I just finished watching the episode. Here's a brief summary of what happened, so if you don't like spoilers then don't read it. Word created a pod to turn dragons into pure black draconium so he gets Moordryd to steal dragon eggs for him. Meanwhile, Artha is racing and he looses the amulet during a racing move. Later, when he goes to stop Moordryd from stealing dragon eggs, Artha realizes his amulet is missing so he goes as himself. He fails to stop Moordryd and he tells Parmon, Lance and Kitt that he lost the amulet. Artha knows he lost it at the track and is about to go back when he gets a message from Mortis telling him to come to the temple immeadiatly. At the temple Mortis gives Artha a device that picks up black draconium levels and tells Artha that there has been a high level of black draconium in a certain place and he knows Word and Moordryd are up to something. At the track Kitt, Lance and Parmon find the amulet but a crow-like creature takes it away. Artha arrives and they tell him what happened so he gives Parmon the device that detects black draconium and suggests that he tweak it to pick up gold draconium so that they can track and find that amulet. Kitt and Artha then go off to the place where Word is keeping the dragon eggs which looks like an empty warehouse. Parmon tweaks the device and he and Lance see there is a big gold draconium signal around one place so they go there and they're just around the corner from the signal so they decide to trap whatever/whoever has it with thoose green things. So they do that and end up trapping Kitt and Artha. The gold draconium signal was from Beau. Moordryd and Cain then arrive and trap Parmon, Lance manages to get away. Artha, Parmon and Kitt are then trapped to the wall in the building with the eggs when they begin to hatch. Parmon tries to reach his welding wand thing in his pocket but it drops to the ground. Then Parmon gets another idea, he could just touch Beau with the tip of his foot so he got Beau to send a mag blast through him and then magged his welding thing and got them all free. By then most the dragons had hatched and the dragons were attacking them. Meanwhile, Lance is picking up a gold draconium signal on the tracking device so he goes after it and finds the amulet. Back in the warehouse place, Kitt, Artha, Parmon and Beau go through a door and hide in a little room to be safe from the dragons attacking them. The pod, which was on the ceiling then begins to do something, it increases the dragon growth rate. Within seconds the little black dragons were pretty big. At this point, Lance arrives and he falls right into the middle of a hoard of the dragons. Beau mags him onto his back and Lance hands him the amulet. Artha turns into the Dragon Booster and is holding off the black dragons with Beau. Kitt uses some white gear to grab the pod on the ceiling and rip it down. Artha picks it up and asks Parmon if he could change it to turn the dragons back to their original colour by using the amulet with it and overpowering the black draconium. So Parmon quickly changes the pod and hands it to Artha who uses it with the amulet to turn the dragons back to their original colour, they were all red. When Moordryd comes back to the warehouse place, Descepshun nudges the black pod and it activates. And there's pretty much what happened, there was two short scenes in the end one with Word and one with Moordryd and Cain, where Moordryd reveals that the pod turned Descepshun into a pure black draconium dragon.

Sorry if I made any mistakes concerning what happened in the episode or if I left anything important out!

WHERE DO YOU LIVE!?

Canada, near Toronto. :)

Lemme guess CBC?

<_< I have found out why the United States sucks... <_<

Yeah, how did you know it was on CBC?

I'm from Rockland near Ottawa and I thought it was an old eppie but it obviously not and I MISSED IT!!!!! *Slams head into desk repeatedly* Grrrrrrrr..... :angry:

Oh well. :( You'll see it another time.

I wonder if they'll play "Return of Drakkus 1 & 2" :huh:(on then weekend)

Probably next week will be Return of Drakkus 1 sometime, and the next week after that will have the other one.

So, I guess Decepshun wasn't a purebred. Strange, I thought a rich kid like Moordryd would get one of the best, why pick a mutt? I wonder if Decepshun's personality has changed any, my guess is that her looks have. I hope on the inside she's still the same dragon, I have the feeling she was one of the few things keeping Moordryd sane. (Cain is another because he's Moordryd's pal.)

