Toga's head looks more oval-ish in this episode. I really think this season wasn't paced well at all. I also think they had to little inter-character development at the beginning, and now everyone is ill-equipped to deal with the problem
at hand. I believe they could have still kept the first episodes light, instead of having moments that seemed they were put in simply for humor, mold the relationships for the trials to come, really bring out the humanity.