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Gargoyles: Upgrade
Reviewed: 09/17/2013
OF THE PACK~!
Well; we finally end the second disc of Volume 2, Part 2 with this barnburner featuring the return of THE PACK~ against the gargoyles; only with David Xanato style upgrades to foil them. Oh; and there is this little side angle with Goliath choosing a second in command after getting injured again! So let's rant on shall we...?!
This episode is written by Adam Gilad and story edited by the late Gary Sperling. Adam has written episodes for V.R Troopers, X-Men, The Mask, Iron Man, Not In This Town, Extreme Ghostbusters, and Robocop: Alpha Commando. Gargoyles is his DTVA debut and only known appearance. Take My Advice: The Ann & Abby Story is his most recent credit. He was also an executive producer for The Ron Clark Story in 2006. That's it. Animation is done by Koko Entertainment with additional services done by Seoul Movie Company Limited.
Opening Moment #1: We have a complete recap of Leader of THE PACK~ which is odd since the storyline has already have them married. Not really a logic break; but still quite odd.
We begin this one with a skyline shot of NYC AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) and then zoom down like a TMNT opening to a bank like building as a green like ship is on the roof already. Probably THE PACK~'s ship since we saw it in Leader of THE PACK~! So we head inside as a timed explosive is stuck to an iron vault door and it explodes to create a large hole as Wolf comes in and pushes on the door while the alarm sounds and there we see a lot of bars and sack of that MONEY, MONEY, YEAH, YEAH. Wow; even TaleSpin didn't have as many bank robberies as this show does! All the pack members walk in as Jackal wants to make a withdrawal and Dingo admits that this is a new low for THE PACK~ on the dignity scale. Hyena doesn't give a damn as it's a living to her. We cut to outside as the gargoyles arrive from the shadows as Goliath calls this a quiet night. If only Goliath; if only. Brooklyn points out the obvious error to us as Lexington has clearly not set his personal grunge against THE PACK~ aside at this point. Goliath tells Lex not to lose the element of surprise as they swoop down; and we cut to a ground to ceiling shot; which is the weirdest shot ever seen and looks straight out of the 1960's Batman shows. So they climb out and Hyena get clobbered in the face with Lex's tail; which Lexington states that she should have brought her ATM card. Okay; that was awfully lame. Jackal jumps Lexington and brings out his dagger proclaiming that you don't disturb their works. Hey; that is what babyfaces do Jack(al)! How else can they get over? Anyhow; we continue to fight some more (and Goliath makes the save on Lexington who is dodging laser fire) as a lead pipe gets pulled out (by Brooklyn) and Dingo is shooting a laser gun which shoots blue lasers. Brooklyn somehow got clobbered by Wolf's red backpack as Jackal tries to go for the kill; but Broadway comes in and slashes the front of Jackal's outfit and that is completely blood less with no wounds at all. I CLUB BS&P! Jackal bring out the yellow stun gun thingy and it fires and we get an exploding something that I cannot make out. Broadway sells pain on the way down and drops to his knees...
