It’s a rabid screeching demon baboon, my guy.
Impressions:
I don’t think I necessarily mind a turn to the serious to close things out, but I do think that a completely random monster rolling up and going “Hey, not all monsters” is a pretty poor excuse for a crisis of conscience, especially if we’re going to have a flashback to a dragon incinerating all friends and family, and then hesitate when it comes to rabid monster baboons. Is the nomenclature here actually that important? If they were regular rabid baboons, would that be okay? It’s good that you’re maybe reconsider some mild racism, but a burning quest for vengeance has never been a part of the character and even if it was, dragons roaming the countryside murdering villages is probably something that everybody should be upset about.
This always leads to a different swerve where it’s Gore who gets especially mopey about it, again off of really thin premise. It would’ve worked a lot better had Toto actually done something that prioritized the others in some way to kick off her feelings of isolation and rejection. But just the last episode, we had the complete opposite, which she used to tease them and have fun with. So doing a 180 here and suddenly becoming insecure off of no inciting incident feels incredibly arbitrary and disconnected from the rest. It might’ve worked more had it been less blunt about the whole thing and her announcing it all the camera, instead leaving the audience with just the foreshadowing that something they said got to her, but the later reveal would still not be good. Obviously, he’s not dead, and it’s probably some “For The Man Who Has Everything” kind of hallucination, so trying to pretend it’s a cliffhanger is just silly.
Next Episode:
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