[DreamSword]

Apologies for the brief hiatus! Life got unexpectedly busy recently. But now we should be back to our normal schedule of daily updates.

Act 42

This episode felt really long.

At first, I was thinking it might be because I've been away for a week, but the more I looked back on it, I think it's due to this episode's' structure in itself.

Because there's alot that happens, and yet at the same time not. There's many a scene regarding the character arcs of Beryl, Darien, Serena, and the Four Generals, but all of them only move forward by like, a single step.

Which is not only surprising given how late we are into the show now, but I also just didn't find much of it all too engaging? I probably would've been more into it had the episode focused on only one or two of these aspects, rather than juggling everything all at once.

So color me surprised when the very end of the episode hit, and I was surprisingly into the stuff being shown. Serenity isn't evil, she isn't some berserk monster, she's just incredibly hyper focused. The scene of her healing Amy, as well as the landscape around them spoke volumes. And the conversation that Serenity has with Serena shows that Serenity is capable of empathy.

It's just such a shame that a sequence that I was super into had to be proceeded by what felt like the longest episode in the show so far, despite the length itself not actually being any different from the norm. But hey, on a more optimist viewpoint, maybe that just means this episode was used to get alot of setup out of the way, and the show is gonna start swinging rather hard in the episodes leading up to endgame.