Hello everyone and welcome back! Let's dive in shall we?
The ultimate struggle with this show is how technology heavy the magic in this world is and how much the show likes to play with that leaving me confused half of the time about what we're even learning about. We learned this week that Tatsuya's theory on magic in this world says that people are actually absorbing energy from another dimension and the black hole experiment actually tore a hole in the dimensional wall allowing things to come into this world from another. I think this means that I guessed right last week in assuming that the USNA black hole experiment didn't actually fail like the scientists thought but brought over parasites that can possess people and use magic without CADs cause it can open up holes to the other world on it's own. The question now is how sentient these parasites are and whether or not they've got some goal instead of literally just being parasites and attacking whomever is available. I can't help but think that earlier on in this show it felt like there was a group that was benefiting off of these parasites but maybe that was just supposed to be a red herring? I really did enjoy the fight we had this week with our whole cast fighting the parasite and the way different powers were highlighted in different ways making me think once again how I glad I am that this show doesn't just portray Tatsuya as the only capable hero not to mention the fact that this show likes to have ships other than every girl being obsessed with Tatsuya like the harem anime I thought this show would be at the beginning.
The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 2
Well this season is definitely doubling down on the fact that it really doesn't want to tell a cohesive story cause for the second week in a row we're watching Mando and Baby Yoda meander along to their goal while taking multiple pitstops. This week they have to transport a Frog Lady from Tatooine to Trask a planet with Mandalorians but they can't travel lightspeed cause the Frog Lady is carrying eggs which apparently will die if at lightspeed. One thing leads to another and they get recognized by New Republic ships as the ship that helped with the prison escape last season and so Mando has to land on some ice planet. As per usual, the ship breaks and hijinks occur and Mando has to fight a giant Ice Spider which was honestly horrifying to look at. Just as all hope was lost, the New Republic pilots show back up and save the day but proving that they are different from the Empire they end up letting Mando go cause he also brought in 3 war criminals besides letting some escape so all's well that ends well? As a sidebar I have to comment on how truly horrifying it was to also watch Baby Yoda eat so many of Frog Lady's eggs cause dude those were so not the funny moments that this show clearly wanted them to be! I'm also generally disappointed that we didn't actually see the ship getting to Trask but I'm hoping that next week when we do that we'll actually start moving forward again with meeting the Mandalorians Mando wants to see. I'm still forever going to be waiting for Sabine or Bo-Katon but I can't imagine that they'll be out on Trask rather than Lothal.
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