I absolutely found this episode interestingly intriguing, and that's why I liked it (even if it had its few flaws). :) They brought back Swayy! Yay! And Pyrrah (who I am still confused about what her true personality is) as well.

Word must have a lot of time on his hands if he tinkers around all his life doing stuff. :P And Moordryd seems like a double agent now. He's pleased to at least try to do what his father wants him to do, but he's also got the EVUL Armeggaddon, whom he's very loyal to.

You know, I found this amusing, even more amusing when Moordryd looked annoyed, as though the comment could've referred to him, and then I just completely lost it when I realized the irony of the baby Crow-drag snuggling a very irritated Word. :lol:

Kitt's role seemed rather short of dialogue, though she FINALLY gets her hands on the situation! (And on a mag-staff. Go, Spunky Token Female! :D) Action role for her! Yay!

Artha doesn't seem very annoying anymore, which is a good thing. (And they ACTUALLY used the word "kill". KILL. I thought words like that were forbidden in the show! :blink:)

Mortis is finally potrayed humorously. A rather hard thing to do for a wiseguy like him.

Beau should be arrested for child abuse. I mean, those things ARE evul, violent and shtuff, but they were just hatchlings! <_<

Parm seems to be developing in intelligence. Also, I didn't expect him to be the first to learn how to mag-fire, next to Mortis. :) (IT'S EINSTEIN!!! AAAAAAHHH!!! :lol: However, Parm being electrocuted seemed confusing to me. Perhaps when Beau was struggling and couldn't use his building-up mag-energy, it just let loose? Hmm...) He also seemed like the real hero here.

Lance is acting less wise in here, and also plays another hero and acts quite his age. The Crow-drag attacking him seemed rather good as well, for capturing how birds act. (Anybody else notice Moordryd saying, "Leave the mini brat, Cain!" or something like that? Perhaps, oh...an itsy bitsy teeny weeny little Moordryd/Lance brotherly hint again?

Moordryd calling out to Decepshun was rather good: another sign of the Moordryd/Decepshun relationship. However, Moordryd's desire for power got in the way of his caring side again. (This may be a foreshadow; now that Moordryd has Decepshun as a pure black draconium dragon, he may find the gauntlet, and turn into whatever he needs to be, perhaps this Drakkus character we've heard rumors about.) And I do really think that they should've left off the transmogrification of Decepshun as the last scene, but then again, don't have a really big problem with this one.

And another Word gag, a cute one at that. Aww, the baby Crow-drag thinking that Word was his mommy! ^_^ (Or his daddy. Hehe, look, Moordryd, it's your new baby sister/brother! XDDD)

All in all, good episode. :)

I think so, and this interaction Moodryd-desepshun are soo cute, decepshun always is loyal and maybe some worried about Moodryd. I wish does not change.

Decepshun is fiercely loyal to Moordryd, no matter what. Notice how in "Pride of the Hero", she didn't really react jealously when Moordryd went after Beau. (Or this may be personality in lacking. <_<) And then in "Still Waters Freeze" when Moordryd was going hysterical and raved on about always wanting a gold dragon. Still loyal. (Or the personality lacking thing. <_<) At the same time, Moordryd seems to favor Decepshun as well. See how well Moordryd/Decepshun is. I doubt that they'll be torn apart.

I neither like that she change

When was this? I didn't see this part. Sob. :unsure:

I don't think I saw "Still Waters Freeze". Can someone tell me what happened in dat one? by the way I live in Michigan in the USA!! (Toronto is cool too cuz' i have bin there and its a cool place and I went to Medieval Times there and it was AWESOME!!!"

Absolutely! ^_^ Glad to see more females to balance out the gender ratio (Rob did tell us we would see more females somehow) and Swayy's quite a feisty character, characteristic of the Dragon Eyes. Pyrrah's personality is just as confusing to tell as Wulph's. I hope to see more clarification from these characters.

