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This is MJ. I'm an author. I'm an artist. I'm an analyzer. Find all my work at MJmunoz.com

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Welcome to another episode of Red Panda Report. This is the second episode where we're gonna be talking about Red Panda Adventures Episode 2

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Red Panda Adventures Episode 2 is called Night Patrol. It originally aired October 29th

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2005 written and directed by Greg Taylor. This is episode 2 of

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Season 1. Here's the intro synopsis of the episode which you should go listen to at Dakota Ring Theatre if you haven't done that already

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What do superheroes do when they don't have a case? Why they go out looking for trouble, of course

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They'll find more than they bargained for when the Red Panda's

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Newside kickbacks to the flying squirrel joins her partner on her very first night patrol. Those are cool. So anyway

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This may sound silly, but the squirrel stomping stalker scene was a little much a Napoleon, you know the Napoleon

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Ziggy Piggy himself decreed that soldiers be summarily shot for certain crimes

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If you know what I mean like with that

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Criminal was trying to do that stalker was trying to do that lady

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And I can't say disagree with that policy

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But the brutality here felt a little indulgent and it just I don't know just kind of played funny for me

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It kind of played funny for me some of the audience audio in the theater or I mean

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theater

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Was oddly muffled and echoed in a weird way and it kind of I don't know it

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I'm sure it was supposed to feel like they're distant from the stage where most of the action was happening

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But it just sounded kind of odd and I don't think it was the best way to make that

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That effect happen like maybe they could have had no echo or no

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Distortion on them, but just be lowered so that it was hard to hear them because they're reasonably farther away from the action

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Which I mean the center of the action the camera the microphone or whatever is right next to

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Professor zombie and red panda I guess and I yeah, I think that would work better to do to do the voices a little differently

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But kids like I said, it just seemed a little off to me. I

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Really like the idea of using night patrol as a deterrent. It's a super neat idea that

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This very public display of their movements throughout town

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Will have an effect on people where they will begin to think that red panda and flying squirrel are anywhere

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They could show up anywhere and be anywhere in a short amount of time

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And that's got to be a scary thought for criminals and other near-dwells. I

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Love the static shoe roof hopping and that red panda is some sort of genius who keeps upgrading his tech as the need arises

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of course the

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Public display of the static shoe roof hopping is part of what adds tonight patrol and makes it even better in some ways because it

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Amplifies their presence as opposed to him skulking around and you know walking on the streets or something like that

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So that's a pretty cool idea

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Next thing is professor zombie is fun and danger is a fun and dangerous villain very cool. I like

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Oh, the last thing that I really enjoyed was the idea of like the dates getting interrupted and him

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Getting dumped by this girl because he ran out of excuses to come up

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To use to give her for why you know

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He wasn't able to see her and why he had to break dates and things like that

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so I like the idea of red pandas life interrupting the life of his secret identity and

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You know would that be more meaningful if it was like Peter Parker

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We'll renew who he was as a person or is it just as meaningful and impactful here?

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I don't know either way

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It works for me and we'll talk about more of that later in the series in the season that rather in the season than the series

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But I just kind of want to leave it at that for now

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Hmm, and I do like hold on let me see it doesn't matter

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About his secret identity being a secret even us in the context of this relationship thing

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No, not really, but it is interesting to me that he

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Tells kit that if it doesn't involve supervillains or crime fighting

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He doesn't really have a mind for it, which you know that doesn't include

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The development of the tech and stuff that they use because that is you know

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Adjacent to crime fighting I guess so that that makes a lot of sense

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But I don't know just again. There's another hint being dropped there. If yeah, you know what I mean

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Okay, I feel like I should know the name of Anton speed back that they mentioned is this famous singer or whatever and I don't know

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should I because

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Maybe it's somebody else who I should know who's famous for something else or was involved with some of the old-time radio stuff

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I don't really know and then I

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Want to know like why does red panda flirt with Professor zombie or Antonia as he called her calls her first of all

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Well, and also I find it hilarious that he calls her by her first name and that he compliments her on her dress

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Like it's just an odd mix and I mean I can only assume

