Spare the assassins, kill the guards, terrorize the merchants.
Impressions:
Probably the strongest episode of the show to date, though I did find it funny that they blew up the local hero’s guild and set about murdering everyone who showed up to stop the mad bomber obliterating the city around them, except for the assassins who were there specifically to kill them from the start. They even went out of their way to show the local merchants complaining about how all their possessions were being blown up by the indiscriminate carpet bombing Xylo was doing in a residential district. The need for spectacle and gore is quite at odds with them being the heros here, even gruff not-really antiheroes.
But there was a butt-ton of spectacle and action this week, even if it’s still suffering a bit from not having any real antagonists or the protagonists ever actually having to struggle. It’s nice that they seem to have sorted out the budget too. Virtually none of those awful random stills that scream “finish animating this scene later” which have plagued previous episodes. Flowed well too. No flashbacks or long asides on irrelevant nonsense. The dude getting merc’d as soon as he escaped was entirely predictable, though I’m not sure why the monster even pretended or needed an excuse at all since the pile of corpses was literally five feet away, but hey, I guess it’s also is a big fan of theatrics.
