Why not just expose his internet search history?
Impressions:
Let’s start with bad. Are we seriously doing the cliffhanger from episode 1 that was “Just a Dream’ed” for a second time? It could’ve been shocking and a great cliffhanger to stop that awful weird romance angle in its tracks if you hadn’t already done it once before. So even if you go through with it this time, you’ve already vomited all over the table here. Which leads into the next. This romance angle should not exist at all. It’s creepy idol worship being romanticized, and using it as the focus for his heroic, for both him and his fanatics, is undercut by the baddie’s whole deal of this all being fake and superficial. This relationship in his, and their, minds, is the epitome of that. And just as it feels like it’s been cut off by the hostage being revealed to be a fake, we cut over to Moon stranded and pining for some heroic protagonist to come save her from her own female foolishness. Give me a break.
The action was still good, and the whole “Nice isn’t the hero here, Lin Ling is,” is appropriate inspiring superhero stuff that I eat up, though the above are pretty big caveats, and, again, the fickleness of the fans and how quickly they completely abandoned the old Nice really seems like it bolsters the bad guy’s entire point and makes them all seem like asses, especially considering the second episode’s villain and his whole story. It was an ugly fight between two frustrated normal people until all the superhero stuff kicked in. It was really missing the standard “a hero always gets up and keeps fighting” kind of line or inspiring moment that instead got sucked up into the dumb faux relationship stuff.
