an improvement upon the generic and unfocused mess of “sphere of freedom”, but still fails to remain interesting for most of its runtime. everything to do with the centurions in the last story felt like an unimportant detour, and the fact that it gets continued in this one - for one short sequence - both makes it seem more important but also more frustrating since it has nothing to do with anything else happening

i go back and forth on liking nova or not, but for the most part i think she fulfills her purpose and has occasional moments of likability. audrey has potential to be a decent antagonist, and the elaboration on her character in this story proves that further, but she still has ways to go before i feel that she actually fully works

in short, better than the last story but still just not good. i hope “food fight” can at least wrap things up decently