[DreamSword]

Act 19

It's the Valentine's Day episode.

And like, I get it, it's a show meant for girls, and the romantic melodrama comes with the territory of the holiday.

But man, I just really feel like this plot has overstayed its welcome. It's been here for three episodes in a row. Can we get a break atleast? Not helping was that I really didn't like the message it spread.

I get the idea that the show is using the little girl that Serena helps out as a parallel to Serena's' own love life, but that is an entirely different scenario, and I for sure don't like that most of the characters in this episode essentially tell Serena to be a home wrecker.

And instead of jumping through all these hoops to make Serena look like the one in the right for not respecting that Darien has a fiance, maybe, I dunno, don't write that Darien has a girlfriend in the first place? Again, I get that this is a romace story and so it kinda comes with the territory, but still, bad message to be spreading to young girls, I think.

As such, I found myself much more focused in on the overarching plot side of things, with Raye being suspicious of what Sailor Venus has said and done so far and, surprisingly, the revival of Queen Mettalia, known to us in the USA as "The Negaforce" on the horizon. I expected that particular plot point to come in way later than the halfway point, but hey, maybe something cool will be done with it, especially given the change to Malachite's' character here.

I just hope the romance stuff gets toned down atleast a little bit soon.