This episode features little attention on the Guardians and focuses primarily on Knight Hawk and the nuclear war that hovers on the horizon, as Nukem and Anubis prepare to face off, metaphorically.
And I'm not sure what Christopher Judge (who appears to be having a ball) is parodying as President Nukem. Real subtle name, guys. He's a bit too over the top of Reagan. Trump, maybe, but a) Trump never threatened nuclear war, and b) it's 2022, production staff. Trump left office in 2020. So... Nukem is a parody of Biden? No, not really. Obama? They're both presidents of color, but Nukem isn't Obama, either. Bush Jr. He hasn't been in office for a while, either. The show is like a relic of the 80s in that manner, too, and all over the place. I guess he's a generic parody of a Republican president, but Biden is the one overseeing the world coming to the brink of "nuclear apocalypse" (Biden's words, not mine). And Nukem is a POC, which we kept being told by Democrats that only Democrats support. So the parody element is all over the map.
But it's nice to see Christopher Judge getting work. And it's interesting watching him play a character who is a 180 from Teal'c.
The rest is a twisted take on Batman and his wards, with a new short-lived version of Spider-Man tossed in. And this is the first time where the animation style takes me out of the show. Sepia Spider has this animated spider-like creature (mostly) on his back. Are we actually seeing it as part of the character? It is just an animated feature. Ditto with some of the other animation choices. Knight Hawk spits and coughs, and we get the words "Spit" and "Cough" in word balloons sort of. The terrorists that get beat up have cartoon eyes, and Orsted has a bull's head. This isn't flashbacks or descriptions by an off-screen speaker: this is all on-screen and happening in real-time.
Not only that, but the animated spider keeps us from seeing some of the fight choreography. And it does weird stuff like begging a terrorist not to kill Sepia Spider. The heck?
Red Talon is some odd parody of... something. He looks more like Winter Soldier, and his origin is more Dick Grayson than Jason Todd/Red Hood. Little Wing has some kind of superpower, I think. His chest flares with flames, he has the resources to get flown to Anubis' HQ, and he jumps from a few thousand feet and lands unharmed. What is he?
Like I said, superheroics are just background noise in this episode, which focuses on the threat of nuclear war and Knight Hawk and his former wards. But it's all very blurry and hard to tell what's going on, and the animation style actually clashes with the action for the first time.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?
And I'm not sure what Christopher Judge (who appears to be having a ball) is parodying as President Nukem. Real subtle name, guys. He's a bit too over the top of Reagan. Trump, maybe, but a) Trump never threatened nuclear war, and b) it's 2022, production staff. Trump left office in 2020. So... Nukem is a parody of Biden? No, not really. Obama? They're both presidents of color, but Nukem isn't Obama, either. Bush Jr. He hasn't been in office for a while, either. The show is like a relic of the 80s in that manner, too, and all over the place. I guess he's a generic parody of a Republican president, but Biden is the one overseeing the world coming to the brink of "nuclear apocalypse" (Biden's words, not mine). And Nukem is a POC, which we kept being told by Democrats that only Democrats support. So the parody element is all over the map.
But it's nice to see Christopher Judge getting work. And it's interesting watching him play a character who is a 180 from Teal'c.
The rest is a twisted take on Batman and his wards, with a new short-lived version of Spider-Man tossed in. And this is the first time where the animation style takes me out of the show. Sepia Spider has this animated spider-like creature (mostly) on his back. Are we actually seeing it as part of the character? It is just an animated feature. Ditto with some of the other animation choices. Knight Hawk spits and coughs, and we get the words "Spit" and "Cough" in word balloons sort of. The terrorists that get beat up have cartoon eyes, and Orsted has a bull's head. This isn't flashbacks or descriptions by an off-screen speaker: this is all on-screen and happening in real-time.
Not only that, but the animated spider keeps us from seeing some of the fight choreography. And it does weird stuff like begging a terrorist not to kill Sepia Spider. The heck?
Red Talon is some odd parody of... something. He looks more like Winter Soldier, and his origin is more Dick Grayson than Jason Todd/Red Hood. Little Wing has some kind of superpower, I think. His chest flares with flames, he has the resources to get flown to Anubis' HQ, and he jumps from a few thousand feet and lands unharmed. What is he?
Like I said, superheroics are just background noise in this episode, which focuses on the threat of nuclear war and Knight Hawk and his former wards. But it's all very blurry and hard to tell what's going on, and the animation style actually clashes with the action for the first time.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?
