On the Run (Steven Universe)-Animated Critic #14

(To skip storyline stuff scroll down to the picture of the episode.)

You OK?

I'm fine Ashley. Are you sure you should be here right now. 

I don't care what my sister says you're my friend so I'm going to make sure you're feeling alright. 

Well....thanks. *Sigh* I just feel really guilty. I can't believe I did that to her. I feel like such a horrible person. 

Hey, it's fine. Don't beat yourself up about it.

How am I supposed to not beat myself up about it. I hurt her dearly. I abandoned her while she was getting ganged up on. She told me I toke away what was most important in her life by just standing there. I'm such a fricking coward. I could've done something. Anything and it would've been OK. Even if I got the snot beat out of me it wouldn't of mattered. We would've still been friends and none of this would've happened. Ugh, I need to get my mind off of this. I'm going to do a review. 

OK, just please don't be too harsh on yourself. 

I'll try. See ya. 

(Storyline segment over)

"So....many......feels......"

Show-Steven Universe 

Episode Title-On the Run

Air Date-February 5th 2015

Season 1

Episode 40

Hello my name is Evan A.K.A. the Animated Critic. Yes it's time to talk about Steven Universe again cause that went so well last time. 

Yeah the Joking Victim review was not my best work. Oh well that's the past for ya, full of regret. Allow me to make up for it though with this episode. On the Run. Not much to introduce here so I'll just say this well be a short review. I have other things to do like finishing the One Year Anniversary Special and catching up on the 'In Too Deep' episodes of the show. So let's dig into On the Run and see why it's one of my favorite episodes of Steven Universe. 

The episode starts off with Steven reading a book. 

The gems warp in carrying the marble things from a previous episode.....that I haven't yet covered but the cool thing about Steven Universe is that when they refer back to a previous episode it usually is only a brief mentioning, meaning you can still watch an episode with little knowledge of past events and still be able to get a lot of enjoyment out of it. In fact that's what happened to me. This was one of the first episodes of the show I watched and I had no idea what the marble things were when I first watched the episode.

Anyway Amethyst crushes one and as a result a bunch of ooze splatters everywhere.

She promptly gets told off for it. Pearl says this is serious business and that they have to research these things as it may be a sign the homeworld gems are returning and if they are they have to be defeated. 

Garnet tells her to calm down and that Earth is still safe. Steven asks what they are talking about and Pearl explains that the homeworld tried to do some terrible things to earth. Her, Garnet, and Rose thought it was unfair how the Earth was being treated so they vowed to defend it......even if it meant they could never go home. 

While talking about this Amethyst gets a very disgruntled look. 

And yes this is important. 

Subtle story telling at its finest if you ask me. 

Anyway Steven says they're kind of like the No Home Boys. A series of books about a group of boys.....with no home. 

The book he was reading earlier was On the Run his favorite in the series. 

Pearl says that because they're in a house they are not like the No Home Boys. Which if you over analyze things like I like to do this line is kinda sweet. I mean the reason Steven made the comparison was because they had to run away from the place they considered home. Pearl saying they aren't like the No Home Boys could mean she's come to terms with this planet being her new home. As such she isn't a No Home Boy cause while she isn't in her original home, Earth is still a home to her. 

Or......maybe I'm just over analyzing things again. 

I tend to do that. 

Anyway Steven says it sounds like fun to be a No Home Boy. 

Yes being homeless is just the greatest. No food, no AC, No Heat, No shower.....do I need to continue this list?

Amethyst then shows her brilliance as a mother figure and says they should totally run away from home together.

Mother of the Year right here people. 

So they do. We get a little song sequence that, like most other Steven Universe songs, is fricking amazing. 

Also Amethyst's singing voice is beautiful. 

But it does a good job of being entertaining while subtly moving along the character arc Amethyst well be going through during this episode, with lines such as:

"I don't care about what all the others say."

"Well I guess there are some things that well just never go away"

And "I wish I could see that's there's no better place than home, but home's a place that I have never known."

Yeah once we discuss Amethyst backstory all these things well make more sense. But weather you don't understand yet or you've already watched the episode and know what she's singing about, you just can't help but feel bad for Amethyst.

