[Layton13]

Yeah, this is the episode that made my disinterest and bordem with Ikki move into actual dislike.

Seriously, George should not have to forgive his deadbeat of a dad. The man has zero redeeming qualities, even if he means well. He never learned and repeated the same mistakes again and again. And if he had lived on, I'm convinced he'd continued on as if nothing happened. And Ikki got the audacity to tell George that it doesn't matter and, in the end, he loved him, so everything is ok now?

No! Just, no!

This man has hurt George more than he was ever good for him. If he wants to cut him out then that is his choice and potentially even a helpful one.

That said, George clearly acted out of line with his way of going about it.

But Ikki just drives me up the wall here. I get why he views it this way, but it once again is a "I know best!" situation and I hate that.

And I use this as a small springboard why the family stuff in Revice is utterly broken for me.

It's shallow.

So unimaginably shallow, filled with platitudes and nothing more.

Family makes you stronger! So George has to accept what his dad did because love.

No! That is not that easy show! Family can be an incredible rock that pushes you forward, but it can also hurt and break you!

Technically Revice talked about it with the Deadman cult but never with an actual blood family. It feels shallow, and I despise it, especially since I straight up think the Igarashi's are a toxic mess of a family that makes everything worse that they touch.

Hell, this episode made me jokingly say Ikki losing his memories may even be for the better since he wouldn't have to be around them any longer.

And speaking of the memory thing. I haven't talked about it much, which is mostly because it's irrelevant. It is nothing but a sign raised up with "forgetting!" whenever brought up and not an actual narrative tool.

It goes absolutely nowhere and doesn't inform or affect the plot in any way till the last four episodes.

I'm sorry, but that is embarrassingly badly handled. It ends underclocked and underdeveloped, eliciting at best an "Oh, they are finally doing something with this" or at worst, "Ehhh..." from me.

One of Revice's worst bungled plotlines, mostly because it's not a plotline; it's 2 points, not forgotten and forgotten.

Added to this is that it makes no sense.

Why is only Vice taking the memories?

How can he do it?

Why can't he control it?

The show never bothers to explain any of it and makes this come off as ungodly contrived. Everytime it comes up, the only thing I can think of how there is no actual thought put into it. It just is and I hate that!

So... yeah... maybe a bit more emotional than I thought I'd be about this one...

Sorry if I got a bit agitated here, this one really just sat wrong with me.