...and then stops selling and goes into white eyes mode. Broadway somehow manages to get up and then we jump cut to Hyena turning around to see Jackal fly into the ship and impact the side of it. Apparently; the no punch in the face rule is in effect; but the anime impact censor is not in effect. Jackal does the log roll for fun as Broadway comes from behind as Hyena puts on her growl angry face to amuse me. Hyena does the Krillin Dragon Ball Z run on walls spot and Lexington tackles her down onto the roof. It always seems to me that every time Lexington is involved in knocking out someone; it's always a female warrior. Then we zoom out to see Wolf stalking Brooklyn as we get a laughable animation error in that when Wolf is walking towards Brooklyn, Brooklyn seems to hover about a foot ahead of him before we cut to Wolf getting tackled down by Goliath. Goliath throws Wolf away to behind Dingo. Dingo helps Wolf up and Wolf's voice is horrible today for some reason. Dingo brings out the LIGHTENING BOMB OF DEATH and they throw it right on Goliath's back and Goliath oversells it. Now if you recall in the last episode; lightning bolts were the key to restarting Goliath's power levels. This makes no sense! You couldn't use an ice bomb of death or something; which would be creative and give Goliath a possible deadly cold. And yes; logic F'ing strikes again as Goliath drops slowly onto his belly and he appears to do the Dragon Ball Z white eyes dead mode as all the babyfaces panic on cue. They comes over to Goliath as all the heels rush into the ship with Dingo being the only one with DA MON-EY and Wolf proclaims that this isn't over. Hmmmm; he sounds so much like Hakon that it isn't funny. You think this will lead nowhere? HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~! So we see the ship flying away as Lexington wants to follow them; but Brooklyn blows him off because their fearless leader is down and out see, and he's more important.
So we head inside the ship as THE PACK~ are blowing each other off for only getting one red sack of cash as Wolf is not amused that they didn't go back and finish the job. Apparently; Wolf is the so called fearless leader of the group now as a red light flashes in the background and some beeping sounds ensue as Wolf has a gun and he goes over to the side door and opens it slowly. He points his gun and then we see the head of Xanadroid flying on a green hover board. He asks if he can come in and then we scene change to the clock tower as it is 4:05 am as we hear groaning in the background as Hudson allows Goliath to sit down on his loveseat as Goliath is doing the Diamond Dallas Page ribs taped gimmick as Hudson claims that he was lucky this time and it's time to consider a second in command should the worst happen. Goliath does a decent job selling the injury as he wants Hudson to take over as the second in command again. Hudson waves it off because Goliath was his second in command and therefore that would be ass backwards. Hudson proclaims that it's time to choose a new second in command and he has three hearty warriors to choose from as the three goofballs of doom stand at attention. This IS a tough choice to make: one of them has a personal grunge against Demona, one has a personal grunge against THE PACK~ and one of them has a personal grunge against guns in general. My odds makers are as follows: Brooklyn 2:1, Lexington 1.9:1, Broadway 4:1, Me Infinity:1. Yep; a three way horse race indeed. So we scene change to NYC's skyline as the sun rises and then we pan down underwater with THE PACK~'s ship on the ocean floor below. Jackal is pissed off as we head inside as see him doing the DDP ribs tape gimmick as well; along with his right arm being bandaged as Hyena wants Jackal to put his claws in since she wants to hear Coyote out. Coyote (might as well call Xanadroid that now) thanks her as he wants to offer assistance to the heels; so Wolf pulls Coyote's head off the hover board and blows him off. Dingo grabs him and wants to hear this out.
So we head to a monitor with Dingo and Coyote as they show off footage from Metamorphosis with Talon, and then footage involving Coldstone and Red Goliath (David Xanatos' red armor) and then more footage of Coyote from Leader of THE PACK~ as Dingo is not amused; but the armor is sharp though. This is actually an important character development moment for Dingo as you'll see later. Jackal asks what the catch is and Coyote claims that it's a compliment from the hard working men and women of Xanatos Enterprises. Wolf figured that this came from him; but wonders why he didn't come in person; and Coyote claims that David is a very busy man. He lied by omission because the truth is; if he came in person, that would expose Fox as well. And speaking of Jamine Renard; we scene change to David's office as David and Fox are at the desk with saying that the game begins. I have no idea what they are playing in the background; but we scene change to the clock tower AFTER HAPPY HOUR as we get the caption "one month later" for no reason. We see the goofballs of doom arguing over who is the best leader of this outfit which is hard to say since they are goofballs. One reason why Broadway has the worst odds: He sounds like Patrick Star. I cannot take his "slow and steady" crap seriously at all. He sounds like Lots-A-Heart without the Canadian Grunts of Doom. Lexington has the speed; while Brooklyn thinks a Jack of All Trades wins the race. Good going writers; you telegraphed the second in command BEFORE we got a chance to see them do stuff. Bronx's reaction is so priceless; this had to be intentional. The goofballs of doom swoop off for patrol as Hudson and Goliath walk in and Hudson tells him that he cannot put off the second in command decision forever; as Goliath sighs. Eliza runs in proclaiming that the police have THE PACK~ pinned down in an abandoned building. Goliath is not happy with this and wants to recall the goofballs into service; but Eliza claims that they have no time for that. She is going to wish that she made time for that...