Anyway Steven and Amethyst end up on a train where they begin to eat lunch. Unfortunately a raccoon comes to eat Steven's.

Steven tries to sleep off his hunger, but hay isn't that comfortable.

Steven realizes that being homeless isn't exactly the greatest thing ever and tells Amethyst he wants to go home. Amethyst however says she still wants to go on saying that place isn't her home.

Steven thinks she means homeworld but Amethyst gets angry when he says that. She then ask if he wants to see where she really came from. This is where we get introduced to the Kindergarten.

Probably one of the creepiest parts of Steven Universe. Amethyst shows him around the place a bit. 

The rock she used to play on...

Some old Gem technology...

And the hole she came out of...

Yeah......she came out of a hole. As Amethyst shows off more of the Kindergarten to Steven he understandably gets more and more creeped out, and to be honest you really can't help but to be a bit creeped out alongside him.

Steven then notices all the other holes on the side of the cliff.....

This freaks him out even more. 

Pearl luckily comes in the nick of time saying Garnet told her they were here. She asks Amethyst how much she told Steven and this is where we get the whole backstory behind Amethyst and the Kindergarten. 

The homeworld grew gems here, Amethyst being one of them. Luckily the place was shut down after the Crystal Gems won, but they kept Amethyst around for reasons not described in this episode, and she became a member of the group. 

I feel like now would also be a time to bring up how tense this entire scene at the kindergarten has been. Even during this exposition its still very tense. You can just hear the pain and anger in Amethyst's voice as she's telling Steven all this. 

Amethyst then says she's always felt ashamed of her past and Pearl, just being there, keeps reminding her of the things she hates about herself. Man...you know sometimes it's hard to remember this show is targeted towards kids. Which isn't a bad thing I absolutely love the fact that a children's cartoon can be so deep and emotional and not have to condescend to the target audience. It treats kids intelligently which is fantastic.

We get a fight scene which, like everything else in this episode, is well done. It's animated and choreographed amazingly and it just raises the tension. 

Anyway it ends with the gem drill collapsing on Pearl and Steven. Steven uses his shield and Amethyst ends up running away. She starts to hide in her hole. Steven tries talking to her, but of course he really doesn't understand this situation so it doesn't work. So he convinces Pearl to talk to her. 

We then get a really heartwarming scene where Pearl tell Amethyst that she never considered this to be a part of her and that she was the one good thing that came out of this. This cheers Amethyst up and when they get out of the hole Amethyst rushes to give pearl a hug......which just put a big goofy smile on my face. 

And that's practically where the episode ends. 

Overall its amazing. It's everything great about Steven Universe in a nutshell. Great characters, great emotion and a great story. Something else I feel I should bring up is that I just love the creativity behind the entire idea of this show and the backstory to it. This episode really showcases that. I mean Amethyst backstory is really depressing but it is rather creative. It just amazes me sometimes that people have such a bright imagination and can create such truly wonderful things with it. 

Worst Part-We really never got a reason for why Steven thought being homeless was a good idea.....

Best Part-So many good ones to chose from, but I'll say the ending.

Overall-9.5/10

You know this episode does bring up some interesting stuff about the Past. It can be full of regrets and insecurity sometimes. You ever just sit there in bed at night thinking about all the things you've done wrong in your life. All the shame, embarrassment. Even if it was like 10 years ago you just can't help but feel ashamed about the stuff you've done. 

I'm sorry I'm getting a bit emotional here. Ha ha. Well have a good day. If you like this episode please let me know and leave a +1 on this blog post. And next time.........wait......next time it's our One Year Anniversary. 

Holy crap. What are we reviewing. 

Oh God. Ugh. Well I guess this is my ultimate test. Everything I've done on this blog for the past year has lead up to this. 

I'll see you guys later.

Peace.

.......

Ugh, that kid is still upset about this whole Adora situation. 

Uh...excuse me who are you.

Oh, I'm Kevin. You must be Ashley. Nice to meet you.

Uh, nice to meet you to, but how did you know my name.

Oh.....Uh.....I've heard about you. I'm a friend of Evan so......

Ah, are you also here because you're worried about him. 

