That headline might fathom like it ’s being awfully snarky — and it kind of is — but at the same time , this week Guardians of the Galaxy really took the first baby steps from being a lukewarm repeat of a fantastic picture show to being a windy , fun sci - fi cartoon . All it take was finding a little eye to do so !
Spoilers ahead , of course .
“ Ca n’t Fight This Seedling ” starts with a humorous gimmick on the sure-enough figure of speech of our heroes having to infiltrate a broken - technical school society so as to loose their object of desire — in this case , another Pandorian Crystal , the doohickey of the calendar week for the overall doohickey of the show , the cosmic come . gratefully , Guardians actually realizes that this kind of thing is erstwhile hat — and instead of spend an sequence with the Guardians attempt to get the crystal , they deal Star - Lord ’s fancy optical maser cutter for it in a plenty that both the Guardians and the local villagers recall they gain . It ’s short , snappy , and just the sort of goofy humor that do these persona so sympathetic , and outside of limited doses , was so far miss in this animated series .
More in force habits are picked up on when the episode gives itself over to the genuine story arc , which is about examining the way each Guardian actually sees the rest of the team and how they work as a unit . In this case , Guardians of the Galaxy for the most part sticks to who it knows best : Quill , Rocket , and Groot . Unsurprisingly , when it does that , it work really well . After fete with the villagers , Groot accidentally gets himself infected with a virulent fungus triggered by the crash - landing of a nearby asteroid . It essentially hulks him out , get off the wretched tree - hombre on a rampage that the Guardians have to protect both Groot and the villager from — but when Rocket and Quill have to travel inside Groot to essay and staunch the tide of the contagion , it leads to some really nicely done character study .
It ’s set up by having Quill be a bite of a jerk to Groot all the metre earlier in the episode , which does n’t really sit right with the show overall — a frustration at a lack of understanding between the two of them , despite the fact that we ’ve seen them figure out together well enough already in episodes prior . But inside Groot , Quill discoversthe mysterious glow orb that Groot rescued from his lost homeworld , something shown in a short in advance of the series ’ premiere . Being Quill , he wield to fall into it , and for a brief present moment , actually see Groot , where he ’s come from , and that he has his own goals . Just as Quill want to read more about his past , Groot wants to save his .
It ’s hardly the most unequaled or surprising story arc — but for this animated series , it might as well be . From the get go , the show has struggled with doing things with these now - beloved character that was n’t just “ Hey , it ’s just like the moving picture ! ” Being able to actually explore them more outside of the limits of the film , and for the show to really begin build up its own stories and characterizations , is great to see . It ’s a babe pace , but a stair in the right focussing still . And the fact that you actually get to see that common connection flourish between the two at the end of the installment is marvelously done — and the closest Guardians of the Galaxy has actually come to replicate the feeling of the celluloid that revolutionise it , or else of just continuously trying to ape it .
But at the same clock time , you also start to see the show battle with what it really wants to be . You have the electric arc factor of the cosmic doohickey that the squad are collecting Pandorian crystals for in every episode . You now have Titus , the hapless and unrepentantly jerk - ish Nova Corps officer who seems to be being set up as a unconstipated prickle in the Guardians side ( did they save the Nova Corps but in the motion-picture show ? Why all the hate , Titus ? ) . But in terms of what actually matters in the show from calendar week to week — the relationships between the characters — Guardians seem to shun that serialisation and just convert on a dime bag .
Last weekDrax and Gamora were at each others throats all the time ( for no real reason ) , this hebdomad they ’re hanging out and being well good bud . It ’s strange , and unhappily , it puts a literal dent into the heart of this episode — Groot and Quill come to a closer understanding with each other , and the potential of Groot get his own character arc about his lost masses . But if Guardians of the Galaxy was so willing to quickly pretermit its apparatus with Drax and Gamora , will it do the same here ?
Let ’s hope not . Exploring these fiber together , and setting up tale for them beyond the upshot - of - the - calendar week , is actually beginning to make Guardians of the Galaxy a lot more interesting to follow than it has any right to be .
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