problem with the newest episode

from /hhg/ - Helluva Hotel General #811
/hhg/ talk about ep 6 of HELLUVA BOSS: h ttps://pastebin.com/LAtrfiDi
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I think the only real problem I have with the newest episode (and episodes) is how inconsistent the strength of the main characters is in-between them.

Just taking Millie, we go from Episode 1 where a single unarmed Human manages to overpower her while she is wielding a knife, to Episode 3 showing her singlehandedly kill a massive Lovecraftian monster with a knife. Then to episode 5 where she is overpowered by an unarmed Imp mercenary. To the newest episode where she single headedly slaughters at least 40 sword armed Humans.

Except she is almost stopped by 2 Humans with pistols.

Ep1 seemingly enforced the idea that a decently build Human could overpower an Imp. Ep5 seemingly continues this. Then Ep6 just throws that out the window.

Its becoming far and far more difficult to justify these power imbalances. Bloodlust only takes you so far, and that didn't help her against Striker.

Its a minor issue imo but I feel it'll be harder to make us feel the main characters are being threatened.
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To be fair, you can explain away the inconsistencies:
She got a concussion in Episode 1, which is why she couldn't continue fighting.
The mutated fish in Ep.3 seemed too dazed to properly fight back, and she literally had herself swallowed to gut it from the inside. The bigger they are, the harder they fall, and all that. That thing went through a rapid mutation and was probably struggling to comprehend the situation (if it even had the sentience to do so to begin with).
Striker seems exceptionally strong for an imp, and unlike Millie, he appears to be trained, or has trained himself to be an efficient fighter, while Millie's fighting style seems to be rather opportunistic and haphazard.

And look, practically everyone in Ep.6 was a beanpole, trying to defeat a melee "specialist" with weapons they mainly had for the aesthetics. They were basically a third party contractor (most like employed to pad the budget), who accidentally stumbled into the truth, but were otherwise just wasting their money on pretending to be the Men In Black.
Of course they would be hopeless against a team of semi-trained assassins who can a) work better as a team and b) actually know how to use their weapons.
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True enough, the show was not taking the dhorks very seriously. At the very least I'm happy we have some kind of spook/MIB thing in the universe.

Speaking of random lore. I have to wonder if Stolas is somehow forbidden from harming Humans directly? Considering he left the last agents alive for no good reason outside of carelessly assuming no one would believe them. The pilot pseudo supports this (though I posit the pilot as being non-canon) since he requests Blitzo to assassinate some politician, when he clearly has no issue traveling to Earth.

Well, its either that or Viv just want to set up the agents for future episodes and just wrote some excuse to not kill them.

>inb4 we get an alliance of Earth, Heaven and Hell working to kill Stolas.
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It'd make sense that the most powerful demons are the ones the attention is on. Imps like Blitzo will fly under the radar and only encounter angels like cherubs out of sheer coincidence. Stolas decides to up and kill a few people and a small platoon of angels shows up. The fact that the IMP didn't even try to assassinate Lipton with a couple of cherubs around tells you everything.