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Mega Man Ruby Spears: The Mega Man In The Moon Rant
Reviewed: 03/19/2022
When Are You Coming Home, I Don't Care When!
So, this is episode #6 on the animation paper (although the ADV release had it as #8) as Dr. Wily and his robots hijack a space shuttle and plan on making a stop at a space station where a solar lens is being stored. Oh and this would be fine if Tina somehow wasn't in the middle of all this BS. Yeah, this is going to be a long one, too. How does this episode fare? Let's rant on shall we...?!
The Mega Man In The Moon is written by Jeffrey Scott and was directed by Katsumi Minoguchi.
We begin this episode with a pan shot of a desert plain as we head to the NASA space launch area as one of the NASA rockets is being prepped up by some yellow robots. Jump cut to some bleachers with Rock, Dr. Light, Rush and a woman with glasses with a pink top, red ribbon, yellow belt and jeans petting Rush and looking at Rock with a smile on her face. This might be Tina as she is watching her father become an space person going to the moon as Dr. Light claims to be sad that Tina's father left robotics to do this gig, but sounds happy for him anyway. Tina waves and thinks her father will come by any minute now. Jump cut to a giant building filled with rockets as they are being prepped up by the same colored robots and a guy in an orange jumpsuit who might have come out of prison. Doesn't matter; because here comes Guts Man, Cut Man and Crystal Man to kick ass and throw them into lockers and punch said lockers. Cut Man cannot resist saying that running from him is "shear" stupidity. The incredible lack of self-awareness from Cut Man is "shearing" my ribs in laughter. Cut Man uses the Rolling Cutter to cut a chain containing a dome and that traps the prisoner literally. Crystal Man looks around and addresses two "people" in space suits, one of them has the name "MCINTYRE" stamped on the forehead. I assume one of them is Dr. Wily and other one might be Proto Man, which is comical since robots don't need to breathe. So, Guts Man lifts up giant containers and puts them onto the truck and then the space suit geeks put Cut Man, Guts Man and Crystal Man into the containers. Oooookkkkkaaayyy. We return outside to the launch area as the jeep carrying the containers comes out and Tina cuts off the jeep to greet his father, so her full name is Tina McIntyre (unless Engrish strikes again as usual). Tina hugs him but gets no response from her father, which confuses her as Daddy drives away. I'm pretty sure what Tina did in that sequence violated security protocol even in 1994. Tina returns to her seat and basically admits that something is wrong because her father is never this way even when he's nervous, to counter Dr. Light's claim. Rock is confused as well and wants to check this out, so he jumps and runs in, violating the protocol I bet. Very long sequence ensues as the stuff is loaded into the space shuttle, Rock runs in and Tina also decides to join in as we jump cut to Tina climbing the ladder just after Rock near the space elevator. That was odd.
The two astronauts walk out and get into the elevator and head up to the cockpit section of the shuttle. Rock climbs and checks inside the storage area of the shuttle. The announcer continues it's countdown as Rock checks the first giant container he sees and then discovers that there are two near identical spacesuits including one with the name McIntyre. This is enough to confirm that the two spacesuits walking outside are not Tina's father and declares that he must stop this damn launch. Oh, and out comes Guts Man and Cut Man to cut him off so to speak. See, I can do strupid one liners as bad as Cut Man can! Cut Man calls him a blue boy to infantize him and then uses the Rolling Cutter to cut a pipe in order to steam Rock into Gut Man's fist and Guts Man invokes the POWER OF THE PUNCH to knock Rock outside. Crystal Man's weapon Crystal Eye is pretty good as he does the NASA countdown and knocks Rock into the elevator with the Crystal Eye. Rock literally falls 30 feet onto his back and barely sells it as he gets on his knees and shakes it off. Rock's relieved that he was built stronger than Humpty Dumpty. Elevator is removed from the rocket because the countdown is nearing the end as Rock somehow gets stuck in a clamp on the ground. He really is a blue dweeb! Roll panics because Mega is in trouble, and sadly, this is a official Capcom canon thingie now. Cut to inside the cockpit as one of the space persons is indeed Proto Man because he wants to push the button. I realize that he was wearing the spacesuit because it's the practice the fine art of not being seen, which worked this time around; it's still comical. The whole guise of this that Proto Man wants to burn Rock to hell basically, and Dr. Wily is like "you have my blessing". This makes Proto Man in Future Shock look even dumber in hindsight. Rock then does the obvious: shoot the clamp off it's hinges and then dodge stage right. The shuttle flies into the air as Rock returns to the bleachers and exchanges notes on the situation. They notice Tina is gone, but she can take care of herself because we got to go to the Mission Control building to exchange notes with a brown haired man wearing headphones while looking more like a security guard. The guard seems to know Dr. Wily's motive: To steal the laser beam being on the moon with the solar lens and hijacking the shuttle was the first step. Dr. Light ponders this over and has a plan. Trouble!
