1x05 An Empty Throne

• I love Rayla's sense of humour
• The bread broke the rock!
• Rayla sitting on that cliff; beautiful shot
• Poor Rayla; she's taking the difficult route to get rid of the band
• Why is the animation so smooth when she's flying through the trees?
• Don't insult Ezran's legs, Callum!
• Viren says he wants to protect the kingdom but acts like he wants to seize power. But my question is: why does he want to seize power?
• Ok, he was willing to give up the throne there, so does he want power or not? What are his motivations?! Maybe I'm missing something here
• Sign language looks legit; if it is, good job
• Ay, helping each other through motion sickness!
• Water transition!
• Viren with the bullcrap. "Oh, I love my kingdom. Oh, I love humanity." Bruh, you're not fooling anyone
• Gren with the censoring
• Amaya can see through your bullcrap, Viren
• He's Commander Gren
• Rayla with the initiative
• Chekhov's gun!
• Gren isn't getting it
• Ezran, you guys were pressuring her, why else wouldn't she tell?
• Nah, Rayla, you gotta fight the toxic masculinity! Feel fear!
• Lol, Viren and Gren

Viren: "Five past 9:00. I apologise for my tardiness."
Gren: "It was only five minutes."
Viren: "So, what are your concerns?"
Gren: "Well... You took me off the mission."
Viren: "Hmm, noted. Go on."
Gren: "And you threw me in this dungeon."
Viren: "Ah, I see. Anything else?"
Gren: "Uh, no. But... no. I guess those are the main two."
Viren: "Thank you. Your feedback is a gift."

I think this episode is an improvement, but it's hard to tell. Recently, I've struggled to rate TV shows, with their whole serialised nature, and I keep looking at them as short standalone stories. Aw well, maybe I should stop doing the whole: "TECHNICAL & ENJOYMENT SCORE" bullcrap and just rate things based on enjoyment. I'm getting tired, lol.

SCORE: 8/10