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Shadowhunters Season 2 Epsiode 13 -- Those of Demon Blood -- Review/Discussion

Here we are again with another Shadowhunters review. This time we have Season 2 Episode 13, Those of Demon Blood. I have to say I was much more on the verge of liking this episode than I have with the past couple of episodes. It still isn’t exactly compelling me to get excited for this show and the next episode but it was interesting enough to keep me engaged. Like with the previous episodes, I found enjoyment watching the episode unfold but I really have no inclination to watch it again – even though I did because I’m a responsible reviewer (you’re welcome, guys).

This is going to be an honest review of my thoughts and feelings regarding this episode. If you’re the kind of Shadowhunters fan where you only want to hear positive things about the show, this is not the place for you. If you decide to stick around and get offended by what is said, then that’s on you. I warned you. Just know that if you send me any rude comments or messages, I will 100% ignore you. I find that’s the best way to deal with bullies. I work 14 hour days. Do you really think I want to waste my incredibly valuable free time dealing with derogatory comments? Hell no. This review will consist of my honest opinions. Opinions are never right or wrong. I’m not telling you how to think and feel. I’m telling you what I think and feel. So please, let’s discuss with dignity and respect. If I’m critical about the show, it’s only because I want it to get better. There is, in fact, a difference between hating a show and being critical of it. I do not hate Shadowhunters; I am being critical and analyzing the flaws as I would with any other show. There are positives but there are also negatives. It’s great if you want to promote positivity with this show (and I encourage you to do so) but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t acknowledge the things that are legitimately wrong with it. Also, keep in mind that despite the fact that I do love the books, me being critical of this show has nothing to do with my love of the books. I don’t really care if the show deviates from the source material as long as it’s good and it makes sense. My problems with this show are problems that I would have with any show or book for that matter. I think it’s perfectly reasonable to take issue with a show that has plot holes, shoddy world-building, and inconsistent characters. There will be spoilers for the show and spoilers for the books and movie.

As always, this was not a perfect episode but structurally and tonally, I thought this was a very good episode. I spent a good amount of time racking my brain trying to figure out why I enjoyed this episode a little more than the previous two what with this episode displaying the same illogical behavior as the previous ones; not to mention plot twists the show thinks is clever but really aren’t as clever as they think it is. But I think I’ve figured it out. There was only one central plot to this episode. We didn’t have a whole lot of subplots sending us in every direction. There was one problem in this episode and everyone was more or less pushed to move that one plot forward. This is what I mean when I say “Have the characters push the story and not the story push the characters.” The show introduced this one plot and everyone aided in moving it along. In the books, it always felt like all of these characters were one big family and that’s kind of how it felt in this episode. It really felt like all of these characters had real bonds with each other. As always, there are weird things and things I don’t agree with but structurally and tonally, this episode worked in a way I don’t think any of the previous episodes this season have.

Let’s Talk About This Plot

So this central plot was interesting to watch unfold as you can pull a lot of parallels to what the media is reporting in the real word. This was an extremely politically based episode and it was a little heavy-handed at times and extremely blatant but overall, I liked how they did the plot. The Shadowhunters book series also had a very political foundation so I really don’t mind if the show gets political on us. Note: I’m not going to talk real world politics here. That is not the purpose of this blog. I will ignore any comments made about real world politics or any assumptions made on my political stance. To be blunt about it, my political affiliations is none of your business just like your political affiliation is none of my business and I will never make assumptions about who you support. I expect you to afford the same respect to me. But anyway, I enjoyed how we had this one central plot with all of the characters moving the plot forward with their actions and motivations. Now granted, it wasn’t perfect. There are things that don’t really make sense and obvious plot twists that were a little too obvious.

