Big man with big feelings and big slaps.
Impressions:
Not that I’d ever advocate for gratuitous violence, but if you’re going to have a big bad evil KGB sadist beating a woman, it’s super weird to have him mainly slapping her. Not even meaty sounding blows either. So you’ve got these hyper-animated excessively detailed windups from a 6’4 Russian thug that are just these sad little *plap* hits. I guess he does throw her once, halfway into the episode, but the second time was just so she could do a kickflip off the wall. At least they saved some budget for the rest. Still, it was yet another episode where they just randomly ran into some international thugs to do action set pieces, reminiscent of the early ones. Good for animation clips, and very little else, but with the hope that character and story development on the horizon having vanished at this point.
For supposedly being about the lady, her whole deal is “Was in the KGB, and now they hate her for betraying them, but actually don’t, and oops, they sacrified themself” which has been everybody’s backstory so far, plus she didn’t actually do anything but kick the one thug and otherwise just stared mournfully while the other lady emoted at her. The main plot didn’t advance at all. Their boss used to know the guy, but why does that matter? And everything about the attack on the secret KGB base was weird, from how they just drove a ship up and caught them by complete surprise, to hacking a crane to turn it into a WMD with an entire crowd of randos watching and cheering it on. That’s how Suicide Squad type military operations work, right? They have dedicated cheer squads?
