Anthonynotes
06-06-2002, 02:01 AM
Another review on a PPG rerun I hadn't seen before....:
"Catastrophe": thought it was a pretty tepid/mediocre episode at best....a monster loses its cat, the girls find it. Liked Bubbles' "talking to animals via concentric rings" bit (a la the way Aquaman would communicate with fish on the "Superfriends", right down to the sound effect Bubbles' concentric circles was making)...
"Candy Is Dandy": A rather interesting entry...apparently this show's take on the issue of what happens when a superhero uses their powers for some less-than-noble urge (though I understand some unseen-by-me episode that involves knocking out teeth for tooth fairy money is along similar lines), as seen here with the girls arranging with Mojo Jojo(!) for him to cause random destruction while they "stop" him repeatedly all so they can get candy from the Mayor as a reward. However, their nasty turn at the end of their scheme is decidedly something else, and what they did to Mojo...well, I suppose the word "excessive force" certainly comes to mind (along with a few other analogies I won't go into). Wonder what Sharklady made of her favorite PPG character being left in a, erm, emergency-room-needed condition. Obviously, as shown at the episode's end (with the girls' reaction to what they'd done) not the girls' higest moment in terms of their playing superhero.
Also made me think of several other things: 1) Assume this'd serve just to make Mojo even angrier/more motivated; 2) I wonder what the Professor's reaction was if/when he got wind of all this (hitting the roof, I'd gather); 3) Probably unrelated, but their wailing on Mojo (before coming to their senses) did make me briefly wonder what would happen if the girls really *did* take a truly evil (without remorse/guilt) turn, a la the Rowdyruff Boys...namely wondering who'd be capable of stopping them---the Professor I suppose (maybe with the "antidote to Chemical X" from "Mo Job" to strip them of their powers if it came to that), or even Mojo I guess (if it *really* came to *that*/he actually was pressed for some reason to find a way to do so, though I suppose his lack of a good track record so far isn't much reason to give hope in this area ;-). The only other characters with superpowers I've seen on the PPG's so far have all been bad guys, unless one counts "Major Man" (heh)...
-B.
"Catastrophe": thought it was a pretty tepid/mediocre episode at best....a monster loses its cat, the girls find it. Liked Bubbles' "talking to animals via concentric rings" bit (a la the way Aquaman would communicate with fish on the "Superfriends", right down to the sound effect Bubbles' concentric circles was making)...
"Candy Is Dandy": A rather interesting entry...apparently this show's take on the issue of what happens when a superhero uses their powers for some less-than-noble urge (though I understand some unseen-by-me episode that involves knocking out teeth for tooth fairy money is along similar lines), as seen here with the girls arranging with Mojo Jojo(!) for him to cause random destruction while they "stop" him repeatedly all so they can get candy from the Mayor as a reward. However, their nasty turn at the end of their scheme is decidedly something else, and what they did to Mojo...well, I suppose the word "excessive force" certainly comes to mind (along with a few other analogies I won't go into). Wonder what Sharklady made of her favorite PPG character being left in a, erm, emergency-room-needed condition. Obviously, as shown at the episode's end (with the girls' reaction to what they'd done) not the girls' higest moment in terms of their playing superhero.
Also made me think of several other things: 1) Assume this'd serve just to make Mojo even angrier/more motivated; 2) I wonder what the Professor's reaction was if/when he got wind of all this (hitting the roof, I'd gather); 3) Probably unrelated, but their wailing on Mojo (before coming to their senses) did make me briefly wonder what would happen if the girls really *did* take a truly evil (without remorse/guilt) turn, a la the Rowdyruff Boys...namely wondering who'd be capable of stopping them---the Professor I suppose (maybe with the "antidote to Chemical X" from "Mo Job" to strip them of their powers if it came to that), or even Mojo I guess (if it *really* came to *that*/he actually was pressed for some reason to find a way to do so, though I suppose his lack of a good track record so far isn't much reason to give hope in this area ;-). The only other characters with superpowers I've seen on the PPG's so far have all been bad guys, unless one counts "Major Man" (heh)...
-B.