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Review of Wish World by Bongo50

24 May 2025

It's kind of hard to review Wish World in isolation, without the context of what's to come. However, I will try.

I felt that this was mostly a competent first part. It build tension, and did acceptable set up. However, it didn't really go anywhere, and its left a lot of threads to resolve in the next episode. I felt that the concept at the core of this was good and interesting, but I don't really like how it was tied together. It had a lot of very on the nose social commentary. I didn't really mind this. For once, I felt that I actually agreed with all of it (unless I missed something), and it didn't feel particuarly confused or messy. It also worked with the (little) plot that was here.

I felt that this episode was let down by its ties to the ongoing storylines. The Rani could have just been any villain, and the episode would have worked mostly the same. I really dislike the gods storyline, so I hated all of the ties to that in this. I also instinctively didn't like the Omega reveal, but I'll wait where that goes to form a strong opinion.

Much of the plot and the Rani's plan didn't make too much sense to me. Maybe it did make sense and I just didn't follow it well enough, but I really felt it was messy and unclear. Element like the giant skeletons didn't seem to have any purpose at all to me, and just servered to make the episode even messier. Another example is Rogue's brief cameo. It didn't really make sense, looked bad, and just seemed there to advance the plot in a bit of a meaningless way.

The sets looked good, although I thought that some of the special effects, particuarly at the end, didn't look to good.


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