[Locke]

TOWSITD 11.

This episode was really...really bad.

First there was the fact that I forgot the Horrors are basically defined by being pointlessly elaborate. I get the whole flavouring the meat thing, but since we never see the set up, or build up of their schemes, their plans just come across as rather meaningless. This show really is screaming for more two parters.

But the biggest problem with this episode was the acting, namely that it was atrocious across the board. Characters like Burai and Glasses McAsshole are so far in the background, it's hard to actually notice them in the first place, let alone their acting ability but Rian is constantly paraded in the foreground. I can see why, she is gorgeous, but she's almost as wooden as Andrew Gray with a facial expression that mirrors that of January Jones, who when in front of a camera mirrors a deer seconds before being hit by a truck.

Then of course was Sam who didn't sound like he could speak either Japanese or English. Or he just couldn't act. Luckily for him, but not luckily for the audience, pretty much every character around him attempted to speak English with such awkward engrishy results it went from amusing to embarrassing to please God make it stop!

Even the action didn't do much to save it. It was kinda fun to see Ryuga beating up a bunch of hookers so violently, and with such glee, but the actual main Horror and that awful CGI whip effect thing was utter rubbish. It's a shame as well, because GARO had fantastic action, and Makai Senki improved that action ten fold but this just feels like a thousand steps backwards and in the wrong direction. All the Horrors are the same, the CGI animation is atrocious and the armour has never felt more tacked on and pointless.