The Ingenious One Episode 10

Surprisingly poorly written episode.

This series has been very tightly scripted up to this point so this episode was a big disappointment . The relay station battle had so many plot holes and contrivances that it was just not believable. First, the dragging of the "Su finally grows up to face the brutal realities of the martial world" sub-plot consumed a lot of boring minutes. I'll excuse that since most of this series Su has acted with the maturity of a 12 year old so maybe his behavior was realistic ... for a 12 year old. But other plot holes such as the fact that while they had numerous wounded who should have still bee staying in the building, magically at the key moment, no one was in the building and all stupidly hyper-focused on the front-gate with plot-induced tunnel-vision, and just the idiotic way they were trying to brace the gate and no one going up on the wall to take shots with arrows ... it all just felt stupid. It's fine that the bad guys won if that is what the plot requires, but the implementation of the plot here was just poorly written. A real disappointment after all the well-written episodes up to now.

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