Parasite Dolls

Here we have yet another title which sullies the really good Bubblegum Crisis 2040 name. Parasite Dolls is supposed to be a spinoff of A.D. Police, which is supposed to be a prequel to the aformentioned BSG. As is custom, we have A.D. Police as the star and Boomers as the opponent for the most part. Everything is flat and boring and fortunately, there are only three episodes to suffer through.

The first episode quickly revealed that what made the Boomers go mad this time had nothing to do with BSG 2040 but led to a drug investigation. Boy that was a head scratcher at first. Even when all of the answers were given, any desired impact was lost because, well we still don't know the characters. As such, who cares what happens to them good or ill?

A similar thing can be told of the 2nd episode which covered hookers. It could have been an interesting look at emotions in Boomers but instead, we are given some more crap which fails to impact. Again, we still know so little about the main characters that we don't care what happens to them.

The final episode was the worst. It was a pretentious thing done in a highly artsy style. There are a lot of boring conversations and the failed attempt at trying to have a romantic thread between Buzz and Michaelson (started in episode 2) fails to carry. I didn't care if all of the characters died by this point. I couldn't wait to get the DVD out of my player, run a cleaning DVD through it, and get the DVD back to Greencine.com for some other poor sucker to rent. And companies like ADV wonder why sales are down. When you license crap like this, who'd want to buy it or even keep it on their HD if they downloaded it?

Bottom line: skip it and just watch the good Bubblegum Crisis 2040 again.

Last updated Tuesday, February 08 2005. Created Monday, February 07 2005.