Reviews
for
"Child's Play"
[#712]
*All
ratings are based on a 5 star scale unless otherwise noted.
Review by Knight
Fisher (Town of Odyssey)
Rating:
 
A lot of it seemed cliched.
Mr. Whitaker's, and the kids lines about their favorite
moment especially. And they got some of those answers
wrong... Decent, but not great or greatly memorable.
Review by
The Kings Daughter (Town of Odyssey)
Eugene introducing the show,
small imagination station adventure moment, Cal Jordan
record, fantastic closing for kids listening. ^.^ Chris
finished the show quite nicely, like older episodes. She
helped make the lesson apply to kids, as well as adults. I
keep missing, however, a specific Bible verse for Chris to
read at the end of the show. Bible examples are good, but
quoted words from God are SO much better! Fantastic episode.
However, the kid's questions to Whit's question seemed a
little cliche...and unrealistic. Sure those things mean the
most to kids when it all comes down to it, but many don't
realize it until much later in their lives. His wrap up was
good as well. And 'Jebediah Ripples', first name just made
the answer amusing. Eugene's play on words was good too.
Katrina walking out of the room and then returning when Joy
asked the question was so sweet. Almost everything about
this episode made if feel like an older one. I also loved
how applicable/realistic they made the kids, with almost
every thing they did I had a flashback to doing something
like it we did as kids.
Review by
DanP740 (Town of Odyssey)
Rating:
It was interesting hearing
Eugene's intro to the show, because it's the same lines he
did way back in the day, but now he speaks a little
differently. I liked the reference to Cal Jordan. I think
it's the first pre-restart character reference I've noticed.
And it was interesting seeing them as parents. I actually
liked this one a bit.
Review by
whittaker96 (Town of Odyssey)
Rating:
Overall, I enjoyed this one.
The moments with Eugene & Katrina and the kids were good; I
thought Wooton's personality was used well in this episode.
Eugene's voice was deeper in this episode and made him sound
a lot older...liked the Cal Jordan reference. My only qualm
about this episode was that, like KF said, a couple lines
were not well acted or just cliched. However, Chris's wrap
up was good, and so was this episode.
82/100 B-
Did anyone get a different feeling about this episode?
Normally, when I listen to Odyssey, it's CLASSIC ODYSSEY. A
couple times since the hiatus, it didn't feel like that
(i.e. Game for a Mystery, Stage Fright). Child's Play was a
good episode, and it felt different, and it's really hard to
explain. Maybe it just feels different since we haven't had
that many Eugene/Katrina episodes yet? Well, whatever it
was, I like the character development.
Review by
EMBEE (Town of Odyssey)
Rating:
Overall, I really liked the
episode. I loved that they mentioned Cal, and that Eugene
sang the song Summer Is A-Coming In, which was the song that
he sang way back in the episode A Day in the Life. My only
problems were that, as others have said, some bits seemed
cliche and unrealistic.
Review by
Peachey Keen (Town of Odyssey)
Rating:
I was really surprised to hear
Eugene introducing the show. Shocked is more like it. I hope
they do this more often and with other characters, too. BTW,
Eugene's intro is not the same as the one used before the
hiatus. Go listen to some old episodes.
Some wonderful scenes with the Meltsners, hearing kids
played by real kids, and some very funny and sweet moments
make this episode one of my favorite eps since the hiatus!
Plus, it was tons better than the awful
Agreeable Nanny.
Review by
Christian A. (Town of Odyssey)
I guess I'm finally
going to get around to reviewing this episode. I probably
shouldn't have read so many others' reviews before I decided
to review the episode, because now I'm afraid my thoughts
aren't going to be very original. But I'll do my best to at
least put things basically in my own words.
However... I will start out with this quote from Ben Warren
from his review at The Changing Times. I thought he summed
up my core feelings about this episode very well in this
paragraph:
Ultimately, "Child's Play" is significant because it delves
a little more into Eugene and Katrina's married life, and
these sorts of stories are always more worth telling than
stories about children or characters we may never hear from
in 5 years. It also included scenes that highlighted the
beauty of marriage; there's something very nice about
listening in as they sit in their bedroom, getting ready for
bed, discussing their concerns and fears with one another.
That's the point where Eugene and Katrina feel, not only
interesting, but real.
And that's what I thought made this episode another great
story to add to the other excellent stories in Album 55. We
haven't had an episode totally focused on Eugene and Katrina
since their wedding episode "For Better or for Worse" in
Album 44. And I thought it was very nice. The episode was
slow-paced, and it gave us a look at what Eugene and
Katrina's relationship is like behind closed doors. We got
tastes of this in "How to Sink a Sub" and "You're Two Kind,"
and we got a closer look in "To Mend or Repair," but since
this was a whole episode dedicated to their experience with
babysitting children, it felt different, like we got to
learn more about them than we have in a long time.
I really liked the kids in the episode. They were both very
realistic, and they had great actors. Unless I'm a terrible
judge of this, I was pretty certain that adult actors were
not used for the kids. That was a great choice. I don't
think I would have liked the episode as much if the kids
weren't played by real kids. I also liked the distinct,
different personalities each kid had. It was a humorous
situation for Eugene to have to keep up with such an active
Kyle, and it was an interesting challenge for Katrina to
stay sane while Joy asked her so many questions.
I thought Wooton was great in this episode. For once, I
didn't think Wooton was annoying. He did his part, and he
didn't intrude into anyone else's part. He felt like the old
Wooton to me. You know, the one that was around at the same
time as...Cal Jordan! Oh, it was so great to hear an old
character mentioned! No longer do we have to think that all
of the people at Whit's End suffered some sort of amnesia
that caused them to forget everything and everyone that came
before Album 51! But, yeah, it was nice to see that nod to
the last generation of Odyssey kids...even though Cal's
record was beaten about five minutes after we know it
existed....
Connie was also interesting. I thought it was, again,
realistic, that she got tired of Joy's questions really
fast. I would have been the same way. Which is why it was
all the more admirable that Katrina was able to cope with
them for so long. It almost leaves you wondering why the
writers teased us with this episode, when you know the
Meltsners won't be getting any kids of their own, apart from
a miracle. Eugene and Katrina seem like they'd be so good
with kids, but they can't have their own kids, so what's the
point of knowing that?
But aside from that, I really liked this episode. It was
entertaining, and yet not silly or too fast-paced. Just
seeing a husband and wife, whom we've grown to love over the
years, grow together and love each other was material enough
for a superb episode. I hope there are more stories like
these in the future. But...then again, I don't, because I
think it was the uniqueness of this episode that made it so
good.
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