Yeah. That boy worries me sometimes. I understand being upset, what he did wasn't exactly the right choice, but he's being so hard on himself. He has a tendency of doing that. 

Yeah. Even as a kid Adora would have to comfort him when he accidently did something that he wasn't supposed to. Ha ha. 

Do you think your sister would accept his apology. 

I don't know. We're a stubborn bunch. When someone pisses Adora off who knows how long she'll be fuming with anger.

Listen I have an idea, but we're going to have to wait to pull it off. 

Why?

The only way we're able to communicate with Evan is through this blog and next time he's going be using it it's going to be for his one year anniversary. I just don't want a bunch of drama to happen on that very special day for him.

But......we need to cheer him up as soon as possible.

Evan well be able to handle it. He's like this all the time it's nothing new. He'll manage his emotions. Besides I think being able to celebrate a year of doing this blog well definitely raise his spirits. We should just leave him be. 

OK then......so.

So we wait, but let me tell you what I'm planning.

To be concluded.

Driven to Tears (Spongebob)-Animated Critic #13

"The episode that makes you want to hit Patrick with a car."

Show-Spongebob Squarepants

Episode Title-Driven to Tears

Air Date-February 19th 2007

Season 4

Episode 77a 

Hello my name is Evan A.K.A. the Animated Critic. Time to do another awful Spongebob episode. When I was hypeing this episode up I said this was my least favorite episode of the show. The thing is though the general consensus for this episode is that it's just OK. Pueguyrulz gave the episode a Meh on his Spongebob Reviewed series and Mr. Enter said it conflicted him as to weather it's good or not. So my question is have I been to hard on the episode or is it really the worst episode of Spongebob to me. Let's dig into Driven to Tears and find out. 

The episode starts with Spongebob going to take his driving test......again. 

This time he brings Patrick along with him. Patrick is apparently holding on to his note cards for the test. 

It just begs the question though why Spongebob isn't holding his own note cards, but whatever. 

Patrick then states how super important these cards are and how it includes all the info he needs to pass the test. 

He then proceeds to eat them. 

And this is why Spongebob should've just held them himself. 

But seriously.....WHAT!?

I know It's a joke but it's not funny. 

And I also know Patrick is stupid but there's 2 problems with that. 

1-Being stupid is no excuse for being annoying. Even if it does make sense for a character to do something stupid if it's not funny and it's annoying then it's not funny and it's annoying. 

2-Patrick would never do something this stupid. I know Patrick Star and he wouldn't even think of eating the super important note cards that his friend needed. This is just fladerazation. Stretching out his stupidity to extreme lengths to the point that he's just out of character. If it was funny it would be excusable but......

Seriously I just can't get over this. He just eats the cards out of nowhere. 

Anyway Spongebob starts worrying but Patrick gives him a pep talk saying the 58th try will be the successful one.

Spongebob walks in courageously.

And a minute and a half later he comes out crying. 

Patrick says the test must be rigged and goes in to take it himself. We do actually get a funny line where Patrick tells Mrs. Puff she's not the boss of him. 

Anyway Patrick takes the test........even though he's not a student in Mrs. Puff's school. (Well unless you count the one day he was in the class during New Student Starfish.)

Anyway back outside Spongebob is feeling bad for letting Patrick take the test. Patrick comes outside though saying he did in fact pass. Which I guess does make since. After all in one episode he was practically telling Spongebob how to drive and pass the boating test. 

Patrick then says "I thought you said it was hard." That's not even the douchiest thing he'll say in this entire episode. Anyway Patrick gets a drivers license and thus has to take a picture for it. Here you can tell Patrick isn't trying to brag about the license he's just really excited about it which is understandable. It slightly annoys Spongebob that he keeps talking about it, which is also understandable. He's worked for this for like ever. Jealousy is understandable. He still acts happy for Patrick though, which is nice to see. 

But that's really where my praise well end for this episode.

So Patrick gets his Picture taking for the license.

But Patrick gets more than just a license. Since this episode is trying to make Spongebob feel as mad as possible at Patrick, Patrick also wins a new boat-mobile for being the 1 millionth person to get his license. 

Spongebob is still frustrated but still tries to be happy for Patrick. Which is really kinda sweet. 

