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Blue Eye Samurai: The Great Fire of 1657 (2023)
A fitting end to a season, a strange end to a miniseries
I'll start by saying, I don't think the ending had any characters betray their arcs.
Mizu has time and again chosen to pursue her revenge over her own personal wellbeing and her decision to do such now made sense.
While Taigen did not have a happy ending, he did ultimately conclude that what he needed was not his honor (which he did earn earlier in the episode) or his revenge on Mizu but his own happiness... again fitting to what his arc was set up to be all along.
Akemi's decision to make the absolute most of her newfound agency also felt in character albeit in the bleakest possible interpretation.
My biggest gripes with the episode were honestly on the scale of it all. A whole army rolls into the world's biggest city and wipes out all of the guards then only a dozen or so even go into the palace? The rest then somehow all burned to death because they were locked within the walls but Taigen made it out without much issue? It also felt like the rest of the city was surprisingly empty when the fire was burning.
The central cast has had immense plot armor for this whole show but it somehow felt worse in this episode, possibly because there isn't going to be a season two and it's totally alright to have some point of view characters die.
Regardless of all that, the visuals and soundtrack were amazing, the violence was appropriate and there was enough conclusivity to get the type of ending they were going for. I'm all for leaving some stuff ambiguous but feel like the swordmaker should've at least had some sort of conclusive speech to wrap things up a bit rather than just a line or two to Ringo.
Rick and Morty: Mortynight Run (2015)
The Most Rewatchable Episode I've ever Seen.
I don't know what it is about this episode, whether it be Rick calling Morty a "Carpet-Store Mother F*cker," the David Bowie-esque "Goodbye Moonmen," or Krombopulus Michael's enthusiastic "Oh Boy, Here I go killing again!" but I have seen this episode four times now and still get a laugh from basically every scene. Aside from my roommate questioning what the hell was going on during the "Goodbye Moonmen" sequence, I can see no point in which the episode could be improved. I would go on about all the great moments, but if you're reading this review you've probably already seen the episode, and it would take less time for you to watch it again (which I recommend) than for me to continue writing this review. Keep an eye out for a familiar, blue friend in the background (it seems rather obvious, but I missed it during my first viewing).