#cute fun and enjoyable episode overall really. it just felt messier than any other wks ep i’ve watched

[the-terrible-theys]

hot take maybe but i feel like the erminator had a lot of potential but didn’t execute it as well as it could have

like i’m not expecting anything near oscar-worthy plot in a kids show obviously but this episode in comparison to other wks episodes felt messy? as if they had several different leftover episode ideas and decided to mash them together into one. there was a lot going on at once and it didn’t flow very well at all.

most of my problem with it is how there was all this buildup (both in this episode and from previous ones) with “making creature power discs is incredibly difficult and if done even slightly wrong there could be major consequences” as well as the foreshadowing with “you can’t forget to eliminate the past activation codes or the suit will randomly cycle through them”. all this ended up only leading to issues played out at the very end of the episode as a gag, and as a result felt very anticlimactic. i feel like the whole Martin Making His Own Creature Power Disc subplot just didn’t fit well into the episode at all and would’ve done much better in an episode of its own.

i really want to love this episode because it features several of my favorite creatures (chickadee, pileated woodpecker, ermine) but it’s not very high on my personal ranking list. maybe i just had high hopes for it idk. probably