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This will be drowned in a deluge of "That's it? Boring!" from autists who want this show to be all action all the time OR lorefags who desperately want this character focused show to drop the "filler" (the character focus), but genuinely 9/10

The absolute undisputed best episode so far in my opinion. Fantastic action, extremely good animation and sound design, really interesting set pieces, great characterization, humor that was both funny in the traditional set-up punchline way and also some off-color humor I genuinely didn't expect (insert "I'm right behind you aren't I?" and Zooble Sex joke here), fun character dynamics, and multiple subversions, but GOOD subversions. The series has been set up in such a way that you could believe any of the abstraction fakeouts would happen this episode, but none did, because this is a good series that doesn't always take the easiest paths and takes the time effort to set up bait, before springing it, rather than just changing the story based on where people THINK it would be going. It also had a lot of scenes of "sitting and talking," but they were actually interesting and tense, because of how quiet and drawn out they were - the Jax Pomni scene near the end was genuinely uncomfortable because of how obviously Jax didn't want to be involved in it, and the Ragatha Kinger scene in the loser's area had me on edge. My only real complaint was the Zooble Gangle scenes sometimes felt too mushy, but these characters like one another, so if

It also had Ming.