[6.0/10] Despite this being a double-length episode by season 2 standards, there’s not much here. We’ve gone full heat miser/snow miser with the personifications of summer and winter trading off a magical scepter as the seasons change. Of course, the main quartet of Ewoks have to save the day when things turn unexpectedly wintery.
That said, they don’t actually do very much of note. The big arc here is that Teebo thinks he accidentally caused the unseasonable freeze when trying to summon a cooling breeze, only to find out that it was actually the snow king. So the whole thrust is that they didn’t actually cause anything.
They do go on a journey to find the sun king and then to steal back the season scepter from the snow king, but that breaks down to a series of corny attempts to sell snowcones and the usual empty chase.
The only thing that really recommends this one is the world-building and sense of place. We met the leaf queen whom the Ewoks go to see in one of the earlier episodes, and along the way, our heroes see the neighboring Mimph and Strutter communities freezing due to the change. The stories in season 2 continue to be less than great, but the Forest Moon of Endor does increasingly feel like its own little community and ecosystem, which is a plus.
Unfortunately, the designs of the personifications of seasons and the like are nothing to write home about. And the best we get in terms of characterization is the sun king as a surfer dude, which...sure, why not. There’s some juice to the fact that the cold king is being manipulated by a “duchess of frost”, and when the kids use the scepter to accidentally restore him, it turns out he’s not such a bad guy after all. But it’s not much.
On the whole, this one at least has more purpose and stakes than the average season 2 Ewoks episode, and a little more texture with the seasonal spirits in action, but is still frequently trying on a scene-to-scene basis.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2022-06-08T23:26:23Z
[6.0/10] Despite this being a double-length episode by season 2 standards, there’s not much here. We’ve gone full heat miser/snow miser with the personifications of summer and winter trading off a magical scepter as the seasons change. Of course, the main quartet of Ewoks have to save the day when things turn unexpectedly wintery.
That said, they don’t actually do very much of note. The big arc here is that Teebo thinks he accidentally caused the unseasonable freeze when trying to summon a cooling breeze, only to find out that it was actually the snow king. So the whole thrust is that they didn’t actually cause anything.
They do go on a journey to find the sun king and then to steal back the season scepter from the snow king, but that breaks down to a series of corny attempts to sell snowcones and the usual empty chase.
The only thing that really recommends this one is the world-building and sense of place. We met the leaf queen whom the Ewoks go to see in one of the earlier episodes, and along the way, our heroes see the neighboring Mimph and Strutter communities freezing due to the change. The stories in season 2 continue to be less than great, but the Forest Moon of Endor does increasingly feel like its own little community and ecosystem, which is a plus.
Unfortunately, the designs of the personifications of seasons and the like are nothing to write home about. And the best we get in terms of characterization is the sun king as a surfer dude, which...sure, why not. There’s some juice to the fact that the cold king is being manipulated by a “duchess of frost”, and when the kids use the scepter to accidentally restore him, it turns out he’s not such a bad guy after all. But it’s not much.
On the whole, this one at least has more purpose and stakes than the average season 2 Ewoks episode, and a little more texture with the seasonal spirits in action, but is still frequently trying on a scene-to-scene basis.