TALKBACK - Generator Rex - "Remote Control" - [2/3]

[zoombie]

I question the order of this episode. Last we saw Rex's Evo friends, they were captured by Providence. And in this episode Rex still has some trust in Ceasar. I thought he has accepted that Ceasar is crazy and nothing is beyond him.

Rex's has two different worlds of friends, if not even more world of friends, Rex's Evo friends has never meet Noah. I am sorry, but Rex and his Evo gang have way more cooler adventures than the adventures he has had with Noah since the beginning of season two.

 

[Zanneck]

I question the order of this episode. Last we saw Rex's Evo friends, they were captured by Providence. And in this episode Rex still has some trust in Ceasar. I thought he has accepted that Ceasar is crazy and nothing is beyond him.

Rex's has two different worlds of friends, if not even more world of friends, Rex's Evo friends has never meet Noah. I am sorry, but Rex and his Evo gang have way more cooler adventures than the adventures he has had with Noah since the beginning of season two.

I'm hoping "out of order airing" is the case here and this was supposed to be first instead of last week's...

Other than that, even though this feels like filler, I can't say I wasn't entertained this week, which I was.

Now if only someone would find a way to defeat Quarry for real... I'm just saying, because he's just a nuisance now, compared to Black Knight anyway (and, in smaller cases, Van Kleiss, who I'm confident is still out there somewhere.)...

 

[King_of_doom]

Since you mention that Zoombie it would been better if Rex's gang where in the episode of Grounded instead of the jerks from the first episode of Season 1, really we haven't seen Noah interact with Rex's old friends and would have been a good episode but oh well what can you do...

 

[Dragnatek]

I just re watched the beginning of "Assault on Abysus" and Rex's friends were not seen getting captured. What happened was that Skwydd unleashed an ink cloud and had Circe run. When Ceirce confronted Rex she even says she did not know if they were caught or if they got away. So really it was not confirmed they were caught in the last episode.

As for Rex still wanting to trust his brother? Is that so hard to believe, that he wants to have faith in his brother despite all the evidence to the contrary.

So there are no order problems, none at all.

 

[KPTitan]

Okay guys, calm down. I just re-watched "Assault on Abyssus", and there is no indication whatsoever that Providence had succeeded in capturing Rex's friends in that episode. Take my word for it, but nobody had said anything about them being captured, and the last that we seen them they were in the middle of fighting them when Circe ran off.

Awesome episode! Gen Rex definitely excels when it comes to story building, if the writers were to stick to story arcs instead of fillers there probably be less complaining about this show.

I think everybody gets that now. There's really no need to be driving that point into the ground constantly, seriously.

ANYWAYS... on a more serious note, did anybody get a good glimpse at those machines that were being transported to Providence at the end of the episode? My tv screen had a little bit of snow-action going on, so I wasn't quite sure what those were.

Also, it looks like I was about half-right about what happened to Quarry at Abyssus. Van Kleiss did some serious damage to him, but it wasn't enough to completely kill him off. Talk about body horror... how VK was able to do that much damage to him kinda scares me.

 

[Dragnatek]

Okay guys, calm down. I just re-watched "Assault on Abyssus", and there is no indication whatsoever that Providence had succeeded in capturing Rex's friends in that episode. Take my word for it, but nobody had said anything about them being captured, and the last that we seen them they were in the middle of fighting them when Circe ran off.

ANYWAYS... on a more serious note, did anybody get a good glimpse at those machines that were being transported to Providence at the end of the episode? My tv screen had a little bit of snow-action going on, so I wasn't quite sure what those were.

Also, it looks like I was about half-right about what happened to Quarry at Abyssus. Van Kleiss did some serious damage to him, but it wasn't enough to completely kill him off. Talk about body horror... how VK was able to do that much damage to him kinda scares me.

Looks like we both had the idea. We both had to check the last episode before we jumped to any conclusions. I know I had to make sure they actually were captured in Assault before I responded anyway.

I think it was the same devices Quarry used to remote control the Evos. Since Providance had not been using the controlled evos as weapons yet.

Yeah apparently VK could not kill Quarry so he just cut him into pieces, and now thanks to Rex he's in even smaller pieces yes till alive.

 

[HEATXZ]

Great episode
I was surprised that Quarry is still alive,I like the actions plus mentioning anime

 

[zoombie]

Since you mention that Zoombie it would been better if Rex's gang where in the episode of Grounded instead of the jerks from the first episode of Season 1, really we haven't seen Noah interact with Rex's old friends and would have been a good episode but oh well what can you do...

I like to rewatch last week's episode, but dam Itunes.

