CarolQuest
Among the more endearing parts of this show is the emphasis on healthy family love. Much of that is found with K.O.’s relationship with his mother, Carol. It’s always an absolute joy to see them both together and show how important they are too each other. It may be a more idealistic family bond, but it’s staged as something so believable and pure. It’s this very feel that ends up going very well with K.O. showing self-awareness of many big heroic reveals he’s been exposed to as of recently.
Kicking off with a matter of K.O. being taken care of while Carol sets off for work, it soon turns out that Carol will have to bring K.O. with her. However, Carol learns that she won’t exactly be going to her job at the dojo. She gets a special call from Foxtail of P.O.I.N.T. who refers to her by her old hero name, Silver Spark, and gives her a major assignment. All throughout, attention is given to make sure that K.O. is kept unaware of what’s going on, as if they don’t want him to be aware that P.O.I.N.T. is involved.
It’s in the following sequence where despite their efforts, K.O. proves to know a lot more than what’s expected from someone his age. For one thing, Carol is assigned to investigate the labyrinth of shelves that make up the back of Gar’s Bodega. K.O instantly recognizes where they are as the place where he and his co-workers got lost. The only difference is that Carol knows how to make the place not so dangerous and therefore much easier to get through.
This turns out to not be the only thing K.O. is aware of. They soon discover other familiar heroes involved in this secret P.O.I.N.T. mission, giving an impression of the true extent of P.O.I.N.T.’s power. In addition, as one of them, the ever-charming Ms. Mummy, tries to hide what’s going on with code words, but K.O. easily deduces what they’re talking about. Someone is trying to steal glorbs from the tree below Lakewood Plaza Turbo. While he’s shown to know a lot as well as how this isn’t a scavenger hunt like everyone claims it is, Carol and the others still go along with the façade. They discover that someone is indeed stealing glorbs from that very tree, a harvesting robo-creature known as a mecha-maw. Even when another hero associated with P.O.I.N.T., one of Carol’s dojo students, comes to help, they’re easily outmatched. It’s remarkable that K.O. turns out to be a big help to them with his powers. Making the battle with the mecha-maw stand out though is how easily Carol’s ways of taking care of her son are worked in. Counting the heroes helps K.O. solve his math homework, and the fight with the mecha-maw works in the assigned tasks of feeding him dinner and giving him a bath.
Then once the fight is over, Carol finishes the job with a fitting bedtime story. While what she says is staged as a story, K.O. sees it as major information on her background. Giving meaning to the end of “Let’s Take a Moment” Carol is actually still part of P.O.I.N.T. in secret. She and other Lakewood heroes do what they can to protect the plaza from difficult situations so P.O.I.N.T. won’t need to come and help and make Mr. Gar feel inferior. It’s a lot of necessary reveals that give weight to the show’s underlying plot, and while K.O. doesn’t find it a good bedtime story, he appreciates learning all this.
Everything comes together in a highly endearing and effective cartoon mixed of wholesome family love and exciting missions, which can’t be easy to
pull off well.
A+
Season 2
Rankings
1. Your World is an Illusion
2. T.K.O.’s House
3. Final Exams
4. CarolQuest
5. Dendy’s Power
6. Lord Cowboy Darrell
7. Bittersweet Rivals
8. Red Action to the Future
9. My Fair Carol
10. Are You Ready for Some Megafootball?!
11. Wisdom Strength and Charisma
12. Mystery Sleepover
13. Point to the Plaza
14. Special Delivery
15. Seasons Change
16. The So-Bad-Ical
17. Plaza Film Festival
18. Let’s Watch the Boxmore Show
19. Be a Team
20. Soda Genie
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