I'm wondering whether the executions will amp up in horror-factor to match the build up to the climax and finale, or whether they'll key them down slightly so we're more shocked by plot twists and horror outside of the executions, as it may have been intended with Celes' relatively, ah, 'benign' execution before the El Luchadore attack and Sakura/Monobear plot twist. Then again, at this point, I care so much about everyone left that even a painless death in their sleep execution would have me blubbering.

Do you think Mondo would've intervened and admitted to the crime if it came to that point? He didn't attack Chihiro out of any intrinsic spite and everyone's aware of the 'get the culprit wrong and the rest of you die' rule, so would he out himself to save everyone else? I'd like to think he would, considering how honourably (for lack of a better word) he went to his execution.