"Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur" Season Two Talkback (Spoilers)

[RoyalRubble]

Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur return for a second season! The new season premieres tonight on the Disney Channel & Disney XD with 2 episodes, at 8:00 p.m. EST. New episodes will continue to air weekly, Saturdays at 10:00 a.m. EST. 14 episodes will be added to Disney+ tomorrow before making their TV debuts in the following weeks.

​

Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur - Season 2
Synopsis: In Season 2, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur are in their element as Super Heroes; however, as Moon Girl's Super Hero-ing intertwines more with her personal life, she must decide if the cost of keeping her identity a secret is worth the toll it takes on her family. Find a new look at the upcoming season above!

Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur "The Great Beyond-er!"
Episode Debut - February 2, 2024 (Disney Channel & Disney XD) / February 3, 2024 (Disney+)

When Moon Girl and The Beyonder become stranded on a desolate alien planet, the two set out to find a rumored black hole in hopes of getting home.

*Edward James Olmos (“Battlestar Galactica”) guest stars as Molecule Man, and Laurence Fishburne (“The Matrix” trilogy) returns as The Beyonder.

Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur "Suit Up!"
Episode Debut - February 2, 2024 (Disney Channel & Disney XD) / February 3, 2024 (Disney+)

When Lunella tries to juice up her new super suit, she goes overboard and accidentally “juices up” a dangerous desert scorpion.

*Jackee Harry (“Sister, Sister”) guest stars as Merle, and Ann Harada (“Avenue Q”) guest stars as Matsuye.


Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur "Belly of the Beast"
Episode Debut - February 3, 2024 (Disney+) / February 10, 2024 (Disney Channel & Disney XD)

When Devil Dinosaur eats a dangerous Moon Girl gadget, Lunella and Casey must shrink themselves to retrieve it.

Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur "Ride or Die"
Episode Debut - February 3, 2024 (Disney+) / February 10, 2024 (Disney Channel & Disney XD)

When Moon Girl must transport Quickwhip to S.H.I.E.L.D., keeping the criminal in custody becomes harder than she imagined.

*Robin Thede (“A Black Lady Sketch Show”) guest stars as Quickwhip, Carol Kane ("Star Trek: Strange New Worlds") guest stars as Bube Bina and Cobie Smulders (Marvel’s “The Avengers” franchise) returns as Agent Hill.


Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur "Kid Kree"
Episode Debut - February 3, 2024 (Disney+) / February 17, 2024 (Disney Channel & Disney XD)

Moon Girl’s rivalry with a new teenage super-foe, Kid Kree, threatens her budding friendship with his human alter ego, Marvin.

*Xolo Mariduena (“Cobra Kai”) guest stars as Mel-Varr, and Andy Gracia (“The Godfather Part III”) guest stars as Pad-Varr.

Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur "Wish-Tar"
Episode Debut - February 3, 2024 (Disney+) / February 17, 2024 (Disney Channel & Disney XD)

When The Beyonder gives an arcade machine the ability to grant wishes, Lunella is pumped to use it.

*Ephraim Sykes (Broadway’s “Hamilton”) guest stars as Bobby the Myth, and Laurence Fishburne (“The Matrix” trilogy) returns as The Beyonder.


Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur "Make It, Don’t Break It!"
Episode Debut - February 3, 2024 (Disney+) / February 24, 2024 (Disney Channel & Disney XD)

When I.S. 833 gets an impressive science teacher, Lunella is so eager to impress her that her drive toward perfectionism starts doing more harm than good.

*Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked”) guest stars as Dr. Akonam Ojo.

Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur "The Devil You Know"
Episode Debut - February 3, 2024 (Disney+) / February 24, 2024 (Disney Channel & Disney XD)

When Lunella and Devil Dinosaur spend the weekend apart after a disagreement, Devil Dino gets mixed up with a rag-tag group of ex-super-hero sidekicks.

*Giancarlo Esposito (“Breaking Bad”) guest stars as Granite, and Alex Newell (“Glee”) guest stars as Pebble.

Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur "Dog Day Mid-Afternoon"
Episode Debut - February 3, 2024 (Disney+) / March 2, 2024 (Disney Channel & Disney XD)

When Pops fosters a mysterious stray dog and enters him into a dog show, a paranoid Lunella is convinced the creature is an evil alien who intends to sabotage the event.

Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur "In the Heist"
Episode Debut - February 3, 2024 (Disney+) / March 2, 2024 (Disney Channel & Disney XD)

Lunella discovers that a stolen Kree artifact is about to cause a cataclysmic storm, but when none of the adults believe her, she must swipe it herself.

Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur "Roller Jam!"
Episode Debut - February 3, 2024 (Disney+) / March 9, 2024 (Disney Channel & Disney XD)

When Pops’ rivalry with former best friend and skate partner Vernell threatens to ruin Roller Jam, Lunella meddles in their beef to squash it.

Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur "Dancing With Myself"
Episode Debut - February 3, 2024 (Disney+) / March 9, 2024 (Disney Channel & Disney XD)

Lunella is desperate to find a date to the school dance, but when she gets Kid Kree to be her escort, she learns that peer pressure can harm the relationships that matter most.

Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur "Family Matters"
Episode Debut - February 3, 2024 (Disney+) / March 16, 2024 (Disney Channel & Disney XD)

When Moon Girl teams up with the amazing super hero Turbo, she realizes the true cost of keeping up a secret identity.

Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur "The Molecular Level"
Episode Debut - February 3, 2024 (Disney+) / March 16, 2024 (Disney Channel & Disney XD)

After Lunella tells her family that she’s Moon Girl, she must convince them she will be safe, which seems impossible when Molecule Man shows up for revenge.

Comments?

Mod Note: We appreciate and encourage discussion, but please keep your posts civil, relevant and insightful. Please do not post any improper or inflammatory material, as we will issue warnings if we believe it necessary. And remember to keep the discussion ON-TOPIC!

Additionally, please try and avoid discussing the Disney+ releases without Spoiler Tags in other threads for at least 10 days. Those who decide (or have no other option than) to follow along with the TV airings of the show might not want to have the 14 episodes dropping on Disney+ tomorrow, to be spoiled for them.

 

[Antiyonder]

The Great Beyond-er is up on YT now:

 

[Daikun]

If you don't have Disney+, all these episodes are up on DisneyNOW.

Watch Marvel's Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur TV Show | Disney Channel on DisneyNOW

Watch full episodes of Marvel's Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur online. Get behind-the-scenes and extras all on Disney Channel.

disneynow.com

 

[Fone Bone]

Does this mean we don't need spoiler tags? I will probably review these in the next few days.

 

[Antiyonder]

Suit-Up is also on YT:

 

[Eurbane]

The Great Beyonder: When we last saw Moon Girl, She fell into the teleporter. The Beyonder was there too. He made everyone in the universe mad on his schemes. The two work together to get Lunella home. It turns out to be a dream. Is the beyonder becoming friendly. I say yes.
Suit up: Lunella and Mimi join an old science gang and gets a new suit. It's the same but it's purple.
Belly of a beast: Lunella and Casey go into the body of Devil Dinosaur trying to ignore important stuff. The song here was catchy enough I want everyone of you to play it again and again.
Ride or Die: This is where we Lunella joins shield. She gets stuck on a train with Quickwhip.
Kid Kree: A new villain named Kid Kree disguised himself as Marvin to catch Moon Girl for his father.
Wish-Tar: A wish machine which is actually the Beyonder using it. He granted wishes to make Lunella and Casey cool. Bobby gets a grand piano which goes hang wire.
Make It, Don't Break it: Lunella makes a robot but figures out what's important to her.
The Devil you know: With Lunella away, Devil Dinosaur joins a initial squad.
In the Heist: Lunella and her classmates team together to steal something from the museum.
Dog Day Mid-Afternoon: Pops found a dog who's a space agent who tries to figure out the dissapearance of dogs.
Roller Jam: Pops old rival shows up for a roller skating extravagansa.
Dancing with Myself: Lunella goes to the dance with Kid Kree. A band of evil doing creatures crash the party.
Family Matters: Moon Girls meets turbo and has a problem with important family stuff.
The Molecular Level: The family founds out that Lunella and Mimi are moon girls. Molecular shows up after becoming a baby to wreck havoc because his planet of adorable stuff was destroyed.
Now we'll tune in next time for a new moon girl.

 

[Antiyonder]

While not a wholesale shout out, a song in Episode 8 had some lyrics referring to The Power of Love. Gave it a mention on the television references at the Back to the Future wikia.

 

[zoombie]

Well something I noticed these episodes, villains don't much of an episode. There have been a few episodes in which the conflict has nothing to do with a villain, there is one episode the villain is defeated by Lunella's non super hero friends.

I think Molecular Man might have been the first villain Moon Girl has fought twice.

 

[Fone Bone]

Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur "The Great Beyond-er!"

I seem to have totally forgotten how totally amazing this show is.

Lunella having PTSD from Molecule Man is going to make this a dramatic season.

Lunella gently braiding Beyonder's hair might go down as one of my favorite scenes in all of Marvel Animation.

