For this halloween season we can take a look at a very interesting Danny Phantom episode. This second season opener deals with Sam, the shows token goth sidekick girl, having issues with her friend, Danny (the show's main character) and Tucker (the nerdy helper of the hero), who are invited to a party by the popular chick in school instead of accompanying Sam to see a movie she's been eagerly waiting for: Trinity of Doom.
The movie within the show is actually the most interesting part. The poster shows three female versions of horror and science fiction icons: Femalien (Nothing to do with the softcore movie of the same name, this is a Predator parody), Terminatra (a woman terminator) and Nightmerica (a female counterpart of Freddy Krueger). Now, this is a movie I would watch, and by the way Sam describes it, it's sure to be a riot. Imagine a big budget movie with three ass-kicking female action ladies and monsters in an adrenaline fueled rollercoaster. It would have been beautiful to see that.
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| Femalien |
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| Terminatra |
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| Nightmerica |
With a setting like that, one would think by the title card and scenario that it would deal with the characters fighting against these monster women, but instead the plot takes a more character driven focus. It's about Sam accidentally wishing that Danny and Tucker never knew her in the first place (because she's so angry at them for being selfish) and having to gain their trust once their memory has been wiped by the ghost genie named Desiree, who serves as the episode's real antagonist.
The monster ladies are only there for a couple of action scenes and they aren't properly implemented, they are mostly irrelevant, used as stock enemies.
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| Sam in an improvised ghosthunting outfit. |
It's a fun half-hour overall, and it's nice to see an episode that features Sam saving the day with both her wit and skills. There's also some seeds of the eventual shipping that would take place. I just kind of wish they did more with the creature ladies, because a premise like that is too good to be wasted.
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