Flanderization really in high gear here.
Impressions:
I was pretty sick of this episode halfway in. It was basically giving an episode to Jar Jar Binks or Wesley Crusher and telling them to really, really ham it up. You can’t possibly be too loud or obnoxious. But also, make it an appeal to how big your feelings are. Ten straight minutes of listening to this stupid kid scream and have a tantrum about how much she cares about things and how seriously the issue of the week is that we’re doing gags about.
And then we reach the second half, and the screaming finally stops. What does it give way to? The same thing as always, montages. Of all the things that I could say were decent about the early episodes, or even the parody ones, a child throwing a ten minute temper tantrum and montages are no part of it. Even the final bit of drama is “oh no, a random solar flare that had a random effect.” Sure. Fits in well with the entire episode’s hand-wavey nonsense about the non-crisis supposedly at hand that they need to drop everything and build spacecraft for, I guess, but I’m stil not feeling very receptive to your attempts to appeal to emotion after twenty minutes of rubbing my aural nerves raw.
