ROCKS 9B: Bucky O'Hare episodes 4-6

WELCOME EVERYBODY TO THE SECOND DISCUSSION IN THE NINTH STRAND OF THE NEW CLUB "R.O.C.K.S." - REWATCHING OLD CLASSIC KIDS SHOWS!
A big thanks to everyone that are joining us through all of this.

Threads 9A through 9D will be focusing on the 1991 animated classic "Bucky O'Hare And The Toad Menace" - and as the series only had one short season of 13 episodes, we're going to cover it in its entirity.

This week we're covering episodes 4-6:

Home, Swampy Home
On The Blink
The Kreation Konspiracy

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Great episodes that expand the anniverse and each episode focuses on a character adding more to their personality etc.
Home, Swampy Home.
It was great seeing Bucky save his people from the slave colony.
On The Blink
Willy and Blink helping the Kola's was quite good.
The Kreation Konspiracy.
I really enjoyed the episode with Blinky being captured by the three toads.

Just seen the episodes already.

Home Swampy Home - I think this was the only episode to really focus on Bucky himself as the feature character. And it's a good one, it shows how resourceful he is. Fighting the Toads from the inside, I actually thought his initial capture was all part of his "plan", it's been a couple of years since I saw it last, and over two decades since the previous time. But I do remember his disguise when he finally settled on the infiltration plan. We didn't actually get to see who or what his Mentor was, and that cryptic line about taking from within by stealth being more effective than taking from without by force was like a less cryptic version of Leoric's Owl Of Wisdom in Visionaries . . . in any event, I liked Mimi La Frou, she was a worthy addition to the Aniverse - and she appears again later on in the series. Also, is it just me or did Jenny look a little jealous when Mimi kissed Bucky?

On The Blink - this episode was written by George Arthur Bloom who wrote the pilot of Transformers, so perhaps it's natural he'd do the Blinky episode. Story-wise, this is pretty solid. The force-field prevents warm-blooded creatures from getting through, so the only member of the Righteous Indignation's crew that can slip through undetected is the robot Blinky. The pacing of his "escape" is well-handled, as we don't know that it was all part of Komplex's plan until after he is reunited with his shipmates. Given the format of the show, we had to be told then, before he started sabotaging the ship. Speaking of shows, there was one bit of Toad TV that I can't believe made it past the censors - that "love line" - something X-rated if ever there was one! It was good to see Al Negator again, with his insistence on being paid making him a match for Visionaries' Reekon. Those two are like peas in a pod - or, reptiles in a pond, perhaps!

The Kreation Konspiracy - one of the most interesting episodes in the whole series, and very well played out. The creators of Komplex are perhaps the most significant characters in the whole series, since they are the three Frankensteins who created the monster that is terrorising the Aniverse. They are triple-handedly responsible for everything that happens in the entire series, all the carnage . . . this episode has plenty of funny touches, too, from Jenny's discomfort in water, to Major Bottlenose, and Bruiser's insatiable appetite for banana, not forgetting the other options on the menu. On a more serious note, the pacing of the story, we find out that Komplex and the Toads realise their codes have been broken, and then we see his message, intercepted by the Mammals, about the Toad scientists, and we're not sure either way if it's a trap or not at first. After all, we know those scientists are in the area and Komplex does want them. But no, it is a trap, and brilliantly executed. And of course, the end of the episode, where the scientists respond to the request for how to deactivate Komplex, "if we knew that, we wouldn't have let him exile us!"