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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
Red Panda Adventures Episode 2 is called Night Patrol. It originally aired October 29th
2005 written and directed by Greg Taylor. This is episode 2 of
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
What do superheroes do when they don't have a case? Why they go out looking for trouble, of course
They'll find more than they bargained for when the Red Panda's
Newside kickbacks to the flying squirrel joins her partner on her very first night patrol. Those are cool. So anyway
This may sound silly, but the squirrel stomping stalker scene was a little much a Napoleon, you know the Napoleon
Ziggy Piggy himself decreed that soldiers be summarily shot for certain crimes
If you know what I mean like with that
Criminal was trying to do that stalker was trying to do that lady
And I can't say disagree with that policy
But the brutality here felt a little indulgent and it just I don't know just kind of played funny for me
It kind of played funny for me some of the audience audio in the theater or I mean
theater
Was oddly muffled and echoed in a weird way and it kind of I don't know it
I'm sure it was supposed to feel like they're distant from the stage where most of the action was happening
But it just sounded kind of odd and I don't think it was the best way to make that
That effect happen like maybe they could have had no echo or no
Distortion on them, but just be lowered so that it was hard to hear them because they're reasonably farther away from the action
Which I mean the center of the action the camera the microphone or whatever is right next to
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
But kids like I said, it just seemed a little off to me. I
Really like the idea of using night patrol as a deterrent. It's a super neat idea that
This very public display of their movements throughout town
Will have an effect on people where they will begin to think that red panda and flying squirrel are anywhere
They could show up anywhere and be anywhere in a short amount of time
And that's got to be a scary thought for criminals and other near-dwells. I
Love the static shoe roof hopping and that red panda is some sort of genius who keeps upgrading his tech as the need arises
of course the
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
Amplifies their presence as opposed to him skulking around and you know walking on the streets or something like that
So that's a pretty cool idea
Next thing is professor zombie is fun and danger is a fun and dangerous villain very cool. I like
Oh, the last thing that I really enjoyed was the idea of like the dates getting interrupted and him
Getting dumped by this girl because he ran out of excuses to come up
To use to give her for why you know
He wasn't able to see her and why he had to break dates and things like that
so I like the idea of red pandas life interrupting the life of his secret identity and
You know would that be more meaningful if it was like Peter Parker
We'll renew who he was as a person or is it just as meaningful and impactful here?
I don't know either way
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
But I just kind of want to leave it at that for now
Hmm, and I do like hold on let me see it doesn't matter
About his secret identity being a secret even us in the context of this relationship thing
No, not really, but it is interesting to me that he
Tells kit that if it doesn't involve supervillains or crime fighting
He doesn't really have a mind for it, which you know that doesn't include
The development of the tech and stuff that they use because that is you know
Adjacent to crime fighting I guess so that that makes a lot of sense
But I don't know just again. There's another hint being dropped there. If yeah, you know what I mean
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
should I because
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
I don't really know and then I
Want to know like why does red panda flirt with Professor zombie or Antonia as he called her calls her first of all
Well, and also I find it hilarious that he calls her by her first name and that he compliments her on her dress
Like it's just an odd mix and I mean I can only assume
It goes back to the days when he was fighting her without the help of the flying squirrel before he and Kit were
Partners in crime fighting together. So it's just kind of interesting dynamic reminds me of in Clone Wars
They had Obi-Wan and or Kenobi and Ventress. I have a similar dynamic and
It's kind of fun. It's weird, but it's fun. I like it
So gonna just specify here. This is the first appearance of well, it's the second appearance of the static shoes
It's the first appearance of the static shoes being used for
Propelling somebody away from a rooftop and then to another rooftop
You know opposite of it and apparently the red panda makes about a 40 foot jump with the power of static electricity
being channeled through static shoes and that's a really cool idea and
I thought he was gonna say that you know and with the power of static electricity. It's practically free
Which you know you would just
Prinkle or you would as you move I guess build up static electricity and that's how it's I guess
Limitless power source for them because I don't think well they may talk about a power source for it later
But not yet. I think they use whatever it generates the static electricity
As like a battery pack for something later, but again, we'll talk about that later
But he says it's almost effortless, which is cool
So the actual jumping is pretty much effortless, but they're still running and you know going from rooftop to rooftop
And that's having some effect on them physically and you get to hear that them panting and stuff as you know
The travel is tiring tired them out as they as they reach that woman who's being attacked
So the next thing is on villains
I have a couple notes on professor zombie almost more like
Building a profile for her with this so professor zombie is a delightful scenery chewing villain Andrea Lyons
Who's name?
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
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
It's very strange. It doesn't make sense. It shouldn't work, but it's rather entertaining
But isn't that how most villains and media are right anyway under cronyom 234 is what she uses
It's a blend of science and voodoo that professor zombie
I think she says like she inherited this information
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
And it makes them zombies and for whatever reason maybe because she's the one who made the formula or she's the one
I don't know how that works. Somehow it's tied to her where she's able to have
Control over these individuals who've been zombified, which is you know crazy
She talks about using her zombie army to attack the city until they give her all the money she wants
And then newspapers call her a wannabe despot I think or would be despot
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
And then Antonio is immune to her own necronium gas
which is pretty cool and that's a great idea and
Definitely a smart thing to do if you're gonna have a gas I can turn people into zombies
you would not want to be turned into a zombie yourself and
And you know I'm sure she'll never face that threat a threat of zombification
Because she's immune a couple tidbits on lore
Kit asked Panda when she can learn hypnosis, but he doesn't directly answer her
But says he's been at this a while you know implying that it takes a while to learn hypnosis
I guess and then he uses low-level psychological warfare to keep crooks spooked while he and the flying squirrel handled most urgent cases
After all they can't be everywhere once which we discussed earlier
Okay, hold on and then a flying squirrel gets called
Fearless flying female and a courageous cow that champion in the pages of the sense of the newspaper
Which is exciting for her just kind of earned her stripes by getting her
Recognition as a superhero and as the red partner panda or as the red pandas partner
I should say and then the mayor agrees with chief O'Malley that the red pan and flying squirrel are menaces and
You know that's something typical of these kinds of characters doing their super heroics the
People will see them as potentially villains or just as bad as the foes they face or whatever especially people in power
Like a mayor and a police chief
But you know that may come to an end as it does in some of these
Superhero shows or maybe they'll always be outlaws. You never know. We'll have to see what happens
on the continuing adventures of the red panda, but
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
I pointed out the things I liked a couple things that I thought were weird and
That's about it. So
Without further ado further. Well, yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and get out of here
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