But it gets worse. 

So far not much bad has actually happened but we'll get there. Oh boy well we get there. 

So we cut to Patrick and Spongebob driving around. Spongebob still being a bit angry about the whole situation but tries to be happy and proud for Patrick. 

But apparently they were just driving around Patrick's house for a few hours. 

Even though it was shown earlier in the same exact scene that they were on the road. 

But I'm just nitpicking now so I'll just move on. 

Patrick eventually does drop Spongebob off. The next scene we have is in the middle of night. Spongebob is trying to get some sleep but Patrick decides 3 am is the perfect time to work on his car, which of course creates a lot of commotion. 

And then after Spongebob tells Patrick to keep it down Patrick says "Can you keep it down, some people are tying to get some sleep." Get it.......it's funny cause Patrick is keeping Spongebob up and telling Spongebob to keep it down over the sound of his engine roaring......no.....no.....that's not funny. That's just Patrick being a douchey hypocrite idiot. Pretty much what he's been fladerized into during the modern seasons. Patrick did have jerkish tendencies in the older seasons but those were downplayed and oh yeah......ACTUALLY CREATED SOME FUNNY JOKES. Like I said in my Gone Flushin review fladerization happens when you over exaggerate a certain personality trait. Patrick's jerkey tendencies and stupidity for example. If it was funny and a minor bit of exaggeration then that's one thing but this...*sigh* why am I getting so work uped now......this isn't even the most prominent example of Patrick's annoying behavior. So Spongebob doesn't get any sleep and is tired the next morning. So tired he can't even walk to work. Patrick gives him a ride though. When he gets dropped off at the Krusty Krab Patrick tells Spongebob when he gets a license he can drive him around places. 

OK, that's pretty nice of him to say. Oh but wait this is Modern Patrick Star. What douche thing is he gonna say to ruin this.

"When you get your license you can drive me around.............if you get your license"

*Sigh* show the picture.

*sigh* all its doing is reminding me of a better time. 

You started off good Patrick but then you said "If you get your license" which was rather douchey of you. I really don't think I've ever wanted to slap you so hard in my life. 

Except for maybe in Good Neighbors.

Anyway Spongebob is so frustrated that he doesn't want to see another Boat mobile. But unfortunately the world decided to take a break from torturing Squidward and made Spongebob it's target instead. 

Mr. Krab's tells him he's working the Drive-Through.

You know it's funny. 4 seasons later they would have an episode that was about Mr. Krabs putting in a drive through. 

And that episode has no mention of this one. What's even funnier is that in Drive-Thru the actual Drive-Thru was just a hole in the wall while in this episode it's a full-on professional one. 

Anyway sorry I got off track. Weird though the the funniest thing about this episode is not even something it itself does. It's a meta thing. 

Anyway Patrick comes in and honks the horn as loud as he can into the microphone. 

Why? Because as we established earlier he decided he was gonna do everything in his power to be a jerk and annoy the ever living crap out of the audience. 

Funny right?

After work Patrick comes to pick up Spongebob. I well admit if anything it is nice that he is giving Spongebob rides. But the way he talks and acts makes me feel it's just to rub it in Spongebob's face that he got a Boat Mobile. But at least he is doing something kind. Doesn't make up for all the douchebaggery. 

Oh and get a load of this. 

He got a new suit as he apparently needs to keep his reputation as "professional driver."

Maybe instead of that you should try to keep your reputation of being a likeable, funny character. But no seasonal rot had to happen and screwed everyone in this show over. Patrick became a douche. Spongebob became an annoying man child. Mr. Krabs became an unlikable greedy douchebag who puts money before people. And poor Squidward gets abused in literally almost every episode he appears in. Why Spongebob. You know Spongebob isn't to blame. The show was supposed to end after season 3 and the movie. But Nickelodeon in all of their brilliance decided to screw that plan over. Even though the creator and most of the original writers left. I know Spongebob gets them consistent views. Even during its bad seasons. So financially this makes sense. But maybe if they actually decided to follow through with the original plan we could've had a perfect show. One that lasted long enough. Instead due to episodes like A Pal For Gary or One Coarse Meal people look at Spongebob with disgust now. Season 9 has improved the show quite considerably (with a few exceptions) and especially since Stephan Hillenberg returned. But how....how could they screw up such memorable and likeable characters. Woah......that was a long winded rant. Anyway during the drive home Patrick makes a U-Turn when he sees Spongebob's Parents. 

