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Thanks, broadcast censorship!

Impressions:

Oh the budget. And the censorship. And the pacing. The first five minutes of this episode may as well have been an entirely different episode altogether, so I guess we’ll just ignore them since I doubt anybody cares. The sad part is that there was a lot of potential here for a thrilling action packed episode, and don’t get me wrong, if the entire show had been like this episode, I’d like this show a lot more. A ten minute fight scene with actual effort put into it, no bad slapstick shoved in anywhere, and nobody stood around glaring at each other whilst pontificating about their powers.

Which is not to say that there’s not plenty… plenty of room for improvement. They certainly could have lead up to it in… well, really any way, perhaps those five minutes before hand, guys? And the death scene was corny as all hell. They’re trying to be shocking and brutal, yet her death scene was filled with whining violins, over a minute of retrospective montage alone, and just kept going on and on and on. They clearly expect the audience to feel something for her death, I assume based on those ten minutes last week, most of which was flashback, but the counterargument to that is “At what point has she ever been important to anything or anybody that would make me care?” The answer, I suspect is “Cause she diiiiieeeeed.” The censorship also did not help matters at all. Yeah, I know that’s probably mostly the broadcaster, but yeesh, was it atrociously obtrusive this week and just made the usual awful ‘evil stills’ or whatever you want to call those horrid things about ten times worse since all you got was awful overreaction faces to screens covered in either black or blazing white.

Next Episode:

Nice hats.