So, I finally watched it last night...was more disappointed with it than with Part 1. It had okay-ish comedic moments...amongst which 1 good ol' facepalm one:
Diane, honey, them Chicken Matangos are your husband's subjects, so don't sound so defeated about the minimum tablets
I liked that one sign of childish silliness from Lance as he was carrying Escanor and Tristan...gave me a bit of the vibes Asta and Liebe( Black Clover) and their antics during their first training together were throwing around, i.e. brotherly goofs playing around.
I'm split on the nostalgic Diane throw(kinda emarrassing that that was the only relevance they could give her...aside from carrying Elizabeth around), but, eh, it's nostalgic...would've loved to see her rampaging on bug-like empties more, though.
King reminding us of his versatility was cool, it helps his new image grow on me and my properly seeing him as an "adult"...the hair is still annoying.
Uncle Gowther is pretty awesome, he really has a gift with kids, huh?
Ban, Ban, wth, Ban?! You're supposed to show more disappointment at your kid avoiding you like the plague, and trusting Jericho too much, dude...which leads to my growing annoyance with Lance. IK he's being portrayed like a kuudere, but too much is too much, kid. Or, sould I say Nakaba?
And now he really does come off as overall arrogant and know-it-all and needs a spanky from good ole Tom, back in the manga.
Elizabeth...missed you handing out b*tchslaps, but you're a queen now... still love the Hikari Are.
Meliodas...mmyeah...so they couldn't handle giving Tristan a more fitting mark, messier, more similar to what he later has...but they were sure able to chibify Meliodas' model and have him shove his face into Elizabeth's chest
Meanwhile, the pattern on Tristan's face giving off
somehow. Or a ventriloquist dummy... thanfully his PoD wings and hellfire imbuement on the swords looked more...organic...if only a little.
Idk why I expected Shining Road to be coloured golden or silver...like actual light...but ok...
And Idk what theme was that they gave Tristan...it sounds like a hodge-podge of too many past references...and nothing at all.
Oh, forgot about this bit...so they show the kidnapping victims (other than the demons...who are set back to being a-holey to the other races just cause 1 human was godawful...nevermind what their own superiors, like Monspeet and Derrieri, did to them during the HW2...lame set up for the current manga arc exacerbated dissent)....so, anyway, they show these random giants and fairies returning to say thanks, but not a hint of what happened to the rest of the Pleiades once they left Edinburgh and DP?!
Not an explanation on what that other dimension was( the edge of Camelot?)...Is this how they plan to explain Thetis' barrier theory? Were the boys temporarily pulled in there?
Also, way to establish more acceptable grounds for Tristan's insecurities setback...not a clear reaction of his to seeing a replica of his aunt and a demoness he should know died to protect his mom and might resemble some girl his age in the neighbourhood...yeah...none of that, just generic compassion...but Mel makes him aware he's proud of him...and then he's setback how?!? Way to drop the ball on character writing...the MC at that.