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The longer you all blankly stare, the akwarder it gets.

Next Friday and on will be afternoon coverage of this show as with most of the other weekday stuff. Such is life.

Impressions:

I don’t think I like Mastermind very much. Not in the way you’re supposed to dislike an antagonist either. It was probably the droning awful expositionfest that kicked off the episode. Christ, man. Even Doom knows to show a little theatrics. A big fake puppet is all you brought? We get it Japan, you think puppets are creepy. So does everyone. And after 500 times, it’s gotten a little stale, be they anatomy dolls, unfinished puppets, dressed in Victorian clothes, whatever. Find something else. Plus, they already used flying a government building around in the flashforward at the start as the Big Thing For When The Ultimate Battle Climax, so now flying a gigantic tanker over the city seems like they’re trying to re-ring a bell that they haven’t actually technically rung yet. We already know pretty much everyone here is going to make it out of this to fight another day, so it’d probably behoove the story to aim a little bit lower so it can still build up to where it’s already been. 

I also question the efficacy of the Hellfire Club/Brotherhood of Evil Mutant’s master plan, because flying a tanker into the city seems generally counterproductive. Then again, compared to the utterly brain-dead stupidity that fill the shows trying to pretend like they’re intelligent this season, I probably shouldn’t complain about the mental stability of Magic Two-Face and his merry band of costumed misfits. The writing in general toward the end had a lot of squibby moments, even after the particularly silly bullying scene of all bloody things. Yeah, the arrow was an illusion and magic was keeping him from teleporting away, but it left more than enough time to roll the eyes and wonder if they were really being serious about that stuff, especially with the ridiculous laser beam censoring.