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My deja vu has deja vu.

Impressions:

Didn’t we just do the whole “mind control Ryuko” thing a couple episodes ago? And wasn’t it introduced then thrown away in like, two minutes? So why is it back now in Pog form as a cliffhanger? This time’s totally different, because… shut up! It’s different! I’m pretty sure that they’re just hoping people to squeal with delight at Ryuko and Satsuki trading uniforms, but since this isn’t Wednesday, let’s talk about the other 98% of the episode. …You know, the part that can be pretty much summarized as “Everyone moves from point A to point B, but especially the Job Squad.” But I guess they all have new costumes… again. They got such good use out of the last ones too. Oh, I guess there were also two angsty insert songs for extra angst or something. I think they forgot that Ryuko has the personality and depth of a lobotomized dachshund.

I’m kind of starting to feel bad for their vain attempts to continually build up the losers. I’m well aware that the show is trying to operate on the rule of cool, but it’d be nice if they could at least make up their mind whether they’re the last pocket of resistance against an alien invasion, or if they have an entire secret army based on a helicarrier. I suppose it doesn’t really matter since their only purpose in the show is to job to everyone else, but couldn’t we at least be consistent about how they’re jobbing? It’s nice that they’ve stopped even pretending to animate fights too and are content to literally do no more than wave pieces of scissor around. I’m not even kidding either. Almost the entire Ryuko/Nui fight was just scissors on a black background flitting around like birds, or for the ‘important’ parts, over one of their talking heads, before yet another death-but-WAIT-NO-MAGIC moment. At least it was brief. Something I wish I could say about the Job Squad’s continued exploits in getting bloody nothing done.