Checks el melloi

....really think they missed the point of the earlier stories

Also can Japan stop loving the whole Detective bit? It just doesn't hit, here. The Shadow Waver certainly is not.

Ahaha I think I hate this now

>Noble Phantasms are rare as fuck as in most of them don't exist in the modern world at all it took a bloodline that actually existed in Gaelic myth to keep just one
>Waver's (literal) loli Saber clone has Arturia's spear because fuck you that's why

And the detective stuff just does not work because even the foundations of the rules of magecraft are being royally ignored

First off granting the title of Lord is of some import, how is Waver being sent out constantly to do Enforcer work? As in "shit's hit the fan and magic's about to be revealed better send the squad of dedicated killers"

Why smear the El-Melloi family that hard?

Why is Waver's obsession of the Holy Grail and Alexander so damned inorganic?

As in if you took every instance of it out so far (every scene save 1 prologue is someone else turning to the camera and going "he wuvs rider"), you wouldn't n0tice that trait existed. At all.

Why aren't we allowed to have themed perps?

Three cases and no theme to any of what's being done. No individual ambitions, no emphasis on any ambition save one that was still poorly presented through a heir/woman that was off-screen most of the ep, and the maid who was there to lend one plot push and maybe some lesyay.

Fairy man loves a fairy also people get killed when they die—not a theme, not enough of a premise to be interesting.

Old man steals electricity for political gain - no theme, no presentation of the actual works of the Clock Tower's politics, so this one's toothless, too

Dead man wanted eternity - ALMOST a theme, but no characters to push it forward and 80% of the screentime is Waver basically going "It's magecraft I ain't gotta explain shit but I'm going to".

The conveyance is poor and god forbid this is LN material because it's damn-well scaring me away from the books.

It's just...not going anywhere. And squandering the mystery of the Clock Tower at the same time.

Nevermind how off it is for students there to be harping over modern technology (I get the point—Waver's faction of more modern methods gaining actual traction in the Association—but it's presented poorly, even taking the villain-of-the-week into account), how can an organization that's existed for almost a millennia be this incompetent?

Even the "I'm here for the Mystic Eyes Production Factory" character was left-field and not well-presented.

and why is there a Noble Phantasm in modern times? At all?

That the Clock Tower hasn't locked down? That is being kept a piss-poor secret?

This really could use more than a few cues from Cowboy Bebop's brand of scripting, storyboard, and even directing.

I'm trying to care about the characters. I really am. They're givin' me scraps to work with..

I cared about Hisui before all the Tohno background reveals and Hisui is as plain as bread

what do u mean u have to maintain continuity in a massive body of work and can't just retcon things arbitrarily

that's crazy

Brb summoning my persona

They just kinda refuse to tell a story. Or a noir. Or a detective tail. And are hoping the audience is too distracted by bishie long-haired grump and "buy the bluray" six to call it out.

I would not have opened with Waver's kidnapping. That was a death knell. Instead, what about an overall examination of the student vibes? The new class conflicting with the bluebloods?

Use it as a frame, introduce some uppity type deadset on proving these new batch kids inferior. Use said chara and Waver to frame the entire magi setting, political plots and all

THAT would be more grounded than episode of "that magi craycray go kill him/her/it"