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You are showing me this… why?

Impressions:

Oh goodie. They’ve found a new trick for their padding repertoire. Montages. At least one of them had CGI people and unrelated conversation with Rin and Archer. Did someone point out how you had already exceeded your twenty-five minute allotment of talking heads for the week, guys? Was that the problem? Poor babies. I’d hate to have your screenwriters have to start trying. So yes, the first half continued to unsurprisingly be as boring as hell and moved with all the drive of sludge mixed with gruel.

Things did pick up in the second half finally, but I reserve the right to retract the statement when they inevitably go through the exact same thing from Shirou’s point of view next week. The fight between Archer and Lancer was the most impressive action scene of the season so far by a country mile, and even Rin’s scramble away from Lancer was better done than anything else I’ve seen this week. Which isn’t to say that there’s not plenty of room for improvement. Like F-Zero, it continues to have a problem with people standing around jawing at each other for long… long… periods of time, which was even more obtrusive here since it was just Lancer carrying on a conversation with himself for about three straight minutes. Not to mention a couple inexplicable cutaways to pan over random parts of the school in the middle of the fight. “By the way guys, here’s the scummy pool. Just thought you might want to see that. You want to see more? No? Well, check out these lockers. Okay, back to the fight.” It also doesn’t change that it took almost thirty-five excruciatingly boring minutes to get there, and I’m betting thirty-five more excruciating minutes to get there again next week.