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JUST BELIEVE IN MYSELF! I loved the shit out of this opening. ( .____.) The animation was freaking amazing, and the music itself is awesome. From start to finish I loved it, but there are some things worth mentioning... like how there are a lot of spoilers, and a lot of hypes. The hypes we see are stuff like Natsu vs. Mard Geer, Jiemma showing up (I'll kinda explain why it's not a spoiler), Twin Dragons helping out, and all that stuff. The spoilers tho...well, I dunno, there are some anime-only readers to this so I have no desire to explain what's a spoiler and why it's a spoiler, and all that shit, but Jiemma is not a spoiler. He is like a big wtf. So enjoy that. ( .____.)

We pick right where last episode left off, where Gray asks Silver why he pretended to be Deliora, while creepy-ass motherfucker Keyes reveals the same truth to Juvia: Silver is merely a corpse. Apparently he has been dead for over seventeen years now, and that he was reanimated by Keyes' curse Necromancer just to see if a corpse could go back to being close to a living human being. Silver was the only success because of his desire for revenge against demons, which he reveals he carried out as a member of Tartaros for years until he found out during the Grand Magic Games that Gray was alive. When he found out his son was alive, Silver decided to give up his quest for vengeance and entrust his mission to his son should they ever meet again. Gray basically starts off with an inherent "fuck you" to his father by refusing to inherit his quest for vengeance, but then when he realizes that his father pretended to be Deliora for his benefit, Gray begins to have second thoughts. At this point, Silver begs Gray to finish him, claiming that he is not a father, as no father would ever lay a hand to their son, and begs Gray to kill him and reunite him with Mika. Gray makes a sword and says that he'll kill his father for he is Fairy Tail's, his family's, enemy, which Silver remarks is something that makes Gray human. Gray, however, also states that he can't kill Silver because he's still his father and throws the sword away, crying, which Silver says also makes him human.

Father and son then embrace, and as Juvia continues to square off against Keyes, Silver gets ahold of her via Telepathy and asks her to kill him to stop Crawford, who is working on activating Face due to his Necromancer Curse. Juvia questions if this will kill Silver too, but he tells her to just bug that fact off, but it doesn't really matter at this point because she can't even lay a hand on his bony ass. ( .___.) And in other news, Natsu and Gajeel are still getting their shit rekt, and we get filler of Franmalth trying to stall Erza and Minerva for time by leading them down wrong paths to the control room.

Back to Juvia vs. Keyes, Keyes reveals that he knew of Silver's quest for vengeance and that he loves how emotions make humans the perfect tools for his experiments. Juvia's attempts to kill this bastard are totally shrugged off and he summons up his skeletons that the anime totally censored as it looked like they were gangbanging Lucy in the manga. (.____. ) This makes Natsu and Gajeel distracted and causes them to lose more ground, but I don't really give a shit about that fight at the moment because Keyes gets even creepier when his mouth opens up and there's a whole bunch of spit, teeth and rape-face as he mocks that Juvia needs to kill him to save her friends, but that if she does so, she'll kill Silver and thus hurt the one she loves.

Keyes then takes Juvia, captures her in his mist shit and traps her in his body, planning on using her corpse to kill all her friends. His confidence is very shortlived, though, as he quickly figures out that Juvia has turned into water inside his body and then thrashes about. The thrashing eventually causes Keyes to explode, where she bursts out of his body saying that even if Silver is killed, the bond between father and son won't sever (and something about believing in the POWER OF LOVE).

From here, Silver contacts Juvia by Telepathy again and thanks her for killing Keyes (in a really brutal fashion, btw. The anime even made him talk afterwards and my feels kicked in for everyone) as he begins to vanish. Before he vanishes, he tells Gray that he learned Ice Devil Slaying Magic to defeat E.N.D., who he says is a fire demon, and that he is passing his power onto his son. Gray accepts his father's quest and vows as an Ice Devil Slayer to defeat E.N.D.

