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In the middle of an apocalyptic zombie apocalypse? You don't say.

Impressions:

At least Quirky is staying on the better side of quirkiness by being excessively willing and able to resort to violence for reasons other than an obnoxious punchline. Unfortunately, this episode was mainly focused on repeating itself and backstory through our favorite narrative device, flashbacks. As if we needed an explicit reason to understand "zombies bad" and "To this guy, zombies bad… because it's personal." Yeah, no butts, guys. You're in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. I'm pretty sure it's personal to everyone. The writing hasn't gotten any better in the week off, and when things slow down and start repeating themselves over whether these half-zombies are really, really on their side or not, it becomes a lot harder to overlook the issues.

The main two events of the episode didn't really come until the very end, and both seem very ill conceived. Random pregnant woman was hiding that she was infected, and Protagonisto proved everybody completely right by trying to take a bit out of Blandy McPrincess… but we'll have to wait until next week to see him snap out of it or get kicked into another pipe. With luck, he'll infect her and make her vaguely interesting in some way. The former was far from subtle too, constantly clutching at herself and setting off Quirky's magic zombie sense, and then subsequently forgotten and ignored until it was time to stick a couple swords through her. Apparently all those invasive zombie bite checks from the first episode aren't really that strict after all, especially after mass zombie horde attacks. We're all on the honor system here. It didn't kick off another zombiefest though, so… what's the point? To prove that the magic zombie sense is working? To kind of show the hypocrisy of that one random girl?