Scene change to Dr. Light with welding goggles welding what appears to be the infamous JETPACK OF STUPIDITY from Bullethead Baloo. Whhhyyyyy?! Yes, Rock is going to the moon on a jetpack. Geez, did Rock suddenly have impact damage from Guts Man's punch? Because I never saw it until now. Strangely, it appears in most shots as well. All the workers bail as Dr. Light warns Rock about the rocket's thrust power, which doesn't matter because Rock uses the jetpack and soars into the sky without incident. Amazingly enough, Roll seems to be perfectly fine with staying behind this time around. Wonder if she has phoiba for space? The world may never know...jump cut to the space shuttle with Dr. Wily proclaiming that they have five minutes to the space station and Proto Man gets to take over the controls. Blues takes over as Dr. Wily goes into the back with Crystal Man, Cut Man and Guts Man playing cards with gambling chips while Tina's father and someone else no one seems to care about are tied up behind the robots. Time for this edition of CUT MAN IS INCOMPENTENT~! At least this one can be partially blamed on Guts Man: Don't let someone whose gimmick is literally cutting stuff to shreds CUT THE DAMN CARDS~! Because "cutting the cards" is a figure of speech and Cut Man sucks at figures of speech. You can guess what happens next before you even see it. Mr. McIntyre looks to his left and sees Tina in a spacesuit waving to him and that somehow wakes him up. Tina bails as Dr. Wily comes in to inform the heels that they are almost to the space station. Guts Man calls the solar lens a big hunk of glass like the simpleton that he is and so Dr. Wily brings out the blueprint that he wants to use the solar lens as a way to use the giant big laser, which is already assembled on the moon for his own convenience. So yes, Dr. Wily is channeling Plunder and Lightning now. Dumb move, you'll never beat that one, no one can. Anyhow, it's world domination again as the motive as Tina watches on in horror. Jump cut to Mission Control as the security guard is calling on the Space Station 1 as we see Space Station 1 which looks like the usual generic space station you see in many anime. A balding man with the lightest shade of beige mustache you never saw responds and gets the information as he is ready for them. Yeah, I'll bet! The commander calls for everyone to get ready because this is not a drill. Jump cut to Rock flying into space on the jetpack.
