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This hasn’t been a very safe season for family pets.

Impressions:

Oh, is the Skywalker farm finally in ruins? And the deadliest enemy they’ve faced yet, a land eel. I have to admit that I’m not entirely clear on the procession of events leading to Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru’s vaporizations though. They were warned to run away because there’s a giant monster, whereupon they took that advice, but then upon seeing their farm on fire, ran back to the farm, saw the giant flame land eel thrashing about, and decided that perhaps it wasn’t as bad as they originally thought and ran right up to it anyway. Every single one of them. For the seeds. Just after learning that their boarder is besties with the king. Yeah, okay.

I’m also still not entirely certain where they’re going with this. If they want Leon to be the one to take the heel turn or succumb to the ever-popular “bring my dead girlfriend back to life” schtick, they probably shouldn’t have involved Alfy warning him and then the family ignoring all his warnings in turn, least of all a big speech about how until your mom’s murdered, you can’t know the deep, world-rending pain of having a murdered mom. They should start a club. Make it at least slightly mistakable as Alfy’s fault at the very least if that’s where we’re going here. And if not, then where the hell are we taking this? He’s just going to get sad and succumb to the darkness within? Also, this stuff works better spur of the moment, not a day or two later while carrying your dead girlfriend around randomly while rigor sets in.

Oh, the episode itself? Pfft. We’re where we should have been about four episodes ago and could have even been halfway through this one, and not really any closer to having any kind of overall quest or goal. The way horrors are bloody everywhere, it’s a miracle humanity’s still even alive. I don’t even know why they bothered to yank the magical stones out of their asses when “go anywhere away from the giant eel” would have sufficed. Oh right, so he could wax philosophical about being unneeded and forgotten at the start. That sledgehammer of an observation nearly slipped past me until he explicitly brought it up!

Next Episode:

Someone didn’t learn anything from mom’s death.