天下制覇

Cerberus was useless and never did anything anyway, so let's see how they manage to screw her up.

Impressions:

By having her just be a random non sequitur for about the time it takes to sneeze. Great. And yet, that was the highlight of the episode. I have questions about how they have apparently an entire goddamned city of prisoners, including trained heroes, and magical dragons, seemingly with no suppression of their super powers, yet they're kept in check by like… three guards? I'm not sure I ever saw any more than three, and there were usually dozens of prisoners, all with sharp objects. Apparently they're all held in check by good manners. Wondering about that is pretty much how I spent the 15 minutes of this episode that characters were reviewing their situation or simply staring at each other in blithe boredom. I think we're supposed to consider Nina's imbecilic cheerfulness/Stockholm Syndrome endearing. Christ only knows why anybody would. It's like she's from Alpha Centauri the illogical way she reacts to events.

The other 5 minutes of this interminable affair, and what could charitably be called the 'meat' of the episode, was mainly concerned with flashbacks about Favaro and Nina. You'd think then that it would show him training her or similar, except nope. She just goes "Let me be your apprentice," then a montage where she's already at the present-day skill level (or lack thereof) in everything, and… that's it. I think they may have just shown a goddamned single afternoon and hoped nobody noticed. Favaro even goes "Boy, this new thing that is happening sure sucks," which would make no goddamned sense if any time at all passed. How are they so goddamned bad at everything this season?

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