[6,2/10] As childhood lessons go, “Don’t take your younger siblings to a haunted house because they’ll get nightmares” isn’t necessarily the most urgent or universal moral, but I suppose it’s fine. The show wrings a few laughs out of the walkings’ fascination with the “tumble bunnies”, and Wicket’s nightmare sequence has some creativity to it. The titular hut of horrors allows the show’s animators to go a bit wild with character designs, which is a boon, and I even appreciated the gag of the old timey scary music coming from a little pipe organ-topped creature.
All of that said, Wicket’s kind of a jerk here, which I suppose is partly necessary to put him in a place where he can learn the lesson, but still feels like a strange trend in season 2 to making the main characters unlikable. And the sitcom-y shtick of the Ewoks trying to stifle the cries of the walklings with pie is pretty dumb.
On the whole, this is more watchable than many episodes this season, even if it’s no great shakes, so I’ll take it.
As an aside, is Wicket’s father, Deej, dead? We haven’t seen him in a while, and he’s conspicuously absent when the rest of the family comes home at the end of the day, including Wicket’s siblings who’ve barely been seen this season. It’d be kind of weird if they quietly offed him between seasons.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2022-06-16T04:50:50Z
[6,2/10] As childhood lessons go, “Don’t take your younger siblings to a haunted house because they’ll get nightmares” isn’t necessarily the most urgent or universal moral, but I suppose it’s fine. The show wrings a few laughs out of the walkings’ fascination with the “tumble bunnies”, and Wicket’s nightmare sequence has some creativity to it. The titular hut of horrors allows the show’s animators to go a bit wild with character designs, which is a boon, and I even appreciated the gag of the old timey scary music coming from a little pipe organ-topped creature.
All of that said, Wicket’s kind of a jerk here, which I suppose is partly necessary to put him in a place where he can learn the lesson, but still feels like a strange trend in season 2 to making the main characters unlikable. And the sitcom-y shtick of the Ewoks trying to stifle the cries of the walklings with pie is pretty dumb.
On the whole, this is more watchable than many episodes this season, even if it’s no great shakes, so I’ll take it.
As an aside, is Wicket’s father, Deej, dead? We haven’t seen him in a while, and he’s conspicuously absent when the rest of the family comes home at the end of the day, including Wicket’s siblings who’ve barely been seen this season. It’d be kind of weird if they quietly offed him between seasons.