天下制覇

I miss the derpwolves already.

Impressions:

This was a profoundly more irritating episode than the first, although is continuing to sideline the supposed protagonist. Seriously, I'm not sure he even had five lines this week, and at least two of them were "Mmhmm," and "Agh!" He spends most of the episode staring blankly like they're carting around and enslaved to a strangely dressed log. I'm legitimately not sure that any character besides the slave elf even directly speaks to him at any point in this episode. It's better than him being a sad sack or taking any focus, but it begs the question as to why he exists at all. It'd be quite a twist if he was eventually revealed to be a sack of flour that she's carting around and everybody feels too bad for the clearly mentally damaged idiot to say otherwise.

Anyway, the reason it was more irritating is because the new character is one of what would be called in polite company "a screaming child." Her schtick is that she wants to murder them via controlling monsters, but mostly by throwing a nonstop tantrum about them interacting with her in any way. That's also her primary joke, shrieking hysterically about everything while they are ignorant about her wanting to kill them. I suppose I should be grateful it's not 2010, or she would be the primary protagonist, chasing after the Shana/Louise archetype. Just one episode of her was more than enough. Stick to the derpwolves and punching dragons, please.