I’ll say. The fifty year-old typing this post also thinks it’s the best show on TV.
So much good stuff. I love how Orpheus keeps suggesting heinous things that Rusty might have done to merit the demon. And Underworld Coach McGuirk is back!
“Don’t wince!”
Despite your kind words for me I must now violently attack you for this comment. Or at least strongly disagree.
I really enjoyed “20 Years to Midnight”. Showing that Johnny Quest actually somehow turned out worse than Dr. Venture killed me, I love seeing the Impossibles, but the best part was that ending. Having Dr. Venture (senior) come out of the device was a shock and then having it turn out to just be jerking people around and having the characters on the show be angry about it was one of the best moments in the series.
Yeah, “20 Years to Midnight” is one of my favorite episodes. I mean, what’s not to love about a twelve-foot alien booming, “IGNORE ME!” Especially when he does it to the baby.
But something I meant to mention earlier. Do we think Myra is really the boys’ (that is to say, the first incarnation of the boys) mother? Dr. V and Brock never said yes or no, Dr. V just admitted that yes, he did fuck her (and unless we failed high school hygeine, we know that that doeasn’t always end in birth.) And then what? What happened for them to break up? I can assume Myra was re-assigned because she slept with Rusty, but where to? (Unless we are to believe Brock and she never was OSI, just some nut from American Gladiators. But even then, she has the potential to be their mother, or just some woman the Doctor screwed.)
Yeah, “20 Years to Midnight” is one of my favorite episodes. I mean, what’s not to love about a twelve-foot alien booming, “IGNORE ME!” Especially when he does it to the baby.
But something I meant to mention earlier. Do we think Myra is really the boys’ (that is to say, the first incarnation of the boys) mother? Dr. V and Brock never said yes or no, Dr. V just admitted that yes, he did fuck her (and unless we failed high school hygeine, we know that that doeasn’t always end in birth.) And then what? What happened for them to break up? I can assume Myra was re-assigned because she slept with Rusty, but where to? (Unless we are to believe Brock and she never was OSI, just some nut from American Gladiators. But even then, she has the potential to be their mother, or just some woman the Doctor screwed.)
Dang. I want to watch it again. I last saw it on Saturday morning ([adult swim] fix), and I was questioning whether Brock and the Doc were telling the boys the truth about Myra, or a cover story. I decided on it being a cover story, based upon something that Myra knew, but I can’t recall what it was.
Oh, well, I got it on TiVo.
She can’t be the boy’s mother since they don’t have one. While not stated, it’s fairly obvious that Hank is a clone of Brock and Dean is a clone of Dr. Venture.
Except that in the several flashbacks we’ve seen, Dr. Venture as a boy doesn’t look exactly like Hank. He looks a little like him, yes, but not enough for me to say yes, he’s a clone. At least not at this point (although I have noticed we have never seen what Dr. V looked like as a teenager. Only as a young boy, and then as a college student.)
I think she’s the mother. Rusty must have done something awful to wig her out. He probably has serious commitment issues perhaps due to the fact that we’ve never seen his mother, well, at least not from the inside. She probably died when he was very young. Recall what happened to Johnny Quest’s mother.
It also seems to explain the reason he ran from Mrs. Impossible. She has a resemblance to Myra and the same wacko neediness. Of course that’s reason enough to run.
IGNORE ME!!!
I have to point out—Myra was doing the same nervous “10 and 2…10 and 2…” chant when driving as Dean was. It seems like they were implying he’d inherited it from her—the way he did, of course, is up to debate. (Maybe she’s his mother, or he has some of her DNA spliced in, or she helped program the teaching-beds…or maybe they both just have similarly rotten brains.)
Duck and roll, Hank! Protect your limbs!
A few good bits do not a coherent episode make. I felt just as jerked around as the characters at the end, and abandoning the comic possibilities behind the older Jonny Quest was just a blunderous oversight, especially considering the amount of time they spent with Race Bannon in the first season’s “Ice Station Impossible” (I’ve got to believe they’ll come back to that underwater station; it’s just too great an opportunity to pass up). And the whole “IGNORE ME” bit was funny once, not 387 times (though having him explain himself as he pondered whether or not to exit the X2 was funny).
Funny in spots, but overall a mess, and the plotline of assembling the pieces for the doorway was just way too thin to hang anything on. i stand by it as the worst so far this season.
You’re in deep trouble when you link the phrase “coherent episode” with Adult Swim. It can only get worse from there. If an episode of Venture ever seems coherent to you, then you’ve been sucked beyond some sort of cognitive event horizon.
I freakin’ loved this! Every goddamned Hardy Boys book I read as a kid (and I read a lot of them, because my elementary school library was just lousy with them) had one of the characters exit a moving car at some point in the plot and they always explained how you were supposed to do it. To this day, I call it the “Hardy Boys’ roll.”
Right, and I’m sorry, but even if raised by Dr. Venture there’s no way that Brock’s genetic material would result in something so lame.
I also noticed that Myra was a blonde and had Hank’s nose. She’s the mom.
Yes, Adult Swim seems to be the perfect TV for late-night stoners, but really you don’t have to be high to appreciate VB (Tom goes to the Mayor, OK, and even then…)
“You just said ‘always faithful terrible lizard’”
“I did? Cool!”
Also, I’m 24, and I knew the accented-killinger guy was related to kissinger, but I don’t quite understand the humor as using him the way they did, probably because I don’t know a whole lot about him.