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This episode was a delightful, Silver Age-style romp, featuring a magical villain, some silliness, and some unexpected twists. Once again, Phantom Girl saves the day.
Zyx's helmet threw me off. It looked very familiar. It reminded me of Hector Hammond's, I believe. I expected the helmet to the source of Zyx's power, but it apparently wasnt.
Zeroc? Zerok? The change in pronunciation is understandable, as the Xerox people might object. It was portrayed as a place straight out of "Alice in Wonderland," with surreal characters behaving in surreal ways.
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From: The Stasis Zone | Registered: Jul 2003
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I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would. I loved the weirdness of Zerok. I especially loved head wizard hitting on Winema at the end.
Can we say that she's being portrayed as a 'Single Mom' and successful career woman.
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I thought the episode was okay, but definitely a big drop off from the coolness of the previous two episodes.
The massive destruction being caused by giant Zyx rampaging through Metropolis kind of annoyed me. I guess it was all supposed to be fixed at the end, but I kept thinking that tons of people must be getting killed.
While I liked the basic idea of Tinya going to Zerok to negotiate for their help, I didn't think it was all that well done. The bureaucracy jokes just all fell flat, and the whole war/surrender sequence didn't work quite as well as intended either.
So, I guess that all in all I just felt like it had a lot of potential, but lost somewhat in the execution.
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quote:Originally posted by He Who Wanders: Zyx's helmet threw me off. It looked very familiar. It reminded me of Hector Hammond's, I believe.
I don't remember Hector Hammond ever wearing a helmet like that, but one of my favourite D-List JLA villains, Brainstorm, sure did. That's probably who you're thinking of HWW.
I agree with EDE on all his points re: this ep. I thought it was a huge drop-down in quality after the previous 2 or 3. But since its a hold-over from back when this series was extremely average/below-average (the first 3-4 episodes) I can overlook it since I know the show has gotten a lot better since then.
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quote:Originally posted by Yellow Kid: A green hat with wings..he he..gotta be Mordru...and since we call my 6yr old "Ratboy" we thought Lightning Rat was very appropriate (LL's his favorite character).
I think the Super Pets ought to induct a new member
Your boy has good taste Art.
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And I'm in agreement with everyone that the other wizard on the council was Mordru. I checked the credits, but only saw the high-up muckity-muck wizard listed there. I was hoping to see Mordru's name in the "voiced by" section, just to confirm.
Definitely not as good as Subs was, but it had it's moments!
Now, next week looks to Rokk, literally! Can't wait!
-------------------- Craig C.
- Time travel stories are told in chronillogical order.
From: Santa Ana, CA | Registered: Jul 2003
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Over on the ToonZone message boards, someone said that Zyx's helmet reminded him of The Master (from Superboy 205 - anyone got the issue and a scanner handy?). I thought it looked like Brain Storm too.
OmniCraig - Mordru was listed as "Evil Wizard" in the credits. He was voiced by Richard McGonagle, the same guy who did the High Elder wizard.
Next week is the last new episode until the 2-part season finale in May.
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what?!? we have to wait until two months to find out the finale?!? oh that's a real torture!!! argh!
I remember reading #205 - but the problem is I left it in the storage. That's the cover showing Lana Lang and Ultra Boy in chains and being aimed by four or five legionnaires ready to fire them to death....something mindcontrolled...?? It is a 100 page giant....the third story involved Pa and Ma Kent trapping Mon-el and Superboy...and the second story - can't remember - ???
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quote:Originally posted by Michael Grabois: Next week is the last new episode until the 2-part season finale in May.
WHAT?!? We're one episode away from the finale already?! How many episodes were there in this season? It's gone by so fast! I need more S&tLoSH!
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Thanks Tekwych. I had thought US cartoons were like live-action TV and Japanese anime with around 22 episodes per season.
I guess it makes sense that they'd introduce Ferro Lad in the episode before the finale if the rumours of what that 2-parter's storyline is going to be are true.
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It could never really live up to the standards set by the last two episodes, but it was okay for what it was.
I really did want to see the White Witch, tho!
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but we saw only 9 episodes this year, right? does not make sense to me....where are four more missing episodes?
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