So I lied about dropping S.A. a while ago. I’m dropping it NOW instead.

…what needs to happen more often in the show.

I won’t beat about the bush with my gripe with this show: I’m freakin’ tired of Lelouch Kei (and to a lesser extent, Hikari, but only as the source of Lulu’s Kei’s obnoxiousness, though he does pretty well by himself anyways). Yes, I’m sick of his non-relationship with Hikari, but more than that, I’d rather the two not get together at all (which is everyone else’s excuse for sticking with this show - can’t wait till these two finally become rabu-rabu! - unless you know, they like it or something) because he’s so stubbornly obnoxious and she’s so blah. And I’d rather not talk anymore about Kei because I’ve already ranted enough about him.

You’d have more of a chance if you were a wild animal.

I’ve practically wiped most of the first 10 episodes out of my mind (not too difficult a task, at the end of the day, the show itself is so flimsy and lacklustre there’s not much to remember), all I know is that every episode, even if it was ‘passably’ funny (after the first 2 episodes, my level of expectation dropped drastically), I’d still end up having that “why am I still watching this???” bad taste in my mouth. Then afer some time, it just simply slipped my mind to watch this show at all, and when I finally remembered, I was at least an episode behind, so I thought *shrugs* “Why bother? It’s not even worth the raw practice anymore…”

Then I find out that they were finally giving the side characters some episodes, so I ended up checking those out since, as 1-dimensional as they are, I actually find the other members of the S.A. class to be the only spark of something likeable in this show. In the end though, Ryuu’s episode was ‘not bad’, if only to see Ryuu as more of a dependable-like character (who makes sense, animal obssession not-withstanding), who takes good care of his pets Jun and Megumi (who collectively have the presence of… a mute girl and her twin brother in a show full of 1-dimensional unfunny characters, go-figure). Too bad that part of him is already obvious from every other episode of the show -_-” His ‘darker’ “I’ll beat the crap out of anyone who dares touch my beloved S.A.!!!” self though, wasn’t very inspiring and I was rolling my eyes at the explanation they had to come up with for his being in the last position in class when he really has inhuman test-scoring skills.

RyuuXMegumiXJun doujins anyone??

Well so much for those 3. My impression of the show was already stagnated anyways, and I once again lost the will to continue with this travesty of an Ouran wannabe (as much as I say it’s futile and utterly depressing to have compare the two, it seems that S.A. is actually trying to emulate what made Ouran so darned awesome in the recent episodes - only to end with epic fail). Then I find out the next episode is about Tadashi - the only comic relief in the show that actually does his job! (Fails next to Maid Guy, but that’s a tough act to follow) I at least owe it to the remaining character I like to watch another episode…

And I honestly have to say I loved Hikari and Tadashi’s ‘date’ episode! It had everything I’ve always wanted in a good date myself - good friendly company (well, being just friends helps -_-”), good food (I love my seafood fresh :P), getting together to mock all them stereotypically mushy couples around (though these two are so clueless, it’s not like they realized what they were doing XD), visiting places off the beaten track (LOL at poor Akira who just had to tail them - yes, an actual LOL from me in this show!) - but most of all just plain having fun without the stupid distracting thought of “Oh dear, what if he/she doesn’t like me for saying/doing this…” or “You’d better be paying for this meal...”

In other words, I loved everything about the ‘date’ that didn’t make it a date. Hah. What can I say, I’m sick of being put through the mushy beat around the bush antics of young couples in wuuurrrrve, already, it’s not only sickening, it’s so gotten OLLLLDDDD… (Yes, call me a cynical old bitch/bastard, I know it well enough). The end of the episode with Tadashi’s mom was predictably blah, but Tadashi already made up for it in the rest of the episode for being the fun guy that he is :D (Shimono Hiro needs more roles!!) I’ll just ignore the fact that Kei had to return in the end to spoil things.

So on a final note thank you Ogata Megumi Kei’s dad for getting your pain in the ass son off the show for a one decent episode, you may very well have made my very last episode of S.A. the best one for the entire series. :P Yea, sorry to say, the one good episode in the series isn’t going to convince me to continue following this pile of doodoo now that the focus returns ‘rightly’ to the dunderhead non-couple… Those of you who still enjoy this show for all its mediocrity, I commend you for being more easily satisfied than I’ll ever be. Just remember to drop me a line the next time Tadashi gets an episode, and maybe, just maybe… I’ll watch that one episode, and that’ll be that :P