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Welcome To Demon School Iruma-Kun Episode 12

This week's episode was all about the hunt for the perfect Battler aka club! I think it's so creative that this show is basically a slice of life but in a magic school so at first glance you don't notice how you're basically going through the same trope-y episodes as a school slice of life! Now don't get me wrong, I adore slice of life school dramas so I'm super down but I just love how it never feels like a slice of life episode until I think about it afterwards. Having said that I'm super hoping that we end up getting a beach episode of something similar cause that would slay me. I really thought that maybe Iruma would end up joining the Student Council cause Ameri is there and if Battlers are used to go up in ranks then Iruma would need to join a real one but I think that he'll end up joining the Magical Apparatus one which low key sucks cause I want Iruma to do well and with only one member of that Battler, it's not as fun as if he joined the Student Council! I do wonder if the new character we met was the one who made that ring for Iruma and if he did how it ended up in that owl! As a sidebar I was a living for Clara continuously trying to join the Succubus Battler and Azz dragging her away like you have no chance with it cause not only was it hilarious and a nice callback to a previous episode but it reminded me how much I loved that Clara centric episode and how much I low key want her to seduce Iruma!

Special 7: Special Crime Investigation Unit Episode 11

This episode really did this to us huh?? It ramped up the stakes and the story only to stop and leave the best for next week which is the finale! I was complaining last week that it made no sense that Special 7 was targeted by the police force and now we find out that the Public Safety leader was a follower of Warlock from the start so that's why he always hated the Special 7 unit but I do think that this was a bit out of nowhere cause if this character had been shown more we would have been more shocked. Instead when the reveal happened I was like oh okay I think I know who this dude is. Luka was also returned to normal through the power of Nijou's love which I know I should be complaining about but it makes sense cause Luka's love for Nijou was his strongest emotion so of course that's what would help him break the brainwashing not to mention the fact that last week we saw that he's been getting flashes of his life only to ignore them. The biggest reveal though was defs the fact that Boss was a dragon! I know the dragons are supposed to have nine heads aka 9 people with the dragon power but I wonder if we're supposed to think that there's only three in the human world right now (Boss, Warlock and Seiji) or if there are others out there.

FINISHED Stand My Heroes: Piece Of Truth Episode 12

Though the finale of this show aired this week it terms of story it feels like we ended on a bit of a cliffhanger in that it felt like the show wanted to make a season 2 cause the overall mystery was solved but not everything was wrapped up. As we found out last week Miyase was the one who was distributing Plus and trying to frame Kujo for it. Apparently that scientist that helped make Zero and Miyase's mom were in love but Kujo's dad separated them and I'm pretty sure he raped Miyase's mom based on what we saw about how scared she was when she saw how much Miyase looked like his father and so when Miyase found out he decided that he needed to get revenge on the Kujo family. Like I never suspected Miyase as the bad guy, I also never expected him to be the kid that had the package! In the end though we figured out what was happening and obviously stopped Plus from hitting the streets Miyase got away and because of that STAND was almost destroyed before it got off the ground but in the end I think STAND was okay cause Aoyama mentioned how he was planning on joining STAND now that he solved the Anonymous Case. Overall I had fun with this show and I liked the mystery but I do wish that there was a romance for Rei preferably with Aoyama who totally freaked out the most when he found out that Rei and Miyase were together so my shipper brain is low key content.

FINISHED Assassin's Pride Episode 12

The finale for this anime aired this week and tbh it was fairly disappointing. I had a feeling that this show wouldn't end in a satisfactory way cause there was so much to plot to deal with and so little time. We know for a fact that Melida received Kufa's mana in episode 1 but we had no idea if Melida was an illegitimate child or not and I feel like we still don't know cause we know for a fact that Melida has no mana but does that mean that she's not an Angel? Her father mentioned that he had a relative that was part of the Samurai mana class which in his mind means that Melida is of his blood but like is that true?? Why was there such an emphasis on Melida being a supposed incompetent girl if in the end it meant nothing in terms of her lineage? We also know nothing about that Duke who was leading the charge on outing Melida as a bastard cause his plan obviously didn't work cause Melida was a badass who was trained by Kufa but like he just killed everyone who was in his way and pretended like he had no idea about what happened. Is this an attempt for a season 2? I did like that Melida was able to prove her strength and show the others that she wasn't incompetent but I do wish we had gotten more. Overall I had a fun time with this show if I ignored the overarching plot and just watched the show at face value.

FINISHED The Mandalorian Season 1 Episode 8

What a finale guys! We seemed to have pretty much gotten rid of everyone from season 1 so that we can have more of a clean slate for season 2 and I don't know if that's a good thing or not cause the only real complaint I have about this show is the fact that Mando doesn't have a permanent or even semi-permanent crew! Not only are the guild leader and ex-Rebellion member staying on the planet we first started this show on but we have pretty much lost every single Mandalorian that this show introduced us to cause apparently instead of moving to a new location after they were exposed in the early episodes, they decided to return to where they were so that they could be slaughtered. I couldn't decide if I knew the name Moff Gideon before in some other canon but the strangest part was when he ended up not only surviving both a bombing of his ship and a crash landing of his ship but the fact that he has a darksaber! I didn't know there was more than one out there and the last I heard of one was in Star Wars: Rebels where Sabine held it and that took place pre-A New Hope so either there's another one that Gideon found or he stole Sabine's. I low key hope that Sabine can pop up later in this show cause I'm sure she'd be an adult now and since she was a cartoon, we can cast whoever the hell we want! My favorite scene though hilariously has to be the opening where those Storm Troopers were fighting over whether one could look at Baby Yoda or not but I also loved everything with Nurse IG unit too! Overall I did really enjoy this show and it finally feels like we're getting a plot for season 2 with finding out Baby Yoda's species and returning him to his home so I'm content!