True, first there was that liquid black draconium, which took him half a lifetime, and now this pod, which cost him another significant part of his seemingly boring lifetime (Doesn't Word do anything else for fun other than do devious, dubious experiments and hang around in his computer room? <_< :lol:). I was surprised that Armageddon was still around to use Morrdryd like a "double agent". Great storytelling here. :)

I wonder what Word did do with the baby crow afterwards. And it also seems like newborn animals already learned some basic skills, like seeing, flying and snuzzling the first thing they see. :lol:

Hooray! She's actually done some battling for once! No longer does the reality of Dragon Booster restrict her prowess for actually fighting back! :D Looking forward to her kicking more tail! (Yes, she actually kicked something!)

Well, to be honest, he still seems a bit too overconfident and maybe a bit immature, but somehow he's not as annoying as you said (or maybe because we're already used to him being annoying in the first place :blink: ). I had blatantly laughed at scenes where he flies off Beau in his 360 trick and then got knocked out by one of those spike balls - Beau actually looked rather heroic when saving Artha with that mag-beam while leaping :) . And yes, they used the word "kill" and Artha was the first! :o I thought he'd use something more kid-friendly like "scale" as a verb, when Lance used it in "If It Ain't Broke" to Stewardd(?) to keep him from telling Artha. Now that I think about it, it does seem like a peculiar parallel here. ;)

Hooray for all the new goodies, literal and figurative like Mortis' humor use alike! :D

That scene just literally bowled me, just plain funny to see Beau crash into those evil babies like they were lemmings. XD And it seemed like more of a "person of special profession taking out zombie babies" thing than actual child abuse. Now that I think about, half of the episode turned out to be like a horror/Jurrasic Park parody. And you'd think Beau would help out a little bit in keeping the door closed.

He seems to be acting just like in "Still Water Freezes" - does something that looks like a smart decision, have it backfire in his face with something seemingly irrevocable, and then miraculously figures out a deceptively simple solution at the last second. :rolleyes: But at least this time, he looks cool doing it - I want to know what he said for being able to do mag-fire, the only word I managed to recall from him was "cadnium" or something like that.

I think Lance is doing well in his character, after all, being wise means doing the right thing and being childish means doing something in his best interests, which may not mean climbing extremely dangerous towers. And we get see Lance with his own parachute! (So far, only Pyrrah, Moordryd and Lance have built-in parachutes to my memory, hmm, what does this say for our youngest hero? :) ) And yes, it seems odd for Moordryd to leave the mini-brat alone, perhaps he still has feeling back from "Wraith Booster". Also, I think this is another example where Fracshun somehow acts like a guardian to Lance, first urging him to face his fears in "Faster than Fear", and now giving the idea of using the white rappel gear. Go Guardian Frachsun! :D

Other things to comment about:

-What happened to Cyrano, Wyldfyr and Fracshun after this episode? This is exactly like in "Three Times A Hero", where all four of them ride on Beau to escape and the dragon(s) is forgotten somehow, except instead of just Wyldfyr, it's Wyldfyr, Cyrano and Fracshun. <_< You'd think they showed us a short scene of them escaping, at least.

But it's a great episode, nonetheless. ^_^

As soon as I heard that line I was rammed by that thought! Maybe Wraith Booster wasn't useless!
Also I loved a few other bits:
When Lance uses the parachute. Squee!
When Artha takes off the amulet, to me this was realinzing thatbeing the dragon boster somethimes won't be enough, but being Artha can.
Super-drac Decepshun, though Moordryd's starting to become a parallel to Artha, and I don't like that, unless it doesn't last long.

I guess that Moordryd's uis starting to develop as char, he didn't remain in the role of Minion.

Aye aye, Daigerus. The equality of females may be balanced out more throughout the show.