Rock heads to the space station and then we jump cut to the Space Station 1 shooting lasers at the space shuttle before jump cutting to Dr. Wily not being amused by this at all. Dr. Wily opens the bay doors and out comes Cut Man, Guts Man, Proto Man and Crystal Man with jetpacks on and the animation makes them look like a steamroller flatten them. Literally the background was moving as the blue colored robots on the space station continue to fire lasers. So, a space ship comes out to fire a laser pole; but Cut Man uses the Rolling Cutter to cut that off. Somehow, this causes the guy inside to lose control of the ship. WHAT?! Guts Man gets on the catwalk, taunts the robots, dodges laser fire, rips the guard rail and uses it as a bat to bat away the robots, calling them cats that should be off Dr. Wily's catwalk. Crystal Man jumps down and orders everyone to get the hell out of there and the robots shoots him in the chest. Crystal Man no sells the shot; blows them off, brings out a Crystal Eye and then makes it disappear, reshoots it and then it hits the floor in front of the robots, explodes and they all go flying. Geez, that was a weird sequence, but it looked cool. Crystal Man so far is really good all things considered. Guts Man thinks Crystal Man was playing baseball and I'm sure even Crystal Man was confused. The heels all comes down to join Crystal Man, including Dr. Wily and the spaceship. The space shuttle opens from the side with the stairs and out comes Dr. Wily. The heels walk to the security door and it's locked. Dr. Wily asks Guts Man for the key and Guts Man sells by punching the entire wall where the door is down. That was funny actually. To be fair, Cut Man cutting the cards literally wasa funny, too. So, we get a long sequence of them slowly walking into the space station to discover the solar lens because we have to fill time before Rock arrives because this is an action cartoon. The solar lens looks like a giant lens with green trim. Nothing really stupid as Dr. Wily continues to talk about getting the lens into the laser on the moon and that ends the segment eight minutes in. So far, so good. Nothing bad, nothing great as the fire fight was really nothing of note.
After the commercial break, we get a far shot of planet Earth from space, than a south-east pan shot to Space Station 1 and then jump cut to inside the room with the giant lens as Dr. Wily orders Guts Man to put the laser in the shuttle. Guts Man sells it and then tries to touch the giant lens; but gets shocked and flies off. Ooops. I just knew this wasn't going to be THAT easy. Guts Man is like Daddy Pig, only at least Daddy Pig does have empathy and isn't completely stupid. Proto Man is more subtle and discovers that the lens is protected by a force field; which Crystal Man discovers without any prompting that is is controlled by a conveniently placed computer shown in the first shot of this room after the commercial break. Dr. Wily notices that the lens would explode if the wrong code is used. Geez, that is really stupid; as Proto Man basically states that Dr. Wily blew it. Dr. Wily says "nope" and orders Cut Man to bring Mr. McIntyre and the nameless sidekick to him for torture purposes. Scene change to Rock flying his jetpack towards the space station as he notices Dr. Wily has made it. Scene change to inside the shuttle as Tina is trying to untie Daddy and the nameless sidekick, struggling. By the way, this is the first time Mr. McIntyre has actually spoke. Sadly, Tina has to bail because he comes Cut Man to inform Daddy that they must go see Dr. Wily or else. Tina just watches on; so really Tina has only been there for the ride. Swell. Jump cut to Dr. Light and the heels as Cut Man shoves Daddy and nameless sidekick as Daddy looks like just another generic man on this show. Dr. Wily demands the codes, Daddy no sells and Dr. Wily decides to order Guts Man to make them talk. This is when Rock comes in as he does the lamest shove I have ever seen and Guts Man oversells it, hits a green electric somethingy that fries him and knocks him out. Then we get the stupidest logic break: Somehow, Tina was IN THE BUILDING WITH THE LENS despite being IN THE SPACE SHUTTLE in the previous scene, and they did this logic break simply so Tina can get caught. Made everyone making this show inside and out look like complete dorks. This episode was so fine until that moment I should note. Dr. Wily orders Rock to leave and Rock just quits and flies into the sky. Suddenly, Future Shock makes more sense than it did when I first reviewed that episode. Dr. Wily then orders Daddy to unlock the lens, Daddy complies and after some button pushing, it is done.
