When I was in college, I was caught on highway traffic and in the lane next to mine, I watched a semi plow into a flimsy little hatchback as a speed that caused the hatchback to be accordioned between that semi and the one in front of it. It happened in slow motion, like, I can't do anything about this, but I have to watch that driver get liquefied frame by frame and it won't speed up.
Anyhow, that's how this update is feeling to me at the halfway point. The bad thing is approaching very, very slowly, and I can't save anyone.