And for some reason he thinks that they're his parents. 

Wow wonder how Mr. and Mrs. Starfish feel about that. 

Also what's up with Patrick and getting confused about who his parents are. 

Anyway Patrick tells them he got a license but Spongebob didn't. 

He then tells them to not bring it up around him. You know like what he's been doing THIS ENTIRE FRICKING EPISODE. 

Screw you you pink selfish douchebag. 

Anyway I will admit the face Spongebob makes here is great.

Fricking just love it. 

Anyway we then get to the really bad part. 

Spongebob sees that Patrick is "speeding."

Actually the speed limit is 40 however according to Spongebob "he's going 40 and a half miles per hour. That's almost 41."

You know I may not like Family Guy but this picture pretty much sums how I feel.

You know how I said earlier Spongebob tried to be happy for his friend. Which was rather sweet. He may of been jealous but he still acted happy for Patrick. I guess he just decided to say screw it with that and tries to get Patrick arrested for "speeding." All because he's jealous of Patrick's license. Well it may actually have to do with the fact that Patrick keeps rubbing it in his face and has done rather douches things this entire episode. Yeah Patrick really doesn't deserve Spongebob's fake happiness for him. Though Spongebob trying to get Patrick arrested is still a little too far. 

Of course no police officer gives 2 flying craps. But then immediately afterwards Patrick actually does something worthy of telling the cops. He actually runs 3 red lights. 

Sponegebob calls him out for it, but Patrick says he's an expert driver. Which as we all know Experts never screw up. God I hate people like that. Egotistical douchebags who think that because they know what they're doing they don't have to take blame for screwing up. Or maybe Patrick is trying to say that because he's an expert there's no possible way he could screw up.....even though he is screwing up and can screw up just as much in the future. I hate that mindset just as much. It's just as egotistical. 

We get a joke where Patrick apparently made a u-turn..........through an orphanage. 

Really? Was that joke so necessary. It just seems so uncharacteristically dark for this show. (You gotta keep in mind this was before A Pal For Gary, One Coarse Meal, and Are You Happy Now so this is pretty dark for the point in time the episode was released.) 

And I'm all in for dark humor........if it's funny. Luckily according to Patrick they all dodged the car, but seriously......an orphanage. 

Anyway we see Spongebob and Patrick get in a little squabble. Some of the best episodes of the show have centered around Patrick and Spongebob being in a fight. Heck even in the modern seasons. Like Battle of Bikini Bottom. But the difference is Battle of Bikini Bottom was funny and both characters were still likeable. Here though nothing is funny, Patrick is an egotistical hypocrite and Spongebob is being a little brat out of sheer jealousy. 

It eventually ends with Spongebob tearing apart Patrick's license. 

Who knew it was so easy to tear apart plastic. It's so easy that the man who can barely even lift a cotton swab can do it.

Anyway Spongebob throws the pile of torn up license into the air. It lands in an officers hand and he identifies it as liter. This starts a high speed chase cause liter is the worse crime to ever commit in bikini bottom. 

Anyway Patrick keeps running from the police because he forgot how to drive and doesn't know how to stop. All because Spongebob ripped the license. Let's just forget that Patrick really never knew how to drive and also never had a license when he PASSED the driving test but minor nitpick, whatever. 

The chase conveniently leads to the police station.

Anyway the judge rightfully places Patrick in jail, but for the crime Spongebob committed. Spongebob realizes he should take the blame as Patrick is to soft for jail. So he confesses to the crime and gets thrown in the slammer with a smile on his face. 

Which is actually kinda funny. 

The episode ends with Spongebob serving his debt to society and meeting up with Patrick. We then get a sickeningly sweet scene of them making up and apologizing to each other. It's rather nice especially after all the doucheyness. Spongebob gives Pat a custom car plate he made for the boat mobile but because of Status Quo is God Patrick threw the boat out as the dial was on E which he took to mean 'end.' But he has a new idea. 

