Rating: ****
Creator: Rooster Teeth Productions (http://roosterteeth.com/home.php)
Watch it here: http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=3355
Having started slow the new season kicks into high gear for its second episode with a high octane prolonged fight as the prequel storyline picks up. Set before the Blood Gulch Chronicles it aims to tell the story of Project Freelancer and the A.I. fragments assigned to each Freelancer. This will therefore lead to the return of many of the shows best fighters, with a cast including Tex, Washington and Wyoming there will presumably be little idle chit-chat and more balls to the wall action courtesy of Monty Oum (the architect of the similarly balletic Dead Fantasy series).
The two characters at the centre of this episode are the bickering brother and sister team of North and South Dakota (in the main storyline the former has appeared only as a corpse victim of the Meta, the later in a slightly more pro-active and important role). Set to infiltrate a cryogenics facility and retrieve some mysterious data, the duo's banter will strike a chord with anyone who has a sibling, North is the level-headed professional and South is the more impulsive and ready to prove herself.
The real star here is the mo-capped choreography and it doesn't disappoint as the Dakotas dodge bullets and dispense their own with dizzying speed and skill. It may be low on narrative and high on bodycount, but the episode shows off Rooster Teeth's action credentials and there is still plenty of time to show the relationships within the Freelancers and the saga of their downfall before this season is out.
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