I absolutely loved this series. There were so many things that were just great about it I found. There were almost two separate stories, while at the same time being very connect. It’s hard to explain that exactly, although they had this big connection and the characters from the first part played huge roles in the second, the second wasn’t just in the shadows of the first or anything. I found the time skip to work great. It’s almost as if half of this series was an epilogue. Seeing Allison, Wil, Fi and Benedict play such big roles after such long time was great. Not to mention as I said I felt like the second part had just as much of an impact. The romance and just overall plot problems they encountered in the second part were just great. The show just had this general adventure feel that a lot of series just don’t’ have.
I am slightly disappointed with one thing though. I really wish they would have come to a better conclusion regarding Lillia finding out that Travas was Wil, her father. Although Matilda seemed to ponder whether or not Lillia knew he was her father or not, best case is she had that suspicion, but nothing was ever concretely revealed. I thought it would have been nice to see something along those lines. There could have been some very interesting conflicts regarding why he did it, if it was the best for their family, abandoning them or not, and so on. However they didn’t really touch on that much.
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To be honest I didn’t finish this one with as bright an impression. I think one problem really was Lillia. She seemed to combine the worst traits of both of her parents. She is as dense as Will but about as smart as Allison. Not like she lacked positive qualities I just found it funny how combining people with great talents and you don’t really get a great conclusion.
Also not really all that happy with Will. I could forgive the guy for being one of the most dense people on the planet in terms of knowing someone liked him. But then he goes off into the dark to secretly keep the peace doing god knows what horrible things. I mean if Allison’s father (who is a piece of work by the way) was willing to kill a lot of people to get one arms dealer who knows what he got Will doing. If the world can’t hold itself together then it probably doesn’t deserve the peace anyways. Already got to see what Will turned into being willing to let a plane full of orphans die so he could capture the mastermind behind it. Only stopping it because his kid was in danger. Considering Will was an orphan himself you think he’d have a bit more consideration in terms of sacrificing them.
Plus a lot of conclusions to things felt kind of weak. Like at the very start where Will shoots a guy in the shoulder then he shoots up and causes a collapse. But its not like the series was devoid of positive things. Benedict and Fi were a great pair and things went fairly smoothly. Unlike poor Allison who spent so much time getting Will’s attention and had to knock him down and drill through his thick skull. Benedict and Fi got together pretty quickly and clearly after the timeskip had quite the nice life. Plus their kids topped Will and Allison badly :). Plus there was some nice stuff with Treize and Lillia.
Overall though will probably have mixed feelings about this one. If they had stepped up things in a few areas it could have been a lot better. Still I’m glad I checked it out even if there were a lot of negatives that come to mind.