Awwwwwwww.........OK that's really sweet. 

And the episode ends there. 

When I was hypeing this episode up I said it was the worst episode of Spongebob in my opinion. Well after taking time to analyze it I still hate it but I don't hate it enough to say it's the worse. It's bad but has some decent moments in it. Patrick still came off as a hypocritical douche though and by the end Spongebob is aggravating to watch as well. The jokes fall flat with a few exceptions, and overall it just was not entertaining. 

The characters are unlikable, the jokes are bad. I can see why the general consensus is that it's just an OK episode but I still wholeheartedly think it's bad. Not the worse, but still bad. Congratulations Good Neighbors you are officially my least favorite episode again. 

Best Part-The Ending

Worst Part-Patrick......just Patrick

Overall-4/10

Well that's Driven to Tears. Bad episode. Next time though we'll return to another one of our regular targets. Only this time it'll be good. 

Thanks for reading. If you enjoyed hit the +1 button and I'll see you guys later.

Peace.

Evan!

Ah, Adora. I figured I'd be seeing you again. What's your evil plan to take over my blog this time. 

Don't act all brave. Besides I'm just here to tell you to stop talking to my sister 

What do you mean. I haven't been talking to her. 

Don't play stupid with me. I know you have. She's even admitted it to me. Just stop talking to her, that's all I'm asking.

Sorry Adora, but personally I don't think it's your place to decide that. 

It's my job to protect my sister though. 

Protect her from what?

You! I don't want her to get hurt by you.

You'll end up stabbing her in the back. 

What are you talking about? Oh, wait... Does this have something to do with what I supposedly did to you?

Yes! And what do you mean by 'supposedly'? You still don't remember what you did?

Not at all.

Ugh......OK I suppose it's time I tell you then. After all what's the point if being angry at you if you don't even understand. It all started in Kindergarten when we first met. 

Yeah I remember that. 

Good so you don't entirely have the memory of a goldfish. I thought you completely forgot about the bond we formed as well. Well then I guess I can skip ahead a few years then. I started hating you in the 5th grade. Which you may recall as your last year at our school. You may also recall Billy, our school bully. 

Yeah I remember him. He use to pick on me all the time and you were always there to stop him. 

Yes. Well one day he decided he had enough of me bringing his schemes down. He decided it was time to fight back and so he gathered a gang of about 10 other people to....how did he put it.......teach me a lesson. And a lesson I was taught. I was left with multiple bruises and was even bleeding in some parts. A black eye, and a limp. 

Oh crap. Wait....

Oh, do you finally remember. Do you finally remember that all you did was stand and watch. You didn't even check to see if I was OK. You ran like a coward. After all those times I helped you, after all those times I thought I could depend on you. All you did was leave. Did you finally remember. The next day was your last day. 

Yeah, I remember you not being there. 

Because I didn't want to see you. I knew if I saw you I would not be able to control my anger. Your friendship was the most important thing to me Evan and you toke it all away. I was already upset enough you were leaving, but this just destroyed everything. 

..........

And here you are now to cowardly to say anything. To cowardly to admit you screwed up. Ugh....I'm done with you.

Wait............wait. Adora. I'm........

I'm sorry. 

Even though I know that's not going to be enough to cut it. 

...........

She already left. 

To be Continued

Next Animated Critic-On The Run (Steven Universe)

Next Spongebob Review-Squidward Torture Episodes

Other Future Reviews

Legend of the Titanic

One of the Princes (Sofia The First)

Mysterious Shadow (Cybersix)

Boast Busters (My Little Pony)

"If Patrick keeps this douchebaggery up he's on a highway to hell."

Powerpuff Girls 2016 Review (Episodes 1-18)

I know I already discussed this show but that was more of a first reaction as I only saw 3 episode when I did that blog post. Now I'm completely caught up with all the episodes aired as of this writing. The first 18. During my first reaction I said that my opinion of the show was that it was good. It turned out that my opinion was very unpopular. This show has been reviled. Not quite as much as Teen Titans Go but still there's a lot of hatred towards it. Heck Rebel Taxi said it was his 4th least favorite cartoon series. I guess after getting myself caught up I can see why he'd say that but honestly my opinion has not changed. I still find it a decent show. Not the best but still enjoyable to watch. It does have problems though. So let's dig into the Powerpuff Girls reboot and finally finish up Powerpuff Month which in actuality was 2 months and a quarter. 

