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They sure are full of a lot of jam.

Impressions:

This episode was an exercise in wasting time. They could have just gone “Need pills to preventthe jam from leaking out, here’s the last one, gotta go to factory.” Instead, they pissed around, and accidentally burned half the house down for the first third of the episode. And it took almost a full ten minutes after that of jerking off over power levels of all goddamned things before they even got to the factory. Among awful moments of padding were just about every character wondering “If she knows that she dies, but he lives, then what’s the point of going?” It’s a goddamned mystery.

The end of the episode was also unbearably corny. All Blondie’s agonized faces and crying have always been bad, but after all the whinging about how she was about to die and then she’s imminently about to die and he comes in to stand there and bawl in happiness and exposit out that we’re going by to be using the Valvrave memory-eating magic rules, everything goes into slow motion and stills for him to be extra agonized and shocked by jam being thrown on the walls. Here’s a hint for making a jarring scene. Keep it short. Don’t give the audience a chance to adjust and engage their higher brain enough to understand how silly it is multiple times over. And for the love of god, enough with the jam.