I didn't wanna binge 14 episodes on launch day to guarantee a Season 3. But it's not like the show isn't already totally watchable. *****.

Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur "Suit Up!"

All of Lunella's suits beg the question: Where is the toyline for this show?

I like the Hot Tomatoes. It's better I don't know where the name comes from.

I like Lunella's braids.

Cute! ****.

Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur "Belly Of The Beast"

Have I mentioned that this show has the best facial expressions out of ANY Marvel animated project, Spider-Verse included? Devil Dinosaur's face as he's watching them make the mess was sublime, as were his increasingly frantic reaction shots to the distractions and temptations going on around him.

In the upcoming film Avengers: Secret Wars, I believe the Beyonder will be revealed to be the Big Bad and Ultimate Evil of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Multiverse. On Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur he's the wacky sidekick.

I like Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur better already. ***1/2.

Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur "Ride Or Die"

I love subway Busking. Gives the whole thing a very city flavor.

My heart broke when Quickwhip said that Moon Girl was THEIR hero, but she wasn't HER hero. Aww!

Ridiculously G-rated version of Lady Bullseye. Complain all you want, I don't much care how we get mainstream Marvel villains, even if they are watered down. Just so long as we get them sometimes.

You can say "Amazeballs" on TV-Y7 now. DISNEY TV-Y7. Isn't civilized society great?

Sweet episode. ****.

Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur "Kid Kree"

"By the way, I DIDN'T know it was you." This show has value for being able to find interesting and unusual ways to break my heart.

I love Kid Kree's alien design. It would be cool if he became a recurring ally, and he and Lunella team up the finale.

His Kree father accepting him is too pat and not credible, but the performances ALMOST sold it. It's more believable than it SHOULD be because of them.

I love Lunella and Marvin working through their crap.

This is all good stuff. ****.

Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur "Wish-Tar"

I really love the fact that the Beyonder is genuinely hurt when Lunella asks him to go away. I think for the first time he was genuinely trying to help. I felt bad for him.

I realize now what his design and mannerisms sort of remind me of. A multijointed version of Dr. Seuss' the Grinch (the Chuck Jones version). Slippery as an eel is that one.

I feel bad for the Beyonder. Which is cool. ***1/2.

Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur "Make It, Don't Break It!"

That sucked. Notable because so few episodes of the show do.

My biggest objection and the reason I knew I'd dislike it was the infodump Lunella gives about Wakanda at the beginning. That information is entirely for the benefit of audience members unfamiliar with Marvel Comics lore. Everyone in the classroom actually already knows the information Lunella is excitedly telling them. The character is speaking in an unbelievably unrealistic fashion due solely to poor writing. Now Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur is a kids cartoon, and as a rule almost all of those have their share of that. But this struck enough of a bad chord with me to note. The show is not usually that sucky.

Ojo is the worst. I have taken unpleasant notice that invariably whenever a Marvel show or cartoon has a random Wakandan character show up, they are almost always portrayed as an elitist snob. Her coming around at the end is done to comfort the kids in the audience about her abuse, but the reality is she sucks, and it on-brand for how Marvel tries to portray that society. I think Marvel got it into its head that so much of white American culture looks down on other races and nationalities, it's provocative to turn that on its head with Black characters. This is a narrative mistake. At least if Marvel actually wants viewers and readers to like the concept of Wakanda and root for Black Panther. Making it a nation of sociopaths pushes a certain political button against white supremacy for sure, but it sure as hell damages a franchise designed to sell comic books to little kids. This is not actually fun. Whenever we get a glimpse of Wakanda outside of Black Panther and Avengers stuff, it's invariably a lecture on how the rest of the heroes do not measure up to it. Again, this is a mistake.

Marvel has this weird idea that the best way to create conflict between heroes is to make a bunch of them type-A loathsome sociopaths. I guess one of DC Comics strengths is that whenever it has a character like that, like Constantine or Guy Gardner, the behavior is shown as wrong and a failing. It's not ever a REAL source of conflict between the legit heroes. Marvel has characters like Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, the Human Torch, and Cyclops be utterly irredeemable bastards because they somehow think there is no other real way to create character conflict between heroes. I believe Marvel Comics believes their stable of characters are less interesting than they actually are. I am never gonna agree with them about this.

Mae Jemison isn't voicing LOS this season. That is very disappointing.

A rare failure. The irony to me is that most of the failings of the episode had to do with deep seated problems already present in other Marvel media. Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur may be the best Marvel TV cartoon of all time. It's doesn't stop it from being a Marvel cartoon. And that franchise has problematic stuff built into it from the ground up. *.

Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur "The Devil You Know"

The facial expressions on the animals were amazing.

I love that the day-glo music montage at the end belongs to Devil for the first time. And his power ballad is country because apparently the producers decided the show simply wasn't weird enough.

But the goat being unable to discuss his former master for legal reasons shows they are attacking that specific weakness in a multi-pronged approach.

The super unearned happy ending is credible only because the goat doesn't get to share it. Whatever his backstory is, lawyers are involved. There are no misunderstandings to be had.

I'll say this before I close the review: Devil is right to be pissed at Lunella slow-walking the reveal to her family. If she had parents like Kamala Khan's, who were always judging her and making her feel like a disappointment, that would be one thing, but Lunella's entire family is nothing but funky and wonderful. Devil is right to be miffed at Lunella for not trusting THAT healthy dynamic with the truth, especially because as long as she refuses to, Devil himself does not get to participate in it or enjoy it. And he really should be able to. That's not fair to him.

The episode was both a little bit funny and a little bit insane. My kind of episode. ****.

Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur "Dog Day Mid-Afternoon"

Very happy.

A LOT of people love it when shows bust hoary old tropes. And I kind of see why. But it doesn't much impress ME. You're still using the trope, just putting a spin on it. This episode is great because the "spin" is so bizarre you realize they weren't even using that trope at all.

The famous trope we recognize is the secretly sinister pet that only one person knows is evil and is never believed. The episode already gives us so many noticeable differences. In most projects the person noticing Franklin's shadiness would be Devil Dinosaur. The truth-sayer is always the old pet. Here it's Moon Girl. Moreover a LOT of the old pet's concern comes from a fear of replacement and jealously. And usually the new owners DO seem to prefer the new evil pet. That's not the case with Pops and Lunella. Thirdly, the evil pet always frames the good pet for their crimes leading the owners to practically disown the original good pet. Also not a factor. Mickey Mouse and Pluto invented the trope, and it's been in various cartoon in the ensuing decades. Going on damn near a century.

Here it turns out Franklin is GOOD. And he IS alien, voiced by David Tennant. And the shady evil mind control business Lunella thinks he's doing is something he's actually trying to stop. It's like the story starts out as "Pluto's Rival" turns in Buffy The Vampire Slayer's "The Puppet Show" out of the blue. I approve of crazy crap like that.

The Day-glo montage song was great (had sort of a Bowie flavor), and I loved the dog pun counter (reminded me of South Park's s-word episode). And of course the blue doghouse spaceship at the end suspiciously resembles the TARDIS. It would be weird if it didn't.

That was great. ****1/2.

Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur "In The Heist"

Yeah, I knew that was Peter Weller.

Cecilia's character design is super expressive.

Lunella and Marvin are so cute together.

Fun heist episode. ****.

Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur "Roller Jam!"

Here's the great thing about the show. The Lafayettes don't own a roller rink because they are blue collar. It's because they are livin' the dream! The producers decided to make sure the audience understands Lunella's entire family is cool and funky.

Here's something else cool. The episode addresses both racism and gentrification, but because it's for little kids, it does so in an empowering, rather than upsetting, manner. I find that refreshing.

Admit it though. The feud's kinda dumb. ***1/2.

Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur "Dancing With Myself"

I will admit I don't watch a ton of shows with protagonists this young. But I've seen a few. This is the first one I've seen suggest the true moral that dating pressures for kids that young is ridiculous and you are allowed to be a kid. This is why I find the Nickelodeon and Disney Channel trashy kidcoms so problematic. This show says "Nope you can be a kid and that's okay." That is AWESOME. That should never be dismissed.

I love the end credits. Seriously, what's up with his hairline, bro?

Interesting note: When Lunella is searching for a date she notices a girl seems currently unattached. This suggest Lunella is bisexual. Thought that moment was cool and worth pointing out.

Why can't more kids show actually have good messaging for kids? ****1/2.

Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur "Family Matters"

The cliffhanger is great because it's actually earned. Take note other superhero stuff. This is how that's done.

I've actually heard of Silvermane.

Eminently satisfying episode. ****.

Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur "The Molecular Level"

Good for the show for not buying back the cliffhanger in the first scene.

I love Lunella redeeming Molecule Man. I also found his observation that she was the only thing the Beyonder cared about very interesting. I was sad he didn't appear when Lunella needed him. Maybe because she actually didn't.

Uncertain ending there for Lunella's future. Or is it? Will Mom come around? She'd be crazy if she didn't. ****.

 

[Antiyonder]

I think it is placed in Season One, but as it came out this week, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Wreck and Roll is available. Fun little read and purchase of it would be helpful for the show.