Axess: Wavering Heart

Plot Synopsis
What's the best way to follow up a great episode of Axess? With an incredibly stupid one of course! Chaud is understandably having a bad day after losing ProtoMan, whose now the 2nd Lieutenant of Nebula. Lan and MegaMan both take turns talking to Chaud, but he's pretty distant. Even when Chaud visits Anetta in the hospital (I know, I'm shocked someone actually went to the hospital instead of SciLab too) she can't get him to talk about it. Chaud doesn't know how he can be a Net Savior without ProtoMan, but he vows to stop Dr. Regal and Nebula. Enough about Chaud though, we have a stupid plot to get through!

Lan's been assigned to protect a super model whose showing off a new line of fashion called the "wearable computer." She doesn't seem to mind having an 11 year old body guard, and the Net Police are afraid Nebula will try to steal the Wearable Computer because, like all good fashion, it's a dangerous weapon. Somewhere in developing a personal computer you wear as clothing, the super model thought it was safe to put on a cloaking device and disguise maker. Yep, no potential for espionage there...

Mayl tries to get into the show, but accidentally wanders into the next door building, which is an Aerospace company working on secret satellite technology. "Here Mayl," says the guard, "let me tell you about everything we do around here and all of our secret weak points in security!" He seriously goes on and on about this shit, answering questions Mayl never asked. It's no wonder the place gets stormed later by super models.

Oh, I'm getting ahead of myself. Um yeah, Nebula uses some sort of mind control sound wave to control the Super Models, who break into the next door building. Lan gets a call from Mr. Famous as he's being attacked by the models, saying the VIP he was protecting was found tied up outside of the airport. The person Lan was protecting was actually Ms. Yuri in disguise, and she's stealing the satellite data! To make matters worse, SparkMan is causing hell for MegaMan.

Luckily Roll counters the sound wave with her own sound wave, which some how reaches the super models attacking the security of the next door building from the top floor, all the way from the parking lot at the bottom of the fashion show floor. The models taken care of, Lan hits ProtoSoul on MegaMan and takes out SparkMan.

Ms. Yuri is about to steal the codes, when Chaud, using his psychic powers somehow, stops her. He knew Nebula was going to use the wearable computer and sound waves to control super models into stealing satellite data from a nearby aerospace company. I mean, come on, it's so obvious. Despite stopping her, Ms. Yuri still escapes as Lan arrives at the scene.

Suddenly, to remind the viewers that this show isn't always terrible, ProtoMan projects a hologram to Chaud, taunting him and telling Chaud that he means nothing to ProtoMan. Chaud screams out that he'll stop Nebula, pretty pissed that they are screwing with him.

Critique
Since this episode sucks balls, lets talk about the best thing about it. ProtoMan went back to the evil team! Hooray! It's been too long since ProtoMan was evil for the hell of it! All the way back to Ruby-Spears show! Ah, I really missed evil ProtoMan!

Sandwiching the episode are decent scenes to remind us of the overall story arc going on, even though a lot of it is through flash backs of an episode that we just watched. Then after we get into the meat of the episode, it just gets dumb. It's not that I'm against mind control shenanigans, hell, I think the episode where everyone was turned into animals by Yahoot was kind of funny, but this episode takes it so god damned serious.

Since the last episode was such a downer, taking the wacky route would be out of place the very next episode, but let's be serious, this isn't the sort of plot you deliver with a straight face. Chaud's deus ex machina at the end doesn't help the episode any either, showing up without any lead into how he figured it out.

Lastly, you have Nebula, who didn't even need an episode to recover from the loss of their oil tanker base. What's with villains in this show? Every loss is like a minor victory. Grave was especially bad about celebrating their defeat, and Nebula does the same shit. Why don't you assholes recognize a loss, and go for a revenge plot or something? Sometimes I hate this stupid show.

Rating: Thumbs down.