...and we head to a sky shot of the police surrounding an abandoned building which looks like some sort of apartment complex. So we see spotlights and police cars and officers as someone fires a tear gas bomb into the open window and the building explodes and the whole thing comes crumbling down as it's really a construction site disguised as an abandoned building. Wait; WHAT THE BLOODY HELL?! I'm no expert on police techs but I'm dead certain that blowing down a building with an explosive is NOT standard protocol. It's way too close to being another Waco; and then for no reason we see Goliath, Hudson, Eliza and Bronx were inside the building the whole time, for no good reason. WHAT THE BLOODY HELL?! Wow; even Chuck Tately's writing wasn't as logic breaking as this. Coyote's head appears out of nowhere as the explosion is just for the tourists. WHAT BLOODY TOURISTS?! I'm guessing the police cars and stuff were Xanatos' men and women in police gear which only this show would allow Xanatos to have people impersonate police officers and get away with it. So we get THE PACK~ arriving out of nowhere with their new character designs. Wolf is clearly a Mutate with white hair; Dingo is wearing full body armor and that look is really, really cool while Hyena and Jackal are basically themselves; only with more bio robot organs. And Hyena is a lot more psychotic and a lot more naked skin present. Might as well be the human version of Demona now. ZAP! OUCH! Ummmm... So Eliza goes for her gun which causes Goliath to panic as he punches Dingo in the armor which is so stupid. Hudson should have said: Should have watched For Whom The Bell Klangs; which would be hilarious; but that doesn't happen sadly. Eliza cannot get a clear shot at all and gets dropped by Hyena as Hyena even has Demona's pissy red eyes mode on now. Goliath gets hit with the SOUNDWAVES OF DEATH and gets knocked into Wolferine (might as well go all the way with the X-Men references now) as he picks Goliath up and throws him away. Hudson jumps Wolferine from behind and they fight among themselves.
Goliath notices Coyote's head floating around as the source of the trouble and sees the opening as he climbs the vertical beams up. Jackal jumps around confusing Bronx and claws him in the face as Bronx goes down and then gets up and tackles Jackal down biting on Jackal's arm as he clearly tears it off the body. OW! Jackal completely no sells it because he had all of his organic limbs amputated which cannot be pleasant for anyone involved. Most so Hyena. Goliath continues to climb up as Jackal's arm pops from Bronx's mouth and turns into the MECH Thing~! Oookkkkaaaayyyyy. Jackal gets his arm back and puts it back on as Bronx just stands there looking like an idiot which is the telegraph to everyone watching that he is going to get punched in the face by Jackal and whimper. Jackal manages to throw the POWER OF THE PUNCH to Bronx and we instantly black screen for a few seconds; and then return as Wolferine, Jackal and Hyena drop all the knocked out victims in a pile. Dingo takes off his helmet which he has a great degree of difficulty with as he asks Wolferine not to eat his catch which Wolferine blows off completely claiming that he is no longer taking Dingo's cracks because he's the fearless leader now. Dingo doesn't seem all that thrilled as we head to the next floor as Goliath is looking around for Coyote's head; but then Coyote 2.0 arrives (who is basically Coyote 1.0 only twice as big and is shown on the DVD set everything you see the option to have Greg Weisman give a beginning speech on each episode; personally, I skip them...) from behind and wants Goliath to meet his better half. So we head back to THE PACK~ as Dingo blows off Wolf proclaiming that Wolf is barely their species now. So that means he's a TaleSpin character now? He would make a perfect air pirate captain for a second group of Air Pirates; now that I think about it. So Wolf blows him off for being scared because they agreed that the winner of this leadership thingy ; and he won....
