[DreamSword]

Episode 9: The Sleepless Hero

Episode 10: Uncovering Ricca's Mystery!

Technically a two-parter, but also not?

The two episodes aren't directly connected, but the second episode does come about as a result of the first, if that makes any sense.

In the first, Zacros is at work giving everyone nightmares, and it's a fun episode that has a nice bit of callbacks to the stuff he did in the first show. I did so enjoy the newspaper coming back. They knew how iconic that was.

And for the second, Ricca's' actions in the first episode result in Iron Mask wanting to uncover just who the heck Ricca is and who she's working for, given that's helped Bima-X out twice now while clearly knowing alot more than any normal person would.

Both episodes excel in different areas, with episode 9 doing great in terms of comedy and some insight into the psychology of the core cast with their nightmares. Whereas episode 10 is much more action oriented. Both do feature some fun fight choreography though, and episode 10 is another episode that has a great musical score to it.

And speaking of great music, given the dream-like nature of the song itself, I suppose now would be as good a time as any to highlight BIMA-X's' ending credits theme, "Let Tomorrow Be" by flumpool. Just like I think of "Seperti Bintang" whenever I think of BIMA, I feel the same goes for this song and BIMA-X. It absolutely blew me away when it first played during the end credits of The Beginning, and its overall melody and atmosphere are just wonderful to experience. Big fan of songs like this.

Anyway, yeah, these were solid enough episodes. And while the show for sure wants us to be just as invested in Ricca as Iron Mask is, what with her healing pod and secret organization ties, I feel as though there is currently a much bigger mystery at hand that I demand an answer to.

Who the heck is Chris Ruslan? For those who don't know who I'm talking about, he's the news reporter who's shown up in almost every episode so far, and notably, he's one of the few people unaffected by Zacros' sleep spell this time around. I'm starting to think that the dude is secretly Rexor in disguise or something, what with his constantly wearing sunglasses and all.

Oh, and I guess knowing what Randy's' nightmare was would've been nice too, even if ignoring it did make for a funny bit.