It’s quite interesting that the bulk of this episode hinges on a God’s attempts to comprehend and act like a flawed human and let emotion get the better of him. Black finally understands that Vegeta’s recent energy boost largely has to do with his anger. Once he cracks that nut he’s able to put into practice himself because who has more rage than the petty Zamasu/Black? This experiment results in Black gaining a rather bitching energy scythe. This makes for a particularly wonderful sequence on all fronts. Black looks truly insane while he monologues about how strong he’s become and Vegeta just has this look of utter bewilderment on his face. At one moment Black’s new toy tears a whole in reality and when Vegeta inquires to what just happened, Black is like, “The hell if I know. You see how cool it looks though?” It’s nice to just see Black go off the rails a little bit before this fight enters it next (and final?) stage

Goku Black might not understand what he’s just wrought upon everyone, but that doesn’t stop a bunch of duplicate Goku Blacks from spilling out of the time-space scar. Why shouldn’t Goku and Vegeta have another ridiculous complication to deal with as soon as they get the upper hand again in battle? Black’s many clones may look intimidating, but this isn’t the first time that these two have dealt with a gaggle of dopplegangers before. These doubles pack a punch but amount to a lot of smoke and in spite of them not posing much of a challenge, their growing numbers at least keep Goku and Vegeta occupied.

While Black and his many duplicates keep Goku and Vegeta busy, Zamasu plans to deal with Future Trunks and get him out of the picture. Vegeta’s beat down on Black paired with Goku’s blaring optimism is a lot of fun, but the true star of the episode is without a doubt, Future Trunks. Trunks has succeeded in putting the Mafuba container is back together and some last-minute scrambles result in Future Trunks needing to quickly master the ways of the Evil Containment Wave so he can be the one to lock away Zamasu.

This development works well as it speaks to the unpredictable nature of war, but it also keeps the audience guessing as to what will happen next. The series spent a solid chunk of time on Goku’s attempts to perfect the Evil Containment Wave with Master Roshi, so to think all of that was in vain may make that episode a little less important in retrospect (nobody tell Sea Turtle that his sacrifice was irrelevant). Besides, the Mafuba jar has already been broken and put back together with glue—not magic, but glue. Clearly all plans are open to interpretation at this point.

It’s nice to see Future Trunks flail around and try to master the movements though (and how fantastic is it that he’s learning from an instructional video from Piccolo!?). This guy needs to work on the fusion dance, stat!