OK, so like this is easily the best episode so far right?
Basically all my issues I’ve had with the Story so far are absent here. Its episode feels like a breath of fresh air that we haven't gotten in God knows how long. We haven’t had anything that feels remotely like a breather since I thiinnnnk the Millennial Event update? For the first time in a long time we get to just have fun. It feels so much like a Crispia episode but with real stakes and important lore that are actually engaging. It's genuinely funny at parts with that Summer fun feel but there is still lots of action for this is a very plot relevant episode.
My main issue I’ve had with Act 2 so far is that the sequence of storytelling has felt disjointed. Each episode had 2 or 3 plotlines happening at the same time, constantly switching between them without letting them breathe properly. The Pacing was weird, as so much was happening, at a very short amount of time yet somehow it kinda felt slow because the plotlines were being sliced up and jumbled together.
This episode has been the first episode since Beast Yeast 14 that just told the story linearly. One plotline with beat after beat and my is it so refreshing to just be focused on one thing. The Dialogue this episode just felt more characterised as well, especially between Strawberry Crape and Expresso howe have been overlooked for so long and I am so incredibly glad they have been given their chance to shine. I’m liking Ananas and Night Raven a lot as well, and overall all the characters were done great here.
I do take issue with the explanation for why the Elementals aren’t here. I know they tried to explain that the power they paid for the war was too great so they got to recharge now. But they explained it kinda terribly. Like Bro tf you mean they are “sleeping”, wake tf up the universe is going to collapse?! I know they didn’t want the story to be Elementals vs Corrupted Elementals (Which I really do want though) but rather Dragons vs Corrupted elements. But It wouldn’t be hard to write the elementals in a way that they are still plot relevant but won't instantly solve everything. While I'm not an elemental cookies fan, nor have I watched/played Played Oven Break aside from some of the TDB stuff, I know that the implementation of the Elementals in Kingdom has been messy. So I can see why some can feel let down by this.
I saw a few fans disappointed that the Night Raven didn’t get much screentime, but honestly I think he was used quite well here. I like that he was this underlying dark force that contrasted the warmer light hearted tone with the protagonists. Obviously ep 6 will give us much more of him because that's where the real fight between him and Anananas takes place. Also I liked how he was being built up throughout the story, I think if we saw too much of him, we would lose that suspense that he was creating.
I find that I tend to feel a bit unsatisfied with the first half of these updates (Eps 1 and 3) the second half makes up for it (2 and 4). These stories are told in pairs, and I appreciate that its not rushing into crazy action off the bat but building up towards it and setting these plotlines up to be built upon later. I’m quite happy with episode 5 so I have hopes that 6 would continue the momentum.T he story is getting better and better and if it's kept up, we got a great Arc on our hands! :D
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