Review: GhostForce “Bubble-Brush; Glouglux”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Mike’s carefully planned day at the museum is thrown off by a washing machine ghost. Later, Andy accidently lets a very powerful chicken ghost that he needs to take care of it before Miss Jones wakes up.

OUR TAKE

We’re now on a weekly schedule for episodes of GhostForce (at least until they move it to the AM, at which point we stop covering it) as well as our last episode before Halloween AND…it’s about washing machines and teleporting chickens. I mean, we’re not even at the halfway point of the season, so I wouldn’t expect something very monumental around now anyway, but you would think that, with how these episode broadcasts have been scheduled, they would want to end the month with an episode that best fit the spirit of the holiday. Although frankly, with how none of the past dozen episodes have felt particularly spooky anyway, I guess that’s not something I should be realistically expecting at this point. Though surprisingly, there has been something I was starting to think I would never see, and that is development. What KIND of development is a bit hard to pin down, since the characters don’t really change and we’re still doing monster of the week format episodes, but there does feel like something has moved forward. I think. Maybe. I could be going insane, but we’ll see. For now, I’ll just assume this is a good sort of progression and pray I’m right.

What I’m talking about is mainly in the chicken episode, which sees the team, or rather Andy specifically, end up causing the big monster attack instead of it coming out of nowhere like usual. Not only does it highlight how bad these ghosts can get if not controlled AND might even give credence to the power levels they’ve been getting that I previously thought were pretty arbitrary, it provides a distinctly different scenario than what’s come before and places personal responsibility on Andy…who never has to really answer for the potential danger he almost caused, but it’s something I guess. The Mike episodes is also not all that bad either, focusing on a lesson that even the most planned out things can hit a snag and that one should learn to be flexible instead of only sticking to one possible solution. So yeah, I think this is probably the most I’ve liked an episode of this show so far. Maybe it’s the writers coming into their own or maybe it’s finally having some solid time in between each new episode, but I may very well be warming up to GhostForce. I wonder how it’ll do once it’s out of October though.