Instead of seeing a longer-intro with some plot-resolutions including some discovery of any powers / 'inheritances' she might have in addition to her dreams, which for a 1/4 or so is pretty-tame to start with, this movie disappointingly avoids further myth in it's fantasy-realism , re-introduces psychiatry as-WHERE she encouters imterest in her dreams & repeats religious hats-off moments which were already annoying in the 1st movie but i ignored
( for the sake of giving the 1st move production-value efforts some credit in terms of some of the humor as-a-family blended with Alice's progressions as the plot goes on and how the camerawork and scene-setting shift and is quite varied which added something that if it hadn't had, would've made for quite a dull / seen-it-before amateur mini-romp. )
Instead, without more potentially interesting supernatural outside-events, this movie is shallowly-human, betrayingly hypocritical to a small degree in now portraying Rome as something that would add to her resolution "there's fighting to be done soldier" (sic) when it comes to Empire/Industry vs. Rome's enemies, who often used far less dangerous chemical, particularly, sciences / crafts.
In setting aside which-side one would be on in the 1st movie ( especially considering there is no Bodacia reference ) , i chose not to mention it,
but this movie mentions Bodacia historically, avoids the historical source of the conflict (her daughters' being raped by romans) , but then later has her using what would be her father's Roman family? Bloodline? To fight pollution?
Think about it - who was on nature's side during those times, by-large, compared to who used things like slaves /exploitative labour, to mine lead, mercury, etc
Yet there was quite a lot of potentially interesting potential on the mum's side in the 1st movie UNEXPLORED , which i then expected as the series went on, she would discover, and perhaps one day understand of her grand'mother' reasons.
Instead, they're still saying-grace at the dinner table?
When the new father-in-law had humped a demon?
Oh come on ... where's the then counteractative forces of heaven WERE that then something to continue to respect over the dinner table?
Or more relatedly, WHICH heaven, for heavens'-plural ... sakes,.. in terms of perhaps writing that was not throught-out as well as it could've been.
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Sigh... but no ;
1 a wasted mum, who's 1/2 demon (more potential) and yet behaves like a nothing-more than a alcoholic , and then in the 2nd movie is still nothing-more than a mum, even if she's meant to be off the booze,
2 In all the time that's supposed to've expired since the 1st movie, Alice has not thought twice about Empire/Industry? And what it causes? Give me a break, you've have to be brain-dead. The pathetically simplistic "good fight" reference in the 1st movie was intolerable, but this seemed more like deliberate watering-down of female-empowerment, and also deliberate AVOIDANCE of the history of the cause of Brit.s revolt / war , despite continual references to MALE in-death potentials or familiarities, and avoidance of female, with grandma the demon, just ... what ... left-behind?.. and that's as much about FEMALE-in-death stuff, to have to think about?
No cracked-egg hesitations when making egg on toast ... no split-down-the-middle cringe?
*honest raised eyebrows*
And yet near the end, she uses a lit-tampon fairly effectively...
*innocent coy look*
That seemed to have a lot of POTENTIAL,
didn't it?
Tut tut tut.
What a waste.
Needs to be introduced to other circles to regain/discover her inheritence she-can't-avoid , this one *puts his hand up to volunteer*.
Angel-answers at the catholic school, have turned the brains into mush.
*head shake*
