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Mega Man Ruby Spears: Cold Steel Rant
Reviewed: 04/27/2022
Music Is Such A Robotic Meance!
So, this is episode #11 on the animation paper as at a science expo, Mega Man and Roll meet Mary, a deaf girl with an acute sense for feeling sound vibrations. She makes such an impression on them, that Roll offers the girl and her mom to join them at a concert later that day. Then, everything goes wrong. At the show, all of the attendees begin to file out like zombies. This is really the work of Dr. Wily, who has created music that can hypnotize humans into doing his bidding. How does this episode fare? Let's rant on shall we...?!
Cold Steel is written by Michael Maurer, Matt Uitz and was directed by Katsumi Minoguchi.
We begin this episode with a shot of what looks like the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco, California and then pan down to a building at the Musuem Of Science and the World Science Expo. Head inside the museum with a crowd shot pan as Dr. Light is welcoming everyone to the science expo as he proclaims that this is the remains of a lab he was at working on his first robots. There is a girl with brown hair wearing lavander and purple wanting Rock's autograph with a red book and Rock grants it asking for a name. Her guardian wearing a green dress and the same brown hair informs Rock that her name is Mary and is hearing impaired. She can read lips and do American Sign Language as Roll is happy to meet her; and offers to sign an autograph as a bonus. Dr. Light is stressed out and brings out a CD and puts it into his conveniently placed CD player. I know it's 20XX, but Dr. Light sure loves physical media even to this day. CDs were in their beginning years when this show was being released the first time. Dr. Light plays a little Ludwig van Beethoven (who was also hearing impaired due to a quarrel with a singer, or so Ludwig claimed) for a while as Mary can feel the music, because music is sound vibrations and some can feel it much profoundly than others. Roll has two tickets to see a rock concret and offers Mary and the guardian to come, and both agree to it. Unless robots get in for free, which is a form of infantizing, how?! Anyhow, we head to the concert which the band name is clearly called "Cold Steel" and with all the dibs on band names these days, what a generic name for a rock band. There is a decent crowd out there to enjoy the concert as the band is playing and everyone is feeling the music. I should note that the music doesn't even match up with what the band is playing in this sequence. Considering all the times I have seen billards screwed up, I can see why a lot of drum sequences are screwed up badly, animation wise. It's not just overseas animation studios either, even Warner Brothers classic studios mess up in this regard. One of the band members plays electric guitar like a boss and this causes the human crowd to be shocked and then their minds are poisoned. Mary's guardian is also poisoned and says to go to Mount Chasta, so you know Dr. Wily is behind this without even having to think about it. It's like Dragonus from The Mighty Ducks Animated Series and Wildwing kept blaming him for everything. Because it was how it was booked.
Rush is affected; but it causes him acute pain as he sniffs around the area. Rock and Roll are fine as Mary's guardian walks with the crowd of zombie humans as Mary is running after her guardian, so Mary is not affected by this somehow. I would think that the vibrations would have affected her since that's what music is, even if the effect would have been different like with Rush. Nope, she's fine and worried. Roll follows Mary to make sure she's safe and Rock and Rush get on stage. Rush finds the sound speaker as it's clear as day that Dr. Wily is issuing commands since his voice is heard. Ooops! Rush bites the sound speaker system as Rock protests this. Rush does a horrible sequence with his head in yellow sparks before shooting high into the air and landing into the drum of death. Cold Steel guitarist and the band bail off stage as Rock is confused. Oh, and here comes Spark Man in his second appearance on this show and I believe the first time he has a voice as well. Spark and Rock shoot and dodge each other, with a hilarious logic break of Rock bouncing off the drum despite being much bigger than Rush who went through the drum. Spark thinks Rock is an idiot in missing all his shot, but Rock is like "Really?" and the floor is trapdoored and Spark Man gets WARNERED~! Then we get the debuts of Gemini Man getting a human facelift and Gyro Man, who looks almost 1:1 to the original artwork and even similar to Mega Man: Upon A Star. Gemini uses his laser, Rock deflects it with a cymbal and it hits the ceiling panel, the ceiling panel then traps Rock down. Yup, what a blue dweeb?! Gyro Man uses his back props which also has Bubble Lead properties now as Rock shoots two of the tips to force it into the ground, stopping it. That was a neat spot. Rock gets out of the carnage and that's enough for the robot master to say "enough" as Gemini Man shoots the spotlights on the ceiling, it comes down on Rock, Rock dodges, spotlights crash to the ground creating dust somehow and it's just a ruse to get the robot masters to disappear. Rock is not happy about this as Roll comes in to inform Rock about Mary's guardian leaving with the crowd and thinks something weird is going on here. Rock thinks Cold Steel has something to do with it and Rock blows off this as nonsense. The "Cold Steel" band returns and no one told Gyro Man to ditch the props from it's back. Although, I will give Gyro credit for making sure the prop tips were not destroyed when he came back.
