It didn't deliver. Which is a funny thing for me to say, because we're talking about an episode involving delivery trucks! Ha ha! Lololololololol
- The plot of this episode is Really Fuckin Dumb | +
- Delivery trucks that for some reason were smuggling explosives! Uh oh, Shinnosuke, you protected Bad People along with good people! D8 OH~ NO~!!!
More Roidmudes being totally fucking dumb--today Crush, the stupid goddamned fat guy from last episode's cameos, took center stage, with his insufferable henchmen, but we also got to see Brain hamming it up like there was no goddamned tomorrow, and no. Insight. Into their agenda.
at all.See, Drive, you're not like Fourze! You can't just be like "OOOOHHH MYSTERIOUS WHAT DO THEY WANT???" like Fourze did with the Horoscopes, because
we have no fucking clue what most of the footsoldiers want, either, whereas with the Zodiarts it was always fairly clear what they were after, because at their core they were wronged or damaged children, whereas the Roidmudes are all...WHATEVER THE FUCK ROIDMUDES ARE. We don't KNOW. You won't even give us a hint besides floating goddamned NUMBERS, and frankly I've lost patience with it. This isn't teasing anything, this is withholding information.
(Granted, it turned out Crush wanted to drink explosives because explosives...uh...taste great? But we had no idea of that till the end, and "I want to drink explosives" isn't the same kind of motivation as "I want to kill the sneaky, selfish little fuck who ruined my hand and fencing career", here. I mean, shit, that ranks lower than "my Contractor asked me to" or "I'm a Fangire".)
Rinna is working with some other guy in Police HQ. Hey, out of nowhere, the science lady turns out to probably be a Roidmude, or have been replaced by one, because if the other guy she's working with, who had secret info on Roidmude movements, wasn't a Roidmude, I will be fucking
shocked.More Chase being overdramatic and making grim proclamations about the evil of man. Awesome. You're Proto-Drive, we get it, you're telegraphing that really hard, along with the previews for Episode Zero. You're probably going to be Mach, too, once you see the light for whatever reason, and then we'll have to square that with your 20+ episodes of SUCH DARKNESS, MUCH BITTER, WOW. Probably it'll turn out you were brainwashed. You'll probably hook up with Kiriko because that's a goddamned rule. Gotta hit the tropes!
Rumble Dump was dumb, it turned out you didn't even form change, two-ep format hella confirmed, stupid investigatory twist, wasted goddamn time. Shinnosuke's character evolved some, yeah, and I kinda like his wit, but at the same time it's also reminding me of fucking Spider-Man at times, where he's gotta toss off a quip or you won't know it's Spider-Man and we Cannot Have That. Also, sitting down in the middle of the end of episode fight because you're depressed that a guy who seemed nice is a jerk? Really? Like...fucking really?
That and just...the stakes. They're so low. GOTTA STOP TRUCK ROBBERIES. The Roidmudes are coming across like a gang of misunderstood robot??? kids that Drive summarily executes for minor crimes, with some outliers like Paint who're actual scumbags, but STILL. It's just....augh. It's just fucking dumb. It's dumb and I give up. I don't want to watch any more. Maybe I'll finish this ep arc so I can see the pile of crap that is Type WILD? I dunno. Ugh.