At least that's how El Cazador de la Bruja ends, rather than the limping off into the shadows ending of Noir.

I just finished off the last two episodes of El Cazador de la Bruja yesterday. I can't say it hit me in any profound or meaningful way, but it was at least semi-satisfying. Episode 26 is devoted to wrap-up and tying off a minor (inconsequential really) loose end. The real climax occurs in 25.

The last showdown between Rosenberg, Nadie, and Ellis would have made a much bigger impact if the writers hadn't employed the old "we're going to sit here in auras of power being effected in god-only-knows how many ways, presumably immobilized, and carry on a conversation as if the villain were not standing right here next to us. Then I'll flick you a gravity defying penny (while immobilized), and you'll somehow aim and shoot me (while immobilized).

Novels have an excuse for this behavior. They can devote pages of text to describing what's happening without mucking up the continuity (I'm looking at you The Illiad, and your six pages describing a damned shield). But I can't be expected to believe the protagonists can carry on a two minute conversation without the villain chiming in to shut them up.

I need to see if they have a trope for this kind of thing already.

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