Cold Steel thanks them for their services and their surfer lingo is so thick that only Dr. Wily could have taught them. CS Gyro gives Roll a CD as a reward and Roll accepts it. The Cold Steel band leaves stage left as Rock is pondering about something. Mary runs in and I can safely say that Mary's guardian is Mary's mother and Roll and Mary embrace as Roll states that they will find her as Mary's mother was poisoned and is missing. So, we scene change to a park as denizens continue to do the walk of poison as in the sky, the Wily Machine RS edition shows up. Jump cut to Dr. Wily putting a CD into some wired CD player. I guess wireless wasn't a thing in this world. Proto Man is the co-pilot as this mind control music is so G.I. Joe 1980's and even Chargeman Ken-equse, although the CK edition only made everyone ugly and wasn't a murder record at all, let alone a brainwashing tool. Apparently, he want to poison Dr. Light's mind as well, but that is Roll's fault for accepting the CD out of hand. Dr. Wily decides to brainwash some more people into going to Mount Chesta, including four construction workers having their lunch break. Because smoke breaks are off-screen, due to the no-smoking rules on this show and most empathic human beings aren't going to cry about this BS&P decision. Apparently, the music of Cold Steel played for the poisoning would be used in the cartoon "Billy The Cat", which is about Billy being a jerk and humbled by turning into a cat and has adventures to teach Billy how to be a empathic human being instead of a horrible homo sapien vampiris with cluster B traits. Although that show was a production from France, it's possible that the music was an overdub for copyrighted music for the English version over the original. A lot of anime dubs have recycle music from other dubs, some of the later episodes of Dragon Ball Z used music that the Monster Rancher anime series used. The construction workers are brainwashed and they walk away. We head to the docks, with the fisher people of doom and they are poisoned and walk away. Somehow, one of them was written out by teleport. Zoom in and cut to Dr. Wily loving life and then he changes screens to Guts Man at Mount Chesta with denizens doing something, I don't know other than being slaves. Dr. Wily informs Guts Man that more slaves ERRRR...I mean...human robots (this had to be a BS&P decision, no way it could be anything else) are coming.
However, Guts Man has a problem: Not enough building materials are pro-cured and Dr. Wily panics off-screen in a shot of the Wily Machine RS going bonkers in it's own right. HAHA! It's always amusing to see the "smart" one get outsmarted by a simpleton who at least has some self-awareness. You can fool yourself, and you are the easiest to fool. Proto Man gives the thumbs up as he is pointing said thumb to the obvious landmark of the day (Golden Gate Bridge, everyone) and then Dr. Light recoils and has a plan while cackling. We head into Dr. Light's lab as Dr. Light is fixing Rush as he confirms my original thought of the music affecting the circuits. Might be time to build a more robust Rush there, Dr. Light; since Rock and Roll aren't affected by this and neither is Mary for that matter. Speaking of Mary, in comes Roll listening to the music on her headphones and Mary is following her. Roll wants Dr. Light to hear this music because it is twitchin'. I would have believed that if parts of Roll's body were twitchin. Her eyes, nose and mouth, you perverts! Most of all, her ears; since it's music! Dr. Light kindly says no because his music is classical piano music, I guess. Roll is not impressed by this answer, so she takes out the CD and puts into a CD player which if this were today, is the model of the HP ENVY 5530 printer/scanner! How about that for gaslighting?! Dr. Light finally completes the repairs on Rush and Rush is back to normal. Yeah. Rush is the robot Scooby Doo in this show, what a surprise?! Dr. Light deduces that the chip in Rush's brain malfunctioned due to ultra violent soundwaves and Rock blames Cold Steel for this. This is like blaming Red Herring for everything, but in this case, the audience knows who Cold Steel really is because Cold Steel does a crappy job of disguises. Still better than Baloo's disguise in All's Whale That Ends Whale by a mile, but c'mon now. Then we hear alarm sirens as the computer has shown an emergency. We head to the monitor as Rock sees a naval ship on the water shooting it's guns at the Golden Gate Bridge. 1:1 odds Dr. Wily brainwashed the crew, although I would think the bridge would not be the target, but the naval ship itself. Maybe it is both. Rush turns into Rush Jet, Rock gets on RJ and they leave. Dr. Light is still thinking too much, so he's stressed out once again. Dr. Wily decides to listen to some of his classical piano music on the CD Scanner Printer of Death. Uh-oh!
