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Season 2 Episode 2: Hate Floats

Monarch sure has seen better days. His two loyal minions are almost as adorkable as Hank and Dean are. The dog at the end was a beautiful touch.

Bold Predix: Denying this batch of boys knowledge of the hoover dam is gonna bite Rusty in the butt down the line somehow. I am wise to your antics now show!

Henchman 21 and 24 continue to be amazing with their streetside recruitment performance.

...the floating cocoon sure is made operational far too easily! It was just exploded for pete's sake, super science should not be like lego blocks! Or maybe it should!

The juxtaposition of normalcy and the larger than life world of Dr. Venture/Monarch continues to be a thing as Dean gets a fitted speedsuit and Monarch tries to win Dr. Girlfriend back.

...and then Dr. Venture gets an eye thwacked out of socket. Now that kid clones have happened, we're not going back to good times anytime soon, are we?

Dr. Venture gets kidnapped, Dr. Girlfriend gets (almost) kidnapped, Brock is in a pool of blood, Hank was shot in the junk, and this is just the halfway point.

Some great dialogue with Brock and Phantom Limb, of note is the use of 'level 5 offensive weapons for a level 1 threat'. Aka Monarch's street recruits are using actual guns as opposed to cutesy normal supervillain stuff, and this is such an issue in this society that there are sanctified weapon tiers to begin with. The implications are quite amusing...this means that superhero/villain minions are, by design, less threatening than the your average thug. As if their whole world is more like a glorified daycare than an actual take-over-the-world new world order in the making.

"Wait a minute, are you our mommy?" Given this series, this is entirely plausible. I mean, this is practically audience confirmation packaged as innocent kid dialogue.

Unlikely pairing ups, further blurring the line between good and evil. Really, given all the regulations involved, it is almost like a play performance, kinda like how Mario and Bowser often act, particularly in SMB3.

Also, for what it's worth, we've basically hit peak dialogue where I am having to fight the urge to quote literally everything said. There is far too much goodness packed into these few minutes it is unreal.

Little hasty of a wrapup, but there was frankly no way it could have been otherwise given how much was packed into the episode.
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