天下制覇

  

Nobody is protagonist but me!

Impressions:

Wow. Did this really begin with a two and a half minute recap of the previous episode? And then went right back to janky direction, bad insert songs, and all our usual favorites; old guy’s ptsd, teenage superpower, magical princess tinnitus, etc. Yeah, I get that you want to make the little dogfight between fists and jet exciting, but if you’re going to show him a moment away from being fisted, you probably need a better trick than changing the camera angle when he does a 90 degree turn and comes to a complete stop to hide that the fists are now several seconds away. At which point he passed out to show that they Know a Thing About Jetsâ„¢, so the fists, which overshot him on a horizontal plane, were suddenly chasing him, in an uncontrolled jet in a long freefall, from above. The mind boggles.   

The pacing in general though was pretty reamed this week. They apparently spent hours skeet shooting the fists while everyone else launched a super space boat out of a mountain, and the whole “two protagonists meeting” that everyone assumed would happen this week from… you know… A and B being in the same place at the same time doing the same thing against the same enemy… nope, not happening. That might interfere with Eggman’s greatness. The closest they came was both going “That guy in the orange thing/jet is someone special awesome super great,” with the cliffhanger being Eggman declaring him an enemy and shooting him down, because he didn’t have enough eggpower or something. Who knows? Only Space Goat knows.

I also appreciate that they finally killed fisty, not by wanging her with a giant ship, but with a single bullet to her apparently glowing weak point after wanging her with a giant ship, thus combining two of the supermech weaknesses we’ve already seen so far; “hit it with a blunt object” and “shoot it in its weak spot.” Someone really needs to fire Dr. Wily from the design team.