[DreamSword]

Episode 23: Scorched Earth

After an actual good episode, we're back to the normal garbage.

Yeah, apologies if I don't exactly sound enthused, but hey, atleast the show is almost over, right?

Victor is somehow still alive despite getting physically fused into the Zwolf mainframe, and oh man am I glad that genocidal maniac who wants the exact same thing as Xargin is still around!

The USA also totally alters what it meant about invading Germany. Instead they just opt to nuke the country entirely, and while our biggest takeaway of this event is meant to be the moment when Shido sacrifices himself to delay the attack, really all that stood out to me was how it continued to point out how dumb this all is.

Both Xargin and Victor are easily every bit as bad as one another in this scenario, with the claim that "It's okay if I destroy the entire planet, but if anyone else does it it's wrong." And I'm supposed to sympathize with them and what happened to them in the past? If Victor really wants everyone dead, why would he bother to save his grand-daughter?

And as for Xargin, he laments that people like Sasha shouldn't have to die, yet never seems to cue in that causing the apocalypse would include killing her too, and all this despite him claiming two episodes ago that Sasha was already dead and thus not worth worrying about anymore. Oh, and this episode goes back to glorifying Xargin's' mindset too, by having him easily take down Malek who is spouting the values that Hermann did last episode.

And before you ask Urobuchi wrote this episode too so I don't even know what the hell is going on anymore.

Anyway, the anti-nanomachine program is complete, and Sasha for some reason decides that turning it into a pill would be the best idea and has it delivered to Joseph. Now, far be it from me to expect this show to make any sense, but wouldn't ingesting a pill made from something designed to kill nanomachines do nothing but kill Joseph? Even if you figure Joseph's' blood would splatter onto Xargin, Joseph openly talks about and takes said pill right infront of Xargin, so Xargin should clue in unless he's an idiot--Actually yeah.

But yeah, final battle is tomorrow. Who's ready for death and letdowns?