Hawk’s Babble-Log

This series was okay, but it had one thing which really annoyed both me and my roommate: It draaaaged out the main plot tooooo loooong.

Some other annoying things:

- 1) There were scenes where the two main characters would stare at eachother for minutes on end. Usually, the episode would then end. I think they were trying to go for dramatic, but it turned out to be boring.
- 2) The scene where a little girl, couldn’t have been more than five years old, was blowing away a family (Father, Mother, and their son) with a semi-automatic was one of the stupidest things I have ever seen.
- 3) The reaction (of joy) of another little girl upon watching said scene was one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen.
- 4) The scene where one of the lead girls gets shot in the head with her own weapon, but where she does not die, is never explained.
- 5) The reason one of the lead characters wants to kill the other lead character is never explained.
- 6) The reason why said lead character suddenly stops wanting to kill other lead character and instead trusts her to protect her back in battle is never explained. These are scenes where I look at my roommate and say, “Huh?” And my roommate usually does the same to me.
- 7) Most of the episodes started with a flashback from the prior episode. The main plot line was not complex enough to warrant this. I found it annoying and a waste of time. Maybe they didn’t have a huge budget for animation, I don’t know.

The good stuff:

The two main characters kick-ass. One is a young school girl who has lost her memory, and the other is an assassin who calls herself “Noir”. They always kick-ass in shorts or short mini-skirts. They almost always hit the bad guys. The bad guys are almost always lousy shots. Lots of violence (mostly bad guys getting shot). There are some creative battle scenes.

Oh, and no; no one ever thinks of wearing body armor (except one, near the end).

So, the ass-kicking scenes where the two girls get all the bad guys… those scenes are great. I would have been happy with a series about that. Instead, the first half of the series is like this. After that, it starts to swing into mysteries which are never explained, characters flip-flopping back and forth between trying to kill eachother and trusting eachother with their lives in battle, and long staring scenes.

Noir is worth the rental if you’ve got a lot of time and patients (and nothing better to watch). I’m not going to buy it as I have no desire to see it again.