天下制覇

Lo, I am slain, but first let me dump five minutes of exposition on you.

I’ve got places to go and people to destroy meet today, so we’re rolling low-def here.

Impressions:

I like the darkened eyeshadow on Gaius, it makes him look like a clown that broke into Limwris’ makeup drawer and then faceplanted into the eyeshadow. It added some badly needed amusement to his excessively long death. The direction of this entire episode left a lot to be desired for that matter. One pan over everybody’s shocked face when Arthur showed up was cheesy, the second one when Arawn appeared was making things worse, the third one when Gaius took a sword to the gut is just asking for an intervention and a check-in to rehab to get off the stuff. There were also the normal issues of cutting away to watch the elves bake or giggle about berries while their homes were burning to the ground, but that’s nothing new. Octavia also gave Morgan her lesbian friendship bracelet necklace, thus confirming that no matter the adaptation, Arthur’s not going to get laid.

At least the action was good this episode, but almost all of it was the same "good guys slaughter generics without ceremony" that we’ve seen the entire time. Most of Arthur and Gaius’s big fight was obscured by the dust kicked up every time Gaius swung his sword, and Arthur couldn’t manage a single blow except for the coup d’grace. Even when Gaius was completely distracted by Arawn, Arthur only barely managed to hit Gaius’ cape. It was nice to finally see Arawn go all demon king on someone for once too… and only 4 and a half months into the show. I’m also a little curious as to how exactly Arthur was carrying on a conversation at slightly above normal voice levels with an entire army… not to mention castle walls and raging fires… between him and the rest of Avalon. I’d also probably be a bit more excited about the angel torching the Imperial senate (guess we’re skipping all of the Londinium stuff, hooray) if the entirety of the next episode preview wasn’t about Taliesin’s dumb little "I like elf singing and molesting Epona" scene.

Brief Summary:

Blah blah blah, more fighting, more "we can’t give up," more "this is for our friends." When Arthur finally gets there, he shouts out for Arawn, who detonates the gate to appear in a giant explosion. Riannon runs to him and Gaius charges them, but Arthur breaks landspeed records and intercepts the blow. Gaius confirms that Arawn’s goal is Regius, the king of all, and starts fighting Arthur. When he notices Arawn just standing aside smiling, he realizes a second meaning of Regius, "Little King." Arthur manages to kill him, but before he dies, he makes them promise to spare his men and tells Arthur to make a kingdom where everybody is free.

At the Imperial Senate, one of the Sith Lord angels torches the place and everybody in it.

Preview:

Elf filler and pedophiles.