[5.5/10] I’m going to be frank. I really struggled not t o zone out during this one. The Savage Land business has a snowball’s chance next to Pyro of keeping my attention for some reason. It doesn’t help that when the episode isn’t the usual energy beam blasts with a few dinosaurs mixed in, it’s stentorian-voiced rock gods giving convoluted exposition about their evil plans.
There isn’t much to this one. I do still like the througline of Storm being a force to be reckoned with who hides a surprising amount of power between her staid and poised demeanor. The business about Sauron being a pawn of Gorak and his villainous ploy is pretty dull and Storm’s “I have to stop Gorak from poisoning the land” routine stumbles as well.
The only vaguely attention-grabbing thing is the use of the group’s powers. Rogue trying to help use Sauron’s powers to stop and out of control Storm has the intrigue of how all these uniquely powerful people will interact with one another. In the same vein, Sauron trying to power-suck Rogue and having their powers cancel each other out is an interesting tack. And as silly as it is to watch a giant were-pterodactyl fight a giant loinclothed stone man, the mega-battle is at least something out of the norm.
Overall, this duology has been a real dud, but mainly in the “stuff is happening, but little of it is interesting” way, rather than the “actively bad” sort of way.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2023-05-17T01:16:09Z
[5.5/10] I’m going to be frank. I really struggled not t o zone out during this one. The Savage Land business has a snowball’s chance next to Pyro of keeping my attention for some reason. It doesn’t help that when the episode isn’t the usual energy beam blasts with a few dinosaurs mixed in, it’s stentorian-voiced rock gods giving convoluted exposition about their evil plans.
There isn’t much to this one. I do still like the througline of Storm being a force to be reckoned with who hides a surprising amount of power between her staid and poised demeanor. The business about Sauron being a pawn of Gorak and his villainous ploy is pretty dull and Storm’s “I have to stop Gorak from poisoning the land” routine stumbles as well.
The only vaguely attention-grabbing thing is the use of the group’s powers. Rogue trying to help use Sauron’s powers to stop and out of control Storm has the intrigue of how all these uniquely powerful people will interact with one another. In the same vein, Sauron trying to power-suck Rogue and having their powers cancel each other out is an interesting tack. And as silly as it is to watch a giant were-pterodactyl fight a giant loinclothed stone man, the mega-battle is at least something out of the norm.
Overall, this duology has been a real dud, but mainly in the “stuff is happening, but little of it is interesting” way, rather than the “actively bad” sort of way.