Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26489974-20160315055507/@comment-11362412-20171013022931

Gilgameshkun wrote: Amazoman:

I agree that "Meet Mondo Gecko" was mostly a junk episode, and that the way the show handled Pigeon Pete was disgraceful, especially considering how much positive development the IDW version of Pete (whose design was specifically inspired by the 2012 series version) has been given. Whereas the 2012 series writers seemed to consider Pete a nuisance and couldn't seem to wait to find a way to get rid of him and crap on his memory in his absence, the IDW writers have turned Pete into a warm, fun, compassionate character with various niche skills.

That said, "Meet Mondo Gecko" had the seeds of a really good backstory for Jason. It was barely glossed over and never given any seriousness for more than a moment, but left a strong impression on me because of how tragic it is. It's bad enough when a minor child is evicted by his parents and forced into homelessness. It's even worse when children become exploited by adults, as it hints at how many worse things can just as easily happen to children in the same vulnerable situation&mdash;stuff like special victims crimes. This made me like Jason in a way that came at the cost of my previous fondness for Xever. The episode may have been junk, but the same concept could have been done much, much better and could have been a really good story.

It had potential, but it decided to waste it on a mutant (plus casey) skateboarding competition.

A Foot Too Big is just a stupid episode

Serpent Hunt and The Pig and the Rhino could have been two halves of the same episode.

The Creeping Doom is a frickin' dumb episode with a blatant Deus ex Machina and potential for deep character exploration that didn't happen. That one should have just had him becom of average intelligence so that we could actually have him deal with his altered state. Instead he becomes a drooling moron with no development at all.

The Weird World of Wyrm is lazy recycling of other works by the same creator with very little changes. And a waste of Dwight Shultz's massive vocal talent.

The Savanti Romero's army of monsters story is just dumb, and the time-travel in the story exists soley to elongate the plot to cover multiple episodes.

The Creep should have been Bloodsucker. And fuck Rick Veitch for holding that character hostage because of money. He's just being selfish. I mean really, at least the stuff Palladium has on lock down can be made into their own franchises. But what is this guy going to do with the rights to a giant monster leech? Make an old sc-fi/horror b-movie?