The story is the same as the original. Professor Utonium tried to create the perfect little girls using sugar, spice, and everything nice, but accidently added an extra ingredient to the concotion.....chemical X. Thus he created 3 super powered little girls who use their powers to defend the city of Townsville.

The show is kind of like Teen Titans Go in that its a more comedic reboot of its predecessor. The only difference being the original Teen Titans was trying to be a serious show with the occasional funny moment as opposed to the Powerpuff Girls which was a silly, comedy show originally which is probably why this isn't as hated as Teen Titans Go. But people still take issues with it. Where should I start. I guess the comedy since this is a more comedic focused show. The original show did focus a lot on comedy but also tried to be a fun action show. This show is mostly focused on the jokes. And.....it's sense of humor is OK. It's kind of like that episode of the Simpsons I reviewed. It has some great jokes every now and then but it also has a lot of jokes that fall flat. The most infamous being the reference to the No Me Gusta Meme. 

Ironically the people who dissed the show for using this out dated meme (which don't get me wrong the show deserves the criticism it got for doing this) turned this itself into a meme. 

But like that Simpsons episode I mentioned earlier most jokes work, they just fail to reach the heights they want. They're technically not complete failures as jokes but didn't exactly make you laugh or even smile. But even though I feel most of the jokes are just OK there's a lot that fall flat. A lot. I guess that's really the big issue people have. If your focus is more on the comedic elements of the original show then you should be just as funny if not more so than the original. But I'm gonna try and leave the original out of my overall thoughts on this incarnation. Even then it still falls flat a lot and only really has a small handful of jokes that actually made me laugh. I said in my first reactions that I found it was an overall funny show but my opinion has changed obviously after watching more episodes. It's sad cause the show does have some legitimately funny moments proving to me that it can be fricking hilarious. Heck the entire episode 'The Stayover' is probably my favorite episode because it had me laughing from beginning to end. It can pull some good jokes out but doesn't for whatever reason. People have complained about the show dating itself with pop culture references and trying to be hip with the current generation (which rarely ever works, all it makes you do is look like a stereotypical soccer mom.) I don't personally mind to much unless the references get obnoxious. Like the No Me Gusta thing I mentioned earlier, or a scene in the episode 'Painbow' where.....*sigh*....they start twerking. 

Ah.....I really should use that pic more often. 

We Bare Bears is a perfect example of how to do pop culture references without being to obnoxious. They make references to Selfies and things of that nature but never get annoying with it. Plus the show has other amazing qualities about it.

So yeah jokes are a bit of a mixed bag. 

How are the characters. 

I actually like them. Like everything else about this show the original handled the characters better, but if we ignore the original for just a bit these characters are fine. Since this is a more comedic version the personality traits are a bit over exaggerated which is flanderazation but like I said I'm trying to keep this show out of the context of the original. To see its own qualities. And in terms of characters I don't have a whole lot of problems. The professor, and the mayor do get thrown to the side a bit and heck even the narrator does. And for some reason they completely took Ms. Bellum out of the show. Yeah the mayor's aid only appeared in one episode and in that episode was completely written out. Why?

“We felt like Ms. Bellum wasn’t quite indicative of the kind of messaging we wanted to be giving out at this time, so we sort of had her move on. And that was a good choice I think on our part.”-Executive Producer Nick Jennings.

What!!! Why are you being so vague? What messaging? You......really don't have a good answer do you? Yep, figured as much. 

The girls really are the main focus of this show. Blossom is still Blossom just with extreme OCD, and her studious-ness taken up to 11. Bubbles is still an air head with her obsession for frilly, girl things taken up to 11 and practically no mention of how hardcore she is. 

Yeah that doesn't happen. 

Buttercup is still the roughest and toughest of the bunch but added in is an extra dose of snarkiness and sarcasm. Oh and she's extremely radical man. You can tell how rad she is by the EXTREME and hip way she talks. 