...I see a notorious fic idea forming in my head...*cackles, starts typing up something*

But they're just adorable little children! *attempts to pat one* Wait a mi - owwwww... :rolleyes:

Oh, yeah! Finally, Fracshun's also getting some role too! :D

I know, I was wondering that myself. Speaking of "Three Times a Hero", ever noticed that Moordryd and Cain were roled similarily to their roles in the TTaH episode? The good guys win, and the bad guys get humilated and yelled at by Teh True Ebil Villain. ;)

And here's a continuity error: how did Parm get his helmet back on after he got zapped? I thought it disentigrated in thin air when he got electrocuted by Beau's mag-energy. :P Or maybe it flew off.

Oh, please please pretty please tell me that Beau's not the only dragon that can transmit mag-energy! I'd love to see Decepshun or another dragon besides Propheci or Beau get their humans to mag-fire! :(

Woah, Moordryd with mag-fire. He'd be really powerful then!
And speaking of power, I'm back to the whole Moordryd-being-an-anti-dragon-booster-is-stupid-because-Artha-is-already-enough-to-handle-thank-you-very-much issue. There are a few more issues with this senario:
1. Parm's way smarter than te Dragon Eyes, and could prob'ly figure out that it's Moordryd.
2. Word seems to know a lot, and he could find out. (then he'd be able to get Moordryd to do his bidding by threataning to turn him in!)
3. We still don't know what mister lookie-I'm-stuck-in-this-amulet is really planning. I still say he could be trickin Moordryd, there could be a gain for Armeggadonn. Like getting hid body back for instance.
4. Moordryd is not pure abolute evil. He's a bad boy, sure, but we know he has a good side.
5. That one nagging line from Pride of the Hero. "Beau chose you too."
Anyway, I like the super-Decepshun idea. For one thing, it'll be easier for crazy shippers to pair her with Beau!
Decepshun thinks 'Dumb crazy shippers!'

Yeah, Decepshun looked SWEET!!!!!! And I think that Moordryd isn't all evil; he can't be if Beau chose him... so there...

so there this situation will be a break down and Moordryd will change to good guys

Well... that's what I think, Airy. :D

I liked this episode quite a bit despite a few rough edges on the plot. It continued to develop the main story thread of Moordryd becoming a sort of anti-Booster as many of us have guessed. I'm fine with this myself and I think they're building towards it nicely. First Moordryd gets an amulet and his dark lord mentor hints at getting hold of the matching gauntlet. When that came up in "Still Waters Freeze" I was wondering if putting the amulet and gauntlet together would cause Decepshun to power-up and transform the way Beau does. Now the answer is pretty clear. The way Decepshun's form flickered between her normal state and the black draconium state at the end I think indicated that she can't hold the pure black draconium state in a stable fashion by herself the same way that Beau can't transform to his black & gold state without Artha's amulet. I'm going to bet that once Moordryd gets hold of the gauntlet, that it will not only power-up Moordryd to be the anti-Booster but will allow Decepshun to hold her more powerful black draconium state as well. And as I think Skylii originally mentioned, I'm also going to guess that anti-Booster Moordryd will call himself Drakkus.

Interesting side question here: is Armeggaddon bound to the amulet itself (in the sense of maybe being trapped inside it) or does he just use it as a conduit to communicate with Moordryd since he seems kind of disembodied at the moment? If it turns out he's bound to the amulet, what then happens when Moordryd attaches it to the gauntlet? Will Armeggaddon then bound with Moordryd in some way? Or will it free Armeggaddon from his disembodied state and allow him to take his true form again? Hmmm. I'm kind of hoping it's the latter since I'd like to see if he's human or not.

In any event, Artha's going to have a more formidable foe to battle from then on. It will interesting to see if Moordryd hides his anti-Booster identity or not. I'm certain Cain at least will know since Moordryd trusts him completely. But he may well not tell his father. Armeggaddon will no doubt be guiding Moordryd, so we'll learn more about Armeggaddon's plans at that point. I'm sure it must be world domination, but the particulars of what and how could make the conflict with Word, Artha, Propheci, Rivett and everyone else interesting. At least, that's my hope.

