1. But the UBW movie was horrendously bad
2. I think it's more of a "novel", it's not really that light, but lol semantics
Anyway, I appreciated the long drawn-out nature of most of the episode; I mean, there really is a lot of stuff to go over before diving into this, in my opinion. It took me that long just to get the characters straight in my head...
It did feel like a huge build-up to a really awesome end of the episode, though. But keep in mind that the slow part was pretty much entirely the prologue in the first novel - I'd rather they do it this way than have them fuck it up like the UBW movie.
also i am a huge nerd and appreciate all the background on this
I own the first novel, but it's hard as hell to read so I haven't really gotten anywhere with it. However, Waver's eirei looks like a fuckin' bro, I wonder which one it is?