天下制覇

How does one tell a story? Not like this.

Impressions:

This is probably what hell is; a world of people explaining to you things that you already know like you're five. Organic conversation? Nah. Let's have two characters explain to each other what their job is. They're also quite possibly completely insane. Upon entering a hospital as they're walking through a gigantic, completely empty stone room, they explain that everything there is state of the art. That must've been one hell of a gift shop at the entrance. In fact, aside from the ultrasound machine, I think every shot of the hospital is a completely empty room. Also, when they step in, blood comes shooting out of the woman's hands into their faces. Meanwhile, one of them starts having waking nightmares of a demon baby. And yet, somehow, it's still all dreadfully boring.

This episode comes off more like the first couple pages of five different Encyclopedia Brown Visits a Church stories that got mixed up and thrown together. It's throwing an assload at the wall, but almost none of it is connected or flows from one thing to the next. The start is especially awful since the main characters just stand around announcing themselves, their past, and their relevent (non) qualities to each other. The second half can at least make a claim to a rollercoaster of twists and turns, each making less sense than the next, but all of which will no doubt be eventually shown to be related. It's not a mystery at this point though, just a collection of characters introducing themselves, usually by stating their name and occupation (along with a faceplate), and then shuffle off into the background again. It certainly also doesn't help that the majority of the 'miracles' here are laughable. A woman claiming an immaculate conception? A statue crying? Some dude floats? This stuff wouldn't even make it as filler on Penn and Teller's Fool Us.