Ron Does Stuff

I did say in my post on episode five that this show likes blowing things up and you know what, they did blow up the building! This was after Dante’s head got blown off in episode three and Air Force Two get blown up in the episode four. So which one is it going to blow up this time?

We’ve got a different opening sequence in this episode which I think is a nice break from everything’s that happened and gets the audience curious again, in case their attention was waning. The first part of this episode is a flashback to Mary’s childhood, showing us how her father gets deeper and deeper into his research on demons. It’s an obsession that destroys her family and we know from previous episodes that her dad eventually kills her mom.

We then get a look at another kid who gets put in an abusive foster home and who is failed by the system. This kid looks like he’s got a knack for inventing things and when a portal to the demon dimension opens up next to his foster home, he chooses to go into it instead because the abuse he’s suffering is just that intolerable.

It’s in the demon dimension that he actually gets to have a childhood, but he also sees how bad things are for its citizens there. It’s how he comes up with the device to take them back to Earth and how we find out that he’s already spent years there, and now he’s a strapping young man with a hot body. I need therapy, okay?

Of course, since the demon bunny who isn’t really a demon but is actually a strapping young man is taking demons into Earth, he eventually encounters Mary and her demon hunting team. It’s a bloody encounter that turns the bunny evil and explains his hatred for Mary and DARKCOM.

This has got to be the show’s best episode, and I really liked how the story is brought to another level by the different styles that the animators used for the parallel childhoods. It’s good stuff!