Well, this went awful pretty fast. Oh, oops. The first two episodes were simulcast, but not broadcast. Which means episode 3 won't be until August. Impressions: Another one of those episodes that confuses me how it was made. They clearly understood that an obnoxious infodump is excessive and stupid. They did the whole fast-forward […]
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