This episode is jarring and scrappy compared to most. It's more like the beginning of a new season than the continuation of one. Time has passed since the previous episode and we have to be brought up to date with many developments, so there's a lot to pack in and it's hurried and choppy. On top of that we get some odd character developments, the introduction of an apparently arbitrary and intrusive new storytelling device (the documentary team, though it looks like this is heading somewhere) and some random-feeling new characters being introduced. Overall it's one of those duct tape episodes that exists to join what came before to what will come after, and it's not up to the quality of the rest.