Oookay, so this episode was just amazing. The animation was beautiful, the soundtracks were glorious, and it was a wonderful adaptation of two very high tension chapters. But now I can talk about Silver, like I said I would last month. Basically, in the manga it wasn't clearly explained (maybe it's the scanlators' fault? I'm not sure), and we ended up thinking that Silver idk, pretended to be Deliora for no real reason and then just proceeded to beat the crap out of his son. Well, what happened really is that Silver was never going to reveal to Gray that he was actually his father: he was going to die as "Deliora". This served the purpose of: A) Gray getting over his anger by having the feeling of avenging his family; B) Silver getting to see his son again; and C) Silver finally being able to be put to rest (in some way). In truth, it was a really great idea, and he isn't a terrible father, and I'm sure it was really hard for him to try and kill his son. But his charade sort of poked through last month when he get exasperated over Gray's emotional speech and his attempts at using Iced Shell. Juvia vs. Keyes was easily one of the best animated parts of this arc, and only one other episode this month I truly believe was better in terms of fight animation.

Score : 10/10. No shame. On to the ending!

Umm, the song was nice? I dunno, I liked the running crap (lel Natsu always runs in endings. That hasn't changed from studio to studio it appears :'D) If it shows the appearance of everyone as they were when they were introduced, why was Jellal in his CS outfit? Was it cuz he wasn't "good" until that point? Beats me, but this is definitely the case, because Lucy has her old outfit, as does Gajeel, Rogue doesn't have his scar, and Sting has his gay spandex crop top, and blah blah blah. I mean, it's definitely watcheable, so having a non-skippable ending is nice (I definitely skipped the last one ever time :3).

So...Keyes' body is made up of Magical Barrier Particles, which is why nobody could hit him, and Juvia is poisoned from her fight and collapses, asking to see Gray. Elsewhere, insert filler of everyone looking for their friends. Insert more filler of the Twin Dragons vs. Mard Geer, and then insert filler extension on Franmalth attempting to continue trying to mislead them to the control room (Minerva honey can cook tho <3).

Okay, so back to Dragon Slayers vs. Etherious, and we have Natsu and Gajeel still kind of breaking even with Tempester and Torafuzar; Tempester mentions that the shit they're doing is getting really damn old, while Torafuzar says they've gotta treat them like actual dragon wizards, and they enter their Etherious Forms! Gajeel and Natsu also turn up the heat (lel) by entering their Dragon Modes. Insert bickering about Laxus' lightning vs. Rogue's shadows and everyone wondering when Gajeel got the Mode, but whatever, as the four rush at each other and the Dragon Duo totally begins beating the almost literal crap out of the Etherious. They are hit away, and then repeatedly pummelled, and then hit with Exploding Lightning Blade and a point-blank Iron Shadow Roar. The two Dragon Dipshits are about to deal the crippling blow to their foes, but then they somehow accidentally hit themselves...and honestly, just like Lucy I'm smh. Way to ruin the tension, guys. >___>

So Flaming Dumbass and Iron Dumbass then argue amongst each other (there was something about the winner having a song written for them by the loser, or something. It was either here or the paragraph above, but I don't care enough to check :'D) and Torafuzar gets sick of their shit, stands up, and then floods the area with his Tenchi Kaimei curse, which swallows up every single person inside Cube's remnants. The wizards are definitely at a disadvantage now, with Natsu in particular being unable to use his fire. Before long, Gajeel notices that everone has fallen unconscious, after which Torafuzar drops the bomb that his water is poisonous, and that all who swallow it will die within five minutes from the poison, though he chides that it's not like humans can hold their breath for five minutes anyway. Gajeel then tries to fight Torafuzar, but he is significantly slower than him and gets the tar beat out of him (a hit that Gajeel recognizes that he couldn't take many more of), even after he uses his shadow to catch up and deliver a couple strikes. However, Torafuzar is virtually unscathed and turns around to hit Gajeel with a few more of those hits he can't take. Man, is he getting the shit beat out of him. >__> Gajeel at this point begins losing consciousness as well because he's running out of air, and as he slips in and out of a waking state, Levy shows up and gives him mouth-to-mouth, reviving the Dragon Slayer. Levy then sinks downward, having expended most of her air, and Torafuzar notices that she gave Gajeel air and tries to kill her before she can assist any further. Gajeel, though, in a series of Gajevy moments, uses his shadow to catch up to Levy, grabs her and then whacks Torafuzar right on the head, screaming for him to back the fuck away from Levy.

Episode was enjoyable in terms of story and content, and unlike others I didn't think the overall animation was "bad" per se, but the all the shadows and crap from the Etherious Forms and the Tenchi Kaimei water sort of...lessened the quality for sure. It made everything appear grainy and overshadowed the underlying motion of the characters. Well, Etherious Modes were cool so +1? "Censored" Gajevy moment was a big disappointment. Let's teach kids that they can beat the shit out of each other, but god forbid they see people kiss! What kind of world would it be where we promoted LOVE? >_> Well...whatever...

