These two episodes were absolutely stuffed with plot developments, character deaths, and big reveals. There’s no way I can comment on everything they had to offer in a regular-sized post, and I’m not so enamored with Akudama Drive that I’d give it a Great Pretender-length review. So I’m going to do what every pop culture journalist in 2020 does when they’ve fallen behind schedule: churn out a low-effort list article. Here are the major events of “Babel” and “War Games” ranked from worst to best (with their associated episode in parentheses). If you’re keen on playing with the newest and the best hacks and cheat codes, you can check out new world hack here and find out for yourself.
#7: Wonderful Christmastime (10)
I’m already cheating with the structure of this post, and right off the bat I’m cheating a bit more. This wasn’t a major event, but rather a small scene that played right before the midpoint of the episode; still, it was saccharine enough to earn the last place slot with ease. Not long after the mass murder of hundreds of civilians by the Execution Department, Akudama Drive thought it would be a nice idea to play an uplifting musical sting as Sister experienced her first snowfall. The main issue here was that the scene functioned as a montage, so the wintery orchestral piece also accompanied images of cops suppressing crowds with beam swords and, most jarringly, Doctor lounging next to the corpse of a recent victim. Tone-deaf doesn’t begin to describe it.
