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The Deep
Freeze
A major specialty to this season is the abundance of creative
story ideas. We’ve had quite a few
already with things like a panda-themed mob boss, Dojo turning into a monstrous
threat, and an earwig living in a Shen Gong Wu who can possess people. This trend continues with the world put into
a new ice age from an evil snowman.
During
a pursuit for a Shen Gong Wu called the Lunar Locket, Jack unveils a robot he
made human with the Heart of Jong. While
fighting for the Lunar Locket, it’s very impressive and funny how he puts up a
strong fight against the Xiaolin Warriors while still acting friendly. However, all the fighting gets the robot
depressed, and deciding he doesn’t want to be human anymore, he throws the Heart
of Jong down a cliff. Given this Shen
Gong Wu’s ability to make life out of pretty much anything, this simple action
turns out to be highly destructive to the world.
Just from interacting with the snow at the
bottom of the cliff, the Heart of Jong creates a sentient snowman who can
easily go from cute and innocent to a big yodeling monster. No one stands a chance against
this being’s frosty terror. It even gets
to the point where Jack has to legitimately beg the Xiaolin Warriors to let him
stay with them while Wuya dares to team up with the snowman. True, Jack does end up double-crossing the
Warriors by stealing some of their Shen Gong Wu, he’s barely a threat when the
snowman suddenly shows up. He’s
incredibly powerful with his use of ice and snow, easily freezing the Warriors
mid-fight, and even when he’s melted, he can go back to snow quickly with the
Heart of Jong. It’s a legitimately
difficult enemy to take down.
Now, I’m not
exactly all for cold, so what the snowman goes on to do feels especially
fiendish to me. When he catches up with
Jack and snags his Lunar Locket, he uses it to block out the sun completely,
making for intense freezing ice everywhere, his idea of global dominance. Seeing our heroes shivering intensely sells
the severity of this state of the world.
However, it’s through this sorry state when a new idea for defeat
develops. They have the Shen Gong Wu to
melt the snow, and that one spot of green they create is enough to attract the
snowman to come try and stop them. Once
he’s right where they want him, it’s an all-out battle to take out the Heart of
Jong powering him.
At first, the snowman
is dominating like he’s been with nothing seeming to melt him. Then comes a Xiaolin Showdown where the
face-off with this all-powerful evil snowman is a simple game of ice
hockey. Omi is the Warrior to take on
the snowman where a really small monk ends up going against the snowman as a
huge wintery cyborg. The thing is, even
when the snowman easily manipulates water with the moon using the Lunar Locket,
water is Omi’s main element. When things
get dire, he has all the water moves to force the water thrown at him back and
finally beat that snowman. Then after
the moon is put back in its proper place, ending the ice age, there are enough
repercussions to this affair since it means evil is much stronger now. For that, the Warriors get new armor to wear
when fighting in a Xiaolin Showdown from here on, and they certainly do look
nice.
Still, it’s the main story that
matters most, and with its grand creative concept and legitimately high-stake
execution, it makes what we get really great.
A+
The Ranking
1. Citadel of Doom
2. The Evil Within
3. Enter the Dragon
4. The Deep Freeze
5. Days Past
6. PandaTown
7. The Sands of Time
8. Master Monk Guan
9. Crystal Glasses
10. Dreamscape
11. The Shard of Lightning
12. Hear Some Evil, See Some Evil
13. Sizing Up Omi
Be sure to stay tuned for the review of the next episode where the Warriors must work as a team to get a Shen Gong Wu to control them all called the Emperor Scorpion.
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