I guess we’re just ditching most everything from last episode for a week.
Impressions:
This arc has definitely been trying to do far too much with far too many characters. I guess we’re just leaving off the cliffhanger from last week to go check in on an entirely different set of characters who only showed up for about 15 seconds last week and a minute or two in this entire arc total to this point, but are now the most important thing. Unfortunately, all of them follow the same template. Oh no, we’re losing. Wait, no, we actually defeated the boss monster at the cost of five to six nameless randos, mostly to the large toads still lumbering around. It undermines the threat level of these supposed super bosses when they’re struggling to deal with barely mobile lumps. And these are almost all monsters of the week anyway who just popped up out of nowhere. At least they didn’t all get a mopey flashback like the ones last week did. Hooray for restraint.
It got especially weird when it then cuts back to the jail cell where the dude is giving a speech about how they’re actually winning, but also you need to consent to the monsterfication drug and join them. What is this argument? It turns people into the old monsters, but only works with permission? Do you have to sign a waiver? If these are plentiful enough to throw away, why aren’t you just grabbing randos and turning them into monsters instead of an army of large toads? Same with the entire Pink fight to end things. No sooner do they declare what her regenerative power is than they say that it’s actually something else. Guy declares he’s invincible, and then someone pulls a second lightsaber of a different color that’s his one weakness. It’s not even about going too fast as much as it is keeping a coherent thread that lasts for more than 30 seconds.
