Again the pacing is weird. It's not bad, it just feels like it should be faster. Like, we're getting these huge revelations but
no one is acting on them. I mean, they are, but just in small ways. It's not on the scale I'm used to with super heroes, I guess. I feel like these kids should all be on the same page with regard to taking down their parents, for example, but they aren't. Which makes sense, but it's not what I expect of the genre.
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| Is this how you hold a gun? |
So in this episode we learn about the gangsters who were menacing the blerd's dad. Blerd's dad got their leader to confess to a crime that he committed so he could get out of jail and do some business thing with some land he owned, and this guy doesn't feel like he was adequately compensated for that. So he's kidnapped the blerd to use as leverage to get what he feels he deserves.
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| This guy's opinion of his dad is very inconsistent. |
The blerd's dad and the other kids (separately, they're not with him) go to try to rescue him and the find out about each other's powers. Just to recap: little sister has super strength, goth can do magic with her mother's magic staff, cultist glows when she takes off her bracelet and nerd has a pet dinosaur. Also in this episode the jock works with his dad to make some gloves that shoot lasers or something. Or possibly the same stuff that Cyclops from the X-Men shoots out of his eyes, because it doesn't burn things just knocks them back.
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| The magic staff can make forcefields, amongst other things. |
In the confrontation, blerd shoots a gangster kid, and blerd's dad takes the shot (but not dead) kid away, saying he'll get him help. But instead he takes him to the cult (#realcult) as a replacement sacrifice. Blerd suspects that though, so he rallies the rest of the kids to go put a stop to it, only it turns out the cult is meeting somewhere different tonight, so instead they just search the secret sacrifice room. They find a camera that implicates goth's parents, but that's about all so they all go home.
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| They're just hanging out in the dinosaur enclosure. |
Meanwhile the parents do the sacrifice at the fake cult and get it right this time, and we can actually see it working, which suggests that they probably should have known that it wasn't working the last time as well. The gangster kid vanishes and some sort of energy transfers into an identical pod that the old man in the mask is currently inside of. Cultist's mum sends everyone else away though before opening it up.
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| If the pods are science things, what's with the robes? |
When the jock gets back to his dad's lab his dad is already there - and he's really happy because he's managed to get his "time machine" working. And it's the lamest time machine ever. All it does is receive signals from the future. It's cool, but don't call it a time machine. But when he tries to show it off it doesn't work and he gets angry and smashes it onto the floor before revealing that he has brain cancer. Father and son then leave the lab, but the camera lingers and shows the "time machine" start working, and it shows LA being destroyed at some unspecified point in the future. Dun dun dun?
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| This might not even happen for a thousand years. |
Finally, cultist's dad gets told he doesn't get to join the super-secret highest level of the (fake) cult, and he's pretty disappointed about that. Also we see that the old man is now a young man, and he's pretty thrilled about that. But cultist's mum doesn't seem to be as thrilled as you'd expect, given how keen she's been for this to happen so far.
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| She liked him better when he was more corpse-like. |
You know what's confusing me though? If it just took one kid to make him go from withered husk to normal dude, what's with all the other sacrifices over the years? Cultist's mum even asked in a previous episode if he'd felt it when they tried the sacrifice before and said it had never taken this long to work before. So they were transferring the youth to him previously. So why was he still looking like a mummy? He also says he wasn't scared of dying but that he might die without ever having looked into her eyes, which seems to imply that he had that mask on the whole time and is just seeing her for the first time now. What's going on?
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| This poor guy is the only one who has no idea about any of it. |
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