Continuing to watch these in production order. "The Devil Child" was the third episode produced, but didn't air until 25, as all the non-daikaiju episodes were held so they could frontload the series with more spectacle. It's also not that good of an episode with a muddled story about a little girl whose stage magician dad has hypnotized her to sleep one too many times, so she's developed a sinister astral projection self that goes out into the world and frightens people, often in fatal ways, so she can swipe some little trinket from them like earrings or a ring (so much for one of the comic relief rival journalists from the second episode!). It's still moodily directed, and I applaud the ambition of some of the tracking shots involving the spectral overlay of the girl, but the story drowns in pseudoscience about psychic electricity, just aimlessly does stuff until abruptly ending, and continues to not sell our team as interesting leads for us to be following.
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Continuing to watch these in production order. "The Devil Child" was the third episode produced, but didn't air until 25, as all the non-daikaiju episodes were held so they could frontload the series with more spectacle. It's also not that good of an episode with a muddled story about a little girl whose stage magician dad has hypnotized her to sleep one too many times, so she's developed a sinister astral projection self that goes out into the world and frightens people, often in fatal ways, so she can swipe some little trinket from them like earrings or a ring (so much for one of the comic relief rival journalists from the second episode!). It's still moodily directed, and I applaud the ambition of some of the tracking shots involving the spectral overlay of the girl, but the story drowns in pseudoscience about psychic electricity, just aimlessly does stuff until abruptly ending, and continues to not sell our team as interesting leads for us to be following.