My Thoughts on Spy X Family Season 1 Part 2
This part was just as good as seaosn 1. There's a lot that stood out here as very enjoyable. First of all the start brought in a new member to the Forger family, a dog which they ended up naming Bond. Like the others Bond also has a secret ability, Precognition, or the power to see fragmented parts of the near future. He has this power due to an experiment he was part of, similar to Anya; it does make me wonder if they were both victims of the same experiment, or if there wree two unethical experiments that just so happened to exist at a similar time. Bond fits right in perfectly. He's full of personality, he's funny, he's adorable, and his introduction included a high octane chase through the city with Anya. It was an absolute blast. And they saved Bond from a bunch of criminals, which were probably related to the aforementioned experimentation. And the others just won't stop being immesurably likable too, especially Anya and Yor. One of my favorite parts of the show so far is when Anya puts on her detective outfit and pretends to be "helping" her father with work, but he doesn't really understand what she's actually trying to do, since he doesn't know that she can red minds yet. Speaking of action, while this isn't purely an action show, there are a decent amount of action sequences, and they're always intense and entertaining, especially when they involve Yor assassinating someone or saving Anya, but not just those ones. I'm also surprised how much I'm not bored with most of the class scenes, probably because the author actually put effort into making them entertaining. in Part 1 there was the dodgeball game which was the highlight of these scenes, which included that six year old student who was 6 feet tall and built like a Dragon Ball Z character. And in this seaosn the classroom moments are brought up with two major things. One, the obvious, Anya and Damian's interactions which are just as cute and fun as they've always been, and two is the character Henry Henderson. I didn't mention him before, but he's a lot of fun.
This seaosn has two new human characters though that I want to discuss. Well technically one of them isn't new, but we get more of her this time around. That one is Loid's handler as a spy, Sylvia Sherwood. She's a very intereting character, shown when she brutally interrogates some of their captured enemies that are attempting to ignite a war between their two nations, but we also see a gentler side of her when she interacts with Anya. I definitely want to see more of her in the future. The new character is Fiona Frost, a spy who works with Loid and has a MASSIVE crush on him. There's some really funny scenes when she's fawning over him in her own mind. Of course Anya, since she can read minds, knows the truth, but Loid and Yor are completely in the dark about it. She considers Yor to be her "love rival" which is a sentiment that is obviously unrequited. And even though I of course ship Loid with Yor, the series does make it easy to sympathize with Fiona and her feelings for Loid. She's a great character. She's also just as much of a master of disguise as Loid. One of my favorite scenes in this part was the tennis match that they both take part in. I think the most engaging thing about her character is her innner struggle trying to cope with the fact that they're both spies and have to keep their feelings out of it, and her developed romantic feelings for Loid, that started with mere admiration but became much more than that. There's not much else to talk about here though, aside from Yor's coworkers. One of the most liked episodes in this part is when Yor goes over to the blond one's house to learn how to cook. Apparently some fans turned over on her after this, I personally didn't and kind of just skimmed through that episode. Although I like that the episode is there because it is important for Yor's character, and from a writing quality perspective it's probably better that the author used a preexisting character with an established relationship to Yor rather than creating a completely unique character to serve this purpose.
This seaosn has two new human characters though that I want to discuss. Well technically one of them isn't new, but we get more of her this time around. That one is Loid's handler as a spy, Sylvia Sherwood. She's a very intereting character, shown when she brutally interrogates some of their captured enemies that are attempting to ignite a war between their two nations, but we also see a gentler side of her when she interacts with Anya. I definitely want to see more of her in the future. The new character is Fiona Frost, a spy who works with Loid and has a MASSIVE crush on him. There's some really funny scenes when she's fawning over him in her own mind. Of course Anya, since she can read minds, knows the truth, but Loid and Yor are completely in the dark about it. She considers Yor to be her "love rival" which is a sentiment that is obviously unrequited. And even though I of course ship Loid with Yor, the series does make it easy to sympathize with Fiona and her feelings for Loid. She's a great character. She's also just as much of a master of disguise as Loid. One of my favorite scenes in this part was the tennis match that they both take part in. I think the most engaging thing about her character is her innner struggle trying to cope with the fact that they're both spies and have to keep their feelings out of it, and her developed romantic feelings for Loid, that started with mere admiration but became much more than that. There's not much else to talk about here though, aside from Yor's coworkers. One of the most liked episodes in this part is when Yor goes over to the blond one's house to learn how to cook. Apparently some fans turned over on her after this, I personally didn't and kind of just skimmed through that episode. Although I like that the episode is there because it is important for Yor's character, and from a writing quality perspective it's probably better that the author used a preexisting character with an established relationship to Yor rather than creating a completely unique character to serve this purpose.
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