[5.8/10] I have no idea what anyone’s goal is here. I guess Xanatos was trying to capture a god in the hopes it would grant him immortality? That doesn’t quite have the finesse of a typical Xanatos plan, and the show even nodded to this with winking lines about him trying the “cliché villain” routine. Team Goliath wanted to help Elisa’s younger sister, Beth but for much of the episode it wasn’t clear from what. And the Coyote spirit wanted to....remind Elisa’s dad of his roots? I get that he’s supposed to be a trickster or something, but it’s a pretty circuitous route to get to that idea.
Plus, the whole notion of the Coyote God looking like a younger version of Elisa’s dad was pretty odd. I kind of get what they were going for, but it didn’t really add up. Maybe the show had a Native American advisor on board to make sure the cultural homages were correct, but I’m skeptical. This whole thing felt like kind of a mess, with an underbaked Xanatos plot and some amorphous material about Elisa’s dad reembracing the culture he came from, but without enough direction or connection between the two to really work. (And don’t get me started on Coyote-Bot being made out of the infinity cauldron or whatever.)
On the whole, while the end of the episode with Elisa’s dad visiting his father’s grave is a little moving, it’s not because of anything the sweaty twenty minutes that preceded it earned.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2021-08-09T23:42:39Z
[5.8/10] I have no idea what anyone’s goal is here. I guess Xanatos was trying to capture a god in the hopes it would grant him immortality? That doesn’t quite have the finesse of a typical Xanatos plan, and the show even nodded to this with winking lines about him trying the “cliché villain” routine. Team Goliath wanted to help Elisa’s younger sister, Beth but for much of the episode it wasn’t clear from what. And the Coyote spirit wanted to....remind Elisa’s dad of his roots? I get that he’s supposed to be a trickster or something, but it’s a pretty circuitous route to get to that idea.
Plus, the whole notion of the Coyote God looking like a younger version of Elisa’s dad was pretty odd. I kind of get what they were going for, but it didn’t really add up. Maybe the show had a Native American advisor on board to make sure the cultural homages were correct, but I’m skeptical. This whole thing felt like kind of a mess, with an underbaked Xanatos plot and some amorphous material about Elisa’s dad reembracing the culture he came from, but without enough direction or connection between the two to really work. (And don’t get me started on Coyote-Bot being made out of the infinity cauldron or whatever.)
On the whole, while the end of the episode with Elisa’s dad visiting his father’s grave is a little moving, it’s not because of anything the sweaty twenty minutes that preceded it earned.