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Looking for opinions on Peacemaker

I really had doubts going into this show, and though some of those doubts were justified, I actually enjoyed watching this show and was even highly impressed with 3 or 4 of the episodes. This show is not a formulaic shounen series, however it may have helped reign in a plot that was a bit jumpy if it were. Great concept, interesting characters, and a lot to work with, which is what made it enjoyable, but it seemed that they were unsure if the story should be more dramatic or not and in the end it came up just a bit mild. Somehow what I felt would have been the better concept to deal with, the idea of the “Peace Maker,” gave way to too much else. I did enjoy the story even as it went on its twisty road, and I enjoyed the occasional twists and terse moments, but it seems they only partially introduced and occasionally toyed with the idea of the Peace Maker. And the characters were mostly fun and likable and adequately developed, however, like with the story, they were a bit wishy-washy. It never seemed that they knew exactly what to do with them so they were sometimes deep and serious and then occasionally zany, which is ok normally, just that in this case it just lacked fluidity and instead of making the characters look multi-faceted they come out weaker for it. However overall this is a fun, sometimes interesting and exciting series, and I don't really regret buying it, but it could have been so much more.

So what happens between the great setup of the first four episodes and the last (let's say..) six? Lame, lame, lame interaction. He loses focus of the real goal at hand, while they throw in a bunch of festivals, little girls, and a westernized hillbilly version of Ryouma Sakamoto

It fails in really exposing or developing any kind of depth for a lot of the characters, really. Tetsu goes around crying about how powerless he is, Tatsu spazzes out over everything his little brother does, and they throw in this even lamer third party between the two conflicting factions just for supernatural kicks.