Harley Quinn Season 1 Episode 5

This episode wasn't as fun as the last one cause the twist at the end was something I thought was pretty well known in terms of Harley's origin story but I guess the show just wanted to spell it out for people who didn't actually know the truth. Though Joker did cause Harley to fall in love with him, it was Harley herself who actually jumped into the vat of chemicals to prove her love for him so it all depends on semantics about whether you believe that Joker was responsible for Harley or if Harley was herself. I do still love this world and the characters and how they end up in the strangest situations which is really winning me over cause you all know how much I love silliness in a show! I did love seeing all the flashbacks to Harley as a child though I don't know if I ever knew that Harley wasn't completely sane as a child cause my head-canon was always that the chemicals did it but I'm not married to this idea so I'm cool with this new version of Harley who was pretty messed up from the start. I also love the new lair that we got but I'm surprised that we ended up going that route cause I did love Ivy's old place and I hope that we get to fix up the new one like makeover style!

xoxo Allie

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Welcome To Demon School Iruma-Kun Episode 11

Every week I watch this anime and think to myself how much I adore it. It's not as laugh-out-loud bust a gut funny anymore but I think that's mostly just cause I've gotten used to this show now! Having said that I did laugh so hard when it was an episode about getting to know your familiars cause Iruma's familiar is of course one of the teachers which is always amazing. We learned this week that the familiars take the form that best suits their master so course cute little Iruma caused Kalego to become a cute fuzzy white demon form! I was living for him being angry out of his mind but also having to play along with the lesson cause the new teacher was reading Kalego's book on how to be a teacher and he didn't want to ruin the lesson. I tried so hard not to scream when he had to play fetch with that Frisbee cause it was literally the most horrific for Kalego who walked over to that Frisbee like it was a death sentence! Seriously the more we get familiar Kalego, the better! The second part of the episode had to do with Iruma learning about Battlers which is the demon version of clubs though I'm curious to find out why they're hunting for first years. Do first years not really want to join Battlers or is it supposed to be more of a hide-and-seek type situation though Iruma didn't really follow that?

Special 7: Special Crime Investigation Unit Episode 10

I feel like I've missed an episode or something cause why all of a sudden is Public Safety against Special 7 to the degree that the members of the team have to hide from the police? Like I mean we've seen for a while that Special 7 isn't respected as a task force but that feels like small potatoes compared to what's happening now. We haven't seen anything to hint that Warlock or anyone from Nine has snuck their way into Public Safety and it also can't be a method of blaming Warlock's escape on Special 7 cause Public Safety turned before the fake Warlock trial so what's going on? On another note I was right about Seiji being half a dragon but as it turned out Warlock actually wanted Seiji to be his puppet like Luka is now instead of being a sacrifice to gain the dragon power like I thought but somehow Seiji ended up stealing all the dragon power that Warlock was supposed to get through the airport attack which pissed Warlock off. I don't particularly understand why or how he stole the power but I wonder if it's cause Seiji is good. This brings me back to the question from a few weeks ago where I was wondering whether dragons are sentient and can make their own decisions and whether they're good or bad. I do like that Ichinose doesn't blame Seiji for what happened and I'm sure that when Nijou finds out, neither will he. I do hope they're able to save Luka cause it does look like it was some sort of mind wipe or mind control thing cause when Nijou was talking to him, Luka was getting some of his memories back!

Stand My Heroes: Piece Of Truth Episode 11

Omg talk about a twist! Is Miyase the bad guy after all?? I had completely been on the Kujo is the bad guy train for a while cause he just seems so sketch and though I did wonder this week if one of the guys in Kujo's home was the real bad guy who framed Kujo for the drugs, I seriously never suspected Miyase which makes him such a good actor! I do wonder how he's related to what happened in the past and whether he has a connection with Hattori's old partner cause there's no way that everything we learned in the past few weeks about the Anonymous Case is pointless! I'm still waiting to figure out whether Maki is the one with the proof that we need and what the proof could be. With the finale airing next week I don't know if there is enough time for another twist or turn but I feel like we still aren't close enough to the truth! Most of the episode felt like we were treading water until the end and now it feels like we're back to square one. I still do think it's silly that Rei told Kujo's men everything cause it's like girl what if you saying all that tips off the real bad guy who probs thought that he was in the clear after Kujo got arrested?? I also really did like the conversation between Kujo and Aoyama cause it showed us how different the two men are. Both are from wealthy families that were involved in Plus all those years ago but while Kujo is of the mind to just cover up the past and prevent it from happening in the future, Aoyama is actively trying to do more good in the world and that's why he's my favorite member of this show without a doubt.

The Mandalorian Season 1 Episode 7

This was the penultimate episode and it was just as tense as I expected it to be! I loved the cliffhanger we ended on and I still can't help but wonder why oh why Mando won't go to the New Republic for help! There are clearly tons of the Empire still floating around (and duh it was a whole community not just two people like the movies want you to believe) and if they want Baby Yoda the smart move is to take it somewhere the Empire can't follow whether that's directly to Coruscant or some other Core or Mid Rim world. It low key sucks though cause we know that the drudges of the Empire stay in the Outer Rim and eventually form the First Order and the New Republic falls within like 30 years so even though I say that Mando should go for help I'm not sure how much help they can get anyway. I did love that we saw the return of characters from earlier episodes including that female shock trooper who I loved and the guild leader who's now on our side cause apparently Baby Yoda can use the Force to heal. Someone on the internet joked that Baby Yoda might use the Dark Side cause of how much killing he's watching Mando do and this week he tried to Force Choke someone and suddenly it doesn't feel that much of a joke anymore. I wonder if this new Empire bad guy will finally shed some light on Baby Yoda and whether he's a clone or a real child and where he came from and whether he's from a specific alien species.

Assassin's Pride Episode 11

I feel like I'm not going to understand what in the world the House Of Shicksal is after and why the man of the house is forcing all the other royal families to play on until the show explains it to me in great detail. Passing the library test apparently told each girl what their mana class was and I'm assuming that being like yeah we stole some of Melida's blood will be looked down on by society but showing up with her library book certification will be better. I'm not sure I understand the big picture though cause it's like while the girls took Melida's certification, the rest of the school was supposed to be murdered by a dark guild and I'm sitting here like what the hell! Unfortunately with next week being the finale for this show I have a feeling that I won't get the answers I want! Why is proving Melida's a bastard so important to the nobility? Melida's father would have been one thing but seriously it's no one else's business! Will we ever find out who Melida's real dad is? Probs not. At the very least I liked that Williams Gin from earlier in the season came back to help cause Kufa really seems to have a way with the lycanthropes that keep being sent to him! I wonder if this show is supposed to have a multi-season arc cause I just can't see the whole story wrapped up cause even now we're still setting up new things like Kufa's boss apparently having a cure to lycanthropy which Williams wants.

