King Moonraiser
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 4:49 pm Post subject: S02E01 - Stuck Up, Up and Away |
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The episode introduces the first new villain of the second season: Princess. She's your basic stereotypical spoiled-rich-kid. Princess wants to be a PowerPuff Girl, but the girls dismiss her request as ridiculous. Princess uses her father's seeming unlimited assets to build herself a super suit. She strikes out against the girls, but is eventually defeated.
Characters like Princess are usually one-dimensional and pretty boring. However, her underlying insecurity in herself is shown somewhat. Her inability to make friends as well as her claim to be the "newest and best loved PowerPuff Girl of all time" are examples of this trait. Overall, the story is very good and the characterizations are well done.
Considering that the story has many similarities with a popular anime movie, Project A-ko, I was hoping for at least one inside reference. Alas, there are none that I detected. However, there were two A-Team references: the GMC customized van and the "I love it when a plan comes together" quote.
For some unexplained reason, Blossom was able to defeat Princess swiftly while her sisters were shot down with ease. This disparity in skill between the PPGs never occurs again in any other episode. Strange. Just chalk it up to a continuity error.
Three and a half stars
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