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I would’ve preferred a Phoenix arc.

Impressions:

I really don’t know what they’re doing with Maverick here. Okay, so he’s the real killer and screwed with Barnaby’s memories to imprint himself over Samantha… but exactly what kind of supervillain embarks on a 20 year plan to sit around and slowly wait while engaging in some light mind control on the side… but only on one kid? I expect Dr. Doom to have some kind of 20 year plan to conquer the world, but it’ll be made up of 47 different smaller world conquering plans where losing each one slightly advances the overall conquest scheme. Plus there’ll be at least four or five other plans instigated by his robot duplicates just to distract the Reed Richards from the true master plan.

Aaaaaaaaaanyway, an episode made up of mostly angst and talking heads, and aren’t those just the two most thrilling things in the world? Sunrise is pulling out every single bad drama trick in the book. Last week, Bunny kept interrupting Kotetsu. This week, they used both the overheard conversation and and the misunderstoodee standing around stammering instead of actually explaining anything. Luckily, Maverick suffers from no such confidence issues and we’re ‘treated’ to him spelling the entire thing out just to mind wipe Bunny again. I’d wonder what the point of the entire exercise was for him, but that’s the closest this show has come to any kind of supervillain in over a month. It’s even less of a superhero show these days than Heroes was at its maudlin whiny worst.

What ever happened to Lunatic, anyway? I think the last time we’ve seen him do anything in the present time was episode 10 or so. He was the only character in the show I haven’t repeatedly wanted to strangle.

Preview:

Dramatic closeups.