Lipsky being Bonaparta's son was foreseeable. He wasn't a 'superior' child and yet he seemed to have been given endless chances to commune with them (and therefore, become an object of his own and his father's disappointment). It would have been unlikely for him to have be chosen for the book readings at all, had he not been important to Bonaparta. But his being driven away from the readings also gives us some insight into the kind of person Bonaparta was.
Perhaps I bring this up very late, but how come Johan's old family and the new one share their surname?
The scene with Anna shooting Johan was very different from what I had imagined. While there is no denying that Johan has killed people, from what we have seen of this scene, there is no reason to conclude that he had killed the Lieberts. Our attention has been shifted to the man who visited the Lieberts that night, who they invited into their home like somebody whose acquaintance they were quite sick of, but could not help but keep. From this, I speculate that Lieberts were aware of Johan being sort after by some mystery organisation and unwillingly complied to their wishes as they had made some sort of deal. If such is the case, then Johan most likely killed the Leiberts, especially seeing the surprised look dead Mr. Liebert had on his face. I don't think Mr. Liebert would have been very surprised if the mystery man had pulled a gun out at his face. However, Johan urging Nina to flee the monster sounded quite geniune. This episode has changed my view of Johan as a person considerably.
I dislike the notion of there being several monsters, we have had three people hinted as being one: Johan, Bonaparta, and this new mystery man. If this is a meaningful thing to say, hinting at several monsters sort of destroys the omnipotence of the monster, makes it seem more human.
I am very curious as to who gave Anna her name. It wasn't in the picture book. In the monster's love letter (in Lunge's words), the monster says to the beauty: 'The greatest sin is to take away one's name. Reclaim your name. I return your name to you. Your name is Anna.'- and this letter is presumably addressed to Anna's mother. We can be quite sure that it was no coincidence that Anna also came to be called Anna, especially since Anna asks Johan to call her by her name in the flashback, and he says 'we have no names.' which sounds a good deal more like his having renounced their names, than their actually not being given one.
I am also a quite confused by the importance this show places on names, it seems to me that the name should only serve the purpose of making it easier for people to address each other in the course of conversation. The name is only the reference, irrelevant to the referee. For instance, how I do not care very much that I am almost anonymous on the internet, or how a vector or a point cares little about the coordinates assigned to it by a coordinate system.
I believe Lunge had already noticed the corpses buried in the garden. It was how he had been able to tell that over twenty people had been in the Red Rose Mansion. I had wondered how he figured that out when I watched that episode. I need to know where Lunge has been getting a lot of his other information though, he feels farther ahead than everybody else at the moment.
The thing I have most trouble understanding is Johan saying that 'Anna is me, and I am Anna.' I don't think this is meant to be figurative, but I cannot make any sense of it. I can make very little headway on the actual plot right now, we have been given a myriad of new information over the last few episodes. |