Quick, stall until the last episode. Impressions: The talking heads will continue to talk. The protagonists? They kick a couple of the robots that are non-sentient and we don't care about. That's… kind of it for the episode, not counting the horrific running animation. So much for that weird spike in facial animations last […]
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