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They’re rather quiet and agile for being in full plate mail.

Impressions:

I don’t even know where to start with this. It’s just so comically evil and utterly nonsensical that you’d expect Dr. Wily to be behind it all. There’s the giant flying fortress, an army of absolutely loyal soldiers who do literally nothing but spawn for fights and do so as like 50 of them at a time all leaping from windows in full plate mail (certainly not guarding any prisoners they just took or keeping an eye out for dragons), they’ve kidnapped the entire female population of a city as well as taken all of their resources, and then brainwash a protagonist. I think it’s the attitude of the peasantry that’s most telling. “He’s destroyed literally every family and taken all our possessions, but eh, what’re you gonna do? Me job is to be oppressed it is!”

The writing in general even outside the antagonists was a special kind of abysmal that I don’t think this show’s reached to this point. Another case in point was them going “There’s no way in!” on the first dragon-flyby, which I only remember because they wouldn’t goddamned shut up about it. So how’d they get in? Well it turns out that there’s an entire goddamned wall full of open windows. They threw a coffin in one. While someone else watched from another. And yet more people were constantly sending messenger owls from yet another. Maybe we should have come up with a different excuse instead of harping on about one that made no sense. Or perhaps it’d also be easier to ignore if the protagonists had done anything more than fly in through a window and then get mobbed by a million billion 8 foot faceless soldiers with magical self-cleaning swords.

Next Episode:

98% chance she’s another Chaika.