Harley Quinn Season 1 Episode 4

This was a great episode to build out the DC world of Harley Quinn a lot more so that we're outside the Batman world and though a lot of them were just cameos, it was great anyway! We finally met Superman and Lois, saw a little more of Wonder Woman and caught a glimpse of Aquaman. It's making the world feel so much more lived in and I'll for it! I loved that the plot of this week's episode was that Harley wanted a nemesis to get more news screen time and at the same time so did Damian cause everyone else on the Teen Titans has one. This is actually really hilarious to think about cause when you're watching something like Teen Titans you don't even think about how completely weird it is that a grown man like Slade is fighting a bunch of kids but this show really spelled it out for us and it's kinda insane in the funniest way and I low key wish that Slade had popped up at some point when Harley was screaming about how her nemesis wasn't a kid to be like yo there's nothing wrong with fighting kids! We also met King Shark and he's going to be joining Harley's squad and I'm also low key curious about whether Ivy will end up moving out of her current apartment cause I already love it so much. She's the best part of this show and I died when she went on tv and was like I'm not a supervillain, I'm a eco-terrorist while Kite Man sat in the bar and fangirled over her. Boy same.

xoxo Allie

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Welcome To Demon School Iruma-Kun Episode 10

We finally got around to the dodgeball competition this week and to no one's surprise Iruma won and went up one rank to Bet! I was surprised however to find that Azz ended up on the other team but it made sense when I thought about it cause who else would have been a good opponent other than Azz?? It's a little hard reviewing this episode cause I really don't have much to say about it other than it was funny as usual and fun to watch but nothing truly happened that I can discuss. I suppose we can talk about how Iruma is one step closer to becoming the Demon King and how Ameri thinks that Iruma is all ambitious now. I still think it's hilarious that the whole school thinks Iruma is this badass and they were all like let's not even try to hit Iruma cause he's so strong when he's probs the weakest. I did love that it was his mind that ended up allowing him to win in the end cause when Azz through the ball with all his strength and power, Iruma just turned it around so that all that strength and power would hit Azz. I still love how jealous Clara got and I'm still waiting to find out whether Iruma likes Ameri or not cause he does tend to blush whenever she comes around.

Special 7: Special Crime Investigation Unit Episode 9

Anyone else super surprised that Nijou managed to hide his relation to Luka for so long? I totally thought it was more of an open secret that Nijou and Luka were siblings and that he hated Ichinose for letting Luka go out on his own but according to what we learned this week Ichinose had no idea who Nijou was. I wonder if that's why Nijou was doing an investigation on his own. I'm still low key waiting to find out what the big shocking piece of information he learned a few weeks ago. Was it really related to Luka being the Nine's enforceer? We also learned like I expected that Nijou and Luka weren't blood siblings (cause duh one was human and the other was an elf) but I think at this point the fact that Seiji and Luka look alike is just supposed to be something that tugs at Ichinose and Nijou's feelings rather than a hint to something. We also pretty much got a confirmation that Luka became the Nine leader's right hand though I still think it's some sort of brainwashing or magical control cause there's no way based on the type of man Luka was that he would join Nine willingly. I also find it hilarious how everyone now knows that Seiji was the kid Luka saved but no one's told poor Seiji that the man who saved him with Ichinose's partner (and Nijou's brother but that's more of a secret.) I also think we got a confirmation that the Nine's leader (Warlock?) took Seiji and did some sort of magic on him and made him into a half-dragon cause it looked like Nine wanted a spirited child and they picked Seiji and that totally lines up with everything we've learned so far. 

Crisis On Infinite Earths Episode 1

After a year of buildup and waiting, Crisis has finally arrived and this first episode was both fun and totally tragic! This is the Endgame of the DCTV Arrowverse and I have the highest hopes which I'm low key worried about cause when you have high hopes, you can only really be disappointed or have those expectations met. So far I'm having fun though so there's that. I loved starting the episode with seeing all the different multiverses from the Tim Burton Batman world to the Titans universe to the Batman and Robin world where I grinned from ear to ear when Robin said his catchphrase of holy exclamations! I'm actually really glad that the Crisis started on Supergirl's Earth cause I haven't watched Supergirl since the midseason last year though I know the basics of what's going on this season cause it allowed us to get all of Supergirl's cast out of the way and use most of the episode as set up for the future. We managed to get 3 billion out of 7 billion people off of Supergirl's Earth and it'll be really interesting to see what will happen over on Supergirl cause where will all these people go? We also met Jonathon Kent and saw the Oliver from the Legends 2049 timeline again and I loved the moment he got with Sara cause I always have adored Sara and Oliver's relationship. Now onto the heavy stuff which was Oliver's death. On the one hand it does feel a little lame cause I wanted Oliver to go out in a bigger moment of glory if he had to die but on the other I still can't decide if he's dead dead already or if he'll come back. Maybe we'll see another version of him cause I can't imagine Stephen being benched for the rest of the crossover! Part of me thinks that it's so unfair that Oliver who was the reason for the Arrowverse existing at all is the one who can't have a happy ending so I'm like there's no way they'll kill him permanently but part of me also thinks that if the writers really wanted to give Crisis real stakes Oliver would have to die cause he's the only one who's show is ending.

Truly can't wait for the next episode of Crisis which will take place over on Batwoman! I assume that we're going to start going Earth hopping to get more heroes to fight!

Stand My Heroes: Piece Of Truth Episode 10

All I could think as I watched this episode was talk about being naive Rei! I had thought for a while now that Rei was actually fairly competent and intelligent enough to know when to show her kindness and when to be fierce but this week she went off the rails. I mean there's an obscene amount of evidence pointing to the Kujo family being connected to Plus and yet she decides that just cause of the men who like Kujo is kind to her that clearly all the evidence must be wrong. Even criminals and bad guys have people who love them! I was especially annoyed when she went to Kujo himself and was like here's what we know cause not only was she all alone so she could get hurt but seriously who reveals the hand they have to the antagonist?? It's interesting to note that Miyase also lost his mother in the same accident that Rei lost her parents in and it'll truly be horrific for Miyase if and when he finds out that the man he looked up to for so long might have caused the accident in the first place. We also learned that Makoto doesn't actually know where Ida is now but that he fears that everything that happened might have come about cause Ida used one of Makoto's novels as inspiration. I also have a feeling that whatever the thing was that Ida stole ended up with Maki cause Makoto said that Ida said that the thing was with the child and Maki was the child that Ida kidnapped. I bet it has the evidence we need to prove Kujo's connection to the drugs cause the narcotics division's plan to catch Kujo in the act of selling the drug is low key ridiculous cause why would the head of a giant company do the shady dealings himself??

Crisis On Infinite Earths Episode 2

What a blast and a half! I loved that we got to experience more multiverses but unlike in the first episode they were extended cameos rather than just one shots! I loved seeing "Smallville" Clark Kent and Lois Lane and I love the idea that he gave up his powers to be a dad cause our Clark also wanted to do that which is why he was on Argo! We also got a snapshot of a "Death of Superman" Superman which was fun but what really excited me was the Kevin Conroy Batman who was pretty much evil Batman. I loved the slow reveal where we thought that maybe he's not as good as we expect only to end up having been the one to kill his Earth's Superman! In terms of the bigger story though we're told there are 7 heroes out there that are considered to be paragons which was the best of the best heroes across all of the multiverses: three of which are Kara, Kate, and Sara while the fourth as we learned in the episode was "Kingdom Come" Superman. I'm assuming that Oliver is one too because we first heard the word paragon in the premiere episode of Arrow this year so I can't imagine that he wouldn't be one! The other two I'm not entirely sure of yet though I assume that Black Lightning must be one (based on the poster cause tbh I didn't really even know he would be in this crossover) and some version of the Flash whether that's our Barry or Earth 3's Barry. Speaking of Oliver Queen, I freaking knew that there was no chance that he was dead dead but part of me was on the edge of my seat the whole time wondering what would happen to stop Oliver's resurrection and in the end it was the anti-matter messing with Constantine's powers which makes me think that they'll just sedate Oliver until the Crisis is over and then bring his soul back but maybe we'll get lucky if he is in fact a paragon and Constantine can do it back on the ship. I also love that it was Mia and Barry who led the charge on bringing him back cause duh Mia but Barry has always looked up to Oliver as what a hero should be so of course he'd refuse to let him die.

