Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 3rd Season Episode 14 Discussion

This episode started off with some of the most asinine dialogue & situations I've seen from this show.

Up until this point, Wilhelm was steadfast & adamant about defeating the Theresia zombie/fake and never faltered.

Then Heinkel pops out & makes a tiny noise, he hesitates, then suddenly becomes a babbling train wreck! "No please! No don't! Please no! Please!" as Theresia walks up to Heinkel.

Ok, so he's worried she might kill him, makes sense. But then his son just stands there like a doofus (despite seeing his father fighting her) & asks "what did I do wrong?" as if this woman was his actual mother, just falls to the ground waiting to be killed, and has to be saved by Reinhard.

But that's not the dumbest part, though Heinkel's reaction was pretty dumb. It was when Wilhelm goes from pleading "no please don't!" to Theresia to pleading "no please don't!" to Reinhard!

Dude, you KNOW that's not actually your wife, and you were ADAMANT about stopping her, yet now that your son is almost killed & Reinhard helps save him, you start begging for him to spare her?! What?!

I hate when these shows do this cliche & have these characters start acting like the clone/reanimated person/shape-shifted person (which Re:Zero also has)/ etc. suddenly makes the main characters reluctant. Like if you're fighting an enemy who you KNOW can shapeshift, then see them shapeshift into your wife, would you suddenly say "whoopsie, I must not fight you now!" especially if that enemy is still trying to kill you?

NO! So why does Wilhelm go back & forth out of nowhere, especially now that Reinhard shows up & can actually put an end to this stupidity? I thought they were going to bypass this whole cliche & was really happy Wilhelm had some intelligence & a backbone, but then they reverted to the same dumb trope these shows always do in this situation.

But the whiplash from "please Theresia don't kill my son!" to "please don't kill Theresia" (using "kill" loosely since everyone KNOWS she's dead) pissed me off. Why did everyone but Reinhard have to suddenly start acting stupid at the last minute?

Theresia hasn't said a single word to you this entire fight, despite the fact that you've been running your mouth talking nonstop, yet you act like she's your actual living wife who can still think & act of her own free will. Begging her not to do something (which she ignored & tried to kill your son anyway) should've been the final sign that she's not listening, yet he STILL whines to Reinhard to spare her.

Ok, so what happens if he did spare her? She goes on to kill your son, while you lay on the ground begging a corpse not to do it? Then she walks over to you & finishes you off? How does that help anyone?

I know I'm ranting too long about this, but I HATE THIS TROPE! Characters losing all sense of intelligence in hopes of adding to the drama takes me out of a show.

Oh, and the fact that Wilhelm went nearly 30+ years without saying "I love you" once to his wife, and still acted flustered when she kissed him goodbye? Wtf kind of weirdo is that?

Amazing backstory weaved perfectly into the current moments. Astrea family is very interesting. Interested to see where Hienkels character goes. Character growth or continuing to humiliate himself.

Theresia van Astrea, the previous Sword Saint, met her end during the Grand Expedition against the White Whale. At that time, her Divine Protection of the Sword Saint mysteriously transferred to her five-year-old grandson, Reinhard van Astrea. This sudden loss of her blessing left Theresia vulnerable, leading to her defeat and death at the hands of Pandora.

This tragic event deeply affected Theresia's husband, Wilhelm van Astrea, who harbored resentment toward Reinhard, blaming him for his grandmother's death. This strained their relationship, with Wilhelm viewing Reinhard's unintended acquisition of the Sword Saint's blessing as the cause of Theresia's demise.