Is that supposed to be a compliment? It sounds more like an insult…
- Last week, Ai, Julie, Alis, and Dee went searching for Scar after she went to the place of her supposed birth.
- Summary: Starting with a flashback, we see Alis murder his schoolmates. Flash to the present, our heroes arrive in a desolate town that has been abandoned by the living and the dead. Here, Alis states that “Class 3-4″ is in the town, protected by a barrier. As everyone goes through the barrier, they are transported to the same town they were in a second ago, but now it’s in the dead of winter and heavily populated by the living. The team then decides to let Ai attend the local school with Dee, who appears to have a physical body in this world. Everyone appears to be happy in this world until Ai starts to ask questions about the world to Alis, and he explains that the world is basically a “dream” that was imagined by the inhabitants of Class 3-4.
Julie is the master of being inquisitive
- My Take: Well, I don’t want to sound like an overly offended reviewer, but this opening was just unsettling, and not in a good way. As a citizen of the United States, I’ve heard all too much about school shootings here, and having the episode intro like that was just disturbing and a bit tasteless to me. Moving on.
- As I always say, Sunday Without God is real hit-or-miss every episode. However, this week’s episode is the first where I’d just call it “Eh”. It wasn’t really good, but it wasn’t bad. It was just “Eh”. I’m not really going to remember any of it tomorrow, and it’s not going to really effect my thoughts on the series as a whole. I can say this with confidence, though; an episode that is “Eh”, to me, is much better than a bad episode in this series.
The “Saving the World” club, of course!
- Into a little more depth, this episode was strangely confusing. Not as much in the confusion from the episode itself, but for the fact that it didn’t have much anything to do with the previous episode. I kept on waiting for some sort of bridge between the two episodes, but it never happened. They could have aired these two episodes out of order and it would have made almost as much chronological sense (other than Julie being in love with Scar and Alis acknowledging Ai celebrated his birthday last episode).
- I’ve noticed that this show has been using a lot of still images as of late (I don’t know the technical term, but it’s when there’s a still image of the characters doing something and some dialog is going on in the background. Sort of like a montage, but not really). I’ve always been put off by these as they come across to me as lazy, and this episode really took it to a new level.
- As many of you who are reading my continuing thoughts on Sunday Without God know, I tend to point out aspects of the show I notice every week. Here, I noticed that there’s no real opposing force in this show. That makes getting invested in the protagonist’s struggles tough. And when you can’t get behind the motivations of a character, it’s hard to watch the show every week with excitement or any sense of joy.
- Honestly, the organization of Sunday Without God seems like a film with a central idea, but no real substance. This episode really helps prove that point in that it wasn’t memorable and it had no real purpose to the overall plot. But I have to swallow my pride a little bit and give the show some credit; of the shows that come off as “filler”, this isn’t the worst I’ve ever seen. I just wish there would be more of a focus on the plot that was established in the first arc.
- I didn’t really mind this episode too much, but it all felt just like filler. We don’t get any substantial explanation of their surroundings, and nothing of interest seems to happen (at least to me). But we have two more episodes of this show to go. Maybe they’ll save the best for last, and maybe all the points I’ve made throughout the series will be addressed. Who knows? Maybe in the next couple of weeks, everything that’s happened in this show will be explained and justified. I sure hope so.
