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I thought this was Drive's best episode in quite some time. That's not saying much, given my open disdain for the show, but it's true. The last half of the show with Shinnosuke's open transformation and the reactions from all of the other characters was really good and I actually think this shift in the status quo may open up a lot of possibilities, especially with Chaser coming along next week. Honestly, the biggest thing that got me was that the captain has been in on this the entire damn time. I find it hard to believe that guy is secretly competent, but I'm willing to see where they go with it.

That said, I did actually kinda hate the first part of the episode. The anti-Special Units captain was incredibly annoying, especially since we just did this exact same fucking plot about a month ago. Between that and the usual terrible humor I was really not liking this episode at first. Totally pulled around at the end, though.