天下制覇

Who even grabs an entire tray of hot food in the first place?

Impressions:

I mentioned this last week with Shikimori's OP, but it's always amusing to me when the opening (or ending) sequence are hyper stylized and super well animated. Like the animators are desperately saying "Look! We actually do have talent! We can make something truly expressive and unique! Please don't make us spend another seven hundred hours drawing the same giant eyed women and pointy chinned men!" 

Anyway, another episode that mostly highlighted how mediocre the budget is. Every scene that should have shown how badass the main characters were instead got relegated to a bloodsplatter from offscreen, or sounds of guns and a car crash noise. They're also not putting in a whole lot of effort into hiding that they're spies, particularly from the kid, literally doing entire briefings right in front of her, which continues to make the tone weird. Heck, make it more like Archer even where the characters are extremely skilled in some ways, but neurotic, emotional imbeciles in others. 

I remain fairly lukewarm on this and frustrated with it, especially the pacing/lack of any driving plot. I do like the lighthearted spy/heist. Hell, I enjoyed Burn Notice, though that may have largely been because of Bruce Campbell. But this is more like trying to split the difference between Looney Tunes and The DaVinci Code, and the supposedly super smart, hyper competent characters who are also oblivious doesn't work well for me, and without a strong central driving story or plotline pushing things, there's not much but that to focus on. It really needs more substance, or even just better dialogue to fill in all the empty space.