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It cheapens it a bit, but it didn't bug me too much. It just pushed them a little further in extremes than they would've otherwise. Josette and Kyle went along with hypno-Don in kidnapping people despite being unaffected. Dalmore was corrupt as hell regardless and Gilbert joyfully went along with it (I don't think Dalmore needed much nudging at all). Richard, in his talk with Estelle and Josh in the bar and with Cassius at the end, showed that he was desperate for a trump card and was willing to make Liberl a military state regardless of the Gospel manipulation, beginning his infiltration of the military before Lorence showed up, and Kanone is unrepentant.

In the grand scheme of things, I prefer a plot of mass-manipulation of a society with their fingers in every pie rather than largely unconnected monster-of-the-week type stories before the finale brings out the society. The hypnosis, in terms of plot, is a means to an end so that Kurt, Joshua, etc can be affected and raise the stakes rather than a cop-out.

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