Having finally met the Anti-Monitor I wonder if we'll learn about what his big plan to stop the heroes will be. I mean we still need to find 2 or 3 more paragons but then are they supposed to have it all out with the Anti-Monitor? What's the plan?? I wonder if Barry will end up "dying" in part 3 like Oliver did in part 1 in order to make his whole half season make sense.

Crisis On Infinite Earths Episode 3

This was the finale for the first part of Crisis and as per the first episode there was stuff that I was super down for and stuff that I didn't particularly understand and stuff that I wish was different! I did enjoy the episode as a whole and I loved the cliffhanger! I screamed out loud when Lucifer appeared cause I had hoped that maybe he would (being a DC character and all) after Constantine couldn't bring Oliver's soul back and it was great seeing Earth 90's Flash again but the moment he appeared I was like oh duh of course that Barry will vanish in Crisis! Black Lightning also joined us though part of me was like maybe you should have saved Jennifer instead cause technically she is the stronger electrical powered hero. We also met Choi who I'm pretty sure in the comics is the second ATOM after Ray and since we know that Brandon Routh is planning on leaving the Arrowverse this year, Choi was probably cast to replace him. I don't particularly care for him as a character yet but maybe I will in time. As we found out the other three paragons were Barry, J'onn and Choi and part of me is bitter as hell that my baby Oliver wasn't one but he's supposedly a Spectre now whatever the hell that is which I'm not thrilled with cause I really just wanted Oliver to return as a human so that Felicity and Oliver and Mia and William could get the happily ever after they deserve but maybe after Crisis he'll be granted leave to return to his body! Kara and Kate's whole thing this episode was really boring though and like I get that Kara's upset about her Earth but like seriously now was not the time cause there would always be time later to bring the Earths back but first the Anti-Monitor needed to be stopped! In terms of the actual story, I'm not sure why destroying the anti-matter canon was important cause the Anti-Monitor was able to create an anti-matter wave to destroy Earth 1 anyway and I wonder if Lyla is dead for good though if I had to guess, I'd say no.

The next two parts of Crisis are supposed to air in January and I have a feeling we'll defeat Anti-Monitor then and bring back the multiverse cause if it had been just a few Earths that were destroyed then I could see everyone coming to Earth 1 but with even Black Lightning's Earth destroyed, I can't see any end except for a return to status quo. I'm hoping that Oliver will return to being alive and that Lyla will be okay!

Riverdale Season 4 Episode 9

Overall this was a pretty fun midseason finale that seemed to be wrapping up everything that our main characters went through so far but I'm still so in the dark about what's going on with Jughead! He met his grandpa this week and found out that though FP I did write the first Baxter book he actually sold his rights away so nothing sketch was going on at Stonewall like Jughead thought though I totally still expected Jughead to find him dead later in the episode but to my surprise it looks like FP I really did run away but I still think Stonewall is sketchy. The thing I don't understand is his death flash-forwards that we keep doing and now we're supposed to think that Betty killed him in a fugue state which was what Betty's story this week was. I seriously want to call shenanigans cause there's no way that Betty should have been hypnotized like she was or like we're supposed to think cause Alice and Polly were at the Farm long enough to be sleeper agents but an activation word should have meant nothing to Betty! Archie looks to be wrapping up his whole vigilante thing in order to focus on this supposed uncle that just appeared out of nowhere and it's like dude Riverdale do you have nothing else in your bag of tricks? This is the sixth or so surprise family member that magically appeared in four seasons! Veronica was turned down at Dartmouth but it looks like Columbia might take her which might be the place where the others go too so that our cast doesn't have to be separated. Cheryl found out that it was her mom after all that was gaslighting her like I expected but it was kinda hilarious that she locked her mom up in the bunker cause I expected it to be the Sisters again but I think that church was destroyed last season or the one before that.

Riverdale will be back in January and it looks like the promo might have shown us multiple episodes for as much as I could see. There's going to be more football and Jughead might ask Veronica to go undercover at a Stonewall party for some reason. I can't wait to see where this crazy show takes us!

Assassin's Pride Episode 10

This episode really turned around what I thought was happening in this show. I really thought that Melida's father was the one who kept hiring assassins to check on Melida or to kill her if she wasn't his biological daughter but after this week I wonder if he truly does love Melida in his own way and that it's actually other people who are after her. It's possible of course that he just wants to hide Melida to hide his shame away but honestly if that was the case, hiding her would probably be worse! It'd be better to do as Kufa says and make Melida seem like such a badass that no one can say anything. I'm really lost in terms of why the other royalty are so interested in Melida and why Duke Serge tested Melida's mana or why he cares. I mean he's clearly the bad guy even if he's convincing his younger sister that he's doing all this for Melida's sake but why bother? It's not like the Angel family are the rulers so why the need to depose them? I'm low key hoping that Melida kicks ass down in the library test and ends up getting the certification cause I'm tired of everyone looking down on her! We're only two episodes away from the end and I feel like there are so many questions left unanswered but the most important of course is whether or not Melida really is a bastard child. We also know next to nothing about the politics of this world or even what Melida's father does. The people in that secret meeting were talking about how Melida is shame to the nobility but like that has nothing to do with them!

The Mandalorian Season 1 Episode 6

You know at some point Mando will have to realize that he and Baby Yoda aren't exactly safe running with mercenaries and bounty hunters! Unlike him most of them don't exactly have a code and this is the second week in which he started out doing one thing and ended up being turned against in the next. Having said that it was pretty fun watching his run with a gang of mercenaries but the best was seeing him outplay them all which was so nice cause just earlier they were all making fun of him and whether or not Mandalorians really were so good at fighting. I still don't understand the big interest in whether or not he takes off his helmet cause it's like dude who cares but I have a feeling that it's all leading up to Mando losing his helmet somehow whether it's of his own volition or by force meaning that he can no longer wear the helmet anymore. It was also so nice seeing the New Republic X Wings show up and it makes me wish all the more that we could see more of the New Republic. I still don't understand why Mando hasn't gone to them for help. It's not he's a criminal and I'm sure that he could get paid helping them out! It'll be safe and he'll actually get money for the stuff he does. I also wonder where all those Mandalorians ended up from earlier in the season and whether Mando knows where they're hiding now or if he'll go to them but I'd guess not since Baby Yoda still has a tracker and bringing him to the Mandalorian base would be dangerous.

