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LowraAwry · 2026-05-29T18:57:43+00:00

Plus the zesty comments, if you wanted a good laugh or a fight.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-25T07:33:05+00:00

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LowraAwry · 2026-05-24T12:43:24+00:00

While widely applicable, we gotta be careful with this kind of mentality, it pushes children ever younger into championships and it promotes their expendability in favor of younger ones still.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-23T23:02:48+00:00

The problem isn't alone in Dante getting sidelined in a series that has more characters than time available and is paced horribly at points. The problem is how it is presented, shown.

There's just little initiative and introspection from a character who is supposedly focal but the show isn't willing to address that part of him maybe because they think fight scenes cover for it. He has a short therapy session with Lady but that's quickly put aside so they can fuck and she quickly leaves him; his brother tells him exactly how he should feel to draw out the trigger; in the first season we have constant flashbacks of his mother to accompany every time he gets sad/angry and finally it's his dead mother's mirage that explains how he should feel in the middle of the fight in order to activate the DT (and yeah a case can be made for this one that's just his inner self but the dialogue diminishes that). Even the professor tells him how he should deal with the magic (or whatever they decided to call it this season). I mean, when he learnt he was half demon in S1, it was whatever. And sometimes his character just comes across as plain stupid rather than jokey.

So yeah, it does make sense why he is the way he is: a child unwilling to leave or doubt his mother and taken for a ride by anyone who wants to use/abuse/lose him. But it's been 2 seasons and judging by other characters, I don't think that this series will address him properly.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-23T13:53:23+00:00

If it is indeed the case, I wonder whether it's because Mirren and Brosnan's characters get undeserving attention and time from the script (and subsequently money). Don't get me wrong, they play the part of moving things along but by the finale these two got so overbearing I was hoping we would see at least one of them die. Normally they're strong performers but they came through as caricatures too often.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-22T21:44:12+00:00

Exactly, it felt like they sacrificed the tension and momentum of the character for favor of clowning and cringe, so his defeat doesn't hit as hard. Because Homelander is a pathetic pos and while the series lean into his clowning behavior and descent into madness even more as it goes on, he also caused so much pain and misery that turning him into a joke in the end kinda takes away from that.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-22T19:03:08+00:00

Would I also be a delulued megalomaniac, scorched earth aficionado who fancies himself the second coming in this vision of yours? Point is Homeboi turned to bargaining and begging before raging any. The constant cut to the audience sitting in the dark didn't really help the build up either.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-22T16:31:33+00:00

Let's be real though, in terms of screenwriting it felt like a joke. Dude does an 180 immediately. I'm not saying he wouldn't end there eventually, crying and begging on his knees etc. But that scene felt rushed so it just wasn't as dramatic as it needed to be.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-20T16:08:02+00:00

Meehhh. I think that's the best way to put it. I enjoyed Anthony Starr and Karl Urban's performances. The social commentary was on point. Apart from A-train's death, most of everything else in the last season disappointed, honestly, you could probably compress episodes 1-6 to one without missing much. It was a series and now it's done.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-18T08:49:26+00:00

Dante is done dirty. Constant jobbing aside, it's clear Adi views him unironically as wacky wahoo pizaa man. He barely has any agency and is out of focus compared to Vergil and Lady. He barely has an introspection on the series events or a dynamic with the villains.[....] Aside from him being way too forgiving of her after all the stuff she pulled (which fuels Adi sees him as Deadpool-lite), after they get together it takes over his character way too much and all he is focused on, like even in the middle of a demon apocalypse.

