Thursday, October 16, 2014

Sawtooth Cave and More

In time for Halloween, it's the third Alpha and Omega sequel "The Legend of the Sawtooth Cave." It's not really set on Halloween, but there's a cave in Shadow Forest that's said to be haunted. The adults are hesitant to go in but decide to check it out again anyway because that's where the food is. The kids return to check it out on their own and get chased away by rude porcupines, a strange wind, and a ghost wolf. Runt sees past all that and finds a wolf named Daria who is blind, and he  agrees to take her back to her old pack. She's lived in the cave all alone since she was young because according to the law of her pack, the handicapped had to be killed. Her mother got killed instead and she's hidden in the cave ever since, protected by her ghost mother and the porcupines. As Humphrey puts it, "This is beyond twisted." After fighting a little with her old pack, they escape and agree to take her in to their pack, and her mother's ghost is appeased. There was also a message about parents letting go of their children and letting them grow up, but it would have profited from better writing or a better setting. It could have been tightened to half an hour with fewer subplots involving Tony and his cohorts almost leading a witch-hunt against the ghost or the porcupines. Unfortunately, there's going to be another installment in the spring, though I don't know what it's supposed to be about. This series ceased being amusing long ago. It's not even about anything anymore except maybe preaching tolerance in different ways, and even that is getting old.
I enjoyed the episode of Teen Titans Go! titled "Friendship," which had Control Freak send them into an episode of Pretty Pretty Pegasus. The best part was when he said "Holy smokes you're a nerd" to Raven when she was explaining what a flerd was (a combination of flock and herd for pegasi). Given the various fight sequences in the real MLP, though, it shouldn't have taken much for the rest of the Titans to convince the ponies to solve their problems with violence when communications broke down...with a smattering of "Swarm of the Century" with Pinkie not explaining herself properly. If the unicorns had just explained why they couldn't stop playing music, there wouldn't have been much of a conflict to begin with...though that would have led to a "Dragonshy" situation.
On Whose Line, I think they've started to catch on that starting mock fights with Aisha equates to ratings. Meanwhile, the current season of Power Rangers keeps recycling plots from previous incarnations both early and recent.

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