Emphasis on random. Impressions: I don't get this episode, and I feel like I'm saying that a terrifying amount in recent months. It's not any one thing, but the collection of bizarre decisions on both the writing and directing front. They poured quite a bit of effort into animating the fight… against a random […]
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