Episode Report Card Demian: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Not Without My Done One
By Demian | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.04.2003
Jump cut to forked lightning zigzagging through the sky above a blasted city street. Various frantic extras race past the charred hull of a city bus as the Glamorous Ladies orb into the middle of the street. Nice work on the shadows in this effect, by the way. They've actually made note of the various sources of light hitting the women once they materialize, and the resulting collection of shadows gradually materializes as they do, rather than simply appearing once they've landed. It's the little things that bump up an episode's grade, you know? Admittedly, one can never rely on the big things, because the douchebags responsible for this mess always manage to fuck those up, but whatever. The gals plus Tiny Chris stride past various gutted and flaming cars to find the dragon hunkered down in a jerry-rigged nest on the far end of the boulevard. Tiny Gay Chris slobbers with glee. Raige pinches her eyes shut and calls for one of the beast's scales with her orbing telekinesis. A chunk of dragon flesh starts to dislodge itself from the tail, but the dragon shrieks, propels itself forward before the orbing completes, and rises up on its hind legs to roar. Tiny Chris giggles as his mom stumbles across a cunning plan. Piper passes the kid off to Phoebe, instructs her sister to ensure that Tiny Chris sees her, and darts out of the frame to confront the dragon. The beastie propels itself violently into the air, swings around over the wreckage in a great arc, then dives straight for Piper's head. The second Tiny Chris realizes what's going on, he slobbers some more and twists his chubby wrist. The dragon instantly vanishes in a cloud of rapidly dissolving orbs.
Unfortunately, the dragon's last flaming loogie had already been unleashed. The force of that blast sends Piper sliding backwards down the asphalt on her ass. She presently ends up at Raige's feet. "I'm okay!" she insists, still cringing a bit. She quickly collects herself and rises to natter cooing congratulations at Tiny Gay Chris. Speaking of nattering, Phoebe blithers something stupid about "the mother-child bond." Stow it, you dippy, focus-grabbing shrew. Raige lets her eyes wander about the ruined neighborhood, and wonders how they're going to clean up the mess. Cue Harvey and Jean, who mottle in off to the side. "Actually," Harvey announces, "you won't." Harve wiggles his fingers to mojo Tiny Chris into Jean's arms. "No!" Raige yells, snatching at Piper and Phoebe's hands. The Ps plus Tiny Chris vanish upwards. Harvey and Jean roll their eyes at each other.