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It goes back to the days when he was fighting her without the help of the flying squirrel before he and Kit were

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Partners in crime fighting together. So it's just kind of interesting dynamic reminds me of in Clone Wars

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They had Obi-Wan and or Kenobi and Ventress. I have a similar dynamic and

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It's kind of fun. It's weird, but it's fun. I like it

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So gonna just specify here. This is the first appearance of well, it's the second appearance of the static shoes

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It's the first appearance of the static shoes being used for

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Propelling somebody away from a rooftop and then to another rooftop

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You know opposite of it and apparently the red panda makes about a 40 foot jump with the power of static electricity

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being channeled through static shoes and that's a really cool idea and

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I thought he was gonna say that you know and with the power of static electricity. It's practically free

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Which you know you would just

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Prinkle or you would as you move I guess build up static electricity and that's how it's I guess

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Limitless power source for them because I don't think well they may talk about a power source for it later

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But not yet. I think they use whatever it generates the static electricity

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As like a battery pack for something later, but again, we'll talk about that later

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But he says it's almost effortless, which is cool

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So the actual jumping is pretty much effortless, but they're still running and you know going from rooftop to rooftop

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And that's having some effect on them physically and you get to hear that them panting and stuff as you know

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The travel is tiring tired them out as they as they reach that woman who's being attacked

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So the next thing is on villains

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I have a couple notes on professor zombie almost more like

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Building a profile for her with this so professor zombie is a delightful scenery chewing villain Andrea Lyons

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Who's name?

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I don't know if I have spelled correctly, but it'll be in the notes. You can look her up on to go to a theater

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It does a wonderful job. She's an awful murderous madwoman, but it's fun or it's like done in a fun way or it's all done in good fun

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It's very strange. It doesn't make sense. It shouldn't work, but it's rather entertaining

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But isn't that how most villains and media are right anyway under cronyom 234 is what she uses

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It's a blend of science and voodoo that professor zombie

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I think she says like she inherited this information

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And she uses it to turn unwilling victims into her zombie slaves and it just like goes into them and it removes life from them

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And it makes them zombies and for whatever reason maybe because she's the one who made the formula or she's the one

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I don't know how that works. Somehow it's tied to her where she's able to have

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Control over these individuals who've been zombified, which is you know crazy

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She talks about using her zombie army to attack the city until they give her all the money she wants

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And then newspapers call her a wannabe despot I think or would be despot

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So I guess she wants to wield much power from zombie with zombies and then use that power to you know lord it over people

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And then Antonio is immune to her own necronium gas

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which is pretty cool and that's a great idea and

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Definitely a smart thing to do if you're gonna have a gas I can turn people into zombies

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you would not want to be turned into a zombie yourself and

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And you know I'm sure she'll never face that threat a threat of zombification

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Because she's immune a couple tidbits on lore

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Kit asked Panda when she can learn hypnosis, but he doesn't directly answer her

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But says he's been at this a while you know implying that it takes a while to learn hypnosis

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I guess and then he uses low-level psychological warfare to keep crooks spooked while he and the flying squirrel handled most urgent cases

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After all they can't be everywhere once which we discussed earlier

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Okay, hold on and then a flying squirrel gets called

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Fearless flying female and a courageous cow that champion in the pages of the sense of the newspaper

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Which is exciting for her just kind of earned her stripes by getting her

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Recognition as a superhero and as the red partner panda or as the red pandas partner

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I should say and then the mayor agrees with chief O'Malley that the red pan and flying squirrel are menaces and

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You know that's something typical of these kinds of characters doing their super heroics the

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People will see them as potentially villains or just as bad as the foes they face or whatever especially people in power

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Like a mayor and a police chief

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But you know that may come to an end as it does in some of these

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Superhero shows or maybe they'll always be outlaws. You never know. We'll have to see what happens

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on the continuing adventures of the red panda, but

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Basically, I think I've said all I have to say about this. I really enjoyed it. I thought it was a lot of fun

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I pointed out the things I liked a couple things that I thought were weird and

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That's about it. So

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Without further ado further. Well, yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and get out of here

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