I can't imagine why after a season long build up of "tension" to finally reveal the secret between Vicious and Spike's animosity that the showrunners or whoever would want to make this episode look so cheap. Production wise and emotionally as well. This is all new, not even shown in the anime, what exactly happened in the past, and I was okay with that until I realized it comes off more as a bad CW pilot.
After being extra jokey and whimsical throughout the season, this episode really could have dug its teeth deep into the gravitas of a broken friendship/brotherhood but it all ends so quickly, wasting the talents of John Cho imo. I guess that's what episode 10 is for, but it begs the question again why show any of this when it lacks the punch as the anime did that only showed the littlest of hints and clues.
After being extra jokey and whimsical throughout the season, this episode really could have dug its teeth deep into the gravitas of a broken friendship/brotherhood but it all ends so quickly, wasting the talents of John Cho imo. I guess that's what episode 10 is for, but it begs the question again why show any of this when it lacks the punch as the anime did that only showed the littlest of hints and clues.