Anyway I agree with you. During season 2 when things are a lot less intense, funny since Dante Basco is in this episode that I am mentiong this, but if they could have done a similar episode to American Dragon: Jake Long Halloween episode, in which Rex tries to cool the divide between humans and Evo and throw a party for both humans and Evo, and thus Rex's Evo friends and human friends meet.

It does make last week less bleck, at least those three are safe. It is not as bad as I thought.

BTW, just me or did it seem like Tuck did not have many lines. Maybe I am wrong, it didn't seem like he had many lines, maybe Dante's avilablility was limited.

 

[KPTitan]

I like to rewatch last week's episode, but dam Itunes.

I know, right? I'm seriously hoping that it's fixed by Monday (that's when they typically release the episodes). If those last 3 episodes and tonight's episode doesn't show up by this coming Monday, then I'm wondering if that means that Cartoon Network has given up on releasing the episodes to them. I'm still exchanging emails with iTunes' customer support, and they've said they haven't recieved the episodes from CN yet.

I think that's kind of a stupid move though, because this series is coming to a close pretty soon, so in all honesty it doesn't make sense for them to just stop releasing episodes after almost 50 episodes. Since the series is that close to being over, then you seriously might as well release the whole shootin' match.

Also... to quote a favorite John Wayne western movie of mine...

Rex: "Quarry? I thought you were dead..."
Quarry: "Not hardly."

 

[Light Lucario]

I thought that this was a pretty good episode. I was surprised that Rex's EVO friends weren't captured at the beginning. While we never saw them being captured in last week's episode, it certainly didn't look that good for them, especially when we didn't see them after that opening scene and Circe was crying as she ran away. Quarry's new design was also pretty surprising to see. I wasn't expecting him to look that drastically different. I guess Van Kleiss tried to kill him, but could only break him into pieces. I would have liked to hear how he escaped though. Even with Van Kleiss stuck in the past for now, it still should have been extremely difficult for him to get out and come back to Hong Kong.

Still, the action during the later half of this episode was quite good and I thought that Rex had actually killed Quarry for a moment. The ending does make me wonder if Black Knight has plans for Quarry. I don't think that she could use him that much considering that he would try to double cross her to get something for himself. Though, he probably wouldn't be able to do that anyway.

As for Rex still thinking that his brother wouldn't create that kind of technology, I think that does come off as being inconsistent at this point. Not only did Caesar try to control him at the beginning of the season, but he admitted to him that he wanted to start up the nanite project again. It seems like it's far too late for Rex to still think that his brother isn't what he thinks, or perhaps wants to think, of him, especially when their last confrontation made it clear that Rex was done with him.

I also think that Rex has better chemistry with his EVO friends here than he has had with Noah for the bulk of the series. It probably helps that they aren't treated like joke like Noah has been for a long time, but they feel more like a group of friends to me, while I haven't really felt much friendship between Rex and Noah since the first season.

Overall, I thought that this was a pretty good episode. The action was well done for the most part, I liked seeing Rex being with his EVO friends and Providence getting all of those shipments of that technology does make me wonder how they'll use it in the future. I hope that next week's episode is enjoyable too.

 

[KPTitan]

I think that it's possible that Rex has conflicting feelings about his brother, and honestly doesn't know what to think of him for understandable reasons. At the end of "Black and White", they made it seem like he finally understood why Caesar had caused the Nanite Event. Although, even though he knows why Caesar did it, I think he might still have some resentment towards him for doing it anyways.

That's one of the things that I'd like to see getting cleared up by the end of this series... I think we still don't know how or why Caesar plans to "fix everything" by having Providence restart the Nanite Project. He claims that he isn't doing it on BK's behalf, but I wonder if she's aware of that or not. It seems that both BK and Caesar have different goals and reasons for restarting the Nanite Project. I think that BK gave the greenlight on it because she might be wanting to create more Meta-nanites in the event that they are not able to find the ones they're looking for, but I could be wrong.

As for next week's episode:

Spoiler

I'm really curious on who or what could be chasing after Van Kleiss. I've heard people bring up the possibility of it being Alpha, but I'm not entirely sure. I think another possibility might be Breach, but I'm not sure why she would be going after him or if she would be interested enough to do so.

 

[Blackmanba]

I question the order of this episode. Last we saw Rex's Evo friends, they were captured by Providence. And in this episode Rex still has some trust in Ceasar. I thought he has accepted that Ceasar is crazy and nothing is beyond him.

Rex's has two different worlds of friends, if not even more world of friends, Rex's Evo friends has never meet Noah. I am sorry, but Rex and his Evo gang have way more cooler adventures than the adventures he has had with Noah since the beginning of season two.

I agree, they should have Rex have adventures more often with his EVO friends than Noah. That or include Noah in some serious episodes and give him a gun to help out.