Score : 6/10. Grainy episode because of poor use of shadow effect, also they didn't even animate one of the best panels of the Tartaros arc properly. Big letdown in the big, key panel department. I'm trying to ignore the fact that Levy actually gave Gajeel carbon dioxide, and therefore it should've killed him faster, but the botched up the kiss scene, so just like how it made no sense in the manga, marking it down here, too.



So...now we get to this. Gajeel asks Levy to give him air again, and she thinks he means another make-out session, but she figures out that he means her magic, and after some embarrassment, she creates air by writing the word air in the...air. Or water. Whatever. Well, Gajeel uses this chance at revitalization to attack Torafuzar again, but Torafuzar reveals that he has the ability to harden his body and has the greatest defense of the Demon Gates, and when Gajeel punches him...there's blood. This is rare indeed... Well Torafuzar then grabs Gajeel and starts squeezing him to death, and then we enter Iron Shadow Dragon's Flashback Mode. We go back to Gajeel's Phantom days where he's brought to trial for destructive tendencies and the Council lets him go, or something. Whatever. Anyway, Belno approaches him and tells him to live a life of meaning rather than waste away like other men his age. He blows her off saying that his life has meaning, which is destroying Fairy Tail. We then flash forward in the flashback, to when Gajeel finds Belno's dead body at the start of the arc. We then cut to him being all alone and crying over her death because he never got a chance to say thank you to her for looking out for him before she died. He contemplates revenge, but figured Belno wouldn't like that, and instead resolves to take her words to heart and just live a life of meaning.

At this point, Gajeel breaks free from Torafuzar's grip and says that his meaning to live is to protect all the people that he loves, and then we get some awesome chemistry. Gajeel's iron skin has slowly been soaking in the waters of Tenchi Kaimei, which are poisonous due to the amounts of carbon that exists inside. Well, what does Iron + Carbon equal? Steel. Gajeel uses this new skill to slash through Torafuzar, most probably kill him, and dispatch Tenchi Kaimei with his defeat in a mad flashy way. Gajeel also tells Natsu to prepare him a song, referencing their earlier bet about the winner getting a song written for them by the loser. So, Gajeel falls now, really exhausted, and realizes that Tempester is still around, and before he can be killed by the other Demon Gate...

...a bolt of lightning drops. Laxus is here to save Gajeel. Insert "WUUUUT THE FUUUUUUK IT'S NOT GRAY THIS IS HORSESHIT OMGWTFROFL" and let's get a move on... Tempester seems to remember his battle with Laxus and then they kinda duke it out (well, Laxus kinda stands there), with Tempester trying shit like cyclones, which Laxus dispels, and new stuff like massive telekinetic boulder strikes (what the fuck? I have to say that this is weird), which fail also. Tempester wonders how Laxus can fight while being poisoned by the Magical Barrier Particles, and the notices that he's standing still and not making hardly any offensive strikes.

Tempester tries some weird fire breath shit (goba? Wut?) that fails and the two duke it out a bit, with Tempester being punched in the stomach and sent flying. Buuuuuuut Laxus then collapses because Tempester hit him in the lung, extorting that fact that his organs are basically already falling apart. Tempester starts approaching Laxus with words that he won't win, but Laxus jolts his body with electricity to give himself some adrenaline boost and stands up, prepared to win regardless.

Anyway, let's be honest here: Mashima said in his volume 49 afterword that he planned on three villains being put in the arc that were taken out at the last second (that would've been Rusty and his Azuma and Zancrow apparitions) and that Laxus had a greater role that was removed (clearly this. A redemption fight). So I don't get the bitching. Are people not aware of this fact? Like, seriously, it was paraded about the whole wiki that there were going to be Mashima-condoned additions to the arc, and that they were originally part of his Tartaros arc but had to be taken for whatever reason (betting on his editor said they weren't relevant in the long run). So like, why the hate on this? The animation was just awesome. The still frames we have on the wiki do not do the episode justice at all. Watching it in fluid motion was just amazing. And don't get me started on Laxus. His part was just glorious. It's not like he's all well and done. We know he has a crazy amount of durability, but he's bordering on organ failure and any hit that he takes is detrimental to his life. Not like he's in peach condition, here... It was something that I fully maintain should have happened in the manga. Tempester got underplayed so hard, and the stat cards for the 9DG indicate that he's actually their 4th strongest member, and Hiro didn't ever really show that. Here, they did. +1 to the anime team for including Mashima's awesome, amazing and should-have-been-in-the-manga content.

