[Locke]

Only just now watching the second episode, man I didn't miss TVN's shitty encodes. Subs aside, the actual quality of their video is always shit. I don't know what they compressed this with, but I've seen DVD rips released like seven years ago with less tearing and pixellation.

This was basically another whole episode where I never knew what the fuck was going on, to the point where I swear some scenes were edited out of order. Still, the actors involved seemed to be having a great time and that made it very fun to watch as well. It was so balls to the wall in places, that it was just downright laugh out loud hilarious.

The action however, I was less impressed with. Underneath all the flash, there actually wasn't a lot to it, like at all. Rai did a few flips, waved his stick around and it ended. The hand to hand combat was brief, and the energy attacks lacked a sense of impact, plus although the setting for the fighting was visually awesome, the disconnect from the real world took a lot of the weight out of the hits. Still, it was GORGEOUS.

I definitely enjoyed this way more than the first episode though and am hungry for more.