Pacing. What is it? Impressions: What an absolutely pointless and horrible episode. After last week's explanation that Botan is the star child, here's a second episode explaining that she's the star child. She has some flavor of power that people want that hasn't awakened. That's it. That's her entire deal that we've spent the last forty […]
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