Episode Report Card Demian: F | 218 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Enter The Stench
By Demian | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2001.10.18
Down in the basement, Cole and Phoebe make with the sweaty swordplay. Stop it. You know what I mean. Phoebe twists her ankle and asks for a time out. Cole tells her she must learn to fight through the pain. Only he's infinitely more annoying about it than I was just there. "Demons worship strength. Power. Nothing else. To beat The Source you have to channel all of your power into your strength -- including your pain!" See what I mean? Shut it, Cole-san. More with the broadswords. As the camera pans with them across the floor, it hits a support pillar in the cellar. The screen wipes from left to right with said pillar to land us back with the Mystical Orientals in their gladed little "monastery" in the middle of San Francisco. Whatever. Phag is moaning something to Gold-Tooth Charlie about protecting him from Not Cho. Phag's Pa tells her that, to defeat Not Cho, they need the "Dragon Blade." This plot line can bite me. Gold-Tooth Charlie hands her a note, instructing her to take it to a "Master Kwan." She doesn't want to leave his side, as Not Cho might attack in her absence, and then where would she be? Why, she'd be "the master" herself, and would of course know what to do, for they are Mystical Orientals. There's some "empowering," Mulan-esque nattering about how Phag is the best student and the strongest fighter and her father's true daughter and the right person for the job. Phag's not having it, for she's a girl and by her that's not so great. She's unsure, for her silhouette is curvy. She walks with a sweet and girlish gait, with her hips kind of swivelly and swirly. Gold-Tooth Charlie tells her to cram it and fetch the damn Dragon Blade already. Or maybe that was me. She scampers off, and as she goes, the camera follows to pan down into the birdbath. Not Cho peers malevolently from beneath the water's surface.