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You're right if you're starting to feel that this is gleefully ignoring the source material in an attempt to adapt to a certain point. While I usually try to omit source information from online reviews, it's important to acknowledge that this is happening quite quickly as it affects Tinasha and Oscar's relationship. Based on these three episodes, there's no real reason for them to feel so close, which truncated this week's final scene. Was Oscar having to break her neck in the dream traumatic? Absolutely, no matter how emotionally close they are. Is there anything that explains Tinasha's romantic feelings for him? Not really. Tinasha's upset that another witch was encroaching on her territory made more sense at this point.

And she has every right to be upset with Lucretia, Witch of the Forbidden Forest. Even if we take away the fact that Lucretia is messing with a human contracted to Tinasha, she still behaves in a way that makes Tinasha's job infinitely more difficult. If you recall, Tinasha was tasked with breaking Oscar's curse and keeping him alive (hence her creating the barrier around him), and Lucretia seemed to be having fun trying to kill him. Why? Because she can! We don't know what the witches' relationship is. However, Lucretia seems like the kind of person who really annoys Tinasha in general and given the witches' relationship with death—if they're not immortal, they're the closest thing to it—she has You can't really understand anything slowly. kills Oscar through a series of erotic dreams. Or she completely understands it and hopes that it takes enough time for Tinasha to catch her before he dies, which is more likely. Given the enthusiasm with which she handed over vials of Oscar's bodily fluids (and let's not think too much about how she got his blood and semen), this could just be Lucretia's teasing way to Help a witch.

Lucretia is the most interesting character to appear in the series so far, although the mysterious man who vaporized Valt still has his eyes on him. We can easily read her “gift” to Oscar and Tinasha as her acknowledgment that such liquids will help Tinasha break the curse and Tinasha, who practices a form of magic that requires her He has to stay “chaste,” which may have trouble getting at least semen. She doubted whether so-called purity was still something Tinasha needed to practice with her level of magical power, but she also assured her that she could stay single if that was what she wanted. I suppose we can also consider her dreams as a gift to Oscar since she just told him that he won't be going to Tinasha's bed anytime soon, but that feels like an assumption about desires and/or feelings that the characters have not yet earned. Saying you want to marry someone for practical reasons like succession rights doesn't mean you're hell-bent on sleeping with them, no matter what historical romance novels tell you.

Part of the problem is that neither of them are. Tinasha and Oscar have grown to the point where they need to for us to feel like they belong together. More time was spent making clear how incompetent and annoying Lazar was. Did he mean it humorously? I'm not sure, but at this point I'm wondering why Oscar insists on taking him on all of his missions. Lazar was more of a burden than an assistant outside the palace. (He also has serious perspective problems when he is seen sitting on a bench from the front; it looks like he is standing crouched rather than sitting on an object.) Yes he was supposed to be the foil for an Oscar with inhumane composition, but it didn't work very well.

Despite my complaints, this wasn't a terrible episode. It's clear that Tinasha is taking her job seriously and Oscar is equally serious about marrying her. Lucretia at least has a more public personality than anyone else on the show so far. But it also feels like it doesn't do justice to the source code, and that's something to keep an eye on as the story tries to get to whatever point it's aiming for.

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Unnamed Memories is now streaming on Crunchyroll.

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