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Parasyte - the maxim - 1x08 "Freezing Point" reaction & review (Patreon)

Published:
2020-09-24 11:26:44
Edited:
2020-11-10 13:41:06
Imported:
2021-07

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Hey everyone!  Here's my reaction and review of episode 8 of Parasyte!  Well, there's a lot going on in this one, most notably of which is the puppy scene, which the creators of this show need to spend a LONG time making up to me!!!!!  :(  Shinichi is just not in there anymore, or so it seems.  Also, his timing with his girlfriend is TERRIBLE!  We get a new character in this one who is apparently working with Ryoko.  His whole "vegatarian Parasite" thing was interesting, but then about 12 minutes later he's eating someone so....that didn't last long!  I love that Shinichi can take care of himself, but miss his personality!  Will we ever get it back??  Let's find out!  Enjoy!  ~ MH

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Parasyte 1x08 full length reaction.mp4

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Dethrox

my downloading speed is pretty garbage.. :(( but i guess i will.. :D edit: nevermind.. i have stuff to do and i cant download while doing it.. :/

Manny

I feel sad seeing Shinishi like this. It's cool and I'm glad he now has a fighting chance with enemy encounters. It puts me more at ease knowing he can protect himself. But it feel like he's empty without that compassion for others. To an extent he kinda made up for it but it seemed like he just differentiated what Migi would have done and what the old him would have done, and took it from there. He's still nice, just more composed but hollow about things. The whole things just making me uneasy and sad. Where's Uda and Parasyte when you need em?

David Caine

Consider this. Shinichi at a psychological level, at a subconscious level, has changed. Is it really just the Parasyte cells in his body that changed him, not just at a physiological level, but changed his very psyche? Shinichi experienced unbelievable trauma. First, the guilt of hiding the truth about Migi to his parents. Second, acceding to being fine with their trip, which resulted in tragedy as we all know, and also know as it is how guilty Shinich felt for causing his mother's scar, even after all this time, because he is a good son and a good person. Third, being infected himself with a Parasyte, if he had come out to the authorities sooner, maybe his mother would still be alive, but now Shinichi has to ally himself with Migi. But the most traumatizing experience was seeing his dead mother walk up to him slowly, infected with a parasyte, out of a horror movie, speak to him and then kill him. A literal wound to his heart. Then, he has to confront, fight, and make up his mind to kill the monster. But his guilt makes him hesitate and almost gets him killed, until Uda and Parasite save him, and they spare him having to damage the body of his dead mother to kill the parasyte. They didn't know it, but they saved Shinichi some horrible trauma, because he felt guilty enough about the scar of his mother's hand. And her body falls and is then lost to the sea. So, it's no wonder Shinichi would say that the dog is not "poor," because a dead dog is no longer a dog. He calls it "a dog-shaped lump of meat" because of what he went through trying to kill the parasyte that took over his mother's body, and then her body discarded into the sea, without a proper burial or funeral. So he discards the puppy into the trashcan. It's a disturbing parallel, but the only way could ever hope to cope with what happened. But despite it all, he still had compassion, he still went out of his way to search for the puppy, to hold it and to comfort it in its dying moments. Then, he did bury it, even if Murano was appalled at his initial reaction to the puppy's death, because he saw he was losing himself. But that is his way to deal with death now. Shinichi has to disassociate mentally, psychologically, we know the way he was before, geeky and nervous like Murano said, and then what he went through. He needs to feel less, he has to control his emotions to be less severe. He cannot share what happened with anyone. It is now the only way he can cope. Is he made of steel like his father said, implying his coldness? Did he really lose something essential to being human? His coldness might be the parasitic cells in his body. His new thought processes might be Shinichi becoming more like Migi. Shinichi fears he is becoming less human, but I posit that the Parasyte infection might be a metaphor and allegory for severe psychological trauma. Shinich is fighting against depression and a deep inconsolable grief.

kamenriderhime
>>44640819

I'll check on the file again and hopefully can get a streaming one going at full quality for you :) Edit: I replaced it with a a new high quality link!

kamenriderhime
>>44687038

Me too!! Exactly, I'm glad his abilities are so enhanced, but he's definitely not himself. Right, he's try to reason out what it means to do things "right", as opposed to feeling it. Hollow is the perfect way to put it!!! Omg yes, we need more Uda and Parasyte!!!!!!!!

kamenriderhime
>>44689704

WOW!!! I never thought of this! I never made the connection between the mother no longer being the mother, but something in the shape of the mother, and the dog being a "lump of dog shaped meat". But now that I think about it, it makes a certain degree of sense that he'd think that way. Excellent point that the infection of parasitic cells is a great metaphor for the way in which people deal with severe trauma. Thank you for these great insights!!!