Harley Quinn Season 1 Episode 3

This show oddly hits me in the funny bone at the absolute weirdest times cause I'll just be sitting here la di da and then all of a sudden I'm wheezing from laughter. It's fascinating watching this show cause I can't believe it was made and I'm living for how angry it makes male fans of DC even though I'm like dude bros if you don't like the story or the message, don't watch it! I loved that this week was all about Harley trying to find a crew to work with her but no one wanted to cause she's a female villain and most henchmen don't wanna work for a female boss which is hilarious but I low key still expected her to get an all female squad! I mean why not go the Birds of Prey route?? In the end we went with Clayface and Dr Psycho but I was happy for Harley and how she was able to do everything she wanted from getting revenge on Maxie Zeus to getting a highway named after her all the way to making Joker furious. I'm low key thrilled that a major overarching thread point in this show is Joker and Harley just being the worst exes and trying to outwit each other. I do wish a few more big name villains were in this show like I'm still waiting for Catwoman and Huntress and stuff but I imagine that the show will get there eventually cause next week we'll be getting a Robin it looks like but which one I'm not sure yet!

xoxo Allie

What Shows Am I Watching This Week?

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Welcome To Demon School Iruma-Kun Episode 9

This week's episode was interesting cause Iruma finally got a little ambitious and I'm loving it! I enjoyed his laidback attitude up to this point but there's only so long that this show could have played the same joke of Iruma wanting to blend into his surroundings only to be highlighted through the antics of the people around him or the fact that he's a human so demon logic doesn't work on him. Of course the deeply intense and gory way that demons rise in rank is dodgeball! I totally expected it to be something silly as soon as Azz started to depict a scary competition but when it turned out to be dodgeball I might have broken a rib laughing. I also should have expected this whole episode to be about Iruma training for the dodgeball competition rather than the competition itself but I was still surprised that the episode ended with Iruma's training. I loved the joke that the professor was in the delinquent classroom looking furious that all the students were missing cause they decided to join the main trio in the underground gym to have fun. It was also interesting that Iruma doesn't want to use magic to win cause he feels like it's cheating but I'm hoping that this doesn't mean that he'll always turn down the use of magic cause I'm sure there will be moments he can't help but use it like in another lesson such as last week when he had to grow a plant but part of that might just be me hoping that he'll use magic!

Stand My Heroes: Piece Of Truth Episode 9

Well I was begging for some answers and it looks like I finally got my wish. Surprisingly it was Hattori from Division 1 who had most of the answers and it makes me wonder if all of Division 1 knows this information or if Hattori was keeping it close to the chest until now. Either way I was thrilled when Rei almost immediately told the rest of her team cause I was a bit worried that she'd keep it to herself though I don't know that we got too much new information other than a few links here and there. So as it turns out Makato and Kyousuke's sister was not related to the Anonymous Case afterall but was kind of a trigger for what happened afterwards cause Ida got really attached to the family to the degree that he sort of led a one-man mission to eliminate drugs in his anger. Ida turned to Yuki, a Omori Pharmaceuticals employee, to create Square as a drug that would help junkies get less attached to the drugs they used only for the drug to have terrible side effects (which was funded by Aoyama's family and led to Rei's family dying.) Yuki tried to continue for a while longer and fix the problems with Square only for him to get threatened by the Kujo Family leading him to quit to keep the data safe from the wrong hands but Ida killed him for turning and the Kujo Family got the research Yuki did anyway. Ida then kidnapped Maki as a hostage to keep Hattori from coming after him and eventually escaped with the help of Makato or so Hattori thinks. Meanwhile the Kujo family spread Plus onto the streets cause I'm assuming they figured if Square wasn't going to make them money by helping junkies then Plus might with it's crazy side effects. I'm fascinated with this story and I love that the show is basically buckling down on Kujo being sketch cause for a stretch there I worried that the show might make Kujo a good guy after all which sucked cause he's the perfect villain!

Batwoman Season 1 Episode 8

This episode was so heartbreaking on so many levels and it's so fascinating cause of all the things that I expected Batwoman to do to me, the one I didn't expect was for it to give me one of the better villains in the Arrowverse and one that's leagues better than anyone we got over on Supergirl. Alice is incredible cause she really truly is a horrible person especially after this week but at the same time we can't help but sympathize and pity her cause it wasn't her fault that she got brainwashed into becoming this person. I have zero pity for Catherine and I still don't understand her no matter how many times she has tried to explain why she did what she did but I still don't think she deserved the death that she got and especially not in the arms of Mary who is one of my favorites on this show. I do have to admit that this episode was a little weird in how it was blocked cause after Alice told Kate that Catherine was dying somewhere in the building she decided to leave instead of trying to find Mary and Catherine? Like just give us one shot of Batwoman in the doorway as Mary cradled her mother and that would have made sense. Catherine's death being the straw that broke the camel's back for Kate was weird too cause we've literally never seen Catherine and Kate interact and we never saw any hint of how the four of them were a family. I straight up thought that it was an evil stepmother type situation where she kicked Kate out so Catherine could have her happy family cause we never saw any pictures of Kate on the wall of family photos! I guess I can imagine that though Kate never showed it that she does love Mary like a sister so the fact that Mary was so torn up was enough for Kate to be like that's enough. On another note Sophie and her husband had a whole thing that was annoying to watch and also like dude now is not the time to have this discussion! I truly don't care what the outcome is as long as Kate and Sophie don't get back together!

So next week is the Crisis On Infinite Earths Crossover which means no Batwoman standalone episode but I'm really curious about whether the Batwoman that will appear is the Batwoman who appeared in the Elseworlds Crossover last year cause she's the Batwoman who knows the rest of the Arrowverse and THAT Batwoman is obviously not the one we're watching this season making me think that season 1 of this show is more of a flashback in the Arrowverse continuity. 

The Flash Season 6 Episode 8

Part 2 of the Ramsay zombie attack thing happened this week and it was also meant to be the last stop before the crossover and this was a fine episode overall, nothing out of this world but nothing all that boring either. We were able to defeat Ramsay for good and I'm glad cause he truly didn't feel like a season long Big Bad but at the same time it did feel a bit too quick though honestly I didn't care that much cause I had zero connection to him which is a huge flaw for this show cause other than Eobard and Hunter, I never really connected with a Flash villain. I am left however curious as to who the villain of the second half of the season will be cause unlike the Dr Alchemy and Savitar season 3, there hasn't been another villain set up yet so either it'll be someone we meet in the crossover or someone who will be affected by the crossover or it'll be Nash who I'm almost completely certain met the Anti-Monitor and not the Monitor at the end. If I had to place a bet, the second option seems the most likely. I also liked the idea that Barry actually chose Ramsay last week in order to take him down but seriously guys did I miss something cause since when was Allegra's UV metapowers a way to take down Ramsay's blood meta thing? I also didn't like the stuff with Cecile and Kamilla at all and I feel like it was just a way to kill screen time. The final scene where everyone talked about how much Barry means to them was sweet in a sense but once again meaningless to me unless Barry dies permanently in this crossover.

