天下制覇

I’d think there’d be more wind while flying around in the air.

Impressions:

Not too bad of an episode, however, there were quite a lot of really bizarre direction missteps this week. From the very start, the needless exposition dumps were not exactly handled well. That’s an understatement. A power point presentation would have been more subtle. At least that would have fit into the fact that they’re in a classroom and supposed to be learning instead of having some random girl stick her head in from off-camera to talk about it. Beyond that, what the hell was up with the constant zooming? I realize that I’m the first to complain about long held stills, but I was starting to get sea sick because the camera just wouldn’t stop moving. I haven’t the foggiest idea what was with the cinematic spin-around towards the end of the fight either. I think someone was watching too much of the Matrix and thought it would be cool.

After how nonsensically grumpy Houki was for the entire episode, at least it looks like we’re past the hurdle of being a pain for the sake of being a pain for the time being. I’m also extremely thankful that we didn’t have any full body shots of Ichika in his spandex manbra until after the IS was covering him up. Things kept moving right along too, covering the seduction of all named females without radioactive hair or shared blood in a single week. They also did mostly a decent job with Ceci vs Ichika, aside from jamming in a morality speech about family out of absolutely nowhere. Luckily, that’s bedroom talk for the British and Ceci was all hot and bothered by it later in the shower. I can only assume that she proceeded to snog herself while thinking about the glory of defending the crown. I may or may not know what exactly snogging entails. The British have silly words.

Preview:

Chinese accent childhood friend. Ow.