>>91579144This episode might've disappointed me a bit more than the last one.
First of all, it felt very uncofuced. I mean, the first ep was pretty unfocused too, but it had more awesome shit to offer (the first fight scene, creepy visions, Scatbot). In here, it's just... ehh?
Aku kills the Scotsman but then the Scotsman is a ghost and then we forget about that entirely and then Jack and Ashi ride a serpent and the Jack shows Ashi some shit and then they fight and Jack goes with the black horseman... This truly shows how much a change of format can affect the series. This is an episode that focuses on a couple of different plotlines being developed, but we don't really get any results in either of them.
The second thing that kinda bugged me is that the drawing style and the animation are... different? They for some reason are more wacky and over-the-top in some places? I dunno, I suppose different teams of animators are still being used for different episodes or something?..
The Ashi storyline is actually not half bad, she's not entirely 'there' yet, she is just a fanatic starting to question her own beliefs when faced with reality, and she genuinely wants to do good.
The serpent scene was actually beautiful. I hope the soundtrack gets released, or at least someone puts out the music that plays in that scene.
The voice acting was also top-notch from both LaMarr and Strong, I don't think anyone'll argue with that. Boldwin's ehh... okay?
If there was anything about Ashi that I'd complain about it's the fact that her arms and feet baka didn't get crushed by those giant claw thingies. Also, the bad guy is pretty generic, I mean he's no Scatbot or even Demongo that's for sure.
Overall, the episode feels more like a filler than the previous one, which is really ironic. Everybody called the previous one a filler when it actually had more point than this one which, once again, doesn't really get anything done and is more like a transition ep between grander ones
