I liked the brief aside to the whiny cop wondering if being a genocidal fascist police state might be bad. Impressions: Another pretty boring episode, unless you count a zillion nonsense twists interesting at any rate. I hardly want to go through them all, but the core one is that the other city is actually a […]
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