As much as Shinyao is incredibly powerful in this episode of Phantom in the Twilight, she’s become more or less a blank slate controlled externally for the purpose of creating a big bad to face in a final episode. It isn’t exactly the most compelling way this show could have ended (though I guess there’s still an episode to go).
I think the most surprising part of this episode was the reappearance of Van Helsing. I mean, we did see him escape hospital earlier but his literally dropping into the fight seemed really random. Outside of that, things progressed more or less as you would expect. The Twilights accompanied Ton to the Tower of London where they were separated from her one by one leaving just her and Wayne to confront Shinyao. And, because it isn’t the final, they don’t yet save her. So all according to plan really.
The issues crop up with the half-hearted nature of the threats blocking their path, the fact that there doesn’t appear to be any malice from the ‘villains’ as they just seem to be playing around, and then the reunion with Shinyao being pretty flat due to Shinyao being entirely brainwashed and completely boring.
Even the promise of evil Wayne didn’t really elevate the occasion nor did a duplicate version of Rijan facing off with Vlad. Basically this episode was perfectly serviceable and progressed us nicely to a point where we can see things wrapping up next week but lacked any real excitement or point of interest.
I am however left wondering how they can be in the Tower of London and yet the most exciting enemy they are facing off against is the same suit of armour that seems ridiculously weak duplicated over and over. Seriously missed opportunity here.
I’m still enjoying the show mind you, but I kind of wanted a little bit more from this episode.
Previous Reviews:
- Episode 1: This Season’s Hot Guy Cafe Brought To You By Vampires and Werewolves
- Episode 2: Old School Vampire Alert
- Episode 3: Two Wolves Meet Under a Ferris Wheel
- Episode 4: My Friend Was Taken As A Hostage, And I Don’t Seem To Care
- Episode 5: Love or Life?
- Episode 6: Well, That Got Serious
- Episode 7: Interesting Bait and Switch
- Episode 8: Down Time
- Episode 9: Saving Shinyao has Become A Full Series Job
- Episode 10: Shinyao’s Power Is Impressive, Yet We Now Have an Imminent Ton vs Shinyao Situation
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Karandi James
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Well, like I already said over on Twitter, it was a bit disappointing this one. The fights were a bit lackluster, and exactly as you say the villains just weren’t very menacing. It wasn’t really superbad, I mean I’ve seen worse, but it also could have been a whole lot better. Well, I hope the final episode will wrap things up in a good way. All in all though, this was still a fun show in the end, and one of the better offerings of this season 😊
Agreed. This show was still a lot of fun. Could have been better but I’ve enjoyed it, and hopefully the final episode will be good.