For one, no shadowhunter in this episode ever entertains the possibility that maybe the downworlders are being framed. Everyone sees the dead shadowhunters with different marks on their bodies and just assumes that all of these kills align with the respective downworlder marks left on their body. Never mind the fact that the shadowhunter bodies were exhibiting the same creepy serial killer MO (runes being flayed off). Not a single person questions this. I could chalk it up to the shadowhunters giving a typical fear response. You’re not liable to think logically when you’re afraid. But the fact that the Lightwoods also didn’t question it either was a little too illogical. Then we also have the shadowhunters completely puzzled as to why Kaelie was trying to frame other downworlders. Really? I think it’s pretty obvious. Izzy apparently is the smartest person there whether I agree with the pathologist plot point or not. Suffice to say, I don’t because that plot point is full of plot holes. I can forgive a show for having plot holes in world building but I can’t forgive a show for having plot holes in a character’s defining personality trait. Even if I don’t necessarily respect or buy the “Izzy is the best pathologist in NYC” it doesn’t change the fact that the show has decided to make it canon so Izzy is supposedly a genius. Which means the show can’t just ignore that fact whenever it’s convenient for the plot. But who am I kidding? This is Shadowhunters, after all. The day this show uses sound logic will be the day the universe implodes. But yeah, shouldn’t Izzy be smart enough to figure Kaelie’s “master plan” out if we go with her being some sort of child prodigy? I am not a pathologist and I can figure this one out. God, I hate it when characters are dumb for plot convenience. Which, in the case of this show, IS ALL THE DAMN TIME.

Also, Kaelie being the killer wasn’t really all that surprising. Never, for a single second during this episode, did I actually believe Sebastian/Jonathon was committing these murders. That was the fan theory but I never really clung onto that one. Nor did I ever once believe that Meliorn was responsible either. I’ve had far too much experience with procedural crime dramas to have been duped by that particular plot twist. I can spot a red herring plot from across the universe. Not to mention, the show was really laying it on thick. Raphael insinuates that Meliorn once said that the downworlders would need to show their true power in order to gain respect from the Clave and then the episode pans to Meliorn somewhere on a dark, dimly lit set. They might as well have lit up a neon sign saying, “THIS IS WHO YOU SHOULD SUSPECT NEXT.” It was so obvious it was a mislead. Not to mention, Kaelie is a character we saw briefly in one episode of 2A. She has never been mentioned since. We’ve gotten no inclination before that she was ever going to pop up again. The show gave no innocent reasoning for why she was there at the bar in that particular moment. So her just popping up in the bar conveniently where the first body was dumped, moments before the body was revealed…hmm, I wonder who the killer could be. As I’ve said before, Shadowhunters isn’t nearly as clever as they think they are.

Then the Inqusitor has this idea to implant all the downworlders with trackers under the guise of, “we can track shadowhunters with their runes; this is no different.” This is kind of a dumb argument to make because it actually is canon in this show that there’s a way for shadowhunters to prevent themselves from being tracked. Remember, back in Season 1 when the Clave wanted to find Clary because they thought she had the Mortal Cup? Jace sent her a pic of a rune and told her to draw it on herself because it would prevent the Clave from tracking her. That’s not a usable argument if there’s a way that shadowhunters can block the tracking. And apparently it’s common knowledge to all shadowhunters. Even more ridiculous than them making the decision to put these trackers on the downworlders, they send only two shadowhunters to a bar full of downworlders. If you’re going to do this, fine. I don’t agree with it. I think it’s a downright despicable thing to do but hey, people do horrible things out of fear. But if you’re going to do this, make sure you have the manpower to back you up. Did the Clave really think the downworlders were going to line up for trackers being implanted into their skin? To viably do this in the real world, you’d need an entire army to get this done.

But speaking of which, Maia really shined in this episode. As did Luke. I’m a little on the rocks about Isaiah as Luke and a lot of it has to do with the show just not writing anything decent for Luke. But in this episode, I saw the Luke I’ve been waiting for. The Luke that despite wanting to be there for Clary and Simon also is a strong advocate for fighting for what’s right. I just loved his moment when Jace reveals that he’s decided to go forward with this tracker plan because the killer went after Clary. You can tell Jace is expecting Luke to be on his side and tell his pack to get implanted. But no. Luke is all, “This isn’t about Clary. This is about starting a war. Do you really want that blood on your hands?” I’m not going to lie, the anti-Clary part of me rejoiced a little when Luke was saying there are more important things than Clary, sometimes. Yes! Someone besides Alec acknowledging that Clary is not the most important person in the universe. That just because you’re doing this for Clary doesn’t change that what you’re doing is wrong and you know it. And poor Jace looked like he was about to cry. But these days, Jace always looks like he’s about to cry. Nothing wrong with that. Just a casual observance. And I really liked Maia reacting to this, realizing it’s wrong and being a total badass about it. Now, I know I wasn’t the biggest Maia advocate during her “I’ma kill Clary” stage but I can go with this because it was actually justified here and made sense with her character. Instead of Maia’s kill mode coming completely from left field as was the case with the “let’s murder Clary” plot. She realizes what the shadowhunters are trying to do is wrong and she’s willing to fight for it. Then of course another weird writing moment came a little later when the Clave arrests Maia because she was a block away from one of the dead bodies. Jace had managed to implant her with a tracker earlier. So the Clave tracked her within a block of a dead body. So what? It’s NYC. Just about anyone is a block away from a dead body. Why weren’t they able to track her to the actual dead body? It was a little hard for me to believe that the shadowhunters, despite being consumed with fear would jump to this conclusion, afraid or not.

