Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20171114222226/@comment-30530552-20171114231317

Sorry that I couldn't do it this week, WC (real life makes for weirdness). I'm gonna make sure to have notes prepared next week once I watch the episode so even if I get a schedule conflict I can still release it in good time. ANYWAYS. My thoughts:

- As a Reviewer on Fanon, I sense a wave of shitty OCs soon to be coming now that Yuma and mermaid girl exist. Not that I don't already get waves of those, but still. One hopes he can't do a sustained flight to at least maintain some sense of realism.

- Mata is lowkey gonna become the new main character...go Rams! Speaking of which, his name means "wood" in some derivations of Spanish and Portuguese, with Catalan meaning 'scrub,' as in low-lying plants. Either way, I feel he's gonna be revisited later because they bothered with a name for him and he seemed interested in going before his mom intervened.

- Still have yet to figure out Yuma's name meaning, because I couldn't really find much color-wise.

- The Ruby & Oscar scene was definitely overdue in terms of development for Ruby, but I still feel like they could've taken it further with her. Over these next few episodes, I almost want her to break down in sorrow as she mulls over what Oscar has been telling her and what she just dredged back up. And now, we've officially gotten all of our lines from the trailer into the show, so it technically covered episodes 1, 2, and 5.

- Blake's talk with Sun was nice and calm...and it was very cool to see how Sun wasn't super vengeful. I also like how Blake gained a new quirk of trying to find a word to fit each character into (which is almost too self-referential because half of these are so true it almost makes the character shallow.)