A little soon to be repeating episodes. Semi-Impressions: This was almost an entire episode of running into a mushroom and then it sitting offscreen for them to do the same schtick and recycled one-liners as the last couple episodes; practically a replay of episode 1 with a somewhat different monster and without the introductions, […]
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