天下制覇

Just because you're a shambling undead, that doesn't mean you have to neglect the dojo.

Impressions:

Slower than last week's episode, which puts more weight on the writing, and we've already established how poor an idea that is. The main focus was on Mumei and learning the importance of teamwork, friends, and not to tell children to be happy that their dogs are dead. Well, it would have been had they gotten to that this week. We only got as far as "Mumei's so awesome and strong and great, but oh no! She got smacked in the head when she ran off to fight by herself." Which left the action mostly being Mumei taking potshots at a few zombies, cutting away, and then cutting back to large piles of the dead. It wasn't the show's best foot, even if it did still comparatively beat some other Thursday show's ass up and down the aisle by not cutting away to the peanut gallery every fifteen seconds.

I can't say that I'm a fan of suddenly heaping a hundred pounds of angst onto the 'kooky' manic pixie girl, and the more they have characters singlehandedly slaughter entire hordes of them at a time, the harder it is to buy into the zombie apocalypse. They're going to need to move on to something other than large hordes of easily dispatched grunts, particularly since this week's horde was back to lazy shamblers… except for the one who decided he was fed up with shambling and instead picked up martial arts. Yeah, there's just one karate zombie in the horde. And it snuck up on her somehow before spending the rest of its time screaming. Possibly even more unfortunately, they seem to be attempting to up the ante/score at the very end of the episode by introducing a giant uh… cloud zombie? One might even call it a titan. A titan that attacks. Hmm…