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Welp, I'm done with this retrospective. I started with Green arrow vs Hawkeye, which I gave a 7/10, and I'm ending with another 7/10. This episode is better then Green Arrow vs Hawkeye so I guess I ended this better then it started. Anyway the analyses here are fantastic and easily some of the best in season 10. The beginning and ending to the fight are also incredible with some of the strongest emotional beats in any episode. So why is this only a 7/10? Because the actual fighting is so boring. Barely anything happens in the short time their fighting, and the only interesting thing was mmh's dragon (Which admittedly does have incredible animation). It makes it so I don't go back to this fight scene very often despite how incredible the highs are. It is still good but it's held back a lot by how little actualy happens

Final score:7/10

Above Ghost Rider vs Lobo and below Aquaman vs Namor.

Kratos vs Asura is a very mixed bag of an episode and easily the worst of the kickstarter era so far. The analyses are actually great and the main thing carrying this episode. The fight is very eh. The setup is super confusing due to them randomly tacking on the preview intro to another intro that doesn't fit with it at all. Asura also acts pretty out of character with how they presented him in the analysis. The actual combat starts off pretty good for the most part. The biggest problem I have as the fight goes on is the really weird pacing. This fight was over 6 minutes long, easily the longest fight scene since season 7. However, a lot of that feels like fluff since they had to include all of Asura's forms. This also leads to a really weird fight progression where most of Asura's forms die super quickly since they had to shove all of them in. The climax with Asura the destructor was great though. It does still fall in the "Asura goes into a new form and gets one-shots" thing but it atleast looks really cool aside from the stupid Kratos face that got memed to death. The alternate ending was also really bad. Overall this episode is alright but it definitely bit off more then it could chew.

Final score:6/10

Above Starscream vs Rainbow Dash and below Tigerzord vs Gundam Epyon.

Stitch vs Rocket is a super fun episode. The analyses are pretty fun. The fight was great. I love the laidback tone of it. The comedy is also really good. The best thing about this episode is easily Jailhouse Rocket which is so catchy and helps the vibe of the fight so much.

Final score:8/10

Above Heracles vs Sun Wukong and below Johnathan vs Tanjiro.