[Locke]

Epic 31.

When Dereputa went down, you felt it. He destroyed the Tower of Heaven - something the Angels are still recovering from this late in the series. He is the first thing you see. He is badass. They spent time on his and Alata's rivalry and they even gave him a surprise return when they (the showrunners) realised Drake was never really important. He was a great villain.

But here we are, same show, new big bads and the show just doesn't seem to have any of that prior magic. The Yuuma Beasts have never really achieved anything, they've not really got any goals and they haven't really got much personality. They are just sort of there.

And as the Angels slammed them with artificial greenscreened special attacks that leave you feeling utterly detached from everything as none of the attacks play out in real time and also utterly underwhelmed whenever you're reminded they're fighting in a car park, you just kinda realise how artificial this all is.

At least Makuin's departing speech was pretty cool, if not totally generic.