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How did this season get so bad so fast?

Impressions:

So, Community and 30 Rock finally get new episodes tonight… except that NBC out here has bumped them for the damned Trailblazer playoffs. So I pop over to see how that game’s going… is the game at least worth depriving me of Community? And the Blazers are down by 29 at the half. Twenty bloody nine. This is what you ruined my night for.

But hey, maybe the night could be saved. Maybe Ikkitousen would have at least 30 seconds of passable action. Maybe the writing would only be tolerably bad instead of horribly… or so horribly bad that there are giant land sharks with lasers on their heads. Perhaps they would show Chouhi doing something other than getting beat up. There’s the possibility that they would remember who had taken a back full of arrows between scenes. An outside chance that they wouldn’t waste 5 minutes of recap with stills from the previous season. Maybe it would have at least twenty minutes of animation and the last minute of the episode wouldn’t be a series of stills blurred from one to the next in lieu of animation.

So much for hoping.

Preview:

Meanwhile, back on the ranch.