Next week is the Crisis On Infinite Earths Crossover which means no Flash standalone episode but we will be getting the final part of the first 3 part crossover in which I do have a feeling that Barry will die only to be saved in January in either the Legends or Arrow part of the crossover so we get some sort of payoff for this whole half season lamenting Barry's death while also not making it permanent.

Arrow Season 8 Episode 7

We were back on the island as the final episode before the crossover and it was another great callback to previous seasons of Arrow though I'm still low key heartbroken that we didn't get Deathstroke even if it wouldn't have entirely made sense to have him on Lian Yu since we last saw him out in the world. Then again we met up with characters from the flashbacks of season 1 who were long dead so who's to say that Slade couldn't have dropped by doing something or other. I'm also low key heartbroken that we also didn't get Shado back instead of her father or Friers. I think we're supposed to believe that whatever that weird energy surge was on this island it not only brought back dead plants to life but also the people who died on this island. I kept awkwardly waiting for a Robert Queen to appear too but I guess once again that might have been too much to ask for. It was a bit of a contrived reason to have everyone on the island to build that weapon for the Monitor though as it turned out the weapon was Lyla all along who disappeared only to reappear at the end of the episode as the Harbinger whatever that means. Roy also lost an arm and straight up all I could think was that now he's about to really become Arsenal cause in the comics Arsenal loses an arm and replaces it with tech and I really hope we get at least one shot of Roy with a robot arm by the end of this show whether it's in the current day or the flash forwards cause of course at some point we'll have to see how the current timeline changes changed the terrible future. My favorite parts of the episode were naturally everything with Oliver and William and Mia and I'm pretty sure that Mia is going to be sticking by Oliver's side throughout the crossover but I kinda hope Diggle comes along for the whole ride too cause he's not just Oliver's right hand but he's also Lyla's husband and I can't imagine him deciding to stay back.

Next week is the Crisis On Infinite Earths Crossover which means no Arrow standalone episode but also no Arrow episode in general cause there's only going to be the first three parts of the crossover next week which will be Supergirl, Batwoman and Flash. 

Riverdale Season 4 Episode 8

This was a really interesting episode of Riverdale cause it slowed everything down and let us look back on what's happened not only this season but the past 3 seasons as well by sending all the main kids to therapy with a therapist who straight up was the most calm person ever cause listening to all the things that our main characters went through was insane. Betty and Alice dealt with how Alice is so controlling cause Alice is afraid to let Betty grow up and become her own person and listening to all the horrible things Alice did to Betty was really just so hard cause I don't know how Betty hasn't cut Alice out of her life yet! I did like the payoff having been that Alice gave Betty her college fund back but I'm still shocked that Betty was rejected from Yale cause you would think that she's a shoo-in! It makes me curious to know which school she'll end up picking now or whether like Veronica and Archie she will end up staying in Riverdale and doing something else. Speaking of Archie, he was the one person who basically didn't listen to anything the therapist told him cause while at first it looked like he might give up the vigilante thing, in the end he turned right back to where he was. Veronica on the other hand decided to turn down admission to Harvard to spite her father and has decided instead she's going to battle him in the rum business and I was sitting here like Veronica who cares if your dad pulled strings?? It's Harvard! And like the therapist told her to cut ties with her father not put all her attention on beating him! Cheryl might legitimately be insane with all that she did this season but once again we're just going to brush by that and instead focus on how someone has been messing with her this whole time. Do we think Cheryl's mom is hiding in the house? In a change of events Jughead was the only one who actually used what the therapist said and had a productive few hours of telling his dad how much he loves him, applying to colleges, finishing the pages for the Baxter competition while also moving the investigation into Stonewall forward. As we see more and more flash forwards I'm leaning away from the theory that this is all Jughead's book but more along the lines that Jughead faked his death to catch the Stonewall kids and everyone is in on it.

Next week is the midseason finale and I'm curious to see whether Jughead will "die" next week in order to set up the mystery for the second half of the season or not. That's all conjecture though cause as we saw I'm not sure exactly what that promo for next week was but I'm sure it's not real cause why would Alice try to kill Betty?

Assassin's Pride Episode 9

We learned a lot this week about Kufa's backstory and it was about time! Apparently he's a half-vampire who spent most of his life hiding his vampire side and eventually ended up in the village Rosetti grew up in and was one of the orphan children Blossom took care of only to be exposed after that spider lycanthrope came to the village. Blossom's wife somehow was turned into a lycanthrope but Blossom made a deal with the spider to get his wife some venom that basically put her in stasis until he figured out how to turn her back but the spider went on a rampage killing Rosetti who was turned into a vampire as well by Kufa cause he loved her like a little sister. I really liked that not only did we learn about this but Melida did as well cause now they're a team and I loved that she was able to convince him not to erase her memories of him. He's going to get even more attached to her now that she was the only person able to still love him after finding out that he was a lycanthrope cause though his superior officer obviously knows I'm sure he doesn't see Kufa as anything more than a tool. In the end everything was wrapped up pretty perfectly with the spider being killed, Kufa erasing Rosetti's memories of what just happened, Blossom's wife being saved while he turned himself in, and Kufa was exonerated from what the villagers thought he did. I'm still curious about whether Kufa has drunk any human blood or whether he needs to cause when Rosetti was turned it was said that she would need to feed eventually but by erasing her memories she never had that impulse? So does that mean that vampires don't need blood to survive but just like it?

The Mandalorian Season 1 Episode 5

I wasn't a huge fan of this episode cause not only was it short and nothing really happened in it but there was barely any Baby Yoda and at this point in my watching I'm not ashamed to admit that the main reason I enjoy this show is him. I was excited to see Ming Na Wen though but it's low key annoying that we aren't get any recurring members let alone permanent ones to this show so I expected her to die from the start which is unfortunate cause I adore her. I was also really happy to be on Tatooine which I low key guessed from the start but I still don't entirely know why Mando is roaming around the Outer Rim cause you would think that if he truly wanted to get Baby Yoda to safety then he would go to the New Republic since it's the remains of the Empire that want Baby Yoda. It's also low key insane how little bounty hunters care about killing children especially since it's not like the guild is a criminal one since they hunt down criminals themselves but I suppose it's one of those things where you harden your emotions for the money. I just wish that we know what Mando's goal was and where he's planning on heading or if he even has a plan. I mean he can't just think let's keep roaming around never stopping. I feel like eventually he'll have to go and kill the person who put the bounty on Baby Yoda otherwise this will never end.

