In
“Rockhound’s Roost,” a new student from another country, Fabian, is being
bullied by Kevin, a boy who refuses to learn or accept responsibility.
On
a field trip with Mrs. Thomas’s class, Kevin runs away, and Fabian tries to
stop him. Together, they end up in the
woods, facing down a territorial bear.
Fortunately,
Isis shows up to stop the bear from doing the boys harm, and to teach Kevin a
lesson in responsibility.
After
a brief uptick in storytelling last week, The Secrets of Isis returns to
familiar territory with “Rockhound’s Roost.” Here, Isis is asked to do little more than babysit a wayward kid, and one who
doesn’t even break the law. It’s not
exactly a demanding assignment. Shouldn't a superhero be saving the world? Or at least the city?
In
terms of powers, Isis’s capabilities are still being expanded. At one point in the episode, she
telekinetically extracts discarded plates from a river bed, lining them up in a
box on the shore-line (an effect accomplished by running the footage
backwards).
Later,
Isis stops the prowling bear “harmlessly” in its tracks by trapping it in a ring of small
fires.
The bear, incidentally, is an
actor in a really bad costume that looks like it was exported directly from the
Korg 70,000 B.C. episode “The Web.”
The
lesson in this episode is to take responsibility, because, in part, having
responsibility makes one “feel needed.”
Next
week: “Lucky.”
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