Okay, it’s almost 1:35 in the morning so I’m just gonna be total random here: Marius’ wallpaper makes it very difficult to find the break between Javert’s pic and Thenardier’s pic. Okay, goodnight!

@Kim: Thanks! Although I’m not entirely sure how to feel about those lines. xD

Thenardier: It doesn’t matter how many times you catch me, I’ll just break out again! You can’t stop me!
Javert: Then I’ll just catch you again every time you escape; until you realise your wrong ways and become a proper person! (turns away) Thenardier, people can change.

This is the rough dialogue.

You were wondering why Javert didn’t arrest Marius. Well, by the time this incident occurred, the government had granted amnesty to all survivors involved in the uprising. So Javert would have no reason to arrest Marius except maybe for the fact that Marius neglected to uphold his part of the deal in the Gorbeau case. I very much doubt that that would remain an issue, though, and Javert would probably be willing to put that behind him, especially considering what has happened to him. Besides, why worry about some dolt lawyer (yes, Javert does call him that ^^,) who didn’t fire a pistol when he was supposed to, when you’ve got a former Patron-Minette member who is clearly up to no good in going to a rich man’s house wearing a tacky disguise?

I guess I can see what you mean: Thenardier has pretty much gone downhill since losing his inn, and he’s gotten more vicious and nasty with every plan he conceives. I also noticed that his hands seemed quite pudgy. But maybe that’s just me. Or his costume. Man, that costume was ridiculous, no wonder Javert noticed him. XD

I’m actually dying to know what Thenardier said to Javert as he was being taken away. Must have been something pretty bad to provoke Javert like that. Doesn’t Thenardier realize by now that EVERYONE IS TALLER THAN HIM AND COULD KICK HIS BUTT NO MATTER WHAT?

Well, the guy has lost all his former comrades, he’s resorting to petty thieves right now, and then he sees Cosette andJean and comes up with a random plan that has nearly no chance to succeed, and doesn’t even realize this. To me, he looked pretty pathetic in this episode.

“I’m absolutely dying to know what Javert says to Marius after Marius is all “OMG YOU’RE ALIVE. O.O””

While I can’t remember what Javert said afterwards, his first line to Marius was “You look like you’ve seen a ghost.” ^^;

Nah, those shots with Valjean in his cottage looked pretty dark and gloomy which I think foreshadows his end. But maybe you’re right, and they’re just trying to fool us. Meh. He’s having a lot of flashbacks of his encounter with the bishop, though, so I think that’s another point in favor of the real ending. But it’s still odd that he’d be withering away, since he’s getting all that outdoor exercise. Yeah, yeah, EMOTIONALLY withering away, I know, but . . .

I am rather curious how the group manages to track him down. Oh, wait, Cosette receives a letter in the trailer that might be from him. Nevermind.

Is it weird that I am still somewhat disappointed that that was the last of Javert? Don’t get me wrong, he went out with a bang and it was awesome. (Probably even more if I knew what they were freakin’ SAYING.) *deep breath* But . . . I guess my silly inner fangirl really wants Javert and Valjean to have one last talk, as sort of an ultimate reconciliation. But that’d be both cliche and uncanon, I guess. After all, the idea is that Valjean already forgave Javert for everything, and since Javert seems to be all right, too, there’s no real need to talk. Still . . . blah, I’m down with a case of fangirl-syndrome.

POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING?

And yeah, I think Valjean’ll wither away next episode. Either that, or it’ll be a gushy happy squishy warm ending worthy of Disney. Which I definitely hope doesn’t happen. T_T

I KNEW that sash was going to come into play. It substitutes the ring that Thenardier got off of Marius in the book. His expressions were pretty funny when Marius debunked all his tricks and such. But, man, I SO called the Javert-tailing-Thenardier-to-Marius’-house bit. Woot!

Next episode looks like both the end of our beloved convict as well as this series. So sad to see such things come to an end, but that is life. *sigh* I do hope that this series won’t be totally ignored by the companies that get these animes subbed and dubbed into English. I actually thought I saw subbed versions of ep. 9 and 10 somewhere, but maybe they weren’t legit. I dunno, I hope they were, but I’ll look into that later.

I thought it kinda random that Valjean would go back to helping people and manual labor. He’s supposed to wither away from not being with Cosette, but maybe that occurs in the last episode.