Well for the intro: Get better soon. With that out of the way, as you framed your inner question one could certainly give you hints how to power scale, but that would contain spoilers. And not just spoilers but spoiler spoilers so to say. So naaaaaaaaaa. Just go with what you see and adjust. For the main part: There were things that got you hooked and that was nice to see. For the outro: 1: It didn't come of as ramble. And no Frieren has things it will tell you by sticking it in your face and other things that are subtle, some things are told to come up later or even later later and others just didn't get a follow up. And it is okay because it leaves things open. 2: When you gone over the "don't know how they feel unless you tell them" thing I think you take the advice as a thing that always would govern a persons cause of action. There are plenty of times sombody can give great advice, but for his personal life struggles to the very idea he can voice so clearly. Sein is a representation of that. He has the experience and "wisdom", but even he who can give advice that the group certainly benefits, because Frieren is trash in that regard and the kids are just that KIDS, he struggles to do so in his interactions and that was meant to be depicted by brother and his quarrel. And this line has not only a mirror in the previous EP13 with the brothers, but also in that before EP12 where Frieren tells Stark that warriors are akward and Eisen couldn't address what he was thinking at the time when he punched him which lead to Stark "again running". Many words for relationships are complicated and Frieren does explore aspects of it. 3: As I am aware nobody tried to interprete to much in the scene Frieren pulled back her hair on the rooftop. A handfull out of dozens have noticed how much effort was put into the animation, but nobody could pull out a good analogy or symbolism. And sometimes you just don't have to. Frieren is a show that at random moments just shows off, like with the Jacket animation and others. If anything it is there to just be enjoyed as somebody put his passion into a small detail. 4: I wholeheartedly agree that the rooftop slide down Frieren makes with the SFX is such a joy of comedy. However I watched many reactions where reactors did not react to it at all. So it shows that the taste as far as humor goes is nothing universal. 5: I think it is funny that you commented at the opening of the second half about the clock tower and his symbolism of time, but when it stared 10 minutes later right back at you as divider between Frieren and Himmel in the kneeling scene is a "I'm waiting for it, but it never is said out loud moment" watching the analysis part. Well it is no disappointment, since many don't ever comment on the clock tower to begin with and on every larger reaction channel an audience is there that jumps under this episode to comment how time stands between the love of them. But yeah perhaps you did not say so because you had in your mind you already said this "obvious" thing 10 minutes before. 6: 40 years of flying magic - yes the small lore dumps are nice to have. Things get recontextualized. Consistency or not aside, the way it is done is in this part of the anime well handled. The biggest lore dump was EP10, and that was woven into a breaking of conventional structuring to a climax. Frieren is good with this.
I think a lot of what you're getting at in point 2 were things that I kind of talked about 🤔 But some of your phrasing does leave me a little confused, so there may be a bit of a communication issue preventing further exploration of this topic 😅 For point 4, like you say humor isn't universal, but that's something I can't stand sometimes when watching other reactions is seeing a good joke just completely ignored or going over someone's head 😂 Point 5... it's two things: one is that during that scene I was paying more attention just to the quality of the visuals rather than looking for like symbolism or for visual storytelling or whatever, and two is that upon noticing the clock face I actually got a little taken out of the scene and in my own head trying to figure out what all I misunderstood because I had thought that the scene at the beginning of the episode was trying to indicate that the clock was new and it used to _just_ be a ringing bell, haha In any event, as usual thanks for the detailed comment ^.^
Well for the intro: Get better soon. With that out of the way, as you framed your inner question one could certainly give you hints how to power scale, but that would contain spoilers. And not just spoilers but spoiler spoilers so to say. So naaaaaaaaaa. Just go with what you see and adjust.
For the main part: There were things that got you hooked and that was nice to see.
For the outro:
1: It didn't come of as ramble. And no Frieren has things it will tell you by sticking it in your face and other things that are subtle, some things are told to come up later or even later later and others just didn't get a follow up. And it is okay because it leaves things open.
2: When you gone over the "don't know how they feel unless you tell them" thing I think you take the advice as a thing that always would govern a persons cause of action. There are plenty of times sombody can give great advice, but for his personal life struggles to the very idea he can voice so clearly. Sein is a representation of that. He has the experience and "wisdom", but even he who can give advice that the group certainly benefits, because Frieren is trash in that regard and the kids are just that KIDS, he struggles to do so in his interactions and that was meant to be depicted by brother and his quarrel. And this line has not only a mirror in the previous EP13 with the brothers, but also in that before EP12 where Frieren tells Stark that warriors are akward and Eisen couldn't address what he was thinking at the time when he punched him which lead to Stark "again running". Many words for relationships are complicated and Frieren does explore aspects of it.
3: As I am aware nobody tried to interprete to much in the scene Frieren pulled back her hair on the rooftop. A handfull out of dozens have noticed how much effort was put into the animation, but nobody could pull out a good analogy or symbolism. And sometimes you just don't have to. Frieren is a show that at random moments just shows off, like with the Jacket animation and others. If anything it is there to just be enjoyed as somebody put his passion into a small detail.
4: I wholeheartedly agree that the rooftop slide down Frieren makes with the SFX is such a joy of comedy. However I watched many reactions where reactors did not react to it at all. So it shows that the taste as far as humor goes is nothing universal.
5: I think it is funny that you commented at the opening of the second half about the clock tower and his symbolism of time, but when it stared 10 minutes later right back at you as divider between Frieren and Himmel in the kneeling scene is a "I'm waiting for it, but it never is said out loud moment" watching the analysis part. Well it is no disappointment, since many don't ever comment on the clock tower to begin with and on every larger reaction channel an audience is there that jumps under this episode to comment how time stands between the love of them. But yeah perhaps you did not say so because you had in your mind you already said this "obvious" thing 10 minutes before.
6: 40 years of flying magic - yes the small lore dumps are nice to have. Things get recontextualized. Consistency or not aside, the way it is done is in this part of the anime well handled. The biggest lore dump was EP10, and that was woven into a breaking of conventional structuring to a climax. Frieren is good with this.
I think a lot of what you're getting at in point 2 were things that I kind of talked about 🤔 But some of your phrasing does leave me a little confused, so there may be a bit of a communication issue preventing further exploration of this topic 😅 For point 4, like you say humor isn't universal, but that's something I can't stand sometimes when watching other reactions is seeing a good joke just completely ignored or going over someone's head 😂 Point 5... it's two things: one is that during that scene I was paying more attention just to the quality of the visuals rather than looking for like symbolism or for visual storytelling or whatever, and two is that upon noticing the clock face I actually got a little taken out of the scene and in my own head trying to figure out what all I misunderstood because I had thought that the scene at the beginning of the episode was trying to indicate that the clock was new and it used to _just_ be a ringing bell, haha
In any event, as usual thanks for the detailed comment ^.^