To be fair, Dr. Wily created the brainwashing music, but no one except Dr. Wily actually knows this in storyline, so Roll is not to blame for this even though she's going to get blamed anyway because sexists must sexism! Dr. Light turns on the music, he must go to Mount Chesta and Dr. Light is now a zombie. Dr. Light walks out as Roll notices this and goes over to Dr. Light. Dr. Light shoves Roll down, turns around and leaves. Roll realizes that Dr. Light is a zombie and must go to Rock for help. Roll and Mary run to the green WRJS and get on it. Time to fly towards the city as Rock arrives at the GGB and fires his buster to disable the cannons. Error: Rock claims that Cold Steel music is being playing, but the background music doesn't play it throughout, so someone in the music department didn't catch that nuance. Sigh. Rock rushes over to the Wily Machine RS version above the GGB as Rock pretty much confirms Dr. Wily's involvement in this scheme. Rock and Rush land on the bridge as Rock tells Dr. Wily to go packing. Yeah, sure; Rock. Out comes Guts Man and Cut Man from the wing as they jump down. Guts Man blows him off and calls Rush a dumb dog. Rush is so gravely offended that he pounces on Guts Man because his gimmick is that Rush bites Guts Man's leg; Guts Man finds a conveniently placed truck of empty oil barrels and puts Rush into one and seals it up. HAHA! Smart Guts Man is truly a sight to behold as Guts Man throws said barrel into Rock, Rock cannot stop it as he takes the shot and bounces onto his ass on the ground. Then we get a logic break: After Cut Man cuts a promo about being on the cutting edge, they show a shot of one of the wires on the GGB already cut, and then Cut Man uses the Rolling Cutter to cut one of the full wires, but didn't show the second cut because the wire was going to be used as rope for Blues to tie up Rock. The shot with the wire cut should have been before the wire fell, but after the Rolling Cutter was used. Guts Man grabs Rock and military press slams him into the harbour water below. Since robots don't need air to breathe, this sounds like a dumb idea; and none of the robots sell water damage of any kind on this anyway. Rock freefalls into the water and goes underwater with the fishes to end the segment eight and a half minutes in. I still don't buy Mary being unaffected by the sound waves, since she's suppose to be a human being, regardless of her hearing.
After the commercial break, we get another shot of the bridge and then pan down to Rock on the seabed struggling to get free. Other than his energy draining, I'm not buying this crap as Rock is fading. Scene change back to a sky shot of the bridge as Roll and Mary arrive on the WRJS and land. Somehow, Eddie is written in by teleport now. WHAT?! Roll gets out and notices the barrel with Rush in it, as the barrel rolls towards her. Roll brings out her cutting saw arm and cuts the top of the barrel to free Rush. Rush's explaination to where Rock is, is so hilarious that it confuses Roll, so Mary takes the book she used to sign autographs and a pen, and writes exactly what Rush is talking about because Rush's entire promo is non-verbal cues. Mary read the non-verbal cues and printed the picture from there. Basically, Rock is hurt and in the bottom of the sea because Guts Man threw him into said ocean. Also, Rock needs Eddie's help as Eddie jumps out and called Roll a Mega-Babe. Sigh. Eddie waddles out and jumps into the ocean, finding Rock within seconds. Rock is so tired and tied up as Eddie brings out a green bottle and puts a rubber shooter on it and feeds Rock energy as if Rock was a baby. Awww, my heart melted! Rock talks about second childhoods, which is funny because he never had a legit first childhood anyway. Rock breaks free from the wires, swims up to the surface and flies back onto the bridge and that is that. Head to the science expo, so I was wrong about Dr. Light going back to his lab, which makes sense because they are in San Francisco, California anyway. Rock and Roll exchange notes on the situation as Rush takes the Cold Steel CD out of the player and eats it, and screams in pain. He short circuit, but doesn't become a zombie. Rock deduces that the high feq sound wave that only Rush can actually hear because he's a dog who hears sounds differently from humans. Mary couldn't hear it and couldn't feel it either because humans cannot feel that wave length, let alone hear it. Doesn't mean that they cannot be affected by it. Rush could hear it and it affected him in a different way, but it still took it's toll. Robots aren't affected by it because that would make Dr. Wily's plan look even stupider in hindsight. Roll is not happy to hear that her favorite band of the day is a bunch of evil robots working for a...you guessed it.
