天下制覇

These are the things we could do without.

Impressions:

I’m really not sure what’s worse, that everybody was expecting them to use such a horribly pathetic plot device like Kaede literally popping up on a rooftop and undoing every single thing that an entire episode was spent on not two weeks ago, or that they actually did it in probably the worst way possible… with not even her realizing what was going on and for one character conveniently missed via the strength of plot convenience. Just suddenly… "Uh… uh… Magic!" I barely even want to talk about it. The only way that could have been worse handled is if it was instigated by her sneezing. I think the more disappointing thing is that it’s looking more and more like they’ve completely dropped everything about Lunatic to have the entire cast fight a bunch of evil robots. Remember when he was going around murdering people and fighting the heroes? I’m not sure Sunrise does.

And so after last week’s increasingly rare flash of actual superhero action and looking like the writers might be competent enough to stop sticking the pencils up their noses for a moment, it’s back to talky talky talky and lurching around in poor directions due to bad plot devices. My main hope that this point is that they make up a third super ultra for really real this time truth about Bunny’s past. Maybe that his parents survived and live on as evil brains in their own robot shells. And then next season, they can reset his memory again to reveal that he’s actually from Krypton before revealing that that was only part of his true memory and he’s really Brainiac. And I wouldn’t put it past Sunrise at all. Actually, I think that might even be an improvement.

Preview:

No, Maverick, you are not menacings. Stop trying. Please.