Post by Belchic on Aug 11, 2010 1:50:39 GMT -5
I have said before that I thought this was one of the best episodes of the series, but now, I'm kind of changing my thoughts about it. There is one thing about the episode that is clearly bothering me, and that is why I think it is no longer worthy of the praise it once recieved. It's because the episode had a gaping plot hole!
To refresh everyone's memory, at the beginning of the episode, Lucky showed off to the other main pups how he knew the delivery truck was going to deliver them a steak, and he used his collar as a boomerang to get apples down from a tree. However, during the race with Tripod, the horseshoe spots on his back disappeared. After that, Lucky thinks that he lost his luck and is now a jinx.
During the battle with Cruella at the end, Spot encouraged Lucky by letting him know that he's not a jinx. She told him that the delivery truck was not luck, it was planning; and she told him that the boomerang collar was not luck, it was practice. This is where the problem comes in!
If all that stuff that Spot mentioned was not luck, then how come Lucky was supposedly a jinx throughout the majority of the episode? I mean, think about it! As soon as his horseshoe was completely gone, all this bad luck happened to him. He lost the race to Tripod, he got in trouble with Nanny, he got beat up by a giant rabbit, and he screwed up a lot when the pups were trying to stop Cruella. How do you explain all that, Spot? Maybe the loss of his horseshoe caught him off guard? I don't know.
Overall, I can safely say that I can now consider this one of the worst episodes of the series, because the logic in it doesn't make any sense! If all the things Lucky did at the beginning of the episode were not luck, where did all that bad luck come from? Also, what exactly is the moral of this episode? I've gotten absolutely nothing out of this broken down, disfunctional mess of an episode. The best moral I can honestly come up with for this episode would be: There is no such thing as luck, and if you feel like you're having either a good day or a bad day, it just means that somebody is taking advantage of your stupidity.
To refresh everyone's memory, at the beginning of the episode, Lucky showed off to the other main pups how he knew the delivery truck was going to deliver them a steak, and he used his collar as a boomerang to get apples down from a tree. However, during the race with Tripod, the horseshoe spots on his back disappeared. After that, Lucky thinks that he lost his luck and is now a jinx.
During the battle with Cruella at the end, Spot encouraged Lucky by letting him know that he's not a jinx. She told him that the delivery truck was not luck, it was planning; and she told him that the boomerang collar was not luck, it was practice. This is where the problem comes in!
If all that stuff that Spot mentioned was not luck, then how come Lucky was supposedly a jinx throughout the majority of the episode? I mean, think about it! As soon as his horseshoe was completely gone, all this bad luck happened to him. He lost the race to Tripod, he got in trouble with Nanny, he got beat up by a giant rabbit, and he screwed up a lot when the pups were trying to stop Cruella. How do you explain all that, Spot? Maybe the loss of his horseshoe caught him off guard? I don't know.
Overall, I can safely say that I can now consider this one of the worst episodes of the series, because the logic in it doesn't make any sense! If all the things Lucky did at the beginning of the episode were not luck, where did all that bad luck come from? Also, what exactly is the moral of this episode? I've gotten absolutely nothing out of this broken down, disfunctional mess of an episode. The best moral I can honestly come up with for this episode would be: There is no such thing as luck, and if you feel like you're having either a good day or a bad day, it just means that somebody is taking advantage of your stupidity.