Harley Quinn Season 1 Episode 2

Okay so not a fan of this episode. It was still really funny and everything but so much of me kept cringing about how terrible it was to see Harley try to show off but instead just look really dumb for 30 minutes! It's interesting cause despite all the humor and cringe, at the core of the plot of this episode is something really intense. Harley has just broken up with her abusive ex boyfriend and she realizes that the friends that she thought were her friends too are actually just Joker's friends and it's something so many couples regardless of whether you're in an abusive relationship or not have to deal with. Which side of the couple gets the group friends? On another note Harley and Ivy are everything and Ivy might straight up be stealing all the attention in this show cause of how deadpan she is and how much I love that she's such a good friend. I know Harley wants to become the biggest baddest villain in Gotham and join the Legion of Doom but I low key just want her to make the Birds Of Prey instead whether that's with Ivy and Catwoman and they do villainous things or if it's more of the anti-hero squad with Black Canary and they fight crime!

xoxo Allie

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Welcome To Demon School Iruma-Kun Episode 8

While I thought Clara was adorable when we first met her back in like episode 3 as time went on her brand of air-headed behavior became more annoying than anything else so when I realized this episode would focus on her, at first I wasn't thrilled. As the episode went on, I found myself really enjoying her though and I wonder if it's just that I wish she had more to do than just say silly things in the background. I still live for how she's always climbing Sabro and he's like so chill about it but I was also happy that the fallout from Iruma hanging out with Amelie continued this week cause like I said last week I had been hoping for more jealously or something from Clara and Azz and this episode gave it to me. Clara decided that she had to seduce Iruma in order to keep him from leaving them and it was everything watching her try to follow the steps of seduction only to confuse Iruma completely and actually make things worse. I was dying when she received a lower sexy scale than a baby but in the end it looks like maybe Iruma likes her just the way she is. I wondered if there will be any romance in this anime and at first I thought maybe it would be with Amelie cause of how much Iruma blushed around her but I think if there is romance it'll be with Clara at this point cause Iruma's heart skipped a beat when she told him one day he would fall in love with her and based on how that's a huge sign of a future romance, I think we've found out main couple. Iruma also decided he's going to move up a rank cause he doesn't have a dream yet and I can't wait cause this is defs step one of becoming Demon King!

Special 7: Special Crime Investigation Unit Episode 8

This was a bit of a standalone episode in that it didn't move the overarching plot forward until the very end. Bellemer got kidnapped and at first I thought maybe it was Nine only to find out that it actually had more to do with a different case where people were kidnapping homunculi so that they could cut out their hearts and sell them on the black market since supposedly people believe that eating a homunculus heart will give them youth. It was an interesting case cause we did get to focus on Bellemer a little but I still don't understand the drone thing that the boss flies around in cause you would think that easier than Bellemer having to figure out a way to email information to Special 7 would have been for the boss to leave the drone for long enough to relay information. But then again I have no idea how it works so maybe he couldn't leave the drone like that? Also Seiji really is that dumbass who runs from one situation to another without any thought of how or what. When he was sprinting around asking random people about whether they saw anything I had to roll my eyes so hard. Ichinose was right in saying that rushing into things blindly doesn't help cause it'll just tire you out before you even get anywhere. As for the overarching plot story, Seiji finally mentioned that Nijou's brother is the man who saved him though he doesn't know who he is but Ichinose will definitely put two and two together. I'm still waiting on whether or not there's a deeper connection between the two cause you can't tell me that the animators for this show just accidentally drew two characters to look alike!

Stand My Heroes: Piece Of Truth Episode 8

Okay so was anyone else really confused with how this episode started? I hardcore wondered if somehow I had missed an episode or a post credits scene last week or something cause it went from Rei and Miyase looking at some secret files to Rei suddenly meeting Miyase at a cafe and mentioning that she wants to work with him. We never really saw what was in those files but I'm assuming based on what we learned later that it might have been the formula for Square aka the drug that Omori was making before it became Plus and ended up on the streets. They also found evidence that the man who died in the Anonymous Case was a Omori employee but though Rei decided that this was the perfect amount of evidence to link Kujo to the Anonymous Case, I can't really see how it connects just yet. At the very least we're back to thinking that Kujo isn't a good guy despite Miyase adoring him. The more interesting piece of the puzzle is still what STAND is and whether or not they're bad guys too. I know for sure they're investigating the Anonymous Case again and that's why they made Rei scout the men she did but at the same time when Rei and her boss tried to get the case they had against Kujo to the higher ups, they kept being turned away making me wonder if we're back to the same point in the past when Plus and the Anonymous Case were covered up by the higher ups to save face or if STAND and the higher ups have some larger goal that Rei and the narcotics division is messing up by investigating.

The Flash Season 6 Episode 7

Honestly guys I didn't like this episode and I don't know what to say beyond the usual (blah blah Barry's not going to die permanently blah blah Crisis buildup should stick to Arrow) and I don't wanna be a broken record at this point so let's move on I suppose. It's interesting that this week's episode and next week's are considered to be taking place over two days but it also low key sucks cause Barry is going to be struggling hard right up to and through Crisis. It's also super strange that both Arrow and Flash did dream/alternate reality type episodes this week and I wonder if that was on purpose or if it was an accident. I think my main struggle with this episode was that I don't particularly like Barry as a character so watching him struggle with deciding whether to take Ramsay's deal and save himself didn't connect with me. All I could think was that Barry was being selfish and that Oliver when given the same choice picked the world over and over (without all the whining) even in the face of his actual family compared to Barry's possible future family and that it's annoying that the Flash is considered to be more of the hero than the Green Arrow. In the end Barry chose himself as per usual (hello Flashpoint and Nora moving Crisis up cause Barry couldn't see the big picture) though it did lead to a cool reveal and what should be an awesome episode next week. I also love that Iris is finally being given something to do but it was so weird when Allegra tried to convince Iris to write that article about how Barry dies and it's like first of all Allegra why aren't you asking why or how Iris knows the Flash is going to die in two days and secondly it's like I don't know if you have the right to convince a wife to write what basically amounts to an obituary. Having said that I do love the idea of the Iris, Allegra, and Kamilla having a story to follow on their own and I wonder if that secret agency will end up being the villain of the second half of the season.

Next week is the final episode before Crisis and it looks like we're going to be playing with a zombie/deadly infection type of episode which are always fun. I wonder if we'll actually defeat Ramsay next week cause I did hear that he was only the villain for the first half of the season.