Yeah, what a blue dweeb Rock is?! Just made everyone look weak to advance the plot. Dr. Wily orders Proto Man to do something as Proto Man takes a container containing what I believe is a fire extiguisher and walks out. Then things get dumber: I thought that Dr. Wily was taking Tina with Daddy because Dr. Wily tells them they are coming with him. Scene changer as the space shuttle leaves with Daddy and they leave Tina behind. WHY?! Tina is the perfect barginning chip for him to use and he drops him? I hope this leads to Dr. Wily's defeat outright because he deserves to lose after that error. Rock returns to console Tina as Tina is fine; but then Dr. Wily shows up on the computer monitor inside as he proclaims that he planted a bomb on the Space Station 1 to completely destroy it and Rock has one hour to find it. 1:1 odds it's the device Proto Man took when he left the scene. I take it all back, this is far more evil than Dr. Wily kidnapping Tina now. Tina blames herself for this; but Rock isn't interested in who's the blame here. I would blame the writers for a bad logic break before I'll ever blame Tina for anything at this point. Scene change to Rock going into the computer room as despite all the chaos outside, Dr. Wily didn't even bother to shut down the security nor the computer room. So, yeah; Dr. Wily is still an idiot. Rock goes to the transmitter to contact Mission Control...wait, there's a bomb on the space station 1. Shouldn't Rock evacuate everyone including Tina?! DUMB! So, Rock exchanges notes on the situation as the security guard admits that they don't have any bomb-scanning equipment in either area. Roll disagrees because there is Rush who is the bomb sniffer of the world. Well, Rush Search is a real canon thingy in the games, so that makes sense. Problem is, how to get there? The security guard shows an experimental rocket on Bay 9 on the monitor and that's enough for Roll and Rush to run away. See, I don't care about "experimental" vaccines either, if they work; use them! Jump cut to Roll and Rush with more lack of color and shading than most animation done by Wang Films. Anime News Network claims that Mook Animation is one of the animation studios uncredited, though. The rocket itself looks awful as the rocket flies into space without incident. Rush is covering his eyes as apparently, the rocket has a warp drive and Roll uses it. Plunder and Lightning part 3, Sea Duck's overdrive motors, I'm just pointing that one out.
Before I continue on: I know that people were complaining about the time scaling of this episode. One problem: There were lots of scene changers in this sequence and they had to because there's no way you can do a bomb sequence that lasts an hour in real time since the episode is 25 episodes long. Jeffrey Scott knew this; so the extra scene changers were there to create enough possible gaps in order to compress a one hour limit into five or six minutes. This is not a situation like Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series where everyone screwed up the final seconds of a game that would have meant death for the babyfaces. This isn't even Flying Dupes in TaleSpin where they had a minute and could have easily changed the time by dubbing someone's lines with a different limit in order for the real time bomb to not go off on Nana instead of the dissient. Yes, I realize Flying Dupes is only on DVD instead of Disney+; but that's not the point here. Here, Jeffrey Scott used the scene changers really well. The bigger problem to me is that the denizens in the room didn't even sell the fact that there was a F'N BOMB IN THE SPACE STATION~! That was more of a logic break than any time scaling issues. Jump cut to the space shuttle arriving on the moon as we cut to a sky shot of the base on the moon with an announcer announcing the red alert. The blue colored robots come out with weapons ready as the space shuttle lands on the moon. Out comes Proto Man and the firefight begins literally seconds before Proto Man can fire, so of course the robots and vehicles all get shot by Proto Man's plasma power. I'm convinced this was a BS&P decision to use lasers since the busters shots look like round bullets. The other RM come out as Crystal Man does a backflip and fires a Crystal Eye to destroy a vehicle via the pot hole trick which in real life, works better than you would think and not for anyone's benefit. There are a lot of Star Trek references here, which is no surprise since Star Trek was and to a certain extent is still a pretty hot show to steal from. Rolling Cutter from behind a rock from Cut Man destroys a sattelite dish and Cut Man's promo is "You can dish it out, but you cannot take it!" and then he laughs in such a bad matter that I was literally laughing my ass off. That is what heels do: They laugh at their own bad jokes, and Cut Man took it the extra mile by doing the worst laugh he could do. This is Cut Man's best performance so far, and I'm not joking.
