As I said, thermite makes everything better, but the build team needs better myths to do if the producers expect anyone to like them.

First we have Jamie and Adam, doing the Hindenburg myth, and getting to play with that wonderfully volatile substance known as thermite. They even get to play with hydrogen for a little bit too. Things that burn really good and things that explode, what's not to love?

And then we have Tory, Kari and Grant doing the croc myth, which anyone who's watched any amount of the Crocodile Hunter knows IS a myth. You knew the crocs weren't going to be cooperative, and other than the possibilty of one of the build team getting chewed on, this myth was BORING. I found myself hitting the fast forward button to get past them to see what Adam and Jamie were doing.

So yeah, good episode but give the build team more interesting stuff to do!

One thing this show seems to revel in is all the pretty stuff it can throw at you. Slightly cel-shaded characters, flame effects, sparkly particle effects, and even some state of the art liquid effects for good measure. Sci-fi shows can't seem to do without the flashy stuff, and this one delivers in spades.

The characters may seems a little stereotypical, but they all have their own little unique quirks to make them stand out a little more. This is also really early in the show, so they should have more opportunities to develop as it goes on.

One thing about Ed, though: he was created, not born, and that sort of explains how naive he is. Quite possibly he didn't even get to be a little kid and was grown up to teenager level before Ol' Skool thought he was "done". That would explain why he gets confused about things that the other kids take for granted. Knowing this, I think it's an interesting touch. People who aren't familiar with scifi aren't going to get this, though.

The writing, well, that needs a little work. Sure, all the one liners and such are cool and all, but the interaction between characters is lacking something. Also, the pacing needs work. Things happen a little too fast at the moment, we need more downtime at the Dojo or Bedlam's place inbetween all the racing around the city.

So, all in all, its a slightly flawed yet interesting show, that I can't wait to see the rest of.

Yes, Santa exists in Star Command's corner of the universe, only the way he does things there is a little more high tech. That is, until Zurg swipes the Chrono Disruptor gizmo and goes on a Christmas-trashing rampage.

The writing in this ep is your standard corny Christmas storyline, complete with XR being the skeptical one. But really, who needs a stellar plot when you're looking at some of the best animation in the series? And there's the fight between Buzz and Zurg on Tradeworld with both of them using time displacement devices . . . say what you will about Matrix-styled battles, but this is one of the best and wildest I've ever seen.

So yeah, a Christmas episode that didn't suck, imagine that!

This episode was decent, sure, it's just the plot that annoyed me. Why would Jeremie immediately assume that this new girl is Aelita materialized just because she looks sort of like her? Wouldn't he check to see if Xana had done something first? I'm sure those traps give off some indication that they're active in Lyoko, why wouldn't he immediately look for one of those? After what happened with Yumi three episodes earlier, you'd think Jeremie WOULD look for those fireball traps if someone disappears.

Jeremie's loss of his usual intelligence aside, this ep was okay, I guess. The animation, both normal and CG, were good as always, so I guess that's one good thing going for it.

Oh man, there's so many things wrong with this ep I don't know where to begin. First of all, Skeleton King doesn't make an appearance in this ep, and it's always a bad sign when the main villain doesn't show up in an episode.

The writing is horrible, the jokes are lame, and a mutant colon thing does not make for a good bad guy. The animation was pretty bad here too, with lots of characters off model or just plain badly drawn. Not to mention what the food did to the characters was just wrong.

And Teen Titans did a similar storyline to this and did it SO MUCH BETTER! Beast Boy was actually funny in their ep, Otto was just being dumb and annoying in this one.

So yeah, this was the lamest ep of SRMTHFG! ever . . .