Other than a few over exaggerated traits though they're pretty much the same girls we know and love. I do have a problem though. Sometimes the trait that's been over exaggerated completely takes over the character and can lead to some annoyance. Weather the character just does something stupid because of that trait or they just keep pounding that trait into the fricking ground to the point it's just a bit annoying to watch. This mostly happens with Blossoms OCD. Don't get me wrong theirs nothing wrong if you have OCD it's just she sometimes does really stupid things because of it. Though those minor moments of annoyance rarely happen at all. I well admit that the new comedic personalities for all the girls fit the character. I especially like what they did with Buttercup. Sure she talks all EXTREME and everything but it doesn't really get on my nerves to bad. Plus I like the snarkier side of her in this reboot. Another thing I really love is the sense that these girls care deeply for each other. Their relationship with each other is rather nice. I really enjoyed it. They feel like a close family. As for their new voices they may seem off at first since your not use to them, but when you do get used to them you'll realize that the voices fit the characters rather nicely. 

I still got to wonder though why the voices of the girls didn't stay the same even though most of the other character's voices did. 

As for villains on the other hand the new ones are a bit forgettable, but luckily we still have the old ones. The show tries to do its own thing so it created some villains, but most of the new villains are kinda weak. And the only old villains that have made an appearance thus far is Mobucks, Mojo (though he wasn't even the main villain in the episodes he appeared in) and Him (who we only saw for a brief few seconds.) Fuzzy Lumkins and The Gangreen Gang also appear in one episode but don't really do anything. They're only there for a joke in the episode they appear in, but it was nice to see them. I get the feeling though they were thrown in to make people feel nostalgic. I heard that the Amoeba Boys are also coming in a future episode perhaps even the next one. But either way the old villains seem to be the same old ones we all love the new ones on the other hand though are quite forgettable and bland with a few exceptions like Man Boy. Man Boy's pretty cool. 

Honestly each episode has its own little thing to talk about weather good or bad. There not a whole lot to say about the show in general. 

The plot lines for each episode vary in terms of quality. I never really straight up despised any episode though. In fact in some ways I'm glad we got this reboot just because otherwise we wouldn't get some of these plots. The plots can be completely ridiculous to kinda serious......well as serious as a comedic show like this can get. 

It does have some serious moments like in Horn Sweet Horn when the 'unicorn' gets turned Into a monster....that got pretty dark. And Him should be making an appearance anytime in this show now. He made a brief one in one of the episodes but it wasn't for long. It seemed like the same old Him. Guess they kinda figured it would be hard to do anything comedic with him so if they did use him that might churn out a semi serious episode a la Speed Demon or they may never use him again and since they wrote off Ms. Bellum this wouldn't completely surprise me. 

But point is I think this show has proven it can be serious if it wants to it just happens like only once or twice within the first 18 episodes. It's fine if they don't wanna be serious I mean the original show wasn't always serious either just occasionally so I'm not expecting you to be uber serious. Heck if you never want to do anything serious again I'd be fine with it just as long as what you are doing was good. 

But most plots are just stupid little comedy plots nothing to interesting or special, but it's not a big deal. The meat of each episode is the characters and jokes. I love the characters but the jokes could use some work. They do have some really fun and interesting plots though sometimes. 

Overall it seems I'm still at an unpopular opinion just like with The Big Fairy Share Scare. I rather like this show despite its problems. Though I have listened to what others have said about it and yes I do understand their criticism. There is a lot that can be criticized. Honestly like everything else I review check it out for yourself and see if you like it. The only purpose of my review was to share my thoughts and give people a general feeling on if this show might please them or not. 

Based on others reactions I definitely can say there's a big chance you'll dislike it but there's still a chance it could be a fun entertaining show for you. I think the only thing people who like and dislike the show can agree on is that it's no where near the original's quality. It doesn't have the same wit and charm as the original. It tried to do its own little thing. Be it's own show and it's really up to you to decide weather it succeeds in making something fun and entertaining. 

But if you ask me I think this show is good. 

Well that's the end of the review and Powerpuff Months. Finally. I'm glad to just be done with that. 

Next time I'll be looking at a really bad Spongebob episodes but until then I'll se you guys later.

Peace.