Guts Man shoves robots, tears down door, shoves more robots, says "Here's Guts Man!" and take over the transmitter in front of the computer to inform Dr. Wily that all his bases belong to us. Dr. Wily's mustaches does all the talking on this one before Dr. Wily comes out to tell Proto Man to get the lens. He calls this phrase one of his plan which is weird because I thought the first phase was hijacking the space shuttle. It's not the time scaling of the bomb sequence, it's Dr. Wily being confused on his phases because technically, this is phase 3 of the plan. Proto Man bails as Dr. Wily is talking while jump cut to Guts Man and Cut Man already putting the lens on the laser literally seconds after Dr. Wily bailed. This is a logic break to me. Scene change to Space Station 1 as all the scientists and company are still on the space station. Rock and Tina are looking for the bomb as Rock checks his buster because they have less than three minutes left (which means the bomb goes off at 7:58). Rock hopes that Roll and Rush come as the Bay 9 rocket arrives at the Space Station as Rush looks like he wants to vomit; but BS&P won't let him. Luckly, he just bleches as Roll realizes that Rush suffers from space sickness. Of course! Roll lands the rocket ship and both she and Rush come out. Rock and company meet and Rush is bleching; which causes Rock to whine because they have only one minute left at 5:34; which means the bomb goes off at 6:34, one minute and 24 seconds is shaved off. To be fair, there was one additional scene changer before this announcement, so that's fine. Rush tries to find the bomb inside as Rock is whining about Rush's inability to move well. Rush then finds the bomb inside the glass case without any trouble and Rock opens the glass case and takes out the bomb at 6:00 flat on my video. Okay; here's where the time scaling actually becomes a logic break: There was no scene changers inbetween the Rush finds bomb sequence, so logically there should still be roughly 30-35 seconds left on the bomb. That's lots of time to grab the bomb, throw it out of the Space Station 1 and let it explode outside; because defusing it is out of the question and I doubt any of these characters could do it anyway let alone do it in 34 seconds. The problem is: the bomb has TEN SECONDS left on the fuse, so the bomb goes off at 6:10; which shaves off another 24 seconds! There was no reason to create more suspense here, 34 seconds was enough! Dumb booking decision. That being said: Rock grabs the bomb, runs outside, throws the bomb and the bomb explodes at 6:11; so the timer was off by exactly one second. To be fair, the bomb was already high into the "air" when it would have exploded at the exact right time, so no logic break there either.
Overall, this was fine, outside of timescaling of shaving an extra 24 seconds without a scene changer to compenstate for the error. Otherwise, this was actually good. Again, the denizens no selling the bomb announcement is more of a logic break than any time scaling problems. Rock gets blinded by the light, and woke up like a blue dweeb in the middle of the night. Oh, wait...Roll and Tina console him, Rock's fine as it's time to go to the moon and everyone bails to their vehicles and that is that. More shots of space as we head to the moon base and then jump cut to Crystal Man showing off the laser which has similar colors to Crystal Man actually. Jump cut to inside the moon base command room as Guts Man, Proto Man and Dr. Wily without his helmet exchanging notes. Thank goodness Dr. Wily still have the rest of the spacesuit on as he is going to call his "friends" at the United Nations. So, yes; we head to the UN building, complete with a monitor with the UN symbol on it. Yes, this show allowed the symbol of the United Nations on their show. If you wonder why the Red Cross got pissed off when their trademarks are used, watch this show. Dr. Wily then shows up to threaten the United Nations which means Dr. Wily would have voted for President Trump and then kill him to take over outright since he would run as Trump's VP. Wily order the UN to surrender the planet to him or Wily fires his version of the Lightning Gun. Like the UN has any power to force global policy, that's like people thinking that the World Ecomonic Forum has any actual power. Absurd! UN of course no sells the deal, well one of the UN Members who are as generic as they are powerless. Why not threaten NATO, Wily; they seem to actually have some power, sort of. Dr. Wily orders Crystal Man to fire the laser with the solar lens and it fires a laser. Now, if I wanted to make the UN give up; I would shoot a building close to them to cause damage, but not cause damage to the UN itself. Nope. The laser hits a body of water and the water disappears. LAME-O! Four years ago, Don Karnage was firing the Lightning Gun at anything that moved, because that is how terrorism works. Here, no one is buying this gun as a threat because BS&P won't even let Dr. Wily put anyone in danger. Especially when there are multiple episodes where he put the denizen in clear danger, The Big Shake for instance. This is so stupid. Dr. Wily proclaims that they have one hour to surrender to end the segment 16 minutes in. Again, this is a really good episode, but that last scene killed off a lot of the laser's heat. BS&P sometimes needs to go pound sand and this was one of those times.
