This episode feels so fast paced that it's infuriating. This has always been the case for all the previous episodes (except episode one) but this one is the most horrid. There is never a moment where we the audience can just take in to understand what happened, because the show just wants to progress with spooky stuff and inappropriately timed jokes. There's been double-digit worth of new things revealed in this episode yet we never got a chance to fully understand any of them. Half of them are even destroyed and killed by now.
The show is clearly one of those media where you have to look in-depth for hidden clues, details, events, etc. To fully grasp everything. It most certainly does this and I would even say it does it rather well, but it relies on it WAY too much. If a show can only be truly understood by looking at subtle things and re-watching it a couple of times then it's not a good watch. The viewer shouldn't be forced to look up analysis videos to understand the BASIC things that happen in an episode.
Let the characters speak and reveal the lore, let a moment play for longer so we can understand what it means. The main reason why I don't see people complaining about this that much is because each episode releases on its own, not as the whole season, which gives the viewers months worth of time to look back (I myself have been with this show since it was first revealed on Liam's channel), but a new viewer who were to pick up this show right now or after it ends will feel like they're trying to understand FNAF (not easy).
The speed at which Uzi's and N's relationship has formed, Uzi's grasps on how to use her AS powers, Tessa and J willing to work with the trio and V starting to care about her friends is just way too quick for 6 episodes (even less for some of these). The purple and yellow love birds act like they've been together for months and experienced a nuclear bomb drop, when it's clear everything that has happened so far took place in no more than a span of one month, probably around 2 weeks, and that's ignoring the fact Uzi got scarred for life in Episode 2 by the Absolute Solver showing holograms of Nori and Khan dying, left N because of how traumatic it was, and the two just... get back together the next episode and it's never touched upon again... in episode TWO and THREE. We got a third act breakup in episode TWO.
V herself only had a major role in 2 episodes so her saving Uzi and the sacrifice she made at the end of the episode feel super rushed and leave no impact whatsoever. She's also not going to die, it's literally revealed IN THIS EPISODE that drones can be easily cloned. If she DOES die despite what the episode literally just claimed, it's gonna go against what the show has established and reveal a really obscure thing that contradicts how the drones work, because nothing so far has revealed that something can stop them from being revived. It's not clever, it's cheap and not how you write a character's death. (V is my favorite character btw, so this should say something on how little I cared about her sacrifice, I legit burst out laughing). This is what happens when you establish your characters to be practically immortal. I would love to be proven wrong about all of this though.
This series is trying to avoid filler by speeding through all the plot points I've mentioned and ending them as soon as possible, but a show with this much worldbuilding NEEDS filler to make us care about anything. The reason why information about things like Doll's parents, her backstory, Tessa's motives, Absolute Solver's backstory or Uzi's mom is so mysterious is because spending time on them would be considered filler by the show. Instead they're treated as something as equally important as the bajillion other, more important plot elements, when in reality some of these things should be the first things we learn about. I'm not saying to reveal everything from the start, just give us SOMETHING to work with so that we can care.
On a positive, the fight scenes, visuals and sound design are as good as ever before. I especially liked all of Uzi's glitching, twitches and error sounds. These three things are probably going to be the only elements of the show that Glitch is never going to make bad, though I wished the fights lasted more than one minute on average.
Unfortunately I don't really have high hopes for the last two episodes. The amount of lore that was tackled in the span of six episodes and the amount that hasn't just doesn't seem to me like it will be properly concluded without feeling rushed or left on a cliffhanger for season 2. Everything just comes and goes the same episode, like they're a weird hybrid between being episodic and serial.
Also please for the love of god use different jokes other than "character says/does something silly during a tense/serious moment" because it completely throws the narrative in a loop on how we're supposed to feel about a scene. I know this is a Comedy-Horror show, but if you're also gonna have THIS MUCH SERIOUS LORE IN THE SPAN OF 6 EPISODES WHERE THE PRIMARY FOCUS IS ON SAID LORE (don't you dare tell me this is a comedy focused show, it doesn't present itself as one), then find better balancing between the two.
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