More Herondale Drama

So Jace is definitely not acting like Jace at all in this episode. Which is kind of understandable. He just found out he’s a Herondale after all and I can understand him trying to please his family. Here’s the thing about Jace. He wants people to love him but is afraid they won’t so he has this air of snark and sarcasm to protect himself from being hurt. At least, in the books, he does. In the show, that personality trait is a little inconsistent. In this episode’s scenario, he just found out after believing that he didn’t have any family to impress that he does have a family to impress. He desperately wants to be accepted by the Herondales because he wants a family. He lost Michael Wayland as a father and was adopted by the Lightwoods but never really felt like he belonged. He then found out he was Valentine’s son but Valentine turned his back on him and then revealed that Jace isn’t his son. He feels lost. He doesn’t know who he really is. His bad decisions in this episode are perfectly understandable. After years of feeling like he doesn’t belong somewhere, he finally has the chance to belong somewhere. Not saying he was right but I can certainly understand his motivations. He does redeem himself by realizing he is not suited to be the head of an Institute. He names Alec the next head which is probably for the best. Jace is too impulsive and gets swept up in his own emotions far too easily. You can’t make the really hard decisions a head of an Institute may have to make if you’re constantly letting your emotions dictate the decisions you make. Whereas I do agree with Clary when she makes the statement that emotions make you stronger. That is true to a certain extent. But there are some things that logic cannot be applied to. It works if you’re fighting in a battle and you’re trying to find a reason to fight and to keep on fighting. However, when you’re governing a large group of people with differing personalities and emotions, people who’s safety you’re responsible for, you can’t let your personal feelings cloud what’s best for the group. And currently, Jace is not in the right mindset to be able to make those decisions and leave his personal feelings out of it. He’s on a journey of self-discovery and on his way having to deal with his very complicated feelings towards Clary. Alec is a much better choice. Even though he’s no robot himself, he can moderate his feelings to a certain extent and get to the heart of an issue and make a sound decision from there. The only reasons the Inquisitor didn’t want to name him as the head is 1) she now has a bias towards Jace, 2) I don’t think she likes the Lightwoods very much and 3) Alec is dating a downworlder. Shadowhunters, particularly those who come from Idris are very small-minded when it comes to downworlders.

