Final Exams
With everything that’s happened in the P.O.I.N.T. Prep arc, the conclusion is exciting and satisfying on all fronts.
Working off of the discovery that there’s a secret class forcing students to be the best heroes of them all and her old friends coming to help, Enid is all set to take action. In a solid way of allowing the story events to work in a sequence, one moment from the last cartoon of Rad throwing his antenna to stop the guards is followed up on. The school’s scanners recognize Rad as the source of the antenna, and that’s enough to literally tap him and K.O. in a really cramped box.
Enid tries to help, but Elodie combining her desire to be a good friend to her and loyalty to her school, bails her out to take her to the scheduled final exams. Enid can’t think of that with her friends in trouble, but Elodie insists that being well suited for the school is what’s more important. Her strictness on the matter is enough for Enid to contemplate turning her back on her again, for Enid knows that she has to help her friends. Her ninja skills help her along and keep her aware of the guards, but even they’re not enough to keep her from getting caught. They grab her in her clutches armed with a sentient paralyzer.
In the end, Elodie’s friendliness turns out to be real after all as she too decides to bail on finals to help Enid. Her perfectionism prevents her from being pleased with this, but she really doesn’t want to lose her best friend again. With the very nice turn of events that Elodie and Enid’s friendship is truly retained, there’s a pleasing feel going into major reveals for the cartoon. They easily find the imprisoned K.O. and Rad in the office of Chip Damage, but Chip Damage himself is acting weird and is almost unresponsive. It turns out that he’s actually a robot, and his rump is on a charging bay as his only power source.
Also, giving him a shred of humanity after a few little suggestive moments earlier in the arc, Dr. Greyman appears to explain everything about Chip’s creation. After the demise of Laserblast, Chip was created to convince all of P.O.I.N.T. and the whole world that they were strong as ever. However, even Greyman has noticed Chip acting weird and doesn’t seem like he approves of using glorbs to force students to be amazing heroes. This is a great reveal to make P.O.I.N.T. more multilayered than outright bad. In addition, it leads into an exciting action scene where Enid, Elodie, and K.O. and Rad who use friendship to break free from their box fight to break Chip’s power source while falling. They ultimately succeed, and while Enid and Elodie missed finals, they’re appropriately seen as heroic enough to get an A+.
As pleasing as this is, Enid decides that P.O.I.N.T. Prep’s practices are too much for her so she goes back to her old life at Lakewood. Elodie is saddened by being separated from her old friend, but respects her decision, and while she stays at the school, she promises to be a real example of what they promise. So all ends well for the main stars of this arc and they retain likability by the end as well. However, Dr. Greyman is fired from his position at the school since he disapproves of the practices that were shown through Chip Damage. The real mastermind of all this, Foxtail, continues on with them though, and leaves something big to look forward to as she sets her sights on Lakewood Plaza Turbo.
With more grand reveals and fun action
sequences as well as heart at the center, the P.O.I.N.T. Prep arc ends with
great satisfaction. Yet, there’s still
more grandness to come from this organization…
A+
Season 2
Rankings
1. Your World is an Illusion
2. T.K.O.’s House
3. Final Exams
4. Dendy’s Power
5. Lord Cowboy Darrell
6. Bittersweet Rivals
7. Red Action to the Future
8. My Fair Carol
9. Are You Ready for Some Megafootball?!
10. Wisdom Strength and Charisma
11. Mystery Sleepover
12. Point to the Plaza
13. Special Delivery
14. Seasons Change
15. The So-Bad-Ical
16. Plaza Film Festival
17. Let’s Watch the Boxmore Show
18. Be a Team
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