Give me a break.
Impressions:
I said last week that the writing was approaching unhinged enough to become amusing. The bad news here is that they pulled back sharply and it went back to being just bad enough to be terrible, which I think is mainly on the pacing getting taken out back and shot. The worse news is that everything about the ending to this arc has disgusted me with the characters. Except perhaps the reincarnated girl, who’s just going around murdering people. She’s honestly probably the most likeable and interesting character in the show. She wants to see the world burn and is making it happen. That, I can respect. Especially given the rest of the cast and script. Then, the entire second half of the episode was filler. Tea parties and wasted time. Great.
That leaves the first half, and boy howdy, if you thought the random dude out of nowhere with a pet dragon that got Team Rocket’ed was bad, buckle up. Now that the shoe’s on the other foot, our heroine immediate sets out to torture and terrorize with impunity. This is something that always disgusts me about these revenge stories. If the protagonist ostensibly has the moral high ground, that gives them free reign to enact whatever brutality and torture they want, and it’s treated as awesome and heroic. No. You are acting literally the exact same way as the antagonists for the exact same reasons; belief in your personal self-righteousness. At least frame it as such instead of glorifying being a sadistic lunatic once you have any pretense whatsoever. Even that is muddled because he too goes Blasting Off Again, so is this supposed to be comic despite the gratuitous realistic violence of it? Oh, and the prince gets shot, but three point seven seconds later is healed and is completely fine. What are we doing here? What part of this sequence of events seemed like a good idea?
Next Episode:
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