天下制覇

  

*staaaaaaaaaaare*

Impressions:

So… if they were going to be reunited all of about 14 minutes later, with none of them having faced any kind of obstacles apart, and very little of them time even spent on them anyway, then why did we even separate them in the first place? So we could pretend those ‘thrilling’ sixty seconds of speedlined action were marginally more tense than they already weren’t? They could have at least made the fights eyecandy to pass the time, but that would have required a budget and instead of having them stand around and posture for nigh on a third of the episode, if not more, have them fight. Thanks for announcing that everyone here is totally elite and badass. Are we here to hit each other or to stare longingly into each other’s eyes, talking about how much we totally respect them? And then jump to damnable speedlines.

I can tell you right now that there’s basically no chance that I’m continuing with this after the turn of the next season, and it’s not even building towards any kind of half-season climax… or anything at all. It’s continuing to go nowhere at a snail’s pace, the characters are inconsistent at best and unrealized mush at worst, the writing is a mess when it does try to do anything, and the already modest budget from the start has completely dried up. I don’t know what’s supposed to be left to engage here. That he’ll release the darkness within? That he’s finally been reunited with his long lost love? Let me tell you, excitement is about the opposite of what I feel from either of those, and even if I was excited about it, still wouldn’t excuse the budget-less meandering waste of the other 99% of this episode.

   

Next Episode:

The darkness within.