El Cazador de la Bruja – 07

You know, at one point, I didn’t really like this episode, for obvious reasons (fanservice, a rather annoying Lilio). But when the episode finished, I do admit that I left it with a good feeling. It’s a typical example of an episode which was good and annoying at the sane time. The thing I like about El Cazador is that each episode has some kind of semi-hidden meaning behind it. Every episode shows a certain character who is special in one sort of way, and it shows how Ellis and Nadie relate and react to this character. The character of this episode: Lilio. The difference with the previous episodes was, though, that we didn’t delve into her background. We never get to know anything about who she is. Instead, the episode spends its time fleshing out her character. With a shower- AND pool-scene less then five minutes apart from each other, this had to become annoying. But these scenes did show one thing: Lilio and Ellis are very similar when they’re together. At one point, they’re both waiting for their companions, they’re both getting enthusiastic when someone similar to their companions comes close, and they both remain enthusiastic when they realize they’ve got the wrong person. For Ellis, this was obvious, since she likes to imitate people, and Nadie never told what she was going to do (this time, she just went to get some cash from Blue-eyes to pay for the hotel they’ve been staying in). But Lilio raises lots of questions. Why doesn’t she get lonely while she waits for her father? Why does she always smile? Why can’t she talk? Why would her father take her along on a dangerous mission like this one, and heck, why would he leave the girl unguarded? Does Lilio know what her father is doing, and if she does, then why doesn’t she mind? Also, I LOVED LA. Not only did he kiss Ellis in the previous episode, he also cut off a piece of her hair and turned this into a straw doll. His obsession is really getting freakier by the minute, and now it seems that he’s a walking killing-machine with that string of his. Still, who does he work for I wonder? All I know for sure is that Rozenberg has possession of the videos the guy makes, so why does he want to have the guy removed from the scene? It seems now that LA indeed is acting on his own, but if that is the case, then I do wonder how Rozenberg got a hold of his videotapes… The question also remains: what did Ricardo did to LA after knocking the guy unconscious? Obviously, the guy will wake up with quite a headache (Ricardo did this in quite an original way, actually. I never recall seeing someone getting knocked out when a gun is shot too close to his ears), but I do suppose that Ricardo didn’t just leave LA’s body afterwards. It’s a bit strange for his mission to just knock the guy out and just leave afterwards.]]>