![]() Climbing the Tower and becoming a star, not just seeing them, is her primary objective, and Bam is an obstacle. ![]() In Rachel’s mind, what she must do is never in dispute, so much of her ordeal throughout the training sessions is convincing her body to respond to her mind’s intentions. They even provide her with a Rak-sized bodyguard, as well as guidance from the redhead Hwaryun. But she’s eventually able to convince both him and Hansung Yu to let her make the attempt anyway, but only if she completes a special test: She must kill Bam. ![]() We start with Rachel arriving at the base of the Tower, meeting Headon, and being told she’s too weak to climb it. One mark against this finale is how little new content it contains much of it is a recap of past events with Rachel’s narration providing fresh context, right up to when she shoves Bam out of the bubble and to his apparent death. Up top you see Rachel’s look of relief as she says “Finally,” her long ordeal with Bam is over (at least for now). There was never any actual climbing…that doesn’t begin until the very end. I watched Tower of God simply for the characters it introduced, the story that was told, and the setting in the title…which, it turns out, we never really got to see. Any product that tries to steer me towards something that isn’t anime is never going to succeed. Like Rachel’s attitude towards Bam, its true nature was always apparent.īut I only watch anime for anime’s sake. Much like Bam, I can’t say Tower of God “tricked” me into watching it only for it to be a glorified prologue. Unless it’s original content, part of its raison d’etre is to sell its source material, be it a manga/manhwa, novel, or game. I thought of that quote from a movie I watched a ton growing up when I watched this finale, because over and over I’d heard that this adaptation was nothing but a pale shadow of/introduction to the sprawling webtoon, something I’d never seen, and was more of a commercial than a product in its own right.ĭon’t get me wrong: both Ralphie and I should have known that at the end of the day anime-like radio-is a business. Ovaltine?! A crummy commercial?! Son of a bitch!”-Ralphie, A Christmas Story
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