Funny observation: how on earth did that little crow-drag lay such a huge egg?!?! That egg was about the same size as the crow-drag's torso. :blink:

hummm

That meanst that the plot is starting to complicate, But what could do Moordryd change for good? if the idea was to change to good side

Any one can set some screen shots about Armageddom?

I'm working on a transcript for when darkness falls RIGHT NOW <no, seriously, I'm typing on Word and flipping through the board at once> I'll post in when it's done. :D

And not only after, but during the episode. :huh:

As soon as Moordryd and Cain arrive on the scene and take Artha, Kitt, Parmon and Beau into the warehouse, Wyldfyr and Cyrano suddenly and completely vanish from the story line. It's very noticeable when characters drop off the face of the world like that from one scene to the next. It's too bad as well, since Wyldfyr and Cyrano could have been there and participated in the battle in the warehouse without it ruining the way the story played out. They still would have all been well out numbered by the black dragons, so Artha & company would have needed to use the same plan to get out. But watching two more dragons in the battle would have been fun. Maybe they just hit the limit on the animation budget for this episode, but minimally it would have been nice if there was at least a story reason given why they were left out at that point.

I thought Fracshun was handled much better. He got to work with Lance a little and even "suggested" the idea of using the rappel gear. Nice to see them working as a team. And besides, Fracshun's just really cute. ;)

The fact that Fracshun didn't show up for the ending was easier to swallow since he stayed on the ground when Lance had to climb up that tower. When Lance opened his chute, you could imagine Fracshun would have been watching and seen that, and would have followed where Lance was going. But he just hadn't caught up in time to where Lance landed. Though it would have been a nice touch if they had shown Fracshun arriving just at the instant Beau burst out the door of the warehouse and then ran along side him as they made their escape. It would have tied it up nicely instead of having three of the dragons ignored at the end of the story.

Y'know, there were quite a few nice tidbits around here. For example:

- Checking closely when Parm was busy tweaking up the draconium scanner thing, there's a picture of...Pyrrah in the background? Hint or nay? ;)

- Why didn't Word's monitors pick up on Artha transforming into Dragon Booster?

- Is it just me, or when Artha ripped off the amulet from the pod, some kind of little mark stuck there? Maybe that explains the pod self-destructing.

- So does Cain know about Armeggaddon? I'm pretty sure he does.

- Anybody catch Artha shaking his head at Kitt after she made that little comment about sprouting wings? And Lance rolling his eyes when Parm began explaining how he switched the draconium signals on the draconium thingamabob?

Besides Artha and Moordryd and all those others, Kitt, Lance, and Parm's roles all seemed filled in this time. Lance got the amulet back for Artha, Kitt finally does some action scenes, and Parm's Teh Smart One. :) Also, there was actually some very wonderful teamwork, and I find that most of the characters actually acted like people in reality. :)

I don't think they were designed to pick up stuff other than the progress of the dark draconium hatchlings. Remember in "Faster Than Fear" when Word had Dragon Booster on the screen, but even then, he didn't (or couldn't) figure out his real identity. Another note is that he doesn't seem to have any spy cameras inside the incubating room - he doesn't seem like the type to actually watch his "babies", which is most apparent with the baby crow-drag near the end. :lol: One last note, it seems like he wasn't aware there were people in the incubating room, which implies that Moordryd trapped the Penn Team in there without his father knowing.

Possibly. For a while, I thought Parm's welding somehow left a star-shaped hole through the pod. :blink: I think it was, because it looked gray on the inside.

I wish I caught those things. I only saw that episode once.

Oh, and did anyone else that the golden explosion was cool? It reminded me of a few movies, where the main characters do something to make a big ol' explosion and change everything back to normal. But it was cool, nonetheless, and I'm a bit surprised that gold draconium actually counteracts against the excess of black draconium.

I didn't get that impression myself. When they're stealing the eggs in act 1, Moordryd seems concerned to hide the amulet from the others, so I tend to think he hasn't told Cain yet. He did show Cain that Decepshun can change states now, so it stands to reason that he will tell Cain about Armeggaddon when the time is right. I'll guess that will occur when Moordryd gets the gauntlet and attaches the amulet. There's a good chance Cain will be present for that. I'll also guess that this will either release Armeggaddon in some way, with him possibly taking a physical form.

