08.30
Wow… last week’s episode was pretty good! Can this week keep up the momentum?!? (spoilers: nope)
Seriously this is the only reason why you're watching this now right?
We begin with everybody but OD in the dumps. Paiman’s reduced to binge drinking, Jou (who has recovered from his masive injuries from last week) hates himself more than normal, and Utsutsu has a sunny disposition (wait what?). Naturally Dr. Hajime has a perscription for this crippling predicament… do a public relations reveal at a nearby preschool!
…god I hate this show.
I don't even need to ask this question anymore the show is doing it for me.
So anyway Hajime does long form interviews for the press, Sugane does rediculous acrobatics on a flag pole, OD tries to hit on Kuwabara the fire chief (remember him?!?), and various toddlers try to use Paiman as a tug-of-war rope. Happily Jou says fuck you to this shit and doesn’t glorify with his presence. Good for him, I’d hate to see his office fangirls kill themselves over the sight of Jou trying to act like a feasible family man.
You're not fooling anybody Nakamura (how many times have I said that now?)
Now if this was the entire episode I’d pretty much rage quit Crowds-Sourcing right now and tell ya you’re on your own. Thank god then that the Rui/Katze plot was much, much better. After stringing Rui along for an indeterminate period of time as his own personal slave, Berg Katze finally decides to throw him out onto the street, using his shape shifting power to hijack the (admittedly) rather dim GALAX system. He also uses that one really grouchy CROWD that Rui had that overwritten conversation about the uses of power and supply and demand a few episodes ago as his new pawn in the zero sum game he’s playing with Gatchaman. And we’re wasting time on the preschool thing again why?
...I got nuttin.
Yeah this episode was a total buzzkill after the greatness that was last week. I know I had unrealistic expectations that it could maintain something of a pace but when Gatchaman finds themselves in a plot so obviously filler as this was it just kinda makes you cry a little inside. There are three more episodes of this left and if this is the way Nakamura wants to tell his story its going to be a pretty damn rushed finale.
Oh and…
Shaft tilt.
4/10.