....and then Goliath goes through the ceiling and drops right in front of Wolferine as Coyote 2.0 comes down in kind; proclaiming that his Goliath trumps his Hudson and therefore Coyote 2.0 is the leader. Geez; what a shock that is?! Wolferine is pissed off because a robot denied him his destiny again; but Hyena is oodling Coyote again and blowing off Wolferine in kind. Jackal accuses her of siding with what he calls a glorified toaster oven which is downright lame and stupid. Coyote 2.0 looks more like a Gundam than a toaster oven. Then again; Gundam is trademarked; so there you go. Hyena proclaims that he finds him more attractive than Coyote 1.0; which causes Jackal to blow her off for being more sicker than usual. Oh sod off you ablest moronic bastard! Just because she is in love with a robot; doesn't mean she's sick. Sure she's vile and a psychopath; but hardly has a mental illness. Jackal sides with Wolferine and Hyena sides with Coyote 2.0. Dingo doesn't like these choices one bit because one is robot that's gone to the dogs and one of them is a dog man. So he chooses Coyote 2.0 as the lesser of the two evils. Damn; even in this cartoon; furries are hated. If this doesn't prove the "God hates Furries" meme; I don't know what does. So we scene change back to the clock tower as Lexington lands and enters as he stopped two muggings; while Brooklyn stopped a mugging and a robbery and Broadway claims that he stopped three muggings and an armed robbery which he knew where to look. I am so not buying that one you soon to be moronic starfish. Brooklyn and Lex come over as Brooklyn is wondering about Goliath's decision and where he is. Brooklyn then realizes that Bronx is nowhere to be found; therefore the situation is serious BABEE! Broadway is also keeping Hudson's chair warm. Aww; how nice of him! NOT! Funny enough; the television screen is actually showing a train station and we segue way to a sky shot of the train station and then inside the train hanger where they keep the subways; as we see THE PACK~ watching over Goliath encased in a glass tomb like prison.
Wolferine wants Goliath's ass now as it's 3 am according to Coyote as he wants to wait until 4:30 am as he is welding something in the background. We find out on the next shot that it's some kind of golden collar as apparently; Coyote 2.0 is going to attach these things to the babyfaces and then have them return home just before sunrise, then they all turn to stone and then they smash all the gargoyles and win. Dingo thinks this makes sense and I agree with him. Although; since it's Xanatos, why does he want to kill them now after having them be so useful throughout this series. Speaking of David; we scene change to his office as David and Fox are playing chess with gargoyles and THE PACK~ as chess pieces. That was great! David claims that Fox is too close to being checkmated; but Fox claims that she has a few moves left and we scene change back to the clock tower with Lexington and Broadway arguing their points to each other on why they should become leader. Or as it is today: Being on WWE NXT! So Brooklyn calls them to the television set as they notice a building is on fire as the firefighters are putting out the flames. Wait a second? If you recall earlier, the building completely crumbled to expose only steel beams; and now it's only on fire? WHAT THE BLOODY HELL?! Adam is ruining this episode with shotty continuity here. The goofballs realize that THE PACK~ is involved. NO?! REALLY?! They are about to leave; and then Fox's voice beckons which even Lexington notices as they turn around to watch a paid ad which mocks the goofballs' names. HAHA! The guise of this is to take the train as they show the train station again. The goofballs deduce that this has got to be a trap; but Brooklyn points out that they could be in danger and so they walk out and jump off the clock tower perch and begin to fly again. So we head back to David's office as David calls Fox's chess moves clever and that ends the segment 14 and a half minutes in. Yeah; they used the exact same far shot sequence of the office earlier; only at dark. Whatever guys! Man; this is a really kick ass episode that cannot follow it's own internal logic for some reason...
