Part 42418. Impressions: You're boring me severely, show. An entire episode faffing around about how they need to get extra special super serious because Stuff is Up®. Okay, but you haven't really struggled with literally a single fight to date. Even this sub-umbrella one that was supposedly ultra dangerous never actually got off a […]
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