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Are they still trying to sell these guys?

Impressions:

Basically another episode of naught but exposition and yet again trying to make out… uh… whoever the gimps were in Dragonball out to not be gimps. Said attempt came with an entire speech explaining not only why they and their new slow blow dryer was so awesome, but how it worked, why it worked, and the average rainfall of the Amazon basin. All so that they could show how great Ryuko was. Over the Job Squad. Again. And we’re apparently going to be delving into the “I’m a monster” schtick too, triggered not by the grotesque blood spewing monster she turned into a couple months ago, but by newfound immortality and super powers. Yes. That old chestnut. An inspired direction to take things that I haven’t seen at all since about seven shows last season used it.

The height of the particularly insipid padding came when they were explaining Ryuko’s situation, particularly at the start of that scene when they couldn’t just show the damn sailor suit looking anxious, but had to then give an entire paragraph about how anybody could see that it looks anxious. Followed by basically them going “There might be a plot hole here, but ACTUALLY!” Of course, the wise move would have been to just not say anything at all, but I suppose that wouldn’t have eaten up any time, and isn’t that really what’s important here? I mean why else would they possibly have yet another segment of the antagonist stroking her naked daughter?

Next Episode:

My automatic capper doesn’t like the way this show does next episode previews. Also, bondage.