But the Herondale plot also had logic inconsistencies. The Inquisitor apparently knows a little about what Jace is normally like, that he’s impulsive and doesn’t respect authority, and she still thinks he’s a good choice as head of an Institute? Like I said, she’s biased. I’m also a little confused on what’s going on with Jace’s parents. In the books, Jace’s parents were part of the Circle. Is that canon in the show? I don’t think they’ve ever stated it. It just kind of confuses me because the Inquisitor keeps on talking like Stephen and Celine were these great people when really, they were kind of not. They fell in love with Valentine’s ideals just like everyone else and unlike Luke and Jocelyn, they didn’t realize their mistake in time. They died still supporting Valentine. They died traitors. Forever a black mark on the Herondale line. Maybe the show is saving this reveal for Jace at a later time or maybe it really isn’t canon. Who knows? I’ve learned that with this show, you shouldn’t think book logic...or any logic at all. You just need to sit back and try to enjoy the ride…try being the operative word.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a review if I didn’t rag on Clary a little bit and this episode is no different. Granted, Clary was a little more tolerable in this episode but it still doesn’t mean I liked her. So Clary is yelling at Jace for following the Inquisitor instead of following what he thinks is right. That what the shadowhunters is doing is wrong and that he should stop. Which okay, fine. We all know what the shadowhunters are doing is wrong. But here’s what irritates me about Clary. Her telling other people that what they’re doing is wrong but not doing anything to help the situation. She’s a rebel without a cause or in this case, a rebel without a solution and it kind of annoys me. She’s pretty much equivalent to a teenager complaining about how unfair their life is but just expecting the problems to fix themselves. As my father said my entire childhood, step up or step aside. You don’t get to bitch unless you’re willing to do something about it. So yeah, you can tell the shadowhunters that what they’re doing is wrong and even if they decided to stop, there are still people dying. You haven’t given any ideas on how to stop that. As the Inquisitor said, “People are dying. When the next body comes in, what will you tell their family?” How are you going to be able to look that family in the eye and say you’re sorry for their loss but that you did nothing to prevent it? You think that family is going to give a damn about maintaining downworlder relations? Just think about it for a second. Imagine you’re 10-years-old and you’re at the Shadowhunter Academy. I don’t know if the Academy actually exists in the show. But for these purposes, just imagine it does. Your family comes to see you and tell you that your father/mother/brother/sister won’t be around to see you graduate from the academy because they were flayed alive by an unknown entity. You go to the NYC institute to find out more information only for them to tell you that they don’t know anything and they haven’t done anything to stop it. How are you going to react? How are you going to deal with the loss of that family member when, for all you knew, it could’ve been avoided if the Institute had taken action. Ideals are nice but they don’t pay the bills. Again, no one misconstrue that I think the Clave is right. That’s not what I’m saying AT ALL. They are absolutely WRONG. I’m just saying that for me to genuinely like Clary as a character, she needs to get off her high horse of idealism and actually get shit done. You don’t like the way the world works, then do something about it. Don’t just complain about it. The only way a situation is resolved is if someone does something about it. That’s Newton’s First Law. An object will remain at rest unless acted upon by an external force. In this case, shadowhunters are going to continue dying until someone does something to stop it. For better or for worse.

Max the Next Shadowhunter

So we had a sequence of really adorable scenes with Max. I’m always happy to see Max brought back into the story and this time he’s brought in to finally start his official shadowunter training. This does beg the question, who is training Clary? If you start the training at the age of 10, how has Clary become an expert shadowhunter in the course of a few weeks? You would think the older you are when you start, the longer it takes. That’s why we’re sent to preschool at toddler age. So we can be taught to think a certain way. Same principle applies here. Getting those reactive instincts to fight at a younger age is paramount. Clary hasn’t had a chance to develop those reactive instincts so it stands to reason that it would probably take her a little longer to catch on to the training. But no, she’s pretty much an expert whenever the plot calls for it. But whatever. I could write an entire book on how badly written of a character Show Clary is. So Izzy has been tasked with training Max by Alec. Alec thinks it will help her with her venom addiction issues. The show keeps on saying yin fen addiction but I am no longer going to indulge the show by calling it a yin fen addiction. It is not a yin fen addiction; she is addicted to vampire venom. The scenes between Max and Izzy were really cute. Izzy tells Max that she has her own mission she has to go on and he wants to go with her and she tells him to stay put. Which I have no idea why she thought telling a 10-year-old boy to stay at home was actually going to work. Of course he shows up on the mission and of course he gets kidnapped by Kaelie. I really have no idea why when they heard the banging sound, Izzy didn’t just tell Max to stay behind her. You’re going to leave him alone in a dark shipyard, you have no idea where the enemy is. If they’ve spotted Max. Yes, that was a sound plan, Izzy. I’m being sarcastic here. But what can I say, Izzy had to make a dumb decision here because the plot necessitates it. Max needed to be kidnapped so Izzy could kill Kaelie. I’m also really scared that Max is back in the story. Book fans understand the implications of Max and Sebastian/Jonathon now in the same city occupying the same space. I don’t want to see it happen but I feel like that’s what we’re headed towards.

We also had a small little scene where Raphael is low-key jealous of Meliorn. This is around the time they think Meliorn is behind the kills so Izzy uses one of Meliorn’s shirts she has to track him. Raphael is like, “You wore one of his shirts home and haven’t given it back after all this time?” As much as I don’t love Rizzy, it was still pretty cute.

