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The preview suggests that the series staff realized that they couldn't threaten us with this format for much more than two episodes.
I like seeing Serika, the series can be a bit too male-dominated at times. Maybe it's just Miyuki Sawashiro. This episode added some depth to things that we had already been told about her... but only some depth. Kenji's episode was better at showing us previously-unseen aspects of his character.
It could be that there was inadequate tension in this episode... while there would be risks of cliché, if child Serika had at least seemed a bit more upset about her father's condition, it might have felt a bit more real. It seems that she finds out, decides to become a space doctor, and... that's about it.
In Kenji's story, the unending boredom worked as an antagonist. Serika's episode had a lot of potential hooks, and didn't really make use of them well.
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