Score : 7/10. Awesome animation. Fluid fighting between Gajeel and Torafuzar (won't deny a couple derps here and there), and Laxus and Tempester. Thought it was amazing in terms of overall delivery of the "canon content" and the hate wasn't really justified as far as Laxus was concerned, imo. I literally didn't watch this episode for over a whole week because all you guys did was bitch about it and it turned me off to it completely. And then I caved because Misk kept bugging me to watch it and see how great it was, and I loved the ever loving crap out of it. So...yeah. ( .__.) It's also worth mentioning that there was a lot of blood in this episode (by FT anime standards) between Laxus and Gajeel. However, it's still worth mentioning that we had two flashbacks to the scene where Laxus sucked up the particles, and uh...they weren't really necessary. They were annoying, detracted from the moment, and served no real purpose. I mean how could we forget about them? You guys only replayed that specific scene a bazillion times in your goddamn 7 minutes recap over and over again over the course of a bunch of episodes...



Gonna point out, manga chapter of "The Final Duels" wasn't even about fighting. In the manga, all I'm gonna say is Tempester got one-shot wicked hard. There was no fighting, or preparation for other fighting, aside from what happened at the end of the episode.

So we get back to the fight between Laxus and Tempester, and Laxus is putting in more effort now, using shit like Raging Bolt (omg I died. That was awesome, also I'm ignoring the filler crap about looking for Laxus ( .___.) Ignoring filler for other filler! Hoorah!) But...this does nothing, sadly. He just continues to get overwhelmed, and even when he has a "strength of humans" speech and uses Narumikazuchi, he gets beat and then buried in a pile of rubble. We get a flashback of Natsu talking to him about leaving it to his friends to handle things when he was in the infirmary, and then Laxus gets back up extorts the fact that Tempester get close to him by grabbing his wrist and hitting him with...Lightning Dragon's Iron Fist! Hell yeah. ( ^__^) Tempester coughs blood up onto Laxus' coat, and Laxus throws his coat to Gajeel and tells him to take it Porly to heal him and the others.

Ummm...random cut to Mak standing in front of FT's ruined building, saying something about how it won't be over as long as FT still has members around. I guess. .-.

So, Gajeel picks up Laxus and tries to hobble him off even though he goes all, "Nuuu leave me and save yourself and everyone!" but Gajeel retorts with "Fuck you, it's my conscience," so there's that. :'D Buuuut, Tempester rises, reveals that he has the most durability (not defense) out of the Gates, and that he's called The Immortal because the 9DG get a supply of Curse Power from Mard Geer, and his enhances his demonic healing factor to unreal rates. He tells them that Hell's Core is destroyed, and therefore so is his ability to revive, and that they have to knock him out with one attack so powerful he can't heal.

Well, guess what? We do. Laxus elecrifies the puddles of Tenchi Kaimei on the ground, which amplies the power of his Lightning Dragon's Roar immensely, and Tempester is completely out for the count. He then commits suicide by turning himself into Devil Particles again, intending on killing everyone, but...Gray arrives and freezes absolutely everything, including the Devil Particles, with his Devil Slaying Magic. When he questions Gajeel about obtaining Tempester's blood, Gajeel says it's on Laxus' coat, and Gray walks away. He asks Gray what's going on, and Gray merely says that he's gonna annihilate Tartaros. Umm...m'kay then. ( .___.)

