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Even for this show, that was a pretty awful bit of writing.

WordPress ate the first paragraph of my post somehow. I don’t even know how that could happen in the first place. Ugh.

Impressions:

Much of my enjoyment of this show at this point comes from philosophizing about the many inane things it does. How did the news have a copter above the White House as the President was evacuating… 20 feet away from the copter no less? Why are the zombies totally blind until somebody makes any noise anywhere, at which point they immediately set upon all humans, and only humans? Why was that kid Shidou threw to the wolves carrying textbooks in the middle of a zombie apocalypse? How did nobody notice Shidou stomping said kid’s face in when they were all yelling at him to get to the bus? Even Plato might be stumped by some of them.

That part in particular was just terrible. They make it a point to show Rei tunnel-visioned on him, and then he stomps a kid, basically kills him, makes a speech and dramatic pose, and walks away sneering. Keep in mind that everybody was waiting for him to get to the bus to leave. So it makes perfect sense for nobody to bring it up and for him to be voted Coolest Kid on the Block all of three minutes later by a majority of students fabricated just to add in some drama. The writing is really interfering more than it should for a show that has no actual plot. They really need to settle down and pick some rules for the zombies at the very least. There’s a low baseline to keep the writing sufficient, but the show’s really not meeting it. The CG van plowing down CG zombies didn’t help either. That was just the epitome of tacky.

To the show’s credit, at least it’s continuing to tone down the T&A, although next week, apparently the Road Warrior and his wench end up groped by some random punk. It was nice while it lasted.

Edit: Occult Academy’s (awful) third episode was already leaked/covered earlier this week, so no post about it tomorrow. I’ll probably think of something to post in the 72 intervening hours before Ookami, but… *shrug*

Preview:

Beyond the Thunderdome.