![]() #SPACE RUNAWAY IDEON TROPE SERIES#Late in the series another lady with a child by Golgo 13 turns up – a prostitute who just ‘wanted a child’ and it was just chance that Golgo 13 was the father (although repeating this theme does make me wonder if he's ever heard of condoms!). That also makes an interesting pairing with the ‘amnesia episode’ that I’ll talk about later. She’s mired in guilt, finds Golgo 13 has a moment of happiness and then follows him to witness his assassination and accepts being killed for having done so, with Golgo 13 leaving her dying on the ground. There’s an episode with the woman who accidentally killed someone and then just keeps running into Golgo 13 (in a bar, sharing a car to the airport and next to each other on the plane, which ends up crash landing). But it awkwardly doesn’t work its magic and she just has to get dressed again!), but with Golgo 13 himself being such a blank the plight of the female characters are always more prominent, if tragic and doomed! Some of the female characters couldn't be called particularly 'progressive', though some of the more iffy moments have at least a bit of nuance to them, especially in a couple of episodes where women attempt to use their bodies as bargaining tools (particularly in the ‘assassination of the prize-winning racehorse’ episode, where it’s the only thing that the daughter desperate to save her horse can offer as payment. In the second half of the series there are many more lovelorn women scattered throughout the episodes. #SPACE RUNAWAY IDEON TROPE HOW TO#But it does provide the answer of how to reach the target. ![]() That’s still the best of the ‘relationship’ episodes, especially as it’s the early sign that even with a past relationship Golgo 13 doesn’t really let that sway him – he’s only turned up again to assassinate the other woman in the conflict and the best way to do that is to tag along with his old flame. Golgo 13 isn’t really healthy for women to become infatuated with! I’ve already mentioned in the previous post the great episode "Catherine the Cold-Blooded" with the “Real IRA”-styled internecine fighting between two women (one of whom was once Golgo 13’s lover and had a child by him, who died). There are allusions to drugs in cycling, and a rather bizarre episode that reolves around Hollywood studio executives trying to assassinate the upstart stars of Asian action films to protect their own market! (Which was perhaps a more relevant fear around the mid 90s to mid -2000s, but I digress!) They’re broad (especially the one in which “Robert Crump”, the megalomaniac, wager-prone owner of lots of New York real estate, including “Crump Tower”, has to be assassinated Lincoln-style whilst watching the rehearsal of a play! But there’s that fantastic final shot of that episode where “Crump Tower” still forlornly dominates the city skyline, its owner now gone), but they often help to sketch in the parameters of the situation as quickly as possible before the episode moves on to just how the assassination will be carried out (always keep a boiling hot pot of fondue to hand to dispose your hand assembled gun into!). There are a lot of amusing allusions to ‘real world’ issues getting thrown into the whole series. If the first 25 episodes were equal parts showing just how much of a “world class super sniper!” Golgo 13 is, and then how he’s almost an angel of death figure, the final 25 episodes start to play around with the material in really interesting ways, that all interrelate with each other: Sorry about yet another post on the 2008-9 Golgo 13 series, but I’ve now finished the second half of it. ![]()
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