This was…an episode. In the most basic terms I can put it, Mimi pushes to try and get Aida and Placido to get engaged, only for her attempt to fail, but Aida managing to get him to agree after she gets him to call off a duel he was going to do after he heard someone insult Aida, with the parents approving of the engagement. There’s also expansion on the whole chestnut thing that set up how Aida and Placido met, but outside of all of that, I can’t really think of anything to really talk about in regards to this episode.
Yeah, there was some cool stuff done with the visuals and audio this episode, but I don’t really feel like they outweigh my concern with this episode: this felt like an exposition dump disguised as marching the plot forward. After all, in this episode, not only do we get Aida’s perspective of the chestnut incident, we also get when Mimi and Aida first met in this episode as flashbacks. There’s also a scene where that cool visual and audio stuff was done — Aida with Placadio, the audio getting somewhat muffled and everything going grayscale except for Aida during that part — but I don’t feel like it was enough to save the episode for me.
It’s a shame. I usually have at least a bit more to say about these episodes before now, yet this one seems to have dropped the ball somewhere along the line. But hey, it’s not like this one episode ruins the entire series for me. I can’t let one bad apple ruin the entire batch. Every series has to have an awkward episode, and I think that for Always a Catch!, this was that episode.
But hey. Even if this post was more disappointing for me, I should 100% make up for that with my next overall post. Trust me. It’s gonna be great.
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