Just watched the new episode, I'd give it a solid 'fine' appraisal.

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Sorry, Lugu.

ALRIGHT, YE SCURVY DOGS, IT SEEMS AR' CAPN AIN'T GOT GOOD TASTE! WE'RE GONNA HAFTA RISE IN MUTINY AGAINST THIS LANDLUBBER! WHO'S WITH ME?

But seriously, just fine? In spite of

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the vastly improved animation, sound quality, the badass fight scene, the reveal that NEO IS IN FACT BESTGIRL, and Blake being adorable as fuck

Also, Gren, you got no chill. Subtlety is the way to go, bruh.

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The fight scene was blander than anything done after the dance and Blake is still worst girl with no consistent character - she's gone from quiet but sweet to bitter to exhausted emo to literally a cat in human skin.

Definitely a decent watch, though.

'Cide's being ice queen is Sapphire's thing. Gren's going to smash right into your fortress of solitude with his ram of pure passion if that's what it takes for her to open up.

I enjoyed Arslan's disdain for the rest of her team's performance

poor girl had three shitters to carry

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I thought you needed alien robots to infiltrate the Fortress of Solitude?

Who was Arslan again, cause the only thing that comes to mind is the fact that that means lion.

Sorry for the run-on sentence, but a good character (who hasn't been fully developed) shouldn't be consistent, especially when faced with as much turmoil and despair as Blake has.

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She should also develop in something beyond timeskips. We didn't see her go full emo after the warehouse, it was told to us because it bothered her for an entire semester of classes.

Which we missed.

Or how she recovered from that haze of depression after fighting off the Grimm invasion, and the subsequent weeks/months of training that led up to the Vytal festival.

Whiiiiich we missed.

You know who's a good example of what you're talking about? God help me for saying this, but Jaune. Jaune, at least, has had every ounce of his development aired out right there on screen, so no matter how obnoxious he is about it, at least he's evolving. Every significant shift in Blake's character was told to us, not shown.

Anyway Neo is best girl and pulls off gothic loli like she was born to do it so I'm glad you at least have good taste in waifu

Just watched the new episode, I'd give it a solid 'fine' appraisal.