The "Return of Drakkus" airs here in a little over a week. Should be cool!

That seems to be the case. Though as you say, it's a bit of a stretch that Word didn't have any cameras in there or his sensors didn't otherwise pick them up.

I'm also not sure why Moordryd put Beau in the warehouse with Artha, Kitt and Parm. Word's tried to capture Beau (the red and blue dragon) three times now. Now that Moordryd actually had him caught, you'd think he'd take him away rather than leave him in a room full of dangerous dragons, especially since those dragons looked like they wanted to make a meal out of the humans at least.

This is also one of the few times we've seen dragons that have wanted to do serious harm to humans. Things are definitely getting more dangerous in the story.

One thing I don't buy though is that Kitt could knock over one of the fully grown black dragons with the blocking staff. We saw Wulph doing this in "Prophet's Motive" as well. I think a human hitting a dragon with a blocking staff would be like someone striking me with a toothpick. It just wouldn't work and I might not even notice it. :P

Yeah, good special effect. B)

Well, we did see the liquid gold draconium counteract the liquid black draconium Beau drank in "Broken Bonds". So it is consistent with that. I'm not sure if gold is supposed to be more powerful than the black draconium, but at the very least, it looks like they can cancel each other out.

And it was a bit of a stretch that Parm could re-wire Word's pod like he did, but then again, it's not much worse than some of the stuff they do in Star Trek. :P

Must have been EXTREAMLY fat before she laid them!

Well, you said in a few posts that 50 may not even be old for the citizens of Dragon City and I think strength wouldn't be an exception either. There were a few instances that physically strong characters like Dragon Booster and Kawake could hold up something many times their weight and that's without the mag-force from their dragons! :blink: So I wouldn't be surprised that Kitt could actually kick dragons' tails when she had to. But then again, why does Lance in "Wraith Booster" end up tapping Moordryd - I expected more of a poke in the eye somewhere. :lol: But then again, maybe they have "strength spurts" as we do growth spurts.

On another note, did anyone notice Moordryd saying along the lines of "Let's get out of here before Dragon Booster or Dragon Security shows up."? Is the leader of the Dragon Eyes actually concerned of Dragon security or has Dragon Security been a bit bolder since "The Mechanist" when they held the power to blow anything into bits with that giant mag-cannon? :blink:

He was concerned in "Three Times a Hero" too. And HOW does he know the "only" way out of Precinct? ...Perhaps he got arrested once? ;)

Perhasp he had to pay a parking fine :D

Probably. At the very least, having Dragon City Security show up would be an inconvenience I think. He'd either have to fight them, evade them or wait for daddy to bail him out of jail. :) Either way, it would slow things down.

Also in the "did you notice" category: there were at least hundreds if not a thousand eggs in that hatchery warehouse Moordryd was using. Yet we only see about half dozen dragons at once. If all those eggs had hatched and grew to adult size, the warehouse should have been overflowing with dragons! There's obviously a limit to the animation budget, but it's still not logical to put so many eggs in that relatively small space given they intended to quickly grow them to adult size. Plot hole.

Other things we learn in this episode:

Dragon eggs are small

They look no bigger than ostrich eggs to me (like what we saw in Jurassic Park). The hatchlings are small enough that you could easily handle them for the first few months.

Dragons don't raise their young

Given that there are hatcheries full of eggs with no mommy and daddy dragons around, this would say that dragons don't form families and simply abandon their eggs after they lay them. If that's the case, that may argue for dragons laying multiple eggs at once since they don't do anything to ensure their survival. Either way, dragons don't seem to care what happens to their own young. They've apparently grown to trust the humans to do all the work.

Kiwis can lay eggs 1/3 of their body mass in size. Just imaging passing that thing.

*shudders* Being a woman can suck so bad sometimes...