Saw the Master coming a mile away.  Missy, Mistress, Master.  I was thinking it was going to be the Rani, or perhaps Romana somehow.  Master is just too easy, and makes not a damn lick of a sense otherwise.  What's this shit about being left  to die or whatever?  10 literally begged you to regenerate, to travel with him, the last of the Time Lords wrecking every bad guy's shit!  You chose not to!  Why are you doing this you fuckwit!?  UGH.  Then there's the different people across space and time and this is making me very very angry.

If it were me I would have made it the Tardis itself doing this.  Missy is the Tardis girl from that one 11 episode and starting just after the Doctor regenerated has been plucking people, or at least their consciousness, into another section of the Tardis the Doctor may not be aware of or just doesn't think about much.  This darker Doctor is later confronted with all the people he's killed or let die in an effort by the Tardis to drive him back to a kinder, gentler way of doing things, to which the Doctor responds "I'm not gonna be made to feel guilty for saving a lot more people than you're parading around in front of me!"  Tardis is having none of that and starts threatening Clara so the Doctor has to "kill" the Tardis girl but there's consequences and Clara sacrifices herself (I'd keep Danny's sudden death and use him in this two-parter too to sort of drive Clara towards this) and takes the Tardis consciousness' place, resulting in a shift in the Tardis' behavior in the future but otherwise not meaning much except for a tearful farewell for the Impossible Girl who will always be there for him like she always has been.

But that's just me.

So glad they let Raiga finish this by himself.  I had this sinking feeling we'd see Kouga jump in for a teamup finisher.  The boy even got his own one-shot super mode!  Not as graceful as the winged or dragon-tailed forms, just a big honking "IMMA FUCK YOU UP GOOD" mode with a sword to match.

But I wonder... where, or when, is Kouga and Kaoru?


Also that thing they did with the trail of the tip of Raiga's sword at the end?  That, to me, was a really fucking cool effect.

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Garo: Yami wo Terasu Mono

They didn't forget the armor timers after all.  Still wish it'd somehow been Crow, since we've already seen Garo go Beast Mode once before in this franchise, but I'm really just glad they acknowledged the timer at all.

Also surprised we actually got some kind of explanation for Raiga's parents' disappearance.  I was convinced that was simply movie bait.

I really should have expected these things.  Just goes to show the damage Derpness did to my expectations for the franchise...

it's nice to see a happy ending for a victim of a Horror that wasn't at all bittersweet.  The execution was piss-poor but it was a nice idea.

the lackluster ending to the episode robbed us of a potential use for Gouten, whom I can't remember seeing since he was given to Raiga.