So, after some misdirection, we cut to the girls and the Exceeds finding the control room (hot damn, Minerva is hot as all everloving fuck), and they see the chairman and try to run towards him, but they are stopped by...MY FUCKING GORGEOUS HONEY SEILAH LIKE WOW OMG SUCH BONER!!!!! Erm, I mean, uh, Seilah shows up and makes everyone choke themselves with Macro. Woohoo. ( ._.) Oh, and Kyoka is there too. <_< She reveals that she is controlling Crawford since Keyes died, and then Mirajane comes flying up out of nowhere like holy cow and knocks Seilah down. Remembering the glorious leg spread in the manga that let me see her panties, and seeing a slightly censored version of her panty shot (which is rectified by the fact that her boobs are just totally accented. Like oh my wow, if you thought they were big before, watch this episode XD), I finally pay attention to the episode again after pausing to calm down my raging Seilah hard-on and see that Crawford fell over and that Seilah thinks she failed. Kyoka tells her not to worry, as Crawford activated all 3,000 Faces and that they will detonate in less than an hour. Seilah then gives Kyoka the rest of her Curse Power (which wasn't much considering she wasn't healed from her fight with Mira), and Kyoka turns around to deal with Erza, who in turn is being begged by Minerva and the others to stop Kyoka and Face. Erza requips into Armadura Fairy and they have an epic (for now. U wot?) staredown.

Score : 7/10. There are reasons for this. The animation was fantastic, don't get me wrong. But the anime had the perfect chance to squeeze in Gray's original manga role, and well, they didn't. It was nowhere near as epic, and I was sitting here the whole time hoping they would. What a let-down. Ugh. They let one of the biggest, most badass parts Gray had in the entire series just get wasted, so whatever, I guess... Overall, the chapter originally was only quite average. So marks off for Laxus defeating Tempester, marks off for Gray's reduced, nowhere near as awesome role, and marks off because idk, the episode just kinda dragged. I mean, yeah, Seilah boobs and stuff, but that doesn't define the episode for me. >_> Whatever, it was an average episode with above average animation. So eh. Above average score, I guess...



Let's just jump right into where we left off last time where Erza and Kyoka battle each other, and it's...bad. Like bad. Like oh my god, this is easily some of the worst animation I have seen this anime put forth. Anyway, Erza and Kyoka trade blows, Kyoka uses her whip talons to attack Erza, throws pillars at her and all that shit, but she parries, dodges, yada yada and then slashes Kyoka, but it didn't do much other than just surprise her. During the battle, Mira grunts in pain (sorry Rai, I double checked, it's not a horny noise), and Happy and Lily ask if she's doing alright, and she says she is and upon being posed a query, she says that Elfman and Lisanna are with Jet, Droy and Warren fighting a whole bunch of Lummy clones. ...and can I please point out that Seilah gets up like it's nothing and just pimp walks out of the area in this flashback? Like omg. In the manga during the flashback, she kind of crouched over and ducked off. Here she just gave no fucks and straight up strolled offscreen. Hilarious. :'D

Buuuut they all stop their fighting and babbling because in the distance is...a noise. Yes, a noise! Must be really loud because they all stopped fighting their life and death battle to stop the ever-ticking clock that is the eradication of magic across all of Ishgar to listen to faint something. >__> Now we cut to Wendy, not-yet-loli Carla and Pedobalt, where they notice that Cube has crashed and that everyone is still inside of it (including Warren, who she needs for her plan), but then Wendy mysteriously collapses, but her eyes are wide open and her heart is beating ridiculously fast, and apparently the cause is that noise in the distance. Now we get to the major Etherious fights group, where Gajeel holds up Laxus' blood-stained coat and tells the worried folks that because of Laxus overdoing it, they have the cure to the Devil Particles, and he asks Levy to take it to Porlyusica. Juvia then asks for Gray, and Gajeel reveals that he was in the area briefly, but that he became incredibly powerful and froze the Devil Particles and everything in an instant. Juvia begins to wonder how something like that could happen, but realizes that it probably happened when she killed Keyes, and therefore Silver. And uh, can I just say that the OST during the entire episode thus far was god-tier? Like, seriously. Holy balls. ( ^____^)

Gajeel ends by saying that Gray ran off, and Natsu stands up and...turns around and sits back down. It looks like he's trying to think (lol, joke in and of itself), but his eyes go wide when he hears that same noise everyone else has been hearing. Lucy wonders what's going on with him, and Gajeel says that he's probably sulking over Gray getting a power-up, but Natsu turns his head, terrified, and asks Gajeel if he really can't hear the voice as well. Now Gajeel goes wide-eyed, and we hear that it really is a voice, or more like a roar. What's left of Cube begins rattling and falling apart; we cut to Mard Geer vs. Twin Dragons, and Mard Geer seems to recognize what the "voice" belongs to, but Sting and Rogue are absolutely clueless, though it is clear that it really is a voice now. Mard Geer, though, begins to get a little hot under the collar. Okay, we're just cutting through lesser wizards and literal fodder FT members now, so whatever. Whatever the source of the voice is is rushing through the clouds at break-neck pace (Gray seems to recognize what it is, as does Cana, and apparently a whole lot of other people [all Team Tenrou] as we get cut after cut after bloody cut...) Mard Geer wonders what lured the "demon" to their location, hypothesizing that it was Zeref, while Natsu shouts that he'd never forget the owner of that voice. We got some close-up shots, and the owner of the voice, flying straight towards Magnolia is...

