Called it. Go right ahead and pat me on the back. I feel just like my college friend who'd always ruin his roommate's Friday nights by guessing who did it on CSI that week before the second commercial break had even ran. Of course, when there are only three suspects, your odds of guessing the culprit aren't ever too low...
And I wasn't able to guess the means by which the victim's employee was able to lure him to his doom. I'll admit that, but it probably should've been easy to guess. “Old fashioned” string-based telephones only ever show up in two places - - middle school science projects, and junior detective cases. And honestly, I'm surprised there wasn't some Hunter-pedia style bumper scene that showed you how to make your own in five easy steps at home.
== TEASER ==
Actually, I ought to at least compliment the crew for finding several ways to incorporate cell phones, apps and video surveillance into the mystery. I'm not the biggest consumer of detective fiction, but I still sympathize with the position of its authors when modern tech has made it that much harder to create tension. How much dramatic complication can you have when two days worth of sleuthing can be taken care of in two minutes with a Google search on your iPhone. It's still... amusing that Shazam essentially saves the day this time but, hey, points for cleverness all the same.
Now, here's a question for long-time CASE CLOSED devotees...
Does the show always use this conceit of rendering the suspect as a silhouette whenever it wants you to know what he's doing without revealing his identity yet? I'd expect it does. And if it does, that's got to be the most manga-esque storytelling device I've seen an anime use. Like, even more so than the “power point vision” we get when the kids are trying to guess Conan's password.
Watch this episode and decide for yourself, then read my thoughts on the previous episode.
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