天下制覇

I wish I could say that I'm surprised at the direction they decided to take the show.

Impressions:

Instead of ramping up the revenge plotline, or the rebels vs establishment, or the sword fighting, or the monster fighting, they go on a date. There is no sword fighting. Revenge is on hold. The rebels are having a slumber party and then going out for ice cream. There is one monster that they basically trip over and have to one shot, leading up to the dramatic confrontation of former friends, now torn apart by their allegiences. They could still salvage the episode with a knock-down, all-out, desperate fight, raising the stakes and shattering the bonds between them. So, of course, this confrontation is… one giving the other cookies and declaring their endless friendship.

So much for the hook at the end of the first episode, or any hope of this being an action show at all. We're taking the least ambitious choice at every opportunity. I guess we got all of that annoying fighting out of the way in the first episode and can now concentrate on the real focus, the power of friendship. It and a hundred thousand other shows. I can get friendship power anywhere. I'm drowning in goddamned friendship power. I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a dozen shows about nothing but the innocent friendship between two or more girls. Thanks, but unless someone's beheaded next week, this is the last we will speak of this waste of time.