...ACNOLOGIA! Man, this OST is really just doing the job of hyping me up. ( .___.) Elsewhere, in his volcano land, Igneel wonders if the time to make his move has arrived. Now we basically just get a bunch of minutes of Acnologia blowing shit up indiscriminately with his Dragon's Roar and people freaking the ferk out, though when Erza mentions to Kyoka Acnologia's name, she seems to at least recognize who he is. Meanwhile, Wendy is still down and out with her heart thumping, and before long, the same happens to Natsu and Gajeel, and even Sting and Rogue. Fun to point out here that even Mard Geer mentions that at this point, even he can't predict what is going to happen. Back to Acno blowing shit up all up and down the area, Elfman tells his fighting group that they can't give up, while the fodder FT members try and evacuate the Devil Particle victims, but Acnologia's mere act of just flying over Cube sends everyone flying (we get a nice shot of Cana wondering what they did to deserve all of this). Mard Geer is revealed to have abandoned his fight with the Twin Dragons to get closer to Acnologia and realizes that the man-made dragon is here to destroy E.N.D., whom he apparently fears; Acnologia prepares to fire his strongest roar: the same one that obliterated Tenrou Island.

Now, you thought the stuff up until now was heavy? Get real. ( ^__^) Igneel telepathically contacts Natsu and tells Natsu that the time for him to act has come and mentions that he has faith that his son can stop E.N.D., but this of course, causes Natsu to freak and start shouting Igneel's name, which confuses everyone around him, really. Igneel promises to find some way to stop Acnologia, and then Natsu's stomach starts glowing, which puts him in a lot of pain, gotta say. Now...cue the flashback of happy Natsu as a kid with Igneel, which is narrated by Mirajane's monologue from chapter/episode 2, combine that with the soundtrack and filler parts of Natsu looking for Igneel and him sitting all alone in a forest wondering how his dad is doing, and then throw in an OST that makes baby kittens sound hideous by comparison and...you get a little emotional. Igneel apologizes to Natsu for being silent for years, and then he appears from...within him. Yeah, Igneel was hiding inside Natsu all these years, and what comes out isn't just the badass Fire Dragon King, it's also a badass soundtrack. >__> Now, the look on Natsu and everyone's face was exactly the look all us manga readers had when this chapter came out well over a year ago, and I'm sure it's the look you anime-viewers had as well. =P

Anyhow, Igneel says that there's a lot to talk about, but that it'll have to wait until Acnologia is defeated. He rams into the dragon and tells Natsu to keep on living, and then the dragons ram into each other like two kids trying to make Barbie dolls make out. Well, here is where I kind of admit that I cried a little, because the 10 second intro line to the ending, which is a reall emotional song to begin with, starts playing with Natsu crying saying, "Dad". ( .__.)

Score : 5/10. This episode was content gold, garbage otherwise. It was still shots everywhere. There was no movement. It may as well have been a slideshow, and with the music it still would have been just as epic. >__> It either looks like crap and it moves fluid, or it looks beautiful and it moves like crap... very few inbetweens, and after two very well animated episodes, I was hoping that this episode could be animated well at the very least, considering what it was about. But I guess not. I mean, Acnologia in a weird pose, flying through the air? Not buying it. What little movement was required of the dragons they botched. Erza vs. Kyoka was like a flipbook gone wrong. Whatever. (._. ) At least the OST was amazing. And that's an understatement, and to a point that took your eyes away from the visual crap that was this episode, but you can't discount that in the slightest. :/

Well guys, I know I gave a couple lower scores (6) and whatever, but let's not forget that 5 is an average score? These are all above-average marks, sans the 6's, really, so I hope you don't think I gave it low marks because it wasn't a 7, which apparently has become the new staple for average. Ah well, that's it for me this month. Combined Score : 7. See you (hopefully) on December 1st, guys!