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Saturdays this season suck.

Impressions:

If last week's theme was "Look at how deep I am for being angsty", this week's theme would be "See how multifaceted my characters are too?" They go through a series of tests, achieving victory by handwaving and postmortem explanations of scenes, spitting out some factoid or two about themselves along the way. A parade of gimmicky nonsense spat out and left to fester in the air. Where was any of it going? Hell if I know. Two expositionriffic episodes in and the story is still in pre-boarding. The only good thing about this episode is that there was much less of a focus on the sad sack protagonist from last week who was a walking loaf of pathos. He spent half the episode strapped to a cross, in case you were worried that things might be too subtle for anybody to miss, before the remarkably godawful feeeeeeeelings sharing scene at the end. Two episodes, and all he's done is be a wallowing punching bag, but we can all totally get behind this emotional exchange about a sack of of sad, right?

The rest of the day looks bad enough that picking up Asterisk halfway through almost seems like a palatable idea, but one glance at that quickly discourages even that idea. I'm pretty much ready to write off Saturdays entirely this season, although I don't have any good ideas of what to replace it with. I'm not closing the door on setting fires to things/people.