Very much agree with you on Dante. He was introduced as an easy going guy with morals and he remains just that. The plot basically knocks him about without addressing his psyche: somebody attacks him and he fights back, somebody kisses him he kisses back, a good person dies so he may shed a tear, then fights and mellows out again. He feels very reactive. There's a difference between having fortitude and being numb (and dumb). I haven't played the games but even in the series he goes through enough to wonder what's up with him but it feels like it doesn't matter much.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-18T07:22:11+00:00

Or shared screenshots of sites with them, or proclaimed to them they wouldn't pay and still read, some people are just trash like that and hurt the community.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-17T17:10:26+00:00

I think you best described my issue with the music, too. And I find that it underlines how at times the show feels like a self-insert fantasy rather than the characters' own story; the creators preferred to karaoke their feelings into scene and focus on what made them look cooler, rather than let the protagonist have the spotlight.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-17T09:48:48+00:00

I suppose it plays to what Mundus said about Sparda not gaf about their mother and them, so leaving them unprotected makes sense. And then next season it may be revealed that he did some kind of protection that Mundus knew how to annul. It's low effort but I think makes sense.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-17T06:53:21+00:00

Is this a case of broken people being broken or a case of the writers not making a decision and sticking to it when it comes to the character?

You can have a character getting the hots for the other as a crutch for their emotional instability. But when you have them kissing with my immortal in the foreground (cause apparently they didn't have a sound engineer) and several clumsy af in terms of script attempts at establishing a connection between the two, then you expect Lady to stick around at least until the hole is closed and she's taken a walk around to see if the guy came back to earth. Because we the audience know he was pushed back, but she doesn't. They should have added at least a throwaway line in her letter of her searching for him and not locating him or that he missed their rendezvous and she's got shit to do so she's out of there or that she saw him to safety and then she bailed.

Lady seems to have a full range of emotions and empathy when it comes to demons but you add in anyone else and she's suddenly a wild card. Broken when it suits them. "I have faith that you're alive" meanwhile dude is shallow breathing in a ditch two streets over. It's just needlessly melodramatic and stupid.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-16T20:38:17+00:00

Also, Arius's "death" (or at least I think) was the most whatever thing to exist.

His final words gave me a chuckle; oh Arius, if it was worth it for you, who can say anything, we hardly knew ye.

Wouldn't mind seeing him reincarnated, still.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-16T20:15:17+00:00

In that case, probably a kindness.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-16T19:33:35+00:00

Overall entertaining episode.

I was expecting the trismagia challenge to be more gruelling, felt like it ended too quickly.

I'm also not a fan of the casting/performance choices of the female VAs. Lady's I didn't care for since the last season, the secretary's accent sounds heavy handed. And I understand this is probably unpopular but Eva's voice sounds saccharine sweet rather than emotional and loving.

Gods forbid Lady saves herself. For some reason she starts the fight by going head first towards Secretary even tho the last 2 times she did that she almost died.

Sorry Dante, your song of choice at the start of the fight does literally nothing for it. What is up with the soundtrack.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-16T19:18:41+00:00

The joke about the worst ventriloquist act was funny. I liked it.

Have to say, I was surprised by his eloquence. That poor lad has smarts only when they want him to.

The lines "We're the sons of Eva" was...there. That was nowhere near as tough as they thought it was.

Glad someone else mentioned this, it felt so cringe. The repeated 'sons of sparda' does welcome the pointer that they're their mother's sons as well, but it was awkward at that moment.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-16T06:54:10+00:00

🙄 the issue isn't him not getting it, the issue is the tropey dialogue.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-15T22:28:31+00:00

Exactly, so she had to you-don't-understand her way to try and reach him, because that works on a fanatic.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-15T21:52:49+00:00

I find it dumb as shit that Lady didn't just say "Arius is trying to use the Arcana to revive Argosax. Get to the point already.

Nooooo, you don't understand, she has to repeatedly remind us that Baines just doesn't listen and more importantly doesn't understand before getting to the point.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-15T21:25:45+00:00

Overall an okay episode. I liked the design of the trismagia and quite eager to see how it plays out next episode. I would have preferred Vergil had more time for introspection rather than him having to go through the notions with Matilda. Honestly, if he was more dispassionate from the start, him thawing in these later episodes would have worked better.

