That was a fast and hard fall.
I see the global nature of this release has been making when it shows up online, and in what language, a bit of an adventure. I guess I’ll try to pay a little more attention next week. Also, for the first time in a goddamned month, it looks like my site is ALMOST loading normally… for now. I still have… *counts* 9 separate tickets open about it, all unresponded to. Curious to see how that will go.
Impressions:
Unfortunately, a massively worse episode than the first. All the cool chase animation was gone, and the writing, if anything, only got worse, though those things do go hand in hand since less of the former means much more focus on the latter. There’s so many things that are just flagrantly stupid. From the knockoff Suicide Squad debating whether they even want to… go save their own lives, to the scientist dude being a universally beloved far far far left activist and everybody baffled that he would suddenly go lunatic-accelerationist, to the entire segment in the middle where everybody explains their nonsense backstories to each other. They did crimes. Which crimes? We’re not going to say, because like this sentence, we need to pad things out. Except for the main guy. The legal system in this bizarre world has a special doubling penalty whenever you break out of jail, which definitely totally makes sense.
So we get an episode that spends the first fifteen minutes piffling about with utter nonsense. Eventually, they decide to go to some random warehouse where they somehow miss that there are like six seperate international gangs showing up for a shootout, and I’m including the cops and FBI as gangs. They actually remembered to animate a small part of this. And then it turns out to just be some random dude who was sitting in a chair, sleeping through the entire thing. So we spend the last couple minutes of the episode recapping how the only thing that happened was a complete waste of time and made no sense. Uh, yeah. I’m already aware of that. Thanks for doubling down on it.
