{"id":536,"date":"2006-06-06T20:40:45","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T10:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=536"},"modified":"2006-06-06T20:40:45","modified_gmt":"2006-06-06T10:40:45","slug":"black-lagoon-episode-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"Black Lagoon – episode 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Calm down, two men”<\/p>\n

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Polish jokes and Catholic jokes! Nuns selling guns! Fights in the marketplace! Black Lagoon<\/I> has it all and more!<\/p>\n

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Dutch forces Revy and Rock to do some errands for him. Since the submarine, Revy has been having “issues” with Rock, and this culminates in an argument in the square.<\/p>\n

This was a great episode for Rock and Revy, but first of all it was a great episode for Balalaika editing porn. “I want to die,” she says, after informing Revy that the actress on screen is, indeed, “taking it up the ass”.
\nPoor Balalaika; my heart goes out to you.<\/p>\n

The negotiations with the various parties showed off Revy and Rock’s strengths: in a semi-professional environment, Rock is deferential and Revy overrides him to get the job done. In a situation that Revy can see nothing for than pointing a gun at a bubblegum chewing, gun toting nun, Rock has a much more level head.
\nThe job of a salaryman may be soul crushing, but you can’t get that far without at least some skills. While Rock was crushed by the hollowness of requiring only “a place to drink and a batting centre” (I’m thinking the batting centre is metaphorical), in situations that he has some control over he can negotiate a storm. He is a skillful fellow in this respect, and this is foreshadowing for his overwhelming growth of a spine.<\/p>\n

Grow Rock’s spine does, the argument being charged with tension and an absolute refusal to back down. Revy told him that he had no idea what her life was like, yet Rock said that he could say the same thing of her; in addition to that, she did<\/i> know that his employers had given him up for dead in their filthy pursuits of money and prestige. “Tragic heroine” indeed.
\nRock’s logic is so disarming that she of course has no choice but to accept him. Then, when they’re arrested by the agreeable (read: corrupt as all get out) police of the region, they share a tobacco kiss.<\/p>\n

What a day.<\/p>\n

Oh, check it out, next episode features a maid with guns.<\/p>\n

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