Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171110205409/@comment-92.112.25.69-20171114065035

ChishioKunrin wrote: 92.112.1.250 wrote: Hmm... Maybe you are right, at least I can accept the idea. Though those teenagers who are 'brainwashed by a cult' usualy don't hesitate when it comes to kill somebody with there own hands. Ilia, on the other hand, is fine about talking about murderings and sacrifices till it comes to wash her hands (directly or not) with the blood of innocent. Looks like hypocrisy for me. Like Ben said, it's not so much that it's "the blood of the innocent", as it is that it's the family of her best friend. She has shown that she still cares about her former ally Blake, even going so far as to beg her ("Please...") to leave Menagerie "before it's too late" and hesitating to actively fight her. Not only that, like I mentioned in an earlier post, Ilia knows what it's like to lose one's parents, so she may be feeling hesitation about putting her old best friend through the same pain that she herself went through.

I think that if the Albains had asked her to help in murdering a complete stranger's parents, she wouldn't be showing this hesitation. It's merely the fact that it's Blake's parents. I get it, though it still looks like a hypocrisy for me. She is fine with the idea of "necessary sacrifise" - till it comes to murdering with her own hands/hurting her friend/murdering someone else's parents/all these reasons at the same time. Begging Blake to leave was the worst part - she reminds me Adam here, with the message "if you stay here and keep on messing with WF I/we will have to hurt you, so run, run, run".

And that's all. I don't like this character and I'm not OK with the fact that RT push Ilia and her possible redemtion arc that much. Once again: why did we need Ilia-centered Blake Character Short, if the fact that both Ilia and Blake don't want to fight was shown in the end of V4 and in the beginning of V5, Ilia's "terrible past" was mentioned both by Ilia and Blake in V5 etc?

I don't know. I was complaining a lot about Blake's arc in V4, but now I suspect that it's not just Blake - RT seem to fail with the whole WF arc - including Blake, Adam, Illia, Sun, Ghira&Kali and so on. For now, the only interesting and intriguing couple of characters in this arc are Albain brothers, IMO.