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Gooral · 2012-09-23, 14:43

ep. 48

The episode wasn't that bad assuming someone prefers your average shounen rather than something of Hunter x Hunter class. Because of the changes MH has made Hunter x Hunter seems to be your above average fighting shounen (but still a fighting shounen that does not differ that much from *write-here-a-random-fighting-shounen-title*). Hunter exam has been stripped of non-combat stuff significantly (because who cares about characters having to actually use their brains, let's see explosions and colourful sparkles instead) and now they've rushed through "Zepile arc".

Anyway, the story felt rushed and jagged, i.e. first they were talking about capturing Ryoudan and raising their money that way and then it seemed that they forgot all about it and talked about GI and auctioning items instead. It wasn't hard to get to the right conclusion but it wasn't the best way to convey these bits of information.

Also, why would the bald guy be needed to explain things? If they wanted to do this this way then why even include him (after all, the shopkeeper didn't need this dude to tell that first item is worth 150k and second 300k)? And why would Gon and Killua even listen to this guy? He was after all trying to devalue their item so they had nothing to gain by listening to him and a lot of money to lose in fact. Most of all, why didn't they just open the statue and be done with it? After all, the risk they would take was minimal (you could say that shopkeeper evaluated it for 50k Jenny) so...
Since they did open it, what was even the point of this whole conversation in the first place? Really bad execution on MH part, as always when they try to add their own ideas.

And don't get me started on the scene with Ben's knife since it was even worse... There were tons of things which made it stupid but mentioning in the presence of the shopkeeper that it's a rare item was probably the stupidest of them all.

2012-09-23, 14:43	Link #1930
Gooral Banned Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: The town where Copernicus was born. Age: 38	ep. 48 The episode wasn't that bad assuming someone prefers your average shounen rather than something of Hunter x Hunter class. Because of the changes MH has made Hunter x Hunter seems to be your above average fighting shounen (but still a fighting shounen that does not differ that much from write-here-a-random-fighting-shounen-title). Hunter exam has been stripped of non-combat stuff significantly (because who cares about characters having to actually use their brains, let's see explosions and colourful sparkles instead) and now they've rushed through "Zepile arc". Anyway, the story felt rushed and jagged, i.e. first they were talking about capturing Ryoudan and raising their money that way and then it seemed that they forgot all about it and talked about GI and auctioning items instead. It wasn't hard to get to the right conclusion but it wasn't the best way to convey these bits of information. Also, why would the bald guy be needed to explain things? If they wanted to do this this way then why even include him (after all, the shopkeeper didn't need this dude to tell that first item is worth 150k and second 300k)? And why would Gon and Killua even listen to this guy? He was after all trying to devalue their item so they had nothing to gain by listening to him and a lot of money to lose in fact. Most of all, why didn't they just open the statue and be done with it? After all, the risk they would take was minimal (you could say that shopkeeper evaluated it for 50k Jenny) so... Since they did open it, what was even the point of this whole conversation in the first place? Really bad execution on MH part, as always when they try to add their own ideas. And don't get me started on the scene with Ben's knife since it was even worse... There were tons of things which made it stupid but mentioning in the presence of the shopkeeper that it's a rare item was probably the stupidest of them all.