After the commercial break, we return to the UN as Dr. Wily threatens the UN some more and hopes that they make the right decision and signs off. The UN members talk among themselves and this might be the whitest UN I have ever seen. Not a good look at all. Cut back to space with the rock and Rock on a jetpack heading to the moon. Head to the moon base and then head inside as Cut Man arrives from the entrance to inform them that Rock and Roll are coming to get them. Dr. Wily yells at them to roll out the red carpet. No red carpet was rolled out. Leave the puns to Cut Man, Wily; as Crystal Man goes to the gun and fires it, so he's the Ratchet of the squad. Too bad Ratchet actually built the Lightning Gun. The shot's aim is so perfect that it hits Rock and Rock free falls. Why didn't you just do that and showed it to the U.N. before the end of the commercial break?! That would have been much better as a threat. Just have Rock and Roll arrive at the base while the UN is watching and Crystal Man "kills" Rock with the laser. Easy, because it gives Dr. Wily the monster heel heat he needs to pull this plotline off. Rock crashes and craters the moon with his body. Rock is out as Dr. Wily is on the monitor inside the rocket ship and orders Roll to land and surrender before they get vaporized and Roll complies despite the fact that they were going to land on the moon base already. The babyfaces get out as Guts Man and Cut Man see the babyfaces and the babyfaces bail to in a large crater. Roll tells Tina to bail out as Roll runs interference. Roll also tells Tina not to worry because Roll can handle them. Tina bails stage right as the RM's run in; their animation looks silly. Guts Man and Cut Man notice Tina right away anyway, but Roll counters with the HAIRDRYER OF DEATH and blows dust right into the heels. Before anyone gets any idea, just remember, air is made of various gasses. The moon is not a vacuum, it's close to one, but there is enough gasses to make this scene look believable. However, this is a distraction for Roll to be grabbed from behind, so yes; the babyface got outsmarted by Proto Man. Rush woofs, but the Lobster Courage takes over and he's done. Cut to inside the prison as all the men in suits are inprisoned with Roll and Rush in a prison with electric doors, which Roll tests and gets shocked. Proto Man proclaims that this should keep them out of trouble and walks off.
Head to Mission Control as Dr. Light and the guard notice Rock is on the moon out as the guard proclaims that Dr. Wily has finally beaten them. Dr. Light isn't buying that crap as he notices that the camera being used is a space telescope and has a plan. The space telescope is on the fritz as Light needs to get Rock back up as then Tina shows up via a transmitter and no one even notices that Tina is even on the moon. Not once, even though she was clearly with Rock the first time. DUMB! There wasn't even a "Tina?" when Dr. Light addressed her. Dr. Light basically ordered her to rescue Rock without even noticing. What a heartless bastard Dr. Light is?! By the way, Tina was in the moon base when she was communicating with Dr. Light and manages to get out without Cut Man even seeing her, making Cut Man look dumb. Oh wait...Head outside as Tina runs in and finds Rock in the crater. Tina turns Rock on his back, opens a panel in his back and basically pushes the button and Rock is back to normal. Wow, Daddy Pig continues to inspire generations even before Peppa Pig actually existed! Rock and Tina exchange notes because Dr. Light has a plan; but Crystal Man cuts them off with his twinkle Crystal Eye sequence. Rock and Tina dodge the crystal eye and Rock clearly has had enough of Crystal Man spoiling his show as we begin the fire fight and dodging. Crystal Man then makes the fatal error: grabbing Rock. Why?! Because Rock touches him and it's WEAPON GET TIME~! Crystal Man backs up and flies into the air hoping to stomp Rock, Rock counters with the Crystal Eye and it explodes into the chest, Crystal Man goes down and is broken, but not killed as he cuts one last threat on Rock on the way out. At least Crystal didn't get totally buried here as Tina tells Rock to go to the moon base while she bails to safety. Aww, I wanted to see Tina outsmart Dr. Wily, that would have been glorious. Instead, we return to the command center of the moon base as Dr. Wily is talking to the same glasses wearing member of the UN from earlier. Dr. Wily asks if they will reconsider and the UN does and proclaims that Dr. Wily is the ruler of the wor....Dr. Light cuts the UN off and has overruling powers, I guess. Why not? It's not like the UN has any real power in real life anyway. By the way, burials of the UN are not a good look for the USA, I assure thee. Dr. Wily is pissed off and demands Proto Man to charge up the laser and shoot anyway. Why not?
