[Layton13]

Remember when I said that even if a scene is great, it can be brought down if it doesn't play well with what surrounds it?

Yeah, this is that.

This episode leaves me utterly cold. I can absolutely recognize the craftsmanship at work here and how well everyone pulled this off, but it doesn't change the fact that I do not care one iota for Genta and Vail. He was a fine comic relief character, but he just did never work as a tragic character for me; it mostly related to how nonexistent he was during the show and how bad the Vail special was to me.

On paper, all of this works well, supported by stunning imagery, but... yeah, on paper. This needed more build-up. Vail and Genta interact pretty much only in the Vail special, and that is just not enough to make me invested in any way. This feels very much like a repeat of last year, but where that had just enough meat to its bones with previous interactions to make me 100% fall in love with Ren, even if they hadn't the biggest focus, this just doesn't.

Every time I think about this, my mind immediately goes to how squandered it all is because it is a good conclusion to an utterly butchered arc.

This arc sums up my feeling about Revice the most. Bad setup, awful execution, and at the core, a great idea. It is a monumentally disappointing show in how constant that feeling was for me. I desperately wanted to love this show and tried my best to keep it open to course correct, but each time it looked like it, it drove itself deeper into what I consider bad...

So yeah... resounding meh from me.