Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Action News (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes Season 1 Episdoe 49) - 'Toon Reviews 19


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Action News (not to be confused with the Plaza Short)
One great thing about the cast is how any character can get their own cartoon, even side characters.  Take Dynamite Watkins of Action News for instance.  As an anchorwoman, she’s one of the most fun characters, approaching her job with style and excitement.  This means she’s a great choice to have her own cartoon to develop her role and character.  Also, while most cartoons about side characters are their own thing, this one foreshadows events to come. 
The opening news sequence shows Dynamite Watkins’ appeal as she goes over a report at a usual Boxmore attack on Lakewood Plaza Turbo in energetic fashion.  There’s also new and creative elements to her character and job. Her boss is a big cheese literally named the Big Cheese, and she has her own superpower charged through lights, cameras, and TV viewership.  It’s revealed when interviewing a reluctant Darrell about secret plans Lord Boxman may have, and she gets to the truth by emitting an electrical blast from her microphone at him. 
Dynamite also shows a lot of effort to have her viewers know the whole truth.  She suspects connection to Boxmore’s actions throughout the season and promises her audience to uncover what big plans the company may have.  This is a noble cause, but it appears that the Big Cheese doesn’t approve of it.  While she does comply with the scripted fluff piece her boss wants at first, Dynamite is quick to see the lack of substance and strives tell the truth the audience deserves. Nevertheless, this gets her suspended. As a result, she awesomely takes matters into her own hands. 
With a sentient camera, Cam, she sets off to expose Boxmore’s plans herself while Cam keeps his lens on her which is the best source of news reporting power she has.  Cam isn’t enough though since Dynamite’s powers are unable to interrogate anyone, but she still presses on to learn the secrets about Boxmore however she can.  Without any powers, Dynamite finds that Lord Boxman has bought supplies from many cities and investigates a truck pulling in.  When the investigation gets so intense that the apparent truck driver, the Big Cheese, depowers Cam, Dynamite still fights to get the truth.  At the same time she shows that she knows that helping in general is more important than doing so as part of a news show.  That said, she gets enough power anyway when all of Lakewood Plaza Turbo arrives to shoot her with camera phones.  This does technically devalue her vow to get the truth without powers, but what occurs is still great to see.
She becomes powerful enough to get to interview the Big Cheese’s truck even turning the scene into a talk show.  This gives the show something to look forward to when before it explodes, the truck reveals that Lord Boxman is building a new super robot with all the parts he’s been buying.  It’s a shining satisfaction after what a likable character like Dynamite Watkins went through. It's capped off with her going back to the job she loves with the Big Cheese being locked in the closet and impersonated by Lord Boxman the whole time. 
As for the newly revealed super weapon, its credibility is revealed as Dynamite thanks the audience for helping her uncover the truth. Lord Boxman himself eerily states that everyone will find out why he’s building a super robot soon.  That little moment shows that this fun adventure has more value to it than one might think. 
Along with the ever-awesome Dynamite Watkins at the center and an interesting news report atmosphere, this is one of the most thrilling shows of character for the series.
A+

Cartoon Ranking
  1. Face Your Fears
  2. Let’s Take a Moment
  3. Mystery Science Fair 201X
  4. You Have to Care
  5. T.K.O.
  6. Back in Red Action
  7. No More Pow Cards
  8. Action News
  9. Glory Days
  10. Legends of Mr. Gar
  11. We’ve Got Pests
  12. I Am Dendy
  13. Let’s Have a Stakeout
  14. You Get Me
  15. Let’s Be Heroes
  16. You’re Everybody’s Sidekick
  17. We Got Hacked
  18. K.O.’s Video Channel
  19. Jethro’s All Yours
  20. Know Your Mom
  21. Everybody Likes Rad?
  22. OK Dendy! Let’s Be K.O.
  23. Villains Night In
  24. Lad & Logic
  25. A Hero’s Fate
  26. Plaza Prom
  27. We’re Captured
  28. My Dad Can Beat up Your Dad
  29. Let’s Be Friends
  30. We Messed Up
  31. Parents Day
  32. Plazalympics
  33. Presenting Joe Cuppa
  34. Sibling Rivalry
  35. Plaza Shorts
  36. RMS and Brandon’s First Episode
  37. Second First Date
  38. Stop Attacking the Plaza
  39. Just Be a Pebble
  40. The Power is Yours
  41. Do You Have Any More in the Back?
  42. Let’s Watch the Pilot
  43. Villains Night Out
  44. You’re Level 100
  45. You Are Rad
  46. We’ve Got Fleas
  47. Rad Likes Robots
  48. One Last Score
  49. Let’s Not Be Skeletons

Plaza Shorts Ranking
  1. Life of Darrel
  2. Action News
  3. K.O.’s Inner Monologue
  4. Where in the World is Mr. Gar?
  5. Rad vs Enid
The next OK K.O. review is a simple story of K.O. setting off to make dinner for his mommy.
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