[Locke]

W 33.

This is probably the first genuinely good episode since episode 28. It's slumps like this that make me glad I'm not watching it weekly. It was just really nice to just have a good story again. Y'know? I'm guessing this might be unpopular opinion, and you don't have to agree with me, but I feel like the show really lost its way since Accel found himself.

Sure it's had some dramatic reveals, and exciting wrap ups, but the core and heart of the story, what it all began with, that had gotten lost somewhere. It was once a story of a normal guy, and his super computer partner saving the people of the city they love, in the name of the man that was their hero. Sure the action was small, and the stakes never reached any dizzying heights, but it had heart and soul and I loved it all the same. It's something I've missed from the show, for a while.

So to get an episode where the crux of the show wasn't in the action, or the new powers, but just a compelling well paced mystery that clicked beautifully into place, full of twists, turns and emotional resonance. It was pretty wonderful.

Some stray thoughts:

It's kinda weird, that so late in the show, they seem to be trying to make Phillip's trips to the Gaia Library more interesting with him running through it to dramatic music, or his words not correlating to text but to video clips.

The gay overtones in this show are glorious, especially now Sho and Phillip 'become one' and when the battle is done, Phillip steps out from behind him.

"I don't dislike it." I'm definitely gonna use that next time my best friend asks me if I like how she dyed her hair THIS time