Hitman: Twisted
Paths
Posted
at http://smarthomeschool.com/2005/12/02/the-hitman-twisted-paths/
December 2nd, 2005
at 10:22 am
The
newest episode of the Hitman
was released recently, marking the start of the Season 4. The download is large,
at about 67 MB, but considering this installment is nearly twenty minutes, and
at a 512kb/s quality, it’s not too surprising.
Starting
with technical highlights, I was impressed with the new picture of the White
House, and was pleased to see that it was panned up. The set for the Libyan
Chemical Weapons Facility looked very realistic, with perfect lighting. And as
always, the music was wonderful.
(Warning:
possible, vague, pseudo-semi-spoilers may follow)
As
far as the story line goes, to be honest, the continued dig into Red Fox’s
“dark side,” doesn’t really thrill me. It is quite difficult to make the mental
transition from him being the hero, to almost becoming the tragic hero. This episode,
however, gives us some insight to the possible cause of Avery’s behavior, and
may even give a good reason for it. In a dream of happenings five years ago, he
has the following dialogue.
Friend:
…what I usually tell myself is there’s gotta be
something out there that’s bigger than all this.
Fox: You
believe that?
Friend: On
good days…
Thanks
to this talk with Fox and Friend(s), we discover that our hero doesn’t seem to be a Christian, at least
at that point in time. My personal guess is that we are having this darkness in
order to eventually bring him to Christianity. If that’s the case, our hero’s
mistakes are for a good cause, and I don’t mind bearing with them.
My
favorite section was probably the “he hasn’t even been on a date!” banter
towards the end. More excellent acting comes in Senate Sub-Committee, with
humor, drama, and even a neat look back at the
You
can download the file at the Streaming
Media Network page, and there’s other great commentary at the Real Director (the official fan blog).