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Yes, God does hate us, Lyner.

I should just rename Thursdays to "The Wasted Potential Power Hour."

Impressions:

You know, Nameless Generic Magic Knight #4 has some moves. He went toe to toe with Lyner and talked smack in the process. Nameless Generic Magic Knight #4 may be the most menacing antagonist this show has had to date. I’m still waiting on a good reason why Alpha Stigma are evil. I hoped this week would show it, but no. It was yet another case of "soldiers murdering people for no reason makes mages go berserk." Perhaps it would be a good idea to not rape and pillage everything if you want to curb outbreaks of magical death, eh? It may have been slightly worse than usual since the scene of the kid’s father crawling towards him was so drawn out and the ending obvious that it was physically painful to watch. At least it let me empathize with Lyner’s "Why does God hate us?" speech at the end, even if it was for all the wrong reasons.

And the first third or so was the usual "nothing’s going on in Roland, but let us posture and pontificate over it." Miran is seriously the only even vaguely interesting character in the entire fifty mile radius around Sion, and that’s only because there’s a good chance he’ll kill some or all of the others. Roland either needs to be eaten by a dragon or given a point. We’re nearly halfway through the series, and Sion is still bumming around doing the same crap he was doing in episode 1, seemingly having made no progress whatsoever. At least the action was sort of decent this week. Unlike most of the rest of the episode, it did not give me heartburn. That has got to count for something.

Preview:

Miran gets a boyfriend with matching power ring.