天下制覇

Can’t turn serious until the OP shows up as an insert song.

Impressions:

Well, it’s nice to be right, I suppose. About 75% of the action in this episode was indeed in the preview for last week, with most of the remaining balance kicking in along with the OP as an insert song straight out of the list of terrible direction decisions. I actually swore out loud at the show when it started playing and may or may not have grabbed a nearby voodoo doll to put a hex on the director. It also irritates me just from a plot standpoint. Suddenly Misaka switches from piddly little lightning shots to giant waves of iron and plasma storms. Why weren’t you doing that in the first place? Oh right, didn’t have the OP playing yet. How could I forget? I also found it highly amusing that instead of calling the hospital where all the people were who needed to hear the releaser, they tapped into the entire city’s speaker system. From a SWAT van. Was that really the easiest way? Really?

The rest pissed me off in the usual ways. "It’s all over." "Don’t give up! I believe in you!" "Oh, okay. I won’t then." The mind boggles. Didn’t Kiyama try to shoot herself in the original source? That would have made that scene slightly less moronic, although nothing can really save it from Uiharu’s sudden onset Stockholm Syndrome. Saten continued to drop in my eyes as well and I wish her a firey death. She giggled and played off the whole "drug experimentation that almost killed me" thing as nothing until she noticed Uiharu was hurt all over, then a hug and about 15 seconds of what would pass for deep thoughts if she was a four year old, it was back to being her usual spoiled little bitchy self. You’ve learned nothing from this and I wouldn’t be surprised that when the rumors start that eating babies gives you powers, she’s the first one there with a fork and a knife.

Preview:

Excessively long episode titles.