The Malec Rant

Now, I’m sure a lot of you have already seen my Malec rant from a couple of days ago and I’m going to talk about it again. This wouldn’t be a truthful review if I didn’t talk about Malec. I honestly was not a big fan of Malec this episode. It isn’t because they were fighting. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I want them to fight. It’s what makes the relationship feel real. I didn’t like this episode’s Malec because, once again, Alec is made out to be the bad guy in a fight where Magnus continues being this perfect being that doesn’t make a mistake in this relationship. Even though, I feel he did make a mistake. His mistake: just assuming that Alec was asking for a hair sample because Alec suspected him and not looking at the bigger picture. Looking at the situation Alec is in. I can kind of understand Magnus’ stance, though. Magnus feels insecure in Alec not having faith in him because Alec didn’t believe the switch. Well, he believed it but at the same time he also didn’t want to be wrong either. I can understand that. Would you want to be included on the long list of people Valentine has duped? We all think about the situation and we all want to say that we would’ve believed it was really Magnus but at the end of the day, none of us have been in that situation. Is it really right to judge Alec for that? I’m not saying Alec was right. I’m not saying Magnus was right. I’m saying I understand why Alec couldn’t straight up believe the switch. And I’m saying I understand why Magnus may question Alec’s faith a little. Let me make this clear because I saw a lot of posts talking about how Alec was a real douche and he shouldn’t be so mean to precious Magnus. I don’t know how everyone else was interpreting the scene but I interpreted the scene as Alec wanting a hair sample so he could have a way to prevent the Clave from suspecting Magnus. Nowhere in this scene does Alec ever say he’s doing this because he suspects Magnus. But Magnus is all, “you’re doing this because you have no faith in me” and I’m just like, “No, he’s doing this so the Clave doesn’t come to your place accusing you.” Let’s think this through logically. So let’s say hypothetically, that Alec decides to not pursue the hair sample. It’s not going to change the fact the Clave is still going to suspect Magnus. Magnus isn’t giving any other ways to prove he wasn’t responsible for a shadowhunter’s death. Alec can’t just tell the Inquisitor that Magnus didn’t do it simply because he believes in Magnus. That’s not going to fly with the Inquisitor. Hell, it wouldn’t fly in the real world if a detective told their superior not to suspect someone because they believe in that person. The detective would’ve been laughed right out of the precinct. Just like the Inquisitor probably would’ve barred Alec from the investigation. I don’t know about you, but if I were the Inquisitor I would see Alec in that moment as being unable to keep his personal feelings and his job separate. There’s a reason why detectives and cops aren’t allowed to work on investigations they have a personal connection to. This, right here. Now keep in mind, I’m not saying either party was right in this fight. Alec could’ve broached the situation better and Magnus could’ve thought about the situation Alec is in and been a little more understanding. Not straight up accuse him of not following his heart because Alec following his heart in this situation wouldn’t have helped either of them. It’s like the Clary argument from earlier, Magnus is doing a whole lot of complaining without giving a whole lot of solutions to aid in fixing the problem. Then the show just makes it even worse at the end by having Alec apologize and say he’ll never doubt Magnus again. BUT HE WASN’T DOUBTING MAGNUS! Geez, the writing in this show. It makes me want to pull my hair out. You know what would’ve been a better resolution to this fight?

ALEC: I’m sorry. I should’ve put up a bigger fight against the Inquisitor about suspecting you.

MAGNUS: And I’m sorry, too. I shouldn’t have assumed you didn’t have any faith in me.

This is just a general idea of how I would like to have seen it resolved. See, I resolved a fight with both parties admitting they had faulted. Like an actual, healthy relationship. *GASP* And that right there is the problem I have with the Malec relationship. The fact that there is always one person completely at fault while the other is completely blameless. This relationship has no sense of equality.

Another issue with Malec I have is the fact that the scenes are so short. We never see them just talking and getting to know each other. At the end of the day, with all of the fights these two have, I’m left scratching my head wondering, “Why on earth do these two like each other?” Seriously, why do they love each other? No development on the intellectual part of their relationship has been given. You think you can just have a scene where they confess their love for each other and I’m just going to accept it? No. I want to know why they love each other. Matt and Harry have great chemistry and I love seeing them on screen together but at the end of the day, good acting and chemistry just isn’t enough. The writers are actually going to have to pull their own weight eventually and make this relationship feel genuine. Every time these two have had a fight, I’ve hated those scenes. And it’s not because I don’t want my OTPs to fight. I want them to fight. The problem is the writers aren’t writing these fights organically and genuinely. It always feels like its forced. That these fights don’t feel like fights these two would be having.These writers need to sit down and figure out what these two characters love about each other and draft out conflicts accordingly. That’s the key to making this relationship feel more genuine.