After the commercial break; we return to the office far shot sequence again as David claims that he still has the edge and then we scene change back to the hanger as Coyote is putting the collar around Bronx. Wolferine is still pissed off because he wants to kill the gargoyles now as he pounds his fist onto the glass prison chamber containing the other babyfaces. Wait; so they are suspended in some liquid and somehow they have no breathing devices? More stupid internal logic breaks; BEGONE FROM MY TELEVISION SCREEN~! Hyena tells him to follow the leader because this is a good idea as Hyena and Jackal are gambling their lives away at the table. Dingo's helmet is on the table as Dingo has the Gruffi pose on full blast as he calls this being in a freak show. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be comments. Jackal and Hyena blow him off for having issues as usual as we zoom into the green tinted window above Dingo and see that the goofballs have arrived. Lexington is giddy to want to kick their asses; but before he can fly down, Brooklyn grabs him by the tail and pulls him down because they trapped Goliath. Lexington claims that he can fight without Goliath and so can Broadway too. Brooklyn blows that off because they won't get two chances at this and he has a Krackpotkin Plan which involves throwing a steel beam right into Dingo's body. Wait; is that any different from Lexington's plan? So the goofballs fly in as Brooklyn flies out of the hanger and Wolferine follows as we get THE PACK~ calling from Wolf to come back with Jackal so they can make Lex come to them. No good apparently as we see Lex destroy the conveniently placed power box and the lights go into this weird lime green shading. Huh? Dingo goes to the table; and his helmet is gone which Broadway somehow stole in the confusion and throws it into the glass prisons and the glass shatters on cue. It spews out green....gas? Huh? That makes no sense! UGH! Broadway rushes in and then gets MURDERED by Coyote 2.0 as Lex flies around while Dingo (I think) is shooting yellow laser beams at Lexington who is flying in the air. We get an outside shot of the building for no reason.
Dingo then gets really stupid and rushes after Lexington; but Lex dodges and Dingo goes through the ceiling and is trapped like a....ummmm....dingo? Yeah; that sounded a lot better in my head. Dingo manages to wiggle free and rocket into the air after a long sequence as Lexington goes through another hole make by a red laser by Hyena as she chases him now. So we return to the train station tracks as the trains are still running no less in the background. Wolferine and Brooklyn have their fight as Wolf grabs a steel tower and uproots it; making sure to murder the train signal in the process. Brooklyn dodges some wimpy shots; but Jackal somehow teleports behind him and mocks him. Brooklyn turns around like a complete fool; and then gets MURDERED by the steel tower and flies to the underground section. Then we return as Broadway gets Coyote 2.0; which is quite sad having the two biggest guys in the fight duking it out. Coyote 2.0 grabs Broadway's hand and tries to crush it; but then Bronx somehow wakes up and tackles Coyote from behind. Wait? If you are going to have three warriors buying for the big spot; why have Bronx who is not in the running; run in? That pretty much eliminates Broadway from the competition now. Hyena is shooting lasers from her palm hand which bends in such an unreasonable way that someone will likely do a picture that for a male version of the same. Make it happen; enlightened ones! So; Hyena wonders if Gargoyles taste like chicken as she fires at Lexington who runs off; but gets caught by Dingo. Dingo rockets up and Lexington manages to do a front flip takeover of Dingo which defies the laws of physics; but still looks cool. Good bump on the roof by Dingo too. So we scene change back to Coyote 2.0 grabbing Bronx and wanting to punt Bronx into orbit (which is as disgusting as kicking a kitten the same way); and then gets a steel beam impaled in his back by...Goliath?! Damn; Broadway is TOAST as a possible second in command now.
