Mysticons Episode 2 REVIEW - "How to Train a Mysticon"

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Episode 2, “How to Train A Mysticon” isn’t a…bad episode, but it is basically the second
episode of every generic action-fantasy cartoon series that has ever existed.
What do you, as a writer, do when you’ve assembled your cast of heroes?
Why, write a training episode that leads into them having to chase a number of magical objects
that will enhance their power or do something along those lines.
You’ve basically done your job for the remainder of the season or at the very least the next
few episodes.
Also, remember when I said it’s cool the girls aren’t instantly friends?
Well scratch that because that’s basically out the window with episode 2 as they’re
now BESTIES.
Seriously.
And all it took was a training montage, who knew?
Not to mention any sense of conflict in this episode when it comes to, I don’t know,
Arkayna figuring out what she needs to do also gets quickly solved by the other girls
just…showing up to support her.
When one second ago her head was still firmly shoved up where the Sun don’t shine.
What’s a switch.
Now what else should a generic second episode of a fantasy series do?
Ah, set up an oh-so obvious bait and switch traitorous baddie that turns out to be the
opposite of what the writers are setting it up to be!
See this old bearded man?
Wow, he’s a big fat meanie, right?
If there’s a traitor it’s gotta be him.
Nope, it’s that young black mage’s sister.
Whoa, totally didn’t see THAT coming, did you?
That’s a sarcastic way of saying it couldn’t have been more telegraphed that the grouchy
sister was actually the evil mage chick from episode 1.
Not only am I sad they couldn’t even do that bait and switch correctly, but they showed
their hand so soon into the season.
Why not keep the traitor plotline going beneath the surface, build up Tazma as a great ally,
then pull the rug out from under our heroes?
Because that would just be too much work for Grant Suave, writer of this particular episode.
Someone needs to tell Mysticons’ writers that girls aren’t stupid.
If I can figure it out, they did, too.
There’s a lot of ways this episode fails to do what it sets out to do.
I’ve listed just a few of those.
It follows too close in the foosteps of every other fantasy cartoon, any drama that could
have fueled future stories is quickly forgotten, it can’t provide a genuine mystery for the
life of it, and even its not so subtle attempts at humor generally fail.
Whoever writes Piper’s lines needs to be sat down with someone a lot funnier because
Piper’s dialogue falls flat.
I started this review off by saying it wasn’t a bad episode.
That was actually MY bait and switch.
In fact, it was a bad episode largely because of how generic it turned out to be.
It didn’t have anything new to say or do with its fantasy trappings and I can’t see
how they expect to tell any worthwhile stories when they telegraph them from far ahead.
The one positive I have is that…it could have been much worse and that you can probably
get through it without groaning.
But don’t expect much else to be going on.
That’s it from me, now sound off below with your own opinions on this episode.
What did you think of Tazma’s betrayal?
And does her name remind you of the Tazmanian Devil too?
Thanks for watching and take care!
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