Zero no Tsukaima: The Familiar of Zero

[David75]

I really hated this episode. I don't know why, maybe it's cause the series thus far has been so boring and then they bring this in. I wasn't really surprised when it happened, but I was really really aggravated. I seriously don't know why, but that's what I was feeling the whole episode especially once Anies decides to attack Colbert. I couldn't count how many things just annoyed me for apparently no reason, like Kirche getting annoyed when Tabatha told her to wait more, Louise blushing because she untied ropes, Anies' deranged and crazed face the whole episode, when the teacher told them not to engage to enemy but they did anyways, the bad guy's "I can feel your temperature!" shpiel. Maybe I'm just PMS'ing or something because normally these things happening in another series wouldn't bother me, but this put me in a bad mood.

I had quite the same feeling, as if the scenarist were waking up after puting the audience in such a sleep... and having audience rates hitting bottom hard.
But I guess it's not that, since it's probably impossible for a show to be modified quickly enough to adapt to audience figures.

[Kraco]

Despite the fact I kind of liked this episode, I do understand what you fellows are talking about. I think one of the big reasons is that this second season hasn't generally delivered as well as the first did, in my opinion (and I think in other people's opinions as well). When it has been a slope for so long, you get used to annoying details failures. Many of those things Animus mentioned indeed bothered me as well, but I'm really a fan of important characters dying in a meaningful manner, so it was a big remedy for me, personally.