Watching TV before work

[beccastareyes]

So, episode 3 of Slayers is mostly a filler plot, with a couple of interesting pieces of information thrown in. The plot was also entertaining -- someone was stealing pets in a town, and Lina was getting blamed. Which is exactly how a filler episode should be (in my opinion) -- an interesting plot on its own, but not completely removed from the main story. If I know Slayers setups, normally they will be building to the mid-season plot right now -- so some filler and some set up. The first season didn't do this -- all of the first episodes were devoted to Rezo's plot -- but then they added in three episodes of 'meet the Saillunes' after. (Actually, thinking about it in this fashion makes me understand why they moved the Atlas City novel story to NEXT when it follows in between the two novels the first season adapted -- the first season adapted the two Rezo novels, and the Atlas City story introduces Seygram, who plays a role with Gaav later on. Something like that works better in novels, where there aren't these two units of stuff (the episode and the season) -- besides which, one never knows when the series will bomb.

My one critique of the episode is that a lot of Amelia and Zel's dialog felt forced -- they were completing each other's sentences. While I'm sure some shippers find it cute, it felt to me more like they were trying to divide one character's dialog for two people. I'm sure it is tricky, since Lina and Gourry are the stars, and, heck, Zel and Amelia weren't even in the novels after the equivalent of the end of NEXT (Novel 8). I'd have to see how they handled it in TRY, or in other filler episodes in NEXT.


I probably don't have time to watch "The Boiling Rock" before I need to be in for work. I'll have to watch it and "The Southern Raiders" after work. Which puts me exactly one day behind everyone else, but what are you gonna do?