Goliath then throws Coyote 2.0 into the wall and we get the wall crumbing on the side too. We see Eliza and Hudson escaping the glass prison as we head outside as Hyena is stalking Lexington and being a psychopath which is her best features I might add. ZAP! OUCH! Ummmm... She even calls Lexington a flying rat! Now THAT is fighting words as Lexington grabs her from behind like a sexist...and speaking of putting female characters into sexy, unreasonable positions, note Hyena's leg when it comes up and literally kicks Lexington in the ass. Only with cyber implants; can that be possible. Lexington gets knocked down on his ass and Hyena changes into a demoness centipede on cue. Think the demon centipede in the first episodes of Innuyasha; only with a steel bra to cover the breasts. So Lexington tackles onto Hyena and Hyena manages to counter by climbing on his back like a spider. This goes on for a while as she goes for the ZAP CLAWS OF DEATH (Megavolt LIVES!) and then Broadway rushes in front and does the Baloo punch of death to knock her off Lexington. Hyena is knocked out which indicates that in this show; the female dies first compared to horror movies where if this was a horror movie; Dingo would be gone first. So we head down to the lowest level of the train tracks with Jackal and Brooklyn as Jackal has watched way too many episodes of Plastic Man because he has a rubber like body now. Brooklyn dodges all as Wolf appears at the front ready to pounce on Brooklyn; but Hudson tackles him from behind. Man; we are certainly playing back fighter games here today. Wolferine panics as Jackal blows him off and shoot machine gun claws at Brooklyn who ducks easily. Claws return and he then claws the wall; and he manages to cut the side of the wall like butter; but the METAL GROOVE BEAM OF DEATH stops him dead in his tracks. That makes no sense at all! Brooklyn then tears a train track and whacks Jackal in the face which knocks him out and breaks loose the arm he used to slice the side wall.
Brooklyn comes up as Hudson is riding Wolferine by his ears. That has got to be painful. On my ears! So Wolferine throws off Hudson and his sword as it does this weird flying around landing on the metal edge of the track which is clearly electrified. Brooklyn proclaims that he needs a silver bullet now as Wolferine foolishly picks up Hudson's sword because if anyone has seen two episodes knows that if metal strikes electrical stuff and it sparks; that is a telegraph for Wolferine to be fried by electricity. Ummm; yeah whatever. So Dingo somehow arises from the box tomb for no reason and runs away from the action on the roof because he has had enough of this freak show; and then metal objects fly up into the sky out of nowhere; and Dingo goes up and sticks to the power magnet crane of death by Eliza Maza. Wow Dingo; you got knocked out first and then got defeated by Eliza. This is clearly the worst day ever for Dingo. So Coyote attacks Goliath as he goes down as Coyote 2.0 proclaims that he likes being stronger than Goliath; but all the babyfaces rush in and grab him while Xanadroid head hides further in the body as Goliath pushes open the middle sliding door; grabs Xanadroid's head and squashes it before throwing it away. Coyote 2.0 shoves the babyfaces away and walks around like a punch drunk MEL (even down to the "destroy! destroy!" part..) before the babyfaces shove him into the train tracks and the train arrives and murders Coyote 2.0; only leaving it his arm on the ground. And Koko shows up Kennedy by a freakin mile here as Madman may want to consider that before he goes on a tirade about how great Kennedy Cartoons is. Brooklyn wants a reminder to never get caught by one of those. Eliza calls it good advice; but, they better leave since the train will call it in. Goliath agrees with that concept; but he wants to tie some loose ends; which everyone should know where this is going. So we go back to the hole in the brick wall from the hanger as we see Morgan and his white male partner who I find out is Phil Travanti. Yeah. Phil shines the flashlight and he's in shock wondering who did this.
