Summer School: Chapter Twelve
- Episode aired Oct 26, 2021
Courtney, Pat and even Cindy put the new JSA back together to fight Eclipso.Courtney, Pat and even Cindy put the new JSA back together to fight Eclipso.Courtney, Pat and even Cindy put the new JSA back together to fight Eclipso.
- Eclipso
- (as Nick Tarabay)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Jenny is sleeping, a string of Christmas lights is wrapped around the top of her bed. These lights are colored green, red, orange, violet, and yellow, all of which represent the lanterns of willpower, rage, avarice, love, and fear, respectively. Missing are the colors of blue (hope) and indigo (compassion).
- Quotes
Charles McNider: Now... let's focus on stopping Eclipso before he executes whatever plan he's concocting.
Pat Dugan: I mean, what plan would that be beyond revenge?
Charles McNider: Eclipso wants power, first and foremost. Whatever he's doing, no matter how personal it may appear, is always in service to that one goal.
Pat Dugan: And he isn't in any host this time.
Charles McNider: Good. Because as powerful as Eclipso might be, he's also vulnerable.
Pat Dugan: How so?
Charles McNider: He doesn't have a host acting as a shield anymore. Nor the diamond. He's a being of darkness. What do you suppose injures darkness?
Pat Dugan: Light.
Charles McNider: Especially when it's wielded by those who carry the light within themselves, that channel hope, like your stepdaughter. You said the staff hurt Eclipso.
Pat Dugan: Yeah, and Eclipso also hurt the staff. But I think it's making a full recovery.
Charles McNider: And Green Lantern's daughter?
Pat Dugan: Well, Jennie's still learning how to use the ring. I really don't know if these kids are ready for this.
Charles McNider: Are you sure? Because what I know of Beth Chapel, she is.
The episode follows the events of the previous episode with Courtney, Cindy and Charles McNider having escaped Eclipso's realm. Chapter Twelve follows: Courtney seeking help from the unlikeliest of places. Meanwhile, Mike's search to find Thunderbolt leads him straight to his friend Jakeem, and Pat goes to extreme lengths to protect Rick.
There were a couple of good character interactions in this episode, but I didn't really find the acting to be quite on the same level as previous episodes. Luke Wilson gives a terrific performance as Pat Dugan, Brec Bassinger and Meg DeLacy deserves praise as well.
In my opinion, this was overall a good episode. But the thing is that it doesn't really feel like a penultimate episode, lots of things should have been in previous episodes. But having the entire cast in an episode was great to see and even Alkoya Brunson back as Jakeem Williams. My problem with the penultimate episode and many episodes before it is how the pace is too slow, and that the writers have failed in making Eclipso a menacing and frightening villain. He had the potential to both be great and frightening but ultimately failed with both, in my opinion. What could have helped was that people would have stayed dead, like Cindy for example. Seeing her "die" made me think Eclipso was a villain that could live up to his name at being one of the darkest villains out there but the writers have played it too safe. Yet here we are, the penultimate episode of a season that's been dragging on too long. The pacing would have been improved if it would have been a ten episode season instead of thirteen. It was overall a good episode but far from great.
- Holt344
- Oct 28, 2021