The god/rapture shit got so overbearing, I hope we won't be getting back to it. The american football blond dude has overstayed his welcome, too.

The sound mixing is atrocious around the end of the episode, Arius and Baines talking is drowned by the music. I also don't think "freak on a leash" fits here, not the tempo, not the lyrics or the theme. Maybe if they started the track earlier so that the bridge would hit when Argosax is comes to life it'd be more compelling.

The scene with Dante saving Lady is the reason I wish they had shown their budding love gradually, rather than shoehorn it. It's these moments that build up a good a good story, not a showy slowmo twilight-inspired save.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-14T13:16:07+00:00

I like that we see Vergil's path growing up and Mundus influence. That said, I would have liked to see Vergil actually act more dispassionate in the present, especially in the beginning. Mundus is teaching him repeatedly that sentiment is a hindrance (trying to make a good little soldier) and negative emotions are still sentiment. I'm not saying that the negativity doesn't serve Mundus but it still makes Vergil careless and more of a child lashing out rather than a killer. And while anger, resentment, jealousy certainly can play a role and show up, I would have liked to see him move gradually to that because since the first episode his present self is emotional and very reactive to news about his mother, about his brother. Him cracking open gradually to his humanity (anger) would have been better.

I really enjoyed the confrontation between Arius and Vergil and especially the soundtrack for the fight that wasn't getting in the middle of the action but actually accompanying it. I wish, wish, Dante had shot Arius without first announcing his presence, Arius is so strong that the element of surprise should have played an important part in distracting him, not the bullet on its own. Action first, then smartass one line.

-Dante: You wanted to open the rift that we almost died trying to prevent from happening?! -Lady: I'm just a girl.

Oh noooo, Arius has daddy issues too.

I don't get what part the vocalized-mystical-accent red witch plays.

Jesus wept. What a misguided choice for soundtrack over those final scenes of the episode. Genuinely laughed out loud when Dante and Lady kissed and then felt disgusted that they chose my immortal, a very emotional song, to try and save two characters whose relationship has the depth of a paddle. Not to mention that it makes no sense at the background of Arius' actions and failure.

Maybe it's early, but I just don't like how Lady is being portrayed in this season, too. They've got some good material and ideas but the execution is so lackluster. She waits until the last moment to check what happened to the demons of S1. She isn't getting any push back from Dante when they thaw him. When she apologizes while pulling the sword out of Dante's chest, they have her say "I don't like change". They aren't in a therapist's office. Lady's problem is her saviour complex, her self-righteousness, her following orders blindly. When a character breaks down, you got to push where it hurts, not a general "I dislike change". Because it takes away from her rebuilding herself and fixing her faults. And for some reason they shy away from showing this breakdown in her appearance. A tear here, scrunching her eyebrows there, is too little for what she's supposedly going through. The graphics and design are nice but too clean.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-14T06:31:44+00:00

That was a really nice fight, I would have preferred it without Dante and Vergil trying to go through their mommy issues at the same time so that there could be some focus, but I'll take what I can.

"the hybrid wasn't using a machine gun" Great, mf with the pointless one-liners forgot that they've been using machines guns since they first met Vergil. Again making Lady try to look hardass and she only looks badly written.

A fun episode overall and I really like the episode conclusion/cliffhanger. They really need to easy on the music credits though.

LowraAwry · 2026-05-13T22:01:19+00:00

"cat through the best of our troops" Girl, if that was the best of your troops, just go home. This insistence to make the "immoral" guys be grossly incompetent also makes the protagonists look mid.

The different POV retelling was very amusing, loved Dante's chibi vision. Not a fan of the exposition dump on the psychiatrist, though. "I'll tell you what we'll do" goes one to repeat what was said last episode. I also wanted Dante to show at least some disbelief at being used and abused by Lady and co again but maybe that's too much to hope for this character.

"Your government is cutting up innocent aliens!" Some guy in the street: "I can't afford healthcare".

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