So Morgan shines the flashlight on THE PACK~ hanging in chains and tied up with steel beams as he wonders what to do with them; which he gives three options: the hospital, the machine shop; or the vet. None of THE PACK~ are amused. Damn; I was hoping Dingo wouldn't have been caught because it was clear that he was doing a face turn at this point and they aborted it here. So we head back to inside the clock tower as everyone is sitting down as somehow; there are three loveseats in the corner as Hudson, Brooklyn and Broadway are sitting in one each as Goliath goes into this speech about choosing a successor; which he had already made his choice in advance; but felt that the decision would drive a wedge in between them. Since tonight was the night that proved that the goofballs cannot be divided, he has decided to reveal what the audience had suspected all along as he puts his hand on Brooklyn's shoulder and Brooklyn is Goliath's official second in command. I pretty much predicted it from the start because he came up with the plan in the first place and did the most fighting without the need of the guys who were not in the running. Lexington is too much of a man child to accept that role anyway and Broadway; well, what can I say? Brooklyn is surprised by this as Broadway and Lexington give him their full support as we scene change to outside on the perch as the gargoyles all stand on the perch as Brooklyn tells Goliath to be careful; he is in no hurry to take his place. Thankfully for Brooklyn; the bookers are in no hurry to give Brooklyn that chance yet. So they all turn to stone as we get a shot of the NYC skyline as daybreak comes and we pan down to inside David's office and the chess board as Fox puts Goliath on Coyote and it's a checkmate for Fox as she defeats David Xanatos. Now that is great! David calls this well played; but Fox asks why he doesn't care about this loss. David claims that he won because he found a perfect equal in Fox in terms of cunning and IQ. We get a closeup of David's face asking if she wants to play again and that ends the episode and disc two at 21:15 approx. This was a really good episode that could have been perfect; but there were too many logic breaks and silliness from the writer. They had a ***** in the bag; and Adam ruined it by making it obvious that Brooklyn was going to win so it dropped to **** (80%).
THE REVIEW LINE
I loved this episode; but it was not perfect, it was very good! The problems I have with this episode are that the continuity was off in places (first we have a building ripped from it's beams for no reason at all and no explanation as to why the police did it in the first place; and then suddenly; the firefighters come and the building is on fire; but mostly intact); there was some wonky physics (Hudson's sword yet); and the whole second in command stuff was pretty much a foregone conclusion that Brooklyn was going to win it because Lexington simply didn't do enough. Other than that; the episode was great as we got a wicked fight at the end, the PACK~ was awesome and scary again. Wolf being a Mutate is great and it better lead to Wolf and Talon getting together at some point. Hyena is basically the human version of Demona at this point which is a great sub in my humble opinion. So overall; an easy great episode marred with silly logic and a predictable result that felt shoved in the background. Did I mention David and Fox playing chess with THE PACK~ and the gargoyles is so symbolic and great that you swear the writers were having a keen eye on TaleSpin?
Well; that ends disc two of Volume 2, Part One and we have completed 30 of the 39 episodes planned for this ranting of the series. For this disc; we have six thumbs up, two the middle and one down. For this volume so far; we have 10 thumbs up, four in the middle and three down and overall, we have 17 thumbs up, 10 thumbs in the middle and three down. This is certainly the opposite of Quack Pack by a mile so far. So the final disc of the volume has the return of the Mutates in two episodes no less! Eliza showing off her bad cop side! Hudson Soft turns to stone at night! And then it's the biggest clustermuck battle in the history of clustermucks as Tom arrives to send Goliath, Eliza and Bronx to Avalon to fight Demona, The Archmage, The Weird Sisters and three children from Oberon. And once they are defeated; they unite with a brand new main character gargoyle named Angela and go on what Greg Weisman called "The Avalon World Tour". My first thought on that: [1.] Small groups were due in TaleSpin before. [2.] This was done just to give Angela and Bronx focus episodes since they didn't have much character development in this series up to this point (in terms of Bronx); and Angela needs the rub anyway and [3.] To set up the payoff to the sexual tension between Eliza and Goliath at the end of Hunter's Moon. So....
Thumbs up for this episode and I'll see you all next time.