It's not like Dr. Wily wasn't going to do that anyway because he's a power hungry psyhcopathic fool with god-fetish tendenices. Cut Man notices Rock on the monitor and Dr. Wily orders Guts Man and Cut Man to kill him basically. Rock runs to the moon base, goes into some area, closes the door and does the lamest propping of a metal pipe I have ever seen. To make matters worse, Cut Man and Guts Man cannot get through this door after Guts Man broke down a door earlier. Can you not bury these two any further, show?! Two weak iron rods and somehow Guts Man has acute trouble getting the door open?! THAT WAS WEAK! THAT WAS WEAK! THAT WAS WEAK! Rock makes it to the computer as the monitor shows the space telescope and Dr. Light's plan is to have the telescope be the deflector to the laser's aiming system so that when Proto Man fires the laser, the telescope will reflect the laser back at the moon base and destroy the laser. Rock works the buttons on the computer for a while as after about a minute of banging, Guts Man breaks down the door and we finally get to this edition of CUT MAN IS INCOMPENTENT~! This one is an absolute doozy: Cut Man uses the Rolling Cutter in the computer room, Rock dodges and the computer is destroyed, as Proto Man is ordered to fire the gun, Proto Man fires the gun and the laser hits the lens of the telescope, it bounces back at the moon base, destroying the laser and control room as Proto Man and Dr. Wily leave as Dr. Wily remembers to have his helmet on as he flees. So, Rock blows off Cut Man, fires a shot and destroys Guts Man's chest and somehow this doesn't kill him. In fact, he still runs off. Why bother damaging him in anyway? Cut Man and Guts Man flee the computer room, all the heels get into the space shuttle and the space shuttle flies away. Yeah, Rock tells them to write. Whatever, Cut Man truly screwed this one up while the writers screwed up Guts Man's escape. So, we wrap this up in a hallway with spacesuits in red because apparently, Tina was the real hero of the story. No, not really. Daddy and Tina embrace as Tina apologizes; but she's forgiven because if it wasn't for her, no one would have suspected it until it's too late. Rock praises her, everyone cheers as we get a shot of the moon in space to end the episode at 24:00 approx. This is the best episode of the series thus far, although the last third of this episode did try so hard to make it fall off a cliff. This gets * on the trainwreck scale for the UN scene and Cut Man being Cut Man at the end. By Easter Sadism standards, this was an 18* episode. *** 3/4 (75%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Well, I really did love this episode until just before the third act and then it fell down a bit before the feel good ending since it was one of the few times it didn't turn into a "Rush must do something really stupid" moment like most of the other episodes did. There were a number of logic breaks; but the time scaling on the bomb sequences wasn't one of them. The whole UN stuff was comically bad and BS&P did the show no favors with basically rendering the laser cannon into a non-threat in the start, especially when they almost killed Mega Man with it in the third act. Cut Man had the best performance in this show ever as his heel antics were funny and while what he did at the finish was beyond the pale stupid, it was the finish when the heels were supposed to be stupid anyway. Although it felt a bit pointless, since it was clear Rock was going to win and destroying the computer would have meant nothing in the end. Tina was good enough, although I would have loved to see her match wits with Dr. Wily. Crystal Man was great and Guts Man finally acted like a simpleton for a change which made his character better in the long run. Overall, this was a great episode marred by a lot of mistakes and BS&P fingers in the pie. So....
Thumbs in the middle pointing up for this episode and I'll see you all next time.