Notable this episode:
- The cold open with the encounter between Thjazi and Hal is a lovely little vignette. Brothers are very familiar and they also never listen to one another.
- The encounter with the Lux was comedic in the faux-naïveté of both sides.
- Occtis’s developing horror as to his new unliving body was interesting but got snowed under a bit with everything else he was doing (Disguise Self as Erlich Kerzingblad, undead vulture).
- The point where Occtis’s body got mended in an act of magical Kintsugi by Taisha’s Mend Object was lovely.
- House Einfasen and the area of ‘Riesengürtle’ are read by Americans as “German” but to me it feels much more autistic than that. I’d put it more as Nordic/Finnish.
- The handmaid getting her brain splattered on the floor was a nice shocker but definitely also somewhat suspect.
