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| Admittedly Terramar here looks to be growing out of his mum's head – but hay, seaponies, right? |
S9E03: "Uprooted"
13 April 2019My original rating: ★★★ (just)
IMDb score: 6.7
The one with sapling headphonesThoughts: The students were frequently the highlight of Season 8, but I didn't get that from this episode. After the intro recalling "What Lies Beneath" (oh joy, more cruelty towards Gallus) I felt Nicole Dubuc's ep was often slow and felt stretched to fill its 22 minutes, and some of the conflict felt forced. I'm still not sure how I feel about the "New Tree" being canonically seen in the G5 film! The permission slip montage is overlong and fairly dull, though it was nice to see Terramar again for a few moments. The song was okay but not much more, and the visuals were fairly nice but not amazing. A few good lines, but not enough. All in all, a bit of a re-run of "Castle Sweet Castle" from S5, but not as good. This is being nudged down to a two-star rating.
Choice quote: Silverstream: "It's impressionism!"
New rating: ★★
Next up will be "Sparkle's Seven", which I am going to count as the 200th episode whatever Wikipedia says. It was definitely promoted as such at the time, so calling it 199 out of an arbitrary decision not to count "Best Gift Ever" can get in the sea. I quite liked the ep in 2019.
I honestly can't remember a single thing about this episode. Nothing you said rings a bell, but I've definitely watched it. That by definition makes it unmemorable.
ReplyDeleteNot the Young Six's strongest episode, admittedly, but I find it decent... for a Nicole Dubuc script, anyway. (Yona carries the episode, if you ask me.) But like The Beginning of the End, Uprooted suffers from foreknowledge regarding the finale, only this doesn't have as major an impact.
ReplyDeleteI think this episode was meant to set up the Young Six as the new bearers of the Elements of Harmony, but I don't think I ever saw any foreshadowing between this and the finale. Is it just me, or does it feel like the writers picked it up only to drop is in favor of... whatever? Surely I can't be the only one thinking this?