Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sins Of The Father... And Sister
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 23 | Aired on 04.13.2009
...and soon after, in their cabin, Angela and Alice are busy unpacking when three boys enter, and I'll just tell you right now that they're the younger versions of Charles Deveaux, Daniel Linderman, and Bob Bishop. YDL offers, "Welcome to Crapola Sands" in a manner that manages simultaneously to be kind of lisping and over-enunciated, and given that there's also an accent that tries to be English but is barely in the same hemisphere, I'm not sure how we're supposed to buy that this kid eventually turns into Malcolm McDowell. He'll probably have a hell of a time doing Caligula, though. YCD is clearly the leader of the group, and he hits on Angela a bit before the three of them withdraw. We see that it's raining as Alice complains that she wants to be with their parents, but Angela assures her that being on their own will be fun. However, when she opens Alice's suitcase, she finds only toys and books, and Alice points out that she told her only to pack what she'd need. I know this is meant to show that Alice relies on Angela and also to set up the sock thing later, but frankly, I'm kind of getting the sense that Alice would have gone around the bend at some point without any help from her sister. Also, didn't her parents check her suitcase? Anyway, Alice tells "Banana" (?) that she wants to go home, but Angela happily says that the doctors told their parents that this place is going to make her nightmares go away, and I already gave my comments about that in the recaplet, so I'll move on to where the doctors also said her issue is genetic, so it's something that could affect them all, and as such they all need to deal with it. There's also a bit about Alice being addicted to Alice In Wonderland, and between that and the suitcase she is again coming across as young or challenged for her age. They have some moments of sisterly bonding in which Angela drops an Anvil of Ironic Foreshadowing on my foot when she promises she'll always be there for Alice, and everything seems to be looking up when the rain suddenly clears. They clasp hands and smile at each other...
...and then, in the present, Peter and Angela are holding hands as she says that her sister and parents died there, and the same will happen to them if they don't settle their differences. Peter takes me back to last chapter as he gives his mother his best Blue Steel, and then, from inside, we see a mysterious person's hand in frame. It would be a more interesting development if there were more than one possibility of who the hand belongs to, but don't tell that to the portentous music. Title card.