Talk:Episode 70 - To the New Stage/@comment-34942882-20190816021426

Hibiki and Alicia have some good moments in this episode.

That moment with the sky clearing up, bird flying, bell ringing, and the rainbow... they clearly went for the maximum cinematic point there, maybe a bit too much I would say.

My beef with PP continues, I honestly don't think they deserved that on stage mention for bringing I Believe back. They didn't do anything special, and HC would probably have done the same job. And LMT, who did just as much, if not more than PP, did not get a shout-out.

On the performance, it starts well enough, but then it quickly becomes very underwhelming, maybe in the top 3 worst performances in Friends.

I heard the song a few months ago, and I still find it to be a very middling song, with an over-reliance on the "high tension" bgm to carry it. The vocal fails to live up to the bgm, and so the melody becomes rather weak, and underdelivered. So despite the strong bgm, this is a very unremarkable and disappointing song, in my opinion.

Still a fairly enjoyable episode for the bits between Hibiki and Alicia.