This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. Welcome to Red Panda Report.
Buckle up for two-fisted pulp action as I talk about the terrific Tucson of Toronto.
A string of industrial accidents is plaguing the city, each more serious than the last.
Little by little fear spreads. Public confidence erodes and the economic engines of the city grind to a halt.
Is this simple coincidence? A conspiracy of terror? Or are there forces still more sinister at work?
The Red Panda must find out or fall before the power of Barton's Charm.
That copy was written for you and me and all of us by writer and director of the Red Panda Adventures
and voice of the Red Panda and Lieutenant Victor Savian from Black Jack Justice, Greg Taylor.
And this is the 33rd episode of Red Panda Adventures. It aired originally April 5th, 2008.
Red Panda Adventures episode 33 was more... it was a good self-contained episode, I'll say that at first.
I liked the mystery that was there and how it was solved.
And I like that even though this case is closed, it's giving us a different perspective on things.
And it's letting us know that there's more to be worried about.
It's funny, this whole season so far has felt like a very transitional season that's gearing us up towards...
because I don't think it's going to happen at all in this season.
It's gearing us up towards the... spoilers I guess, like the Nazis using occult magic and super villains
to accomplish their stuff, to accomplish their goals, and Red Panda and Flank's role playing a huge role in that.
And in dealing with the Nazi threat and keeping the world free and the Axis powers and the Allies and all that stuff.
Like, that's all going to happen.
It's that kind of throwback show. It's that kind of idea.
And... well anyway, I don't want to get on a history tangent so I won't.
But I think it's very interesting. I think it's a lot of fun.
And I think it's also very intelligent storytelling that's being done.
Especially because they bring up the ghost ship from season 2, I'm going to guess.
And this is season 3. And the ghost ship was associated with that.
Red Panda at least is asserting, suggesting to the flying squirrel that maybe this isn't an either or situation.
That was the start of them. That was the syndicate at work.
And we're seeing the syndicate at work again here in this situation.
And they hired one of Red Panda's foes to help kill them previously.
But I don't remember who that foe was. So, whoops.
I hope that's not too big of an issue.
Here's the thing though. They didn't name who it was so it doesn't really matter at this point.
It just matters that some supervillains are being used by this organization.
And anyway, like I was saying, I think it's a really clever move to do it this way.
And I guess it kind of legitimizes why Red Panda and Flying Squirrel from Canada are getting involved with World War II and the Nazis.
And you could say, but of course I had to get involved. I mean, I know, I know.
But it's justifying it. And it's building up the story.
And it's building up and giving a really interesting, serious, legitimate reason for them to do that.
Now, Red Panda isn't Canada's Captain America.
So it doesn't make sense for him to go punch Hitler directly.
But he's had an interaction with Von Schlitz. Or two, really.
And it makes sense for him to go punch Von Schlitz, perhaps. But he's just a scientist.
So, you know, why would he do that? Why wouldn't he hypnotize him?
Or, you know, we'll find out that he's dealing with some machines or technology that Von Schlitz has created or whatever.
And anyway, that's, you know, one angle for them to take.
But again, he's not Canada's Captain America. So how is he going to go over there?
Interestingly enough, relates to the original universe, the silly Red Panda universe,
referenced in The World Next Door from, I think a few episodes ago, or maybe it was the end of last season. I can't remember now.
Anyway, but referenced, yeah, that original universe was referenced there.
And or something very much like it. No, he used Baboon makes movies. So I guess it is the original.
Anyway, in that there, Red Panda, like episode four or five, he's fighting Baron Autopilot.
And Baron Autopilot, I won't give it away, but he's fighting Baron Autopilot, who's a German Nazi, you know, wing commander.
No, no, not wing commander. Pilot of a war plane. Anyway, he's fighting him.
But in fact, boom, that boom, Nick smoothie is there and he's got like a plasma, a plasma boomerang or something like that.
There's a guy, Great Jane, who's there. And who else? I feel like it was one other guy with them who was helping fight against Baron Autopilot.
Anyway, maybe not. Anyway, so like but Panda Patrol was there's actually an idea presented there that Panda Patrol was like Red Panda
who appears to be a regular superhero. And then because of World War Two, Panda Patrol got all the superheroes in Canada co-opted into them for the war effort.
And that's all what they were doing. And it seems kind of ridiculous, especially in that universe, because it's so comical.
But that actually somehow Taylor took that crazy idea that like wing that idea that like real goofy, silly idea. And he turns it into something legitimate, which just spoilers.
That's where Red Panda is going to go and spend like a lot of time there. And it felt like a really long time for me.
It might have been only over the course of two seasons, but it was two years in my life. So I was living with that kind of stuff going on and wondering what was going to happen.
And I really felt real serious, not like it was affecting my life, but like, oh, man, like, what's he going to do?
How are these characters are going to survive? How are they going to make it through this?
Because it sure seems like they might not. And it's, you know, something interesting is going to happen.
So it's interesting now to go back and to reflect on how early he was working on this already and how interesting the lead up to is to all the World War Two stuff.
Yeah, it's really fascinating. I'm really like I'm excited to keep going through the show and through the story because it's so interesting.
So anyway, yeah, we got a return of Mordreal the Malevolent, who the stranger had vanished previously.
They mentioned the body this episode, and I thought that was really cool.
I love him pretending to be an old Indian or old, you know, whatever, foreign or mystic calling people offending, which I think is supposed to be from India.
But I don't actually know. So I'm in kick called Red Panda at some point.
And I think even there was that the hunter, the British hunter guy who had the huge man servant whose name I can't remember, but I'm pretty sure he called him effectively as well.
I think it pops up in one of Greg Taylor's books, somebody from, I think, India again.
So anyway, must be a I think it's a historical term anyway.
But it was cool because Stephen Burleigh did that voice and he sounded like, you know, Indian or foreigner, you know, mysterious foreigner.
And then he turns back into Mordreal and goes into these monologues and stuff.
And it's still Stephen Burleigh. But like the way he's talking, the performance and the cadence and the cadence of all the cadence to the cadence, but like the timber of his voice, he changes it so much that he goes from, oh, anything for you.
All right, don't kill you. It's just like it's really good.
I mean, I know I just kind of mimicked it or whatever, but like he does it way, way, way, way better.
And it's really fantastic. So great performance by Stephen Burleigh.
Great writing by Greg Taylor. And I really I'm really enjoying this.
And it was like a lot of fun. This like bad luck and this like this idea of this trinket, this relic, this magical item sucking the good luck out of people mystically somehow and giving all and causing them to have bad luck, but also giving the person who's the bearer of the charm good luck.
And it would make them want to hold on to it.
It's just like very interesting, very clever writing, very neat way to think about the way this magic works.
And like there's a lot of cool world building going on here silently, like in between the pages, in between the lines.
And it's pretty cool. So I really appreciate that. Another good one. Look forward to the next one. I'm sure it'll be good as well.
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