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Sure was nice of Maria to bother showing up this week.

Impressions:

Good god. If they spent half as much time actually being challenged as they did prattling on about having strong wills and sticking to my path then maybe this episode wouldn’t have been so bloody dreadful. It also rings just a little bit hollow when it’s predicated on getting blackout drunk and sleeping with some guy’s wife, or fiancee maybe? Maybe just a prized whore? I don’t really know. For a while, I thought it might be his sister even. They took an uncomfortably long time to clarify. But that’s okay because he believes in himself. I don’t think AA will be in his corner for this one.

What I found really weird though, was the gusto with which he then repeatedly declared how unfaithful his woman had been to him. I’m also pretty sure that nobody is going to survive the kind of head injuries that you inflict by repeatedly bludgeoning someone in the head like that, but they’re still so scared of showing any blood other than that one bizarre squib last week that he just went ahead and offed himself offscreen due to the shame of losing to a grizzled soldier who basically cheated in a duel of honor. After he himself simply punched the guy up in preparation for that. Honor and shame this week were basically the magic words for “writers can’t be assed to make this make sense.”

Next Episode:

 

That armor seems wrong.