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Five Thoughts on Baccano!”‘s “The Rail Tracer Covertly, Repeatedly Slaughters Inside the Coaches”

By | June 19th, 2017
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Hey kids! You’ve all been very naughty this evening! So Santa Rail Tracer is coming to up the violence! Hope you like it!

1. Oh Nicky, You’re an Idiot

Nicholas of the Daily Days is a bit of a jerk. He’s kind of like Dallas except replace the anger with smugness. We learn here that he intentionally led Gustavo to Eve Genoard, hoping to incite a gang war between the Genoard’s and the Runorata’s in the hopes of shaking loose secrets he can buy and sell. So when the result is Gustavo kidnapping Eve, it seems like that will be the inevitable conclusion. You know, if you’re a bastard like Nicholas. I suppose a more sadistic part of me is grateful, because this action does really get the Eve storyline a kick in the pants and I am glad that someone at the Days (Eleon) does prioritize civilian safety. Plus, I know how bad this will end up for Nicholas, so I can’t be fully mad.

2. Watching Dallas Get Owned Makes Me Smile

Never let it be said that Luck Gandor won’t cut straight to the bone. When Dallas and his goons go to the Gandor family to actually try and manipulate them into helping Dallas and it backfires spectacularly. Dallas boasts about how useful he and his crew could be to the Gandors, only to be immediately shot down with one question from Luck: “If you’re so good, did it never occur to you why we never reached out to you?” It goes to Luck’s character, this scene. Up to this point, it’s been Luck’s older brothers that have been the more emotional and physical. They’re hammers. Luck is the scalpel, calm and cool, even as he lets Dallas know how much contempt the youngest Gandor has for him. It’s a really good scene, further complimented by Dallas and his goons being thrown out.

They just happen to leave a crate containing two bottles of what seems like liquor. Follow the booze, ladies and gentlemen…

3. Blood, Blood & More Blood

Baccano! is not a kid friendly show, as you’ve probably noticed if you’ve been watching up to this point. This episode is the most violent one to date. It involves a lot of blood soaked train compartments and we have the first on-screen show of the Rail Tracer’s brutality. Hint: It involves the legs of one of the Lemures, the high-speed moving train tracks and grinding grinding pulp ow ow ow! It is visceral, even if the lighting in this scene kind of demphasizes it. Even when we see one of the bloody compartments and Nice wonders how much blood could get on the ceiling, kinda hard to see with the lighting. The other slight downer is that the mystery of the woman in fatigues being the Rail Tracer has already been put to rest with her being the one to witness the Rail Tracer go to work. Yeah, sixteen episodes, got to condense I suppose. Still, wish the mystery there could’ve lasted a little longer.

4. When You Become Friends With the People You Ran Over

So, Dallas getting thrown out on his ass wasn’t the only thing we had with him. After the beating, Dallas and his goons encounter Isaac and Miria. Dallas, in no mood for the eccentrics. The duo are saved by Ennis, who gives Dallas and Co. the second beating of the evening (in hindsight, I really should have started a “Dallas Owned” count). Isaac and Miria make an immediate connection with the mysterious woman (who, as we remember, was the one that accidently hit them with a car), who is confounded by the two. It’s a little moment that is going to have a bigger impact down the line, but it serves as the sweet start to Ennis’s development.

5. Vino is Coming

I have to make a bit of a correction. You see, I’ve been reading the Baccano! novels while I have been doing this rewatch and it didn’t occur to me until this episode that the events have been massively condensed. In the novels, Eve’s storyline takes place in 1932, a year after the events of the Flying Pussyfoot. In the show, these two storylines have been taking place concurrently. The realization happened when the President of the Daily Days tells Eleon that Claire Stanfield a.k.a. “Vino” is coming to New York on board that train. Now, I know who Claire is, so I really should have had this realization earlier, and this my bad. But yes, Claire Stanfield is coming, and this is where the first half of this series ends. Next time, we have an interlude episode.

It all began on the Advenna Avis


//TAGS | 2017 Summer TV Binge | Baccano!

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