One of the great things about this show is the Vlad/Danny interactions as the two work so well together, each bouncing off one another. It also works well with the added Vlad/Danny vibe. His emotions thankfully manage to integrated it with the episode itself (though I'm not at all convinced on how he used his weather powers to fight Vortex-how does connecting himself to the Fenton Jet Plane causes him to increase in power? He's not a machine). It's a little out of focus for him to let loose so radically over his more grown nature, but he's always been a passionate kid and I suppose with his definite character arc closed, they decided to explore other aspects of him (unlike Sam and Tucker who both still needs an upgrade).
He's much more confident and levelheaded with himself, yet he still produces uncontrollable emotions possibly due to teenage hormones and his deep irksome nature with Vlad. His current personality has generally matured from the once naive, shy, and unsure boy that he once was. I personally liked that the show decided to explore Danny's emotions. This is an extremely average episode for me, but thankfully there are still some goods. The only upside to this is that a latter episode does it even worse. Considering he did a tremendously good job on making Sad Danny during the "break up" in " Fanning the Flames", this one left me cringing. And I know it's one minor scene, but I was absolutely disappointed in David Kaufman's attempt at making Danny sound sad near the ending when he witnesses a group of depressing animals in Tucker's helmet. Red skies and black and yellow make blah color combos in my opinion. It's not as good as the last two episodes though. He's voice is also painfully annoying.Īnimation is fine, I absolutely love the action sequence when it occurs, among other little ditties such as the close up of Danny getting zapped (good animation/pose) or Jazz frantically and comically lying to her parents on Danny's whereabouts (good gestures). I assume he's mentally unstable, but his reasons for spreading weather destruction everywhere stems only on a single line of it as his "visual art", one that's not at all emphasized or taken for granted (Vortex, you can't call yourself an artist if you don't know who painted the Mona Lisa). Vortex continues the line of boring, painful one-dimensional characters that have spread throughout Season Three. Sorry Vlad, but you're more intriguing when you're after your more personal victories. The last thing I wanna see in Vlad is a cartoon villain from 50 years back. This completely undermined Vlad's character. I appreciate the writers taking the time to go indepth on Vlad's current politic state, but the thought of him "creating" a weather machine, maintaining a less-then-sane ghost, and see him running away/get struck by a tiny storm cloud (while funny) just had me screaming Dick Dastardly.
Point put, this is Vlad at his most swallow his usually debonair, mysterious, and dark nature is replaced with a sense of awkwardness and clumsy villainous demeanor that would have fit more in Snidely Whiplash's book of ne'er doers. I can't get away from this episode without saying how thoroughly irritated I am on their treatment of Vlad's character.