天下制覇

  

Why was Cerberus’s first reaction to bombardment to stuff a dog in her crotch?

Impressions:

This was an episode full of very good questions. Why are you going so far to save her? In a land of gods, devils, and talking geese everywhere, having a tail inconveniences you… how? Are tail racists that much of a problem? Why is giving up being an official magical bounty hunter supposed to be a sacrifice? Are you laughed out of bounty hunter high school if you just turn up with the bounty or its head instead of a magical card? How did they traverse the deadly barren valley full of dragons to get into the floating mollusk? Why would you put your prison at the end of a trapdoor? Why would you take the low priority prisoner to the throneroom and leave the high priority prisoner behind, just to arm him and send him right back into the prison? What exactly was your endgame situation there? Is Elvis ever going to grow up and stop sobbing like a five year old? How did the French army know the exact location of the portal and manage to sneak an entire battalion of trebuchets into the barren valley full of dragons?

It even explicitly asked most of these questions, then shrugged its shoulders and instead of answering them, had another flashback about dead fathers. I’m really getting tired of that. It’s bad enough that Elvis won’t shut up about how Favarro is the source of every single evil in the world with snot pouring down his face, but now we have that Azzie killed Favarro’s father too? Give it a rest, guys. I think there’s enough going on in the present. We can bury the dead fathers instead of prodding their corpses every seven minutes.

Mainly though, the show (both of Mappa’s fantasy adventures this season really) needs to knock it off with all the attempts at coy foreshadowing. Azazel especially seemed like almost every damn thing out of his mouth was “Oho, now I see.” I feel like they also wasted quite a bit of potential here with the whole wife swap deal in the exceptionally hurried rush to get people saved and behead a mollusk. Elvis really didn’t need to be taken captive at all except for that dumb foreshadowing that he and Favarro are likely some magical bloodline or something, and Favarro and Rita didn’t really do anything at all together. It wasn’t even convincing torture. A wheel, some water, and a whip that doesn’t even rip cloth. Star Trek did better with nothing but a row of lightbulbs.