Post — Aaron Ngo

Major Spoilers are included in this episode review.

The status-quo has been established. The opening moments being Crazy Jane put up fliers and having the citizens hate on her fits what the show’s trying to say about the misfitted group. They bring too much chaos whenever they venture outside of Doom Manor. This leads to Cyborg’s idea to leave town to search for the donkey’s—I mean Mr. Nobody’s—origin story in Paraguay.

Having Cyborg try to maintain the group of misfits is incredibly funny, especially with Robotman nagging him every step of the way. Victor Stone is also without his father’s or STAR Labs assistance, so he had to find a working bus to travel there. It took two weeks. The montage of switching drivers and having this adventure center around Negative Man’s / Larry’s beef with the entity inside him deepened his arc.

I’m glad we didn’t sit through an entire episode of them traveling to Paraguay. Once the team needed to be there for the plot to keep moving, one of Jane’s personalities took over and teleported there, taking only Larry and Robotman, leaving Cyborg and Elasti-Woman behind at the motel with the bus.

The Paraguay action took over from there. Whatever was going on with Cyborg and Elasti-Woman was a nice moment about Mr. Nobody exposing their trauma, but it didn’t mesh well with everything else going on. Although, I do want the show to get back to Victor’s mom and Elasti-Woman’s unstable powers soon.

Crazy Jane, Robotman, and Negative Man’s time in Paraguay was filled with tons of fun. They met a tourist named Stevie, found out Dr. Fuchs was a Nazi, and the three-hour puppet show was a great way to get us that backstory on The Chief, Dr. Fuchs, and his greatest creation, Mr. Nobody.

Haha… still laughing about “Fuch-topia”.

The fight scenes with Crazy Jane and Robotman were bloody. The “signature” hallway fight scene was included. It seems Daredevil established a tradition most superhero shows need to have. The violence and the dismemberment was satisfying to watch indeed, but it reminded Robotman how unprepared / unstable he is to call his daughter.

Larry’s story had the most emotional depth, and that seems right considering his out-of-body entity is used for laughs occasionally. He blames the entity inside for ruining his life and making him this way, but the flashback story reveals how he is mostly the cause for his life way before the entity even existed.

He was an All-American pilot who had a wife and children but lived in the closet with a male lover. The series of scenes reveal that his wife eventually left him for moving them around all the time, but his lover (John) was willing to stay by his side, only for Larry to banish him from his life. The entity didn’t make him leave. It was all Larry.

In his old life, Larry tried to escape his sexuality but it ultimately cost him everything. Now, that he knows he is to blame… I wonder how he’ll move forward from here. Will those ground rules actually stick now that Larry is done accusing the entity for ruining him? Time can only tell.

Overall, another fun episode and the ending was incredible. It also shows how little control all the heroes have over their situations. Crazy Jane is not even the original personality, and I feel bad for defaulting the Jane personality as the main core. Plus, Steve needs to return somehow.

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