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Angren Túrë wrote:

I honestly wasn't that big a fan of this episode. While it was nice to see them working together so well (with ship names too--now we know RT reads the forums), I just felt like this episode was rather underwhelming. I was really hoping for multiple fights of two against huge odds, with both the bar and the White Fang (both of which went nowhere), but neither of those happened. Honestly, The fight reminded me a lot of last volume's EP8. It almost felt... obligatory.

Acually... I think we're in the "Emerald Forest" (you know, the pair of episodes right before "Players and Pieces", and combined are EP4 of Vol.1), which was kind of underwhelming in the fighting department to; so hopefully we'll be seeing more, better fights next episode.

Angren Túrë wrote: On the other hand, who is Roman's sidekick? Neo? Is she just going to be a walking cavalcade of Matrix references? Given her power, it's entirely likely.

Her name may very well be "Neo Politan", as in the ice cream. She also may or may not have started out as a gender-bent Roman Torchwick(Make of that what you will). I am liking her "Mirror Image" power; crating a "recorded image" of herself and Roman to cover their escape? (Which admittedly does remind me of Bleach's Aizen; didn't his sword's released form appear as shattering glass? ... Him, now I'm also reminded of Nofix from B. Ichi) I like it. I wonder what uses it has in combat?

Angren Túrë wrote: We finally understand how Yang's red-eye thing works (probably her Semblance as well), but I really, really wish that particular bit of exposition hadn't just been shoved in our faces the way Ruby did it. ... Can't deny that they could have handled that little piece of exposition better.

Angren Túrë wrote: Neptune getting weak knees for Yang? Oh myyy.... I'm definitely going to have to post a fleet update this weekend, seeing as how we may end up having a love PENTAGON on our hands now.

Wow, it's really that bad?

...Bwahahaha! Of course it's that bad - this cast is just so ship-able!

Speaking of laughter, Roman was riot for me today, from the sarcasm train of "hold your applause", to the self-deprecating "case in point" to the quick catch of "no offense to any rodents in the room".

But now I'm very curious as to Roman's speech; was he putting on a show, like haw he speaks nicely to "Deery", or is he genuinely dissatisfied with the world as it is?