Arrow Season 8 Episode 6

You know at first glance I wanted to say that I didn't love this episode and that it felt a bit too close to filler for my taste but as the episode went on, I realized that this was actually a truly lovely episode and I really liked what I was watching! It feels like the Flash does these deeply emotional episodes all the time which is why they tend to feel the same after a while but Arrow usually focuses on the action so when it slows itself down to let us really sit in our feels, it impacts me more. I mean I can't tell you how much I cried watching Quentin and Laurel be together one last time and just like Laurel I couldn't bare to watch him die over and over. I still don't know whether the Monitor is a good person or not but it seems like his role in putting Oliver and Laurel in these time loops was to force them to accept that some things just happen no matter how hard you fight them but at the same time he helped them fix their biggest regrets making me wonder if that was just a side effect of what he was doing or if he was hoping that by doing so and accepting his truth that they would be more pliable for Crisis. I don't love the idea that in order for Oliver to move forward he had to give in cause it reminded me too much of every other Arrow villain who tried to force Oliver to be someone he's not. It is interesting though that both Barry and Oliver keep being told over and over that their death is the only way to save the world and that they need to embrace it and it's funny pairing this episode with Flash cause it just highlights why I think Oliver is a better hero than Barry but the thing that truly works is that I can completely see Oliver dying in Crisis no matter how much I don't want it to be true. I also think it's a little strange that this is all it took for Oliver and Laurel to basically accept that the Monitor and Lyla are good people but you know at this point I'll take it cause I know the Anti-Monitor is coming and we have no more time.

Next week we're on Lian Yu which is the last page of Oliver's past and I was waiting for it though I'm not sure what the mission could be. Do we suppose we'll see Slade next week?

Assassin's Pride Episode 8

Secrets are slowly starting to come out and not just Kufa's though most of me is more interested in the fact that Melida knows about Kufa than the secret about Marquis Blossom coming out. I mean we all kind of guessed that he was a bit sketch cause the fact that so many people were dying in this town was a red flag but it looks like he might be a vampire too or if not a vampire then some sort of lycanthrope. He has been killing villagers and then running experiments on them to become lycanthropes and hiding it by pretending like there's some sort of disease running rampant as I guessed last week (the sketchy disease part not the lycanthrope part!) It also looks like Rosetti was one too and that it was actually she who was turned into a vampire 7 years ago only to go on a rampage but it also feels like somehow Blossom was able to remove that memory from her mind cause I think becoming a vampire was new to her and unlike Kufa, she was ruled by her thirst rather than her brain. She was the one killing since the Academy but it leaves me to wonder whether Kufa knew it or not and where in the world he vanished to all episode. As I mentioned up top, in order to protect Melida he had to turn into a vampire which obviously shocked Melida though I have a feeling that she won't really mind it too much. I'm still curious about whether him being a vampire effects his mana in anyway and whether that will affect Melida in turn.

The Mandalorian Season 1 Episode 4

Baby Yoda is slowly going to kill me with his cuteness because as we learned this week, he is a boy. I wonder if Mando will ever name him cause there's only so long we can call him Baby Yoda but then again Mando doesn't exactly have a name either so maybe names aren't that important in Mandalorian culture which tbh feels like a lie since in Rebels Sabine had a name and like in the Star Wars movies Bobba Fett and Jango Fett had names. Maybe it's cause Mando was a foundling so he doesn't use his name as it's not a Mandalorian one? It's not like he could have forgotten it! All this having been said and done probs doesn't matter that much but it's just a curiosity I have. I do think it's so weird though that everyone in this show keeps poking fun at Mando's helmet and how he doesn't take it off cause like you would think in this Star Wars universe that people would be more open and used to other cultures but instead everyone is acting like he'd be more free if he took it off. Like damn people mind your own business! I did love the world we visited this week and not only just cause I was so happy watching Baby Yoda live his best life. I wanted to be those little village kids feeding Baby Yoda! I also kind of liked the hints of romance between Mando and the village mom though I can imagine that other people might think it was too fast but in my opinion Mando feels like he's always looking for a home being that he's a foundling so I could see why he'd get attached to this world. I also really liked the new bounty hunter we met and I hope she comes back cause I was totally expecting her to join Mando and Baby Yoda on our journey! I still don't entirely know what the trajectory of this show is planning on being but I'm enjoying the week to week episodes so maybe it truly doesn't matter.

FINISHED Titans Season 2 Episode 13

The finale for season 2 of Titans has just aired and overall it was a fun time. I didn't love where some of our characters ended up and I do have to admit that I think I enjoyed the beginning of this season more than the end because of out-of-character writing choices that required the plot to go from point A to B but as a whole this season wasn't half bad and it was still miles ahead of season 1. I wasn't actually surprised that we managed to defeat both Slade and Cadmus in this episode but I was surprised to see that Slade was killed though if I think about it makes sense. I also do think it sucks that Jericho ended up in Rose and I'm over here like why can't we create a new Jericho body either from Rachel's powers or with Bruce's help cause obviously cloning is a thing in this world. I still feel like the Titans were too chill about Gar and Connor being mind controlled but as I expected it was Rachel who cleared the Cadmus programming and I can't tell you how thankful I was that Gar at least got five seconds of screen time to mourn what he had done cause he always gets the rough end of the stick! Donna's death came out completely nowhere cause like first of all I didn't understand why Connor didn't go and stop the pole from falling and then secondly it was just so random to kill off a main character like that. She didn't go out from Slade or Cadmus but electricity! I do wonder if she'll be back next season though cause Rachel went with her and that's weird unless she comes back to life. I also wonder if Jason will be back next season cause he came for Donna's funeral but like didn't stay and if I had to choose honestly I'd want him over Rose any day.

There is a season 3 for Titans that's been confirmed to air though we'll probs have to wait at least 6 months or longer for it. Based on the button at the end of the episode, it looks like our next villain will be Blackfire but it totally sucks that she came to Earth rather than us going to Tamaran! 

Harley Quinn Season 1 Episode 1

So the first episode of Harley Quinn is out and it was such a blast to watch! I was a bit worried going into this show cause I wasn't a huge fan of Kaley Cuoco's version of Harley cause the voice acting didn't seem over-the-top enough for Harley but having watched the first episode, I think she'll grow on me even if I still do think that Kaley's Harley is too close to Harleen! The humor in this show is everything though cause it's the perfect mix of situational humor and funny dialogue and I'm all about it. One of my favorite moments was when Harley was killing all those prison guards while having a conversation with Poison Ivy about whether or not Joker loves her and whether she should leave him. Speaking of, Ivy is amazing in this show and I love her dynamic with Harley and how she's this exasperated best friend cause man oh man can I relate to her trying to talk a girl into leaving her terrible boyfriend! I also really love the idea that this show is going to be about Harley learning to be a villain on her own and I really hope there's an episode somewhere in this season where she tries to find an arch-nemesis cause you totally have to! The jokes practically write themselves! As a sidebar, the blood and gore was totally unexpected but oddly enough it adds to the whole humor of this show.

xoxo Allie