Xebek’s Blog

Everyone fights against Gallia’s giant golem that tries to stop their return to Tristain.

Impressions:

This episode was pretty good. I still don’t think it’s quite as epic as the second season’s climax where Saito fights thousands of enemies, but it was still a pretty good episode. I pretty much saw this coming, that they wouldn’t resolve much. The pace the show was going was bound to leave things un-concluded in terms of information on the void users, Tifa’s power, and many other things like that door the elf was talking about. Still, looking at this season with that in mind, that it wasn’t gong to conclude everything, it was a good season and good final episode.

I’m impressed with the way they ended things. Although they left on a light note, with some comedy and the usual Saito and Louise being the way they are, Louise being tsundere, it didn’t really undo the romance. The romance scene where the two of them really talk in the room on the Ostland, and kiss, was a pretty big scene and I didn’t feel that it was undone or made any less important by the overall end, which was somewhat he case in previous seasons. I thought the actual ending was done great. Louise becoming part of the royal family was certainly a big deal. I’m not sure if it will actually make a difference in later parts of the story or series, but even if it doesn’t change much the fact she was given the title is still a big deal.

Final Thoughts:

I’m a big fan of this series, since the first season, so my opinion on this season is going to be very biased, but so what, that’s how it is. Overall as a series, all seasons, this is a very fun show. It may not be the best when it comes to maintaining seriousness in the romance or even plot, but I love watching it and in the end that’s all that really matters. I do have to say though that compared to season two, I found this season lacking a lot. The second season seemed huge. I mean, they almost got married or kind of did; there was an absolutely epic final battle where Saito fights thousands and thousands of enemies. When the OP played in a slow tune during that scene I got goosbumbps. However it seemed that although this show set up some interesting things to happen, there weren’t any huge moments like that. There were even a lot of smaller moments in season two, like the Colbert-sensei story, and this season didn’t have much of that kind of focus either, except for maybe Tabitha.

I do have to commend this season on some things though, as this wasn’t by any means horrible. I loved them bring up the topic of void users more. They made a lot bigger deal about it then the previous seasons. Before they just kind of said, “Oh yeah, Louise just has this super rare and powerful ability….so, yup.” In this season they reveal the fact that there are other void users and they make some kind of base for the history of it, or important roles void users have played in the past since the elf guy seemed to recognize the power. Although this void thing wasn’t the main focus of this season, at least it wasn’t to a degree that it could have been; it was still bought up in this season and was very interesting.