Make Believe It Or Not Episode Discussion 11/17/06

[Mr. Marshmallow]

Yeah.......I just got done watching it after I recorded since I was out during the premiere, and since I am too tired, hungry and lazy to go through everyone's posts on this thread, I'm gonna post my comments honestly and as thoroughly as I can.

.....This episode really....I don't know how to explain it. It wasn't that great honestly, it's just too weird for words and not the funny good weird way more like the....I can't explain what the hell I just saw weird way. There was some interesting things here but I think they were executed poorly.

The things I liked: Reference to older episodes about Goo's ability to not control her IFs, always nice to see. She was much better here and I LOVED how she actually got "owned" (hearing Bloo say that was priceless) and couldn't take defeat.

Goo was the only incredibly good part about this episode. The fact she has admitted to her mistakes, repeatively apologized to Mac for what happened, and that she couldn't control her IFs were all very new and unique things for Goo to work off of.

The Space boogies (or whatever there called) were unique looking and pretty cool. I loved the sprouting tentacles thing and Wilt doing the Darth Vader saber fight with Bloo was great, as was Wilt actually being good at acting evil.

Now the bad: Bloo shutting Mac outside of the door.....I'm sorry but that's just NOT cool. It upset me...seriously. Even if these aliens were not evil as far as torture goes, the fact Bloo shut him out in a time when they seemed to fear for their lives....that's just not cool.

Wilt being able to get so into his character and automatically dump his friends for the aliens wasn't "Wilt"ish. His behavior in "Where there's a wilt" was more plausible then this. I also didn't get this whole imaginary attack thing until later and even now, it still seems weird.

But my biggest beef is the fact that while ALL of this was going on....Madame Foster, Mr. Herriman, and Frankie are NO WHERE to be found. "Infernal slumber" made sense because they were at Mac's house, they had a plausible reason for not showing them.

But for evil IF aliens to break into the house, chase Mac and Bloo who scream the whole episode practically, and kick Goo out all through the house and not have ANY of those 3 chars who basically NEVER leave the house around, hard to swallow.

I understand Frankie, Madame Foster and Herriman wouldn;'t have worked in the episode but seriously, you can't expect people not to wonder where they are when all of this crazy crap is going on. None of them would leave the house completely unsupervised.

The only time they did that was with Bloo in "Squeeze the day" and that was because they figured with him alone nothing would happen...and they were right more or less. So all in all, last week's episode was much more entertaining then this.

Like before, this was clever writing but I found "Emancipation" more enjoyable to watch and watch AGAIN then this one. Outside of Goo's amazing character development, this episode didn't really make me laugh that much. It just weirded me out and made Wilt and Bloo do things that just irked me.