[6.5/10] This is an interesting episode because it flips my usual reaction to his show. Normally, I find the main story with the four guardians pretty half-baked and dull, but get a kick out of the humor and fun of the Vera storyline. This was the opposite.
The idea of Vera experiencing teenage emotions makes for a good premise, and it was fun for about two minutes. But her rampaging through emotions and putting the team in danger and, what do you know, making it so that the codeck can fire weapons now (something to add to the toy), feels really broad and uninteresting. There’s the germ of a good idea there, but it’s executed in a particularly over-the-top fashion. That said, the young actress who plays Vera did a really nice job at expressing genuine grief over the idea that she nearly hurt her friends, and it provides solid motivation for her to give up on the equivalent of Data’s emotion chip in this one.
But I actually liked the Austin story, such as it was, in this one! His Mission Impossible-esque run through the laser beams was well done. His tête-à-tête with the worm (which had a cool design) was cleverly done. And the entire assault on the bank computers was well done and made more sense than most villain plots on this show. Even the scenes of the government’s internet security department getting involved adds some intrigue to what’s going on with the Sourcerer that’s been missing from the show so far.
Overall, this is a hard one to rate, since the show does the things it normally does poorly well, and the things it normally does well, poorly. But Austin vs. the worm and the general attack on the bank computer in general bring this one up to being passable, if not exactly good.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2018-06-27T18:16:35Z
[6.5/10] This is an interesting episode because it flips my usual reaction to his show. Normally, I find the main story with the four guardians pretty half-baked and dull, but get a kick out of the humor and fun of the Vera storyline. This was the opposite.
The idea of Vera experiencing teenage emotions makes for a good premise, and it was fun for about two minutes. But her rampaging through emotions and putting the team in danger and, what do you know, making it so that the codeck can fire weapons now (something to add to the toy), feels really broad and uninteresting. There’s the germ of a good idea there, but it’s executed in a particularly over-the-top fashion. That said, the young actress who plays Vera did a really nice job at expressing genuine grief over the idea that she nearly hurt her friends, and it provides solid motivation for her to give up on the equivalent of Data’s emotion chip in this one.
But I actually liked the Austin story, such as it was, in this one! His Mission Impossible-esque run through the laser beams was well done. His tête-à-tête with the worm (which had a cool design) was cleverly done. And the entire assault on the bank computers was well done and made more sense than most villain plots on this show. Even the scenes of the government’s internet security department getting involved adds some intrigue to what’s going on with the Sourcerer that’s been missing from the show so far.
Overall, this is a hard one to rate, since the show does the things it normally does poorly well, and the things it normally does well, poorly. But Austin vs. the worm and the general attack on the bank computer in general bring this one up to being passable, if not exactly good.