As for the time frame I just figure this episode happens after the last not before since Circe who has been living with his friends wasn't included. When his friends where introduced in this episode, I just thought they may have gotten away last episode and contacted Rex as soon as could, which led to the events of this episode.

When it comes to Rex's Trust in Ceasar, I think that It comes from learning that Ceasar caused the nanite event in order to protect the world. Sure he is not happy about all the people who's life were ruined because of the nanite event, but at least now he knows that his brother didn't do it as some sort of science experiment.

 

[Anna]

So who was more into Crickex than Circex?

Did you notice how Rex flew Cricket out of danger? He just left Circe dead on the spot when Providence took the castle. Awesome.


I liked the chemistry between Cricket and Rex this episode. I'm so glad the Circe wasn't even mentioned. It just goes to show-kiss or not, nobody gives a ----

 

[KPTitan]

So who was more into Crickex than Circex?

Did you notice how Rex flew Cricket out of danger? He just left Circe dead on the spot when Providence took the castle. Awesome.


I liked the chemistry between Cricket and Rex this episode. I'm so glad the Circe wasn't even mentioned. It just goes to show-kiss or not, nobody gives a ----

He didn't leave Circe... he was actually upset that he was leaving everybody behind. Circe insisted that he leave her behind with the Meta-nanite to complete the mission, and then pushed him off the ledge to avoid being captured by Providence.

 

[Ian]

Quarry episodes in Gen Rex often feel like pleasant surprises. In a series in which the rogues gallery often feels mismatched, to me—they often feel as if they're toned down in order to have Rex be able to defeat them--Quarry feels like the sort of character who should have been Rex's archnemesis from the start. Not only does he have a personal connection with Rex—one far stronger than Van Kleiss'--his physicality and relative simplicity nicely complement Rex's own.


Random thoughts:

• While I like the idea of having Hong Kong (or any city, really) serve as a mecca for sentient E.V.O.'s, I really wish more had been done with the concept before this episode. I'm especially curious to know if all of those we see here were originally from H.K., or if they drifted there, since if the former, it would seem to indicate some sort of pattern, which could have some interesting implications for the series' world.

• I'm having a hard time buying Providence as the jack-booted thugs they are being presented as here--not because I don't believe that Black Knight wouldn't take the organization in this direction if she so wanted, but because I find it hard to believe that the Hong Kong (or any similar government) would allow them to act in this manner. We've never really gotten an indication of how powerful a player Providence is on the world stage, but given stuff like the episode with Van Kleiss and the U.N., it seemed to me that they're not particularly empowered to dismiss national governments. The fact that they've suddenly appeared to turn into Saturday-Morning Cartoon Nazis suggests that something rather fundamental has changed (aside from the worsening of B. Knight and Rex's relationship) and I'd be interested in the show exploring exactly what that is.

 

[KPTitan]

I think Quarry would have made a good arch-nemesis too, but even so I still like what they got goin' with VK. If they were to have more than one nemesis for Rex, they could have had something similar to what Xiaolin Showdown had in terms of the main villains (in that show, they had 4 main villains).

Anyways.... for those of you besides myself who get these episodes on iTunes, the last 4 that have aired are up now on "Season 5". FINALLY. I was about to rip somebody's butt, let me tell ya...

 

[Anna]

I think Quarry would have made a good arch-nemesis too, but even so I still like what they got goin' with VK. If they were to have more than one nemesis for Rex, they could have had something similar to what Xiaolin Showdown had in terms of the main villains (in that show, they had 4 main villains).

Anyways.... for those of you besides myself who get these episodes on iTunes, the last 4 that have aired are up now on "Season 5". FINALLY. I was about to rip somebody's butt, let me tell ya...

Excellent news. Now we can pay $1.99 to own that Circex kiss.

 

[Beefy]

The episode was pretty good except for the end.

Rex just leaves Quarry pieces laying around and those machines used to remote control the EVOs intact?
What's to stop someone from swooping in and using them again?
Oh look, Providence did just that.

Come on Rex, are you that dumb? Don't just leave a mess.
It just came across as sloppy to me.

 

[FFmax]

The episode was pretty good except for the end.

Rex just leaves Quarry pieces laying around and those machines used to remote control the EVOs intact?
What's to stop someone from swooping in and using them again?
Oh look, Providence did just that.

Come on Rex, are you that dumb? Don't just leave a mess.
It just came across as sloppy to me.

Yeah, that was my main gripe with this episode, I figured he would smash those things the second he took down Quarry, especially with Providence snooping around.

 

[KPTitan]

I have a feeling that we'll be seeing them being used again, possibly as we get closer to the finale when they reveal BK's plans. What we saw with that was foreshadowing, so no, I don't think it was necessarily bad that Rex or whoever destroyed those.