Rock has no idea where they went and somehow Mary was able to read Dr. Light's lips; despite no evidence she was anywhere near the doctor to see his face, let alone read his lips, and writes something in her autograph book. Mary gives Rock the book and it's off to Mount Shasta (which is a real mountain landmark in California). I apologize for the spelling difference. Rock gets on Rush Jet and they jet out of the expo as Roll and Mary are on the green WRJS and they fly away. Roll assures Mary that her mother is likely there, too. Head to Mount Shasta with a lot of snow as the Wily Machine RS lands near a large hole in the ground with a ladder. Dr. Wily and Proto Man jump out and go down to some metal elevator structure as the "human robots" (because saying slave is bad despite it being clear that they are slaves) are working on something. Cut Man is on one of the catwalks as Dr. Wily approaches him. Cut Man and Dr. Wily exchange evil notes for a while as the plan du jour is for Dr. Light to build a power booster to the structure, as a transmission device to broadcast Cold Steel to the world and make all the humans their slaves. One problem: How come Dr. Wily is not affected by this at all?! This has been the issue I have been having with this plot since the start. Even if Dr. Wily is a psychopath, he's still a homo sapien just the same, so he should be brainwashed by his own device. The writer better have an explaination for this, or I'm going to get pissed off by this angle. Jump cut to the babyfaces arriving at Mount Shasta above a giant forest which is part of the mountain side even in real life. One of the transitions made me laugh as Rock notices a logging camp nearby and decides to fly down to get some leads into the matter. Head back inside a computer control room with Dr. Wily as Dr. Light Zombie confirms the power booster is assembled and ready to go. Dr. Wily orders Dr. Light to raise the transmission device and Dr. Light Zombie calls Dr. Wily the imperial emmenese. Okay, so all zombies cannot be perfect, I guess. Dr. Light pushes a lot of button and raises the transmission device high into the sky. Dr. Light Zombie asks Wily what he can do next and Dr. Wily is loving life, and orders him to turn on the transmission device because we have "robot humans" to create, you see. Increase the power to 50 billion watts and Dr. Light Zombie sells and we have purple waves coming out of the dish outside.
I'm going to skip the brainwashing stuff around the world since it's nothing but a bunch of stereotypes and apparently, none of them are hearing impaired in this world other than Mary. Head back to the computer command center as Dr. Wily is loving life with Proto Man and Dr. Light Zombie as Dr. Wily orders Dr. Light to pull the lever (JESUS~!) which gives Dr. Wily access to the microphone conveniently placed nearby. Dr. Wily then proclaims that his first decree is to kill Rock on site, basically. Jump cut to the wood logger's camp, which has far more trees in this world than in real life, actually. Rock asks a worker with beige hair about anything unusual as country western music is playing and the worker says no. Dr. Wily should have used that instead and then play it backwards, just to hope that he would get his job back to Dr. Light for real. Oh, and somehow the radio changes stations to Cold Steel music. I don't know why I would bother, considering that just pumping the music directly at 50 billion watts would be enough to cause the same thing, but Dr. Wily overthinking this through would not be impossible, knowing him. The workers turn into zombies as Rush panics and then bites the poor brown haired worker's leg! Wow, I didn't think BS&P would allow them to do that to be honest, since the zombie is not a robot to begin with. This makes the "robot human" decision look really dumb in hindsight. Apparently, this gives humans super powers and Rush gets whipped and logged into a hollow log. The babyfaces try to bail west, but are cut off literally by a blue shirt worker with a chainsaw and a conveniently placed tree that he cuts down with said chainsaw. More workers with weapons like axes and chainsaws ensue and the babyfaces are screwed as the tree goes timber. Then we get a hilarious logic break: Mega Man shoots the buster into the tree and creates a hole. Tree falls down and hits the ground while Roll and Mary panic. Rock comes up from said hole and is fine. Now, I omitted something and that's the logic break: when the tree fell, there was no exit hole nor entry hole when the tree hit Mega Man. Yeah, that was silly. In comes a worker with a bulldozer and Rock shoot off half of the plow; but cannot destroy the other half and the tree -- I think -- hits Rock and Rock gets bulldozed by the bulldozer towards a cliff to end the segment 15 minutes in. The "robot human" toning down thing is kind of dangerous, because it gives excuses to not call this slavery.
