The best Christmas activity. Impressions: This stupid fight started back in episode 8 after an entire episode of flashbacks, and ends, with another episode mainly of flashbacks. And exposition about the evil organization, which is especially bizarre since the show's essentially over. An entire speech about the evil organization and how the fight is […]
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