Quick, time for another stationary tutorial.
Impressions:
This episode did not begin well, with baby’s first lesson as to what the elements are, something that even RPG tutorials consider beneath explaining, assuming that the audience understands “fire = hot.” Then it ends with a random dragon out of someone’s ass, which you’d think would be exciting, but no, it’s actually just another excuse to introduce yet another random magical tool minutia, and once again yell that Coco doesn’t get it. Which I’m sure would’ve been resolved by her tearfully lamenting that she just wants to do her best if it hadn’t then gotten distracted by a cutaway to have a powerpoint presentation about the evil cult, and oops, the episode is over, forgetting to have either cliffhanger or point since they’ve escaped the dragon thanks to, once again, the very first thing they attempted. After another lesson.
I’m pretty close to throwing in the towel here. The pacing remains godawful, and the characters not much better since they exist only to deliver exposition or berate the poor widdle Coco for not being like them. Agott in particular is insufferable, being sadistic and petulant. Borderline murderous even. And yet, we’re clearly supposed to take this as her just not knowing how to interact with other people. No. She interacts with everyone else fine. Hasn’t tried to murder anybody else even once. Also, her entire schtick about witches and responsibility last week? This episode reveals that there are entire full fledged cities of witches, with baby witches running merrily around the streets. Don’t see you berating them for not understanding the suffering and lifestyle of real angsty witches like her. So guess it’s just classism dickery once again.