After the commercial break and after Rush does the greatest "right back after these messages" promo that never gets old; Rock is bulldozed off the cliff and starts to freefall. Rock proclaims that this time he's not getting off the hook while there is clearly a JAWS OF HALF-LIFE crane standing right next to the bulldozer. Rock's buster shot move is epic: the shot deflects off the crane several times and hits the controls to allow the hook to come down. Rock is OP'ed in this show and it should have destroyed the crane, but it didn't. Either that, or the blue dweeb knows nuance. Great! The bulldozer backs up as he thinks Rock is dead; but Rock is on the hook literally and comes up with said hook to blow the worker off. The red haired worker is not amused as he continues with the levers (JESUS~!), so Rock uses the hook and gets into the crane to raise the bulldozer up. The worker escapes as Rock proclaims that he must put this bulldozer down to not hurt the humans. So, he basically drops it down in a spot where there was no chance for the humans to be hurt anywhere as they come in. The bulldozers lands straight down with a thud, the ground shakes and the humans all bail stage right. The bulldozer was not thrown, it was dropped and wouldn't have crushed anyone as everyone was far enough away to not get hit by anything. It's not like Robosaur Park where there were way too many close calls that appeared to have the humans seriously injured and/or killed. Roll and Mary fly out on the WRJS as Rock asks where Rush is and Rush is still walking on it's hind legs with a hollow log stuck to it's head. Of course! Way to go, Rush. Rush cracks the log open and then turns into Rush Jet. Rock gets on Rush and we head to Mount Shasta on the other side of the mountain and they land onto the snowy mountain. Oh, humans not dressing up for the cold mountains, what a surprise? At least with Kit in Flight School, he was a bear with fur, so wearing his sweater only was believable, even if he would get cold feet, literally. Sigh. It's not as bad as Peppa Pig or Chargeman Ken, but come on, now! The babyfaces finally find the mountain with the brainwashing tower of doom as they exchange notes for a while. Rock wants to destroy the tower and the dish; but he needs to do it so the humans aren't in the way. At some point we see a bunch of denizens carrying a steel pillar and one of them is Mary's mother. Despite all this, Mary is smart enough to not run in at the start.
If only this happened in every cartoon, the world would be a better place. Rock bails as Roll and Mary will run interference and they do by misdirecting the denizens into finding Rock and destroying him. The denizen chase after the babyfaces as Rock and Rush come in towards the tower and Rock notices the band carrying a steel pillar. Rock deduces that they have been brainwashed instead of being the actual robot. Rock calls out to the Gemini Man and Gemini acts friendly, which should have been a clue that Cold Steel is Dr. Wily's robots; because if they were brainwashed, they would have done the zombie control promo and went after him without taking off the clothes. In fact, doing that would have generated the suspense and put Rock in a bad position. Nope, all the Cold Steel band blows their cover right away. Yeah, Rock is a blue dweeb, why are you surprised?! Spark Man breaks the ice with a Spark Shock and Rush gets fried and buried in the snow. Rock lands on his feet and tells them to bring it on. Gyro Man cuts a trunk of the tree with his props and Rock goes over and kicks the background tree which should have come down on it's own since it was cut completely. Gyro Man gets buried in the tree and the logic is getting wonky again. Spark Man fires his Spark Shots as Rock calls him Bolt Breath; not Pole Breath, you dirty minded Youtube commentator. Rock dodges, then shoots the buster into the snow to create a skating rink and Spark Man slips and slides like the idiot that he is. He slides right straight for Gemini Man, Gemini Man panics, fires his laser at Spark Man's chest, Spark Man uses his electric spikes on Gemini Man and they have a meeting of the minds. And it wasn't at the lodge. Somehow, they all fall on Gyro Man who is under the tree. Then we get Rock Man doing a DUET WEAPON GET at the same time! This is so stupid, but here's the thing: they already did the double weapon gimmick in Ice Age. So in this continuity, it actually makes sense even if it's not gaming canons. Besides, making Rock do this in the games would be a refreshing change from the usual stuff Mega Man had been doing, even at this point. So, he gets Spark Shock and Gryo's props; but Gemini Laser, you suck and don't deserve to be in Rock's weapon collection. Rock flies up towards the tower, jump cut to Dr. Wily watching on the monitor as he orders Cut Man and Guts Man to destroy Rock. Because Cut Man has to be Cut Man at some point and screw this up.
