might well have to talk a look at the series sometimes, if only to see how it’s all put together.
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Date: 2008-03-18 07:56 pm (UTC)I don’t know about marrying Integra but if I was an overpowered vampire I certainly know whose dog I’d like to be.
I, myself, don't think that was Murac in the rape either. It has a cross patterned stole he wore. He didn't dress like a Sultan.
That scene always strikes me as a really odd one. I know that it’s a device for upping the angst and giving him a reason to become a monster but it always struck me as rather gratuitous and completely random. Though this being Hellsing gratuitous really seems to be the way to do things and it’s not as if Rip has it any better.
I’m presuming that Alucard has to come back with some great revelation about himself as a result of that but if he can see down the paths of all those lives he’s taken he’s got a fair chance of resolving his own issues by comparison. Not in the sense that other people have had it worse but by way of allowing him to view those other possibilities and responses to said possibilities.
Note to self: must find time to write alternative ending to Hellsing that leaves him chained up in a basement in Albion until Isaak finds him and dubs him Reißzahn.The environment design in that intro does seem rather charming. I might well have to talk a look at the series sometimes, if only to see how it’s all put together.