And of course, I do have to mention the ending of this episode. Now from a tonal point of view, I liked how this episode ended. I liked the song. I liked how it mixed with the other scenes. Whoever’s in charge of mixing the fight scene music should follow this scene’s example. I do want to remark that Simon is surprisingly good at techno synthesizing and I also don’t necessarily understand how a college student who doesn’t appear to have a job is able to afford the equipment he has. Trust me, that equipment must’ve cost well over a grand. He must’ve been saving his entire life. But Simon’s unrealistic techno mixing skills isn’t what I really want to talk about. I’m sure you all knew I was going to talk about this. The make out scene between Jace and Maia. Now I understand the idea behind Jaia but was a 30 second make-out scene at the end really necessary when Malec had a less than satisfactory ending? They could’ve cut this scene down a little and wrote a really nice ending scene for Malec and the ending would’ve been so much more powerful. Shadowhunters keeps on digging itself a bigger and bigger hole in regards to their sex scenes. Malec gets all of the chaste and fade-to-black kiss scenes while all of the heterosexual couples get these high intensity sex scenes that are unnecessarily long. I know, the show is trying to be racy but they need to stop with these scenes. The Malec fans are seconds away from rioting. To an extent, I understand Freeform’s position. They’re trying to be more racy. They want the audience the CW has. However, it doesn’t change the fact that Freeform (ABC Family) is a family channel. As progressive as we want society to be, it isn’t always that way. When Beauty and the Beast came out earlier this year, I went to see it on opening night and there were quite a few families who unfortunately took their kids out of the theater mid-way through the movie because they didn’t like LGBT intonations the film had. It’s very distressing that this is still happening but it is. And this is the precise reason I did not want ABC Family to produce Shadowhunters. I knew this was going to happen. I knew the show was going to try to be more racy but that it was also going to be tied down by the same conservative values that most family channels suffer from. I would’ve been far more comfortable if the CW had taken this show. The CW has a little more freedom when it comes to this sort of thing. I can’t say I’m really surprised that Malec’s been treated this way. Honestly, I would much prefer this show not do sex scenes period if they can’t give the same respect to Malec. But then again, I’m not Freeform. I don’t know what’s going on with them. Maybe this all comes down to what Matt and Harry are comfortable with. As progressive as they are, maybe they’re not entirely comfortable with doing a sex scene. It’s perfectly within an actor’s rights to say no to something that makes them uncomfortable. Regardless, if not every couple is going to be treated with the same respect in regards to sex scenes, then the show should’ve said no to sex scenes, period.

I didn’t hate everything about Malec in this episode, though. I did enjoy the scenes with Magnus and Dot. Not the actual Dot part, though. We all know I wish she had stayed dead. They keep on trying to make her important to these characters but you can’t rewrite an entire season where the main characters did not care about Dot in the slightest. Dot is apparently finally recovering from her ordeal with Valentine and Clary (who once called her relationship with Dot a sisterly bond) hasn’t mentioned her at all? Magnus and Dot’s relationship had never once been mentioned. Magnus announces that she’s dead in Season 1 and he really doesn’t seem to care but in this scene, it’s like these two have been drinking buddies for years. I agree that this scene was fun but it could’ve been any random warlock Magnus knew in this scene and it would’ve been exactly the same. But it was great to see Harry dancing again and it was also nice to see the show debunk the bi-stereotype. That bi people will sleep with anyone and everyone and are willing to cheat on their significant others. I’m glad the show made that statement.

So, I know that just in that last section alone, I listed a whole bunch of problems but to clarify, I did like this episode. I felt it was definitely better than the last two. It’s still not on a level where I would continuously want to re-watch the episode nor does it leave me with counting down the days until the next episode premieres but I did like it. The things that got me was just the logic and the inconsistencies. Really, the same thing that bugs me with every episode. The writing. If more care could be taken with the writing I think I could probably really enjoy this show and this episode. But as it stands now, I’d have to give this episode maybe a high B-, maybe 84%.

That’s all I have for you. I’d love to hear your thoughts. Do you agree? Do you disagree? Did you like the episode? Did you hate it? Just remember to be respectful of everyone’s opinions.

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