Plot Synopsis
A series never really gets bad until it has the "outer space" episode. It took Mega Man 8 episodes to get there, and the show was never that good to begin with. Dr. Light is watching a rocket launch countdown that one of his former students will be on, with his robots, Mega Man, Rush and Roll, along with his former student's daughter. The astronauts are delivering a giant lens for a giant space laser... just what the hell do they need this giant space laser for? Well that's never explained, but Dr. Wily wants it to hold the world hostage and sneaks aboard the launch.
The astronauts daughter, who is so uninteresting I've forgotten her name, senses something weird is going on and sneaks aboard the shuttle as well. Mega Man goes after her and discovers Wily's bots but is too late to stop them from launching into space. Dr. Light sends Mega Man after them with a jet pack. He tells Mega Man, "Be careful, that jet pack delivers a million pounds of thrust!" I'm no astrophysicist, but shouldn't that crush Mega Man? Well it doesn't and apparently Mega Man has no trouble steering something that strong with his bare hands so what the hell do I know?
Wily heads to the space station the lens is being held at, but he takes the astronauts daughter as a hostage, which keeps Mega Man from fighting him. Wily's bots grab the lens and head for the moon, leaving a nice bomb on the station for Mega Man to disarm. Luckily, Rush and Roll head to the space station in a new rocket ship NASA has just lying around somewhere, and Rush tracks the bomb down.
Mega Man now quickly heads to the moon base where Wily has set up the lens on the laser beam. Wily contacts the UN and makes his threats. Mega Man gets close, but Proto Man blasts him out of the sky, disabling him. Luckily, Dr. Light contacts that astronauts daughter who goes over to Mega Man's chassis and hits the big red "Auto Repair" button. Well hell, why does Mega Man bother with those E-Tanks when he has a button?
Mega Man, back to life, uses a nearby satellite to reflect the laser beam straight back at it, destroying NASA billion dollar space death laser project thing. Also Wily gets away. The end.
Critique
A bit of a mediocre episode with some boring extra characters who we'll never see again. The jokes aren't funny and the show is surprisingly devoid of action. There's a lot worse episodes then this one, sure, but this one isn't particularly interesting.
Rating: Thumbs Down.
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