Lolli123456

The first two episodes are quite endearing and you think that its going to be a love story, but its much more of a tradgedy. Although they squeeze in a hollywood happy ending in the last 5 minutes of the 4th episode.

Despite the story being billed as about "...independant and unconventional sisters...", the older sister often acts like the dutiful wife and does exactly what her only slightly overbearing husband suggests. Her character valcilates from strong to weak from scene to scene. Its obvious the writer(s) had a hard time converting the book to a mini-series, as most of the main characters are all over the place, acting like different people from scene to scene.

The social class aspect is interesting, but its basically about "noble" rich people and "capitalistic" filthy rich people interbreeding. I have not read the novel but I'm sure it goes more into the lower class struggle, but in this version the poor people are treated more like an addon to the story instead of an intergral part. Perhaps that is more the real point to the story... rich people only care about surviving and poor people are not worth anything, not even a decent part in the play.

The wife of the poor man having a sordid past with the rich man is overly coincidental with that poor couple becoming almost forcably befriended by the sisters. Again, maybe in the novel it comes across as more real, but it just seems stuck together for no other reason than to create drama.

Another review that seems to have been deleted mentioned that a white man married to a black woman would not have been allowed 100 years ago, but that is a much more of an Amerikan attitude and history than a British attitude and history. While I doubt it was common for a white man to marry a black woman at the time in England, interracial marriage has never been banned in the UK like it was in the US. That said, regarding interracial/inter-ethnic marriage in England at the time, it was much more common for Indian men to marry white woman, as the trade with Indian (read that, brutal colonization) brought a lot of Indian men to England. It would have made for a much more interesting story had the poor man been Indian and the wife to have been white. Perhaps she could have had an illigitamate baby from the rich man. Just saying... more interesting and realistic for the time.

The 4th episode has the feel that it should have been at least two episodes and they jammed all the plot into one episode to get it over with. Which I kind of appriciated. Whew. The younger sister suddenly allowing herself to have an affair with the poor man at the end of episode 3, while logical since she fancied him and stole his umbrella at the beginning, again seems forced for no other reason than to create a child to be the heir of Howards End in the final scene.

The moon is shown 3 times as being 3-4 times bigger in the sky than it actually is. I really despise altering the size of the moon in shows, its done more often than most people think and it makes people think the moon is much larger/closer than it is. If it was slightly bigger it would have been fine, but they made it ridiculously bigger. For me, its like breaking the 4th wall.

All in all I can't imagine its an overly faithful version of the novel. I've seen at least one other E.M. Forester movie and it was full of subtly and nuance. You can see that they are trying to portray the overly restrictive English norms when they are talking about the sordid affair in Cyprus, but they just don't spend enough time for that kind of subtly to come across. This series is crude and patched together and should have been at least 6 episodes instead of four. The best parts are the sisters and the Wilcox couple (while they were originally at Howards End before she dies). Great actors who did the best they could even when the writing and directing let them down. The actresses that play the two sisters are both extremely beautiful women. The first two episodes with their interactions are probably the best part. I bumped it up half a star just for that.

In the first episode, the diamond theives are caught on camera, twice, once when the diamonds change hands and again when the diamonds change hands. It was just stupid that cameras are in the two places that were most convenient for the cops. You pull off a multiple million dollar diamond heist, but then you pose for pictures with the evidence. And no gloves so there are fingerprints everywhere, no masks so everyone knows what you look like. I love heist shows, but this one was poorly written and even more poorly directed.

This is an amazing anime but it is not for the sensitive or easily offended. Its extremely gory and the gratuitous nudity verges on it being labeled as Hentai porn. Another aspect is that because its Japanese, its amazingly misogynistic, with woman characters written as idiots or incompetent or simply extra characters to be abused by male characters to show that the males are psychotic.

All that said, at times it is a very beautiful anime with quiet lovely scenes with ordinary characters dealing with life. Even the girls that have been tortured into monsters their whole lives switch back and forth from being sweet cat-like innocent young girls to being psychotic killers.

There are a lot of plot holes in the series, and perhaps if they had done more than one season they would have filled in the gaps, but as it is there is never an explaination of the origin of the new species or an explaination of how their pyschic hands came into existence. Nor is their any explaination for the horn-like (cat ear like) metal skull apendages. It seems someone simply wanted write a story and give young (often naked) girls cat ears and make them into monsters.

They mentioned Fakebook 5 times in the first 5 minutes. Sell out much?! I deleted my fakebook in protest. You can actually delete your account now, the king of fascism was forced to add the feature. Search for Permanantly Delete Facebook.

In the show, the guy is a typical effeminant asian, whispy with no testosterone. The kind of guy no woman should ever date as he will never give you what you need. The girl is tall and pretty and smart and totally would not be struggling to get a guy. In other words, its a false premise for a show. Dropped.