Guts Man and Cut Man fly up to meet Rock and Cut Man wants to clip his wings; and Cut Man uses the Rolling Cutter to do just that! I'm not surprised anymore, because out of context videos gaslit everyone into thinking Cut Man is totally incompentent, even though Dr. Wily built them. Rock hangs onto the steel tower as Guts Man and Cut Man are above Rock, standing on the tower. Guts Man proclaims that Rock is history. I doubt it! Guts Man takes a steel pillar and whacks the tower; but misses Rock. Rock counters with the Spark Pole Of Doom, which shocks them, NOT GIVE THEM HOT FEET, you blue dweeb~! Guts Man and Cut Man free fall like dead flies into the underground as Dr. Wily is panicking because Rock is climbing the tower. I was expecting Proto Man to come out and fight at this point...NOPE! Rock shoots the dish, and destroys the entire tower as it sparks and Rock panics because he's a...you guessed it. Rock lands in a tree and of course he underestimate his own lack of control like a fool. Jump cut to Dr. Wily blowing off his robots for failing and Dr. Light wakes up. Dr. Light bails out, but gets parting words which I speak for everyone here: Dr. Wily is the reason why Cut Man is incompentent. Good, although punching that assface in the face would also suffice. Jump cut to Rush getting out of his snow burying tomb, spitting snowballs out. Rock gets on Rush Jet and it's time to get that assface! Jump cut to Proto Man panicking and where the hell were you?! Taking a smoke break! Figures, knowing Proto Man. Proto Man wants to fight, but Dr. Wily says no because he still has the small broadcasting thing and they'll just bail and start all over again. Jump cut to outside the mountain as the Wily Machine RS edition is flying away. Dr. Wily is flying inside the cockpit and proclaims victory as long as he can broadcast his mind control, which Proto Man looks to his right and realizes that Dr. Wily's hopeassface is gone now, because here comes Rock and Rush to blow up that plan. Dr. Wily is pissed off and the Wily Machine does a loop-de-loop for only fifteen zenny and gets behind Rock. Rock and Rush dodge lasers for a while and go into the snowy forest and find the smallest hole in a hollow tree which Rock calls a funnel. HA! Rock and Rush hide while Wily loses him, and then Rock and Rush fly underneath the Wily Machine and shoot it down from below.
Proto Man and Dr. Wily get parachutes and jump out the back door of the Wily Machine and parachute down into the raging river. They hold onto a log like a bunch of concussed zombies and they go down the river while Rock claims that they sent them up the river. What a blue dweeb?! Also, there's no explaination as to why Dr. Wily was never affected by the device and there's no evidence that the smaller broadcast device was destroyed either because we head back to the destroyed tower to wrap things up as Mary and her mother reunite. Mary's mother calls Rock a hero and Rock calls Mary a hero, too. Roll is concerned about Dr. Wily getting away as Dr. Light brings out his CD player and claims that the best way to jam the signal is to play...wait for it...classical piano music. WHAT?! Is every episode going to be how to jam something?! If this is a BS&P decision to not have people cry about censorship, too f'n late! No one buying this decision as Rush dances and he trips, becomes a snowball and rolls backwards and doesn't WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE~! For once, Rush doing something stupid is better than the whole "every episode with energy waves must be to jam the signal to avoid people getting ideas that we cannot destroy things because CENSORSHIP HYPOCRISY~!" Yeah, let's end the episode at 24:00 with Rush popping up, sneezing and sparking. The episode itself was okay with the usual mess, but that ending killed it off in my opinion. Poor Mary, though; she was great otherwise. ** (40%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Well, another Mega Man episode where the writing went downhill during the third act because of logic breaks. Dr. Wily being unaffected by the music is one thing, the "everything must be jammed in order to win" is getting old, Mega Man's sucking at analogies, Proto Man taking a smoke break (although he did want to fight, but Wily overruled him) and the whole toning down of calling the slaves of Dr. Wily "robot humans". That last one really pisses me off in hindsight as it was merely an excuse to make BS&P be more lenient without understanding the consequences of the meaning of words. The whole dual weapon get thing is silly, but fusion weapons was great and I'm surprised Capcom never considered it for their games. I guess it would have made the games way too easy, even if it would have been a slight refreshing change from the usual. Cut Man for once didn't look like an idiot at all, they booked him strong in this episode. The Cold Steel thing is funny and Mary was in fact great in this episode. Overall, this was a fine episode plagued by way too much little nitpicks that led to a subpar episode overall. One more episode to go and Season 1 will be in the books. . So....
Thumbs down for this episode and I'll see you all next time.