Review: The Loud House “Steeling Thunder”
OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)
Lincoln and Clyde get sporty Lynn to do stunts for their movie, but viewers accidentally mistake it for Lincoln doing them.
OUR TAKE
We’re on the third of four episodes of The Loud House and I forgot to mention the first few episodes of Season 8! So yay, if you got the sense that we had passed a threshold of some kind and now everything feels like we’ve hit some milestone…then you’re watching a different show than this one because it all still feels pretty episodic. Then again, if the first big age up happened at the beginning of the fifth season, then maybe we’ll see another step up in grades for the ninth season until everyone is out of high school Anyway, this week is an episode that features the more athletic sister Lynn! Kinda. She’s in it for a short period of time so she is technically featured, and the bit that she’s in does a good job at showing how cool she is at least, so that’s good. That kinda leads into my bigger issue with this episode, mainly that the lesson it seems to be pushing a bit jumbled. Lincoln (not Leo) takes credit for Lynn’s stunts, almost gets caught lying, and then decides to do the stunts himself to basically show that he could’ve done those stunts anyway. So I guess the lesson is that it’s okay to lie in the moment or allow people to believe something untrue as long as you can back up that claim at a later point?
They establish pretty early on that Lynn has to go to a sport event the next day, so she’s not around to dispute this, but I actually think it would’ve been more interesting if she WAS there. Lincoln (again, NOT Leo) gets credit for the stunts and doesn’t immediately debunk it, which disappoints Lynn. She doesn’t seem like the type to get very upset (although it could be an interesting layer if she did) but she could be all “well I know what I can do and I don’t need to pretend” or something like that and the episode leads to Lincoln (NOT LEO) confessing publicly and praising his sister. That’s a very rough off the dome version of it but I think the lesson about honesty would be more clear. Or maybe the lesson was never about honesty and about Lincoln learning to do his own stunts? Seems like there are a lot of neat ways they COULD have taken this but they got rushed or an actor had to leave